Many Zionists were soothsayers par
excellence,
Rabbi Stephen Wise & Max
Nordau for example.
done a little ichthyomacy before
predicting in 1904:
"Hungary will soon experience such a bout of anti-Semitism that ours (the Austrian) will seem insignificant in comparison. If I were to urge political Zionism, people would say that this anti-Semitism had been stirred up by Zionism. I don't want this, You, Sir, and the Hungarian Jews will eventually come to us, for anti-Semitism will drive you into out arms."
Herzl in an interview with Miksa
Szabolcsi in 1904, as quote in:
Kinga Frojimovics, Géza Komoróczy: Jewish Budapest: Monuments,
Rites, History. (1999). Budapest: Central European University Press. p.131
here
Quotes from Herzl's diaries:
"It would be an excellent idea to call in respectable,
accredited anti-Semites as liquidators of property." (A)
"The anti-Semites will become our most dependable
friends, the anti-Semitic countries our allies." (B)
"We shall solve the Jewish Question by either safeguarding or
liquidating the fortune of the wealthy Jews. If we cannot do it
with the help of the wealthy Jews, we shall do it in spite of them." (C)
"I have already told you that we want to let respectable anti-
Semites participate in our project, respecting their independence
which is valuable to us—as a sort of people's control authority." (D)
The Complete Diaries of Theodor Herzl,
edited by Raphael Patai, translated by Harry Zohn (1960)
New York; Herzl Press
A. page 83 - B. page 84 - C. page 132 - D. page 143
Kinga Frojimovics, Géza Komoróczy: Jewish Budapest: Monuments,
Rites, History. (1999). Budapest: Central European University Press. p.131
here
Quotes from Herzl's diaries:
"It would be an excellent idea to call in respectable,
accredited anti-Semites as liquidators of property." (A)
"The anti-Semites will become our most dependable
friends, the anti-Semitic countries our allies." (B)
"We shall solve the Jewish Question by either safeguarding or
liquidating the fortune of the wealthy Jews. If we cannot do it
with the help of the wealthy Jews, we shall do it in spite of them." (C)
"I have already told you that we want to let respectable anti-
Semites participate in our project, respecting their independence
which is valuable to us—as a sort of people's control authority." (D)
The Complete Diaries of Theodor Herzl,
edited by Raphael Patai, translated by Harry Zohn (1960)
New York; Herzl Press
A. page 83 - B. page 84 - C. page 132 - D. page 143
