Frases de Achad Ha-am

Ahad Ha'am é o nome hebraico e pseudônimo literário de Asher Zvi Hirsch Ginsberg foi um filósofo e ensaísta judeu - um dos mais destacados pensadores sionistas da fase anterior à criação do Estado de Israel.

Foi também um importante jornalista e associativista e participou nas negocições que culminaram com a Declaração de Balfour, a qual foi posteriormente incorporada ao Tratado de Sèvres.

É conhecido como o fundador do sionismo cultural ou sionismo espiritual, segundo o qual, ao criar um centro espiritual para o povo judeu na Terra de Israel - com trabalho físico juntamente com esforços educacionais e culturais - o povo judeu seria unificado e seu espírito nacional renovado. Esse sentimento emanaria do centro espiritual para todas as direções da Diáspora, onde a assimilação era vista como um perigo real. Ahad Ha'am acreditava que, mesmo se fosse possível absorver todos os judeus na Terra de Israel, isso não resolveria os problemas políticos e financeiros, se não fosse considerado, em primeiro lugar, o aspecto nacional-espiritual. No entanto, ele acreditava no futuro crescimento da população judaica reunida em Eretz Israel, o que engendraria o estabelecimento de um Estado judeu, onde a liberdade cultural e nacional seria possível.Com sua visão secular de um centro espiritual judaico na Palestina, Ahad Ha'am contrapôs-se às ideias de Theodor Herzl, o fundador do sionismo político. À diferença de Herzl, ele defendia "um Estado judeu e não um mero um Estado de judeus".Sepultado no Cemitério Trumpeldor. Wikipedia  

✵ 18. Agosto 1856 – 2. Janeiro 1927
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Achad Ha-am: Frases em inglês

“We who live abroad are accustomed to believe that almost all Eretz Yisrael is now uninhabited desert and whoever wishes can buy land there as he pleases. But this is not true. It is very difficult to find in the land [ha'aretz] cultivated fields that are not used for planting. Only those sand fields or stone mountains that would require the investment of hard labor and great expense to make them good for planting remain uncultivated and that's because the Arabs do not like working too much in the present for a distant future. Therefore, it is very difficult to find good land for cattle. And not only peasants, but also rich landowners, are not selling good land so easily…We who live abroad are accustomed to believing that the Arabs are all wild desert people who, like donkeys, neither see nor understand what is happening around them. But this is a grave mistake. The Arab, like all the Semites, is sharp minded and shrewd. All the townships of Syria and Eretz Yisrael are full of Arab merchants who know how to exploit the masses and keep track of everyone with whom they deal – the same as in Europe. The Arabs, especially the urban elite, see and understand what we are doing and what we wish to do on the land, but they keep quiet and pretend not to notice anything. For now, they do not consider our actions as presenting a future danger to them. … But, if the time comes that our people's life in Eretz Yisrael will develop to a point where we are taking their place, either slightly or significantly, the natives are not going to just step aside so easily.”

Fonte: Wrestling with Zion, pp. 14-15.

“The Prophet … feels it as a moral necessity to set Righteousness on the throne.”

Fonte: Selected Essays (1904), "Priest and Prophet" (1893), p. 133

“We must surely learn, from both our past and present history, how careful we must be not to provoke the anger of the native people by doing them wrong, how we should be cautious in our dealings with a foreign people among whom we returned to live, to handle these people with love and respect and, needless to say, with justice and good judgment. And what do our brothers do? Exactly the opposite! They were slaves in their Diasporas, and suddenly they find themselves with unlimited freedom, wild freedom that only a country like Turkey [the Ottoman Empire] can offer. This sudden change has planted despotic tendencies in their hearts, as always happens to former slaves ['eved ki yimlokh – when a slave becomes king – Proverbs 30:22]. They deal with the Arabs with hostility and cruelty, trespass unjustly, beat them shamefully for no sufficient reason, and even boast about their actions. There is no one to stop the flood and put an end to this despicable and dangerous tendency. Our brothers indeed were right when they said that the Arab only respects he who exhibits bravery and courage. But when these people feel that the law is on their rival's side and, even more so, if they are right to think their rival's actions are unjust and oppressive, then, even if they are silent and endlessly reserved, they keep their anger in their hearts. And these people will be revengeful like no other.”

Fonte: Wrestling with Zion, p. 15.