Herzl Jewish State

Theodor Herzl, Jewish writer, talks about the Jewish State

Expresses the Jewish people's struggle for assimilation

• "Oppression and persecution cannot exterminate us"
• Prejudices against jews still lie deep within society and people's perceptions
• "Their equality before the law..has become practically a dead letter

Jewish people are prosecuted daily and has grown in proportions

• attacks in Parliaments and assemblies
• persecutions vary among countries
• "I do not intend to arouse sympathetic emotions on behalf...I shall content myself with putting the following questions to jews:"
• Is it not true, that in countries where we live in perceptible numbers, the position of Jewish lawyers, doctors, technicians, teachers, and employees of all descriptions become daily more intolerable

Questions where they should go and what they should do

• "Can we hope for better days, can we possess our souls in patience, can we wait in pious resignation"

Accepts the role cast on Jews

• "thus, whether we like it or not, we are now and shall henceforth remain, a historic group with unmistakable characteristics common to us all."

Hope to build a new state, a new start

• creation of a state is possible and they ahve the power
• Palestine is their historic home

"This guard of honor would be the great symbol of the solution of the jewish question after eighteen centuries of Jewish suffering"