Frases de Ajad Ha'am

Asher Zvi Hirsch Ginsberg, más conocido como Ajad Ha'am , nació en 1856 cerca de Kiev, Ucrania, y murió en 1927 en la Palestina británica.

Cuando publicó su primer ensayo, utilizó el seudónimo literario Ajad Ha'am con el que es conocido hasta hoy. En ese ensayo, que se remonta a 1889, dijo claramente: Lo Zé Hadérej ; más asentamientos sin una gran tarea educativa previa llevaría al colapso de la actividad colonizadora del Sionismo. La gente debe saber por qué se asienta: la huida de los pogromos, los eventuales beneficios económicos, no eran razones suficientes para confrontar las dificultades que estaban enfrentando y que aún confrontarían en un futuro. Los colonos debían tener una profunda comprensión de la importancia de su obra para el futuro de la nación judía. Debían entender que no sólo se trataba de una salvación personal, sino que comenzaba la reconstrucción del pueblo judío.

En 1922 emigró a la Tierra de Israel , en aquel entonces bajo dominio británico, asentándose en la localidad de Tel Aviv. Wikipedia  

✵ 18. agosto 1856 – 2. enero 1927
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Ajad Ha'am: Frases en inglés

“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.”

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

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

Fuente: 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.”

Fuente: Wrestling with Zion, p. 15.

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