Ze’ev Jabotinsky nailed it.
He understood that Israel is a country like any other democratic Western state...but with something extra: spirit, love, and unbreakable determination. A visionary Zionist leader, Jabotinsky believed in Jewish self-defense, moral clarity, and the right of the Jewish people to live freely in their own land.
אין לי ארץ אחרת – Ein li eretz acheret.
There is no other land.
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Ze'ev Jabotinsky was a Zionist, journalist, and writer of Russian origin. He was born as Vladimir Jabotinsky and, during the First World War, founded the Jewish Legion, which fought as a volunteer battalion in the British Army. He was also the founder of Revisionist Zionism.
(Born in Ukraine; died on August 3, 1940, in Hunter, New York, United States.)
