As the Jewish problem is international, it can be solved only
by nationalism. He admits some of the charges brought against the Jews
by anti-Semites, but Jewish failings result from Christian intolerance.
In a land of their own they will develop into a Muster-nation, a model
people.
The wretches--cries he--they mock the eagle that once soared
sky-high, and saw divinity itself, because he can no longer fly
after his wings are broken! Give us but our independence, allow
us to take care of ourselves, grant us but a little strip of
land like that of the Servians and Rumanians, give us a chance
to lead a national existence, and then prate about our lacking
manly virtues. What we lack is not genius (Genialitaet) but
self-consciousness (Selbstgefuehl) and appreciation of our value
as men (Bewusstsein der Menschenwuerde), of which we were
deprived by you!
Of course, it requires many years and a great expenditure of money to
establish a nation on a firm basis. But in Pinsker's dictionary the word
"impossible" does not exist. "Far, very far," says he, "is the haven of
rest towards which our souls are turning.
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