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|  Israel and the Diaspora |
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| The first phase of the history of the Diaspora ends with the Crusades. Not only did this movement as such, together with its political and economic consequences, have a catastrophic effect on the life of the Jewish people and its status in all the lands of the Dispersion, but it also brought about profound changes in Palestine itself. Even after the predominantly Jewish character of Palestine had become a thing of the past, the country had still continued to have a sizable Jewish population and the physical connection between the people and its land had remained unbroken. The Jews were at no time a nation without a country, but rather, even in the Exile, a nation which had been dispossessed of its soil by force and which had never ceased to protest against this act of political robbery and to demand the return of its stolen property. Throughout the long generations of the Dispersion every Jew firmly believed that "the Land is Israel's everlasting possession, which only they shall inherit and in which only they shall settle, and if perchance they are exiled from it they will return to it again, for it is theirs in perpetuity and no other nation's." |
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