Jewish author explains why Zionism is the abandonment of Israel's spiritual destiny
"I have not said what I have gradually come to think-- that the salvation of Judaism is not the national idea at all...May we not dream nobler dreams than political independence? For, after all, political independence is only a means to an end, not an end in itself...To be merely one among the nations-- that is not...so satisfactory an ideal. The restoration to Palestine, or the acquisition of a national center, may be a political solution but it is not a spiritual idea. We must abandon it... our dispersal has saved Judaism, and it may yet save the world. For I prefer the dream that we are divinely inspired to bless it, wind-sown seeds to fertilize its waste places. To be a nation without a fatherland, yet with a mother-tongue, Hebrew-- there is the spiritual originality, the miracle of history. Such has been the real kingdom of Israel in the past-- we have been 'sons of the Law'...a kingdom not of space...but a great spiritual Republic, as devoid of material form as Israe...