re: #485 AbuNafha2

theodor herzl simply translated 2000 years of jewish desire for its homeland in a political lingo of the 19th century.

Wow. Way to crap on the memory of a great, if complicated man.

Zionism is a political ideology. A perfectly good, defensible one. The Israel envisioned by Hertzel was not one of public faith, was not a religious state. Those first Zionists settlers included religious types, but it was a secular state that they wanted, a place for Jews, religious or secular, to be safe.

Do not diminish the importance and the accomplishments of secular Jews. It creates unnecessary divisions amongst us.