During the last 100 years our people have been in a process of building up the country and the nation, of expansion, of getting additional Jews and additional settlements in order to expand the borders here. Let no Jew say that the process has ended. Let no Jew say that we are near the end of the road.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Dayan asserts that the Zionist project of nation-building and expansion is ongoing and not nearing an end.
- In plain terms
- Building the nation continues; we are not near the end.
- What can you take from it?
- National development is a continuous process without a clear finish line.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- When does building become overreach?
- How do you define the limits of national growth?
Another view
Endless expansion can ignore limits or consequences for others.
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