This Pathless Hour | 291is one and one thing only that really upsets and disbalances the Zionist regime[:]... Pales-
tinians and Jews working shoulder to shoulder, and nothing else.” Cited in Marcelo Svirsky,
Arab-Jewish Activism in Israel-Palestine (Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2012), ix. Mer-Khamis was
a filmmaker, actor, and activist of mixed Jewish and Palestinian Christian descent; he was as-
sassinated in Jenin in 2011. No group claimed responsibility.
- Buber, On Zion: The History of an Idea, trans. Stanley Godman (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse
University Press, 1997), 147–154. - According to Nahum Glatzer, Buber had manuscript notes of Rav Kook available to
him in the preparation of this section; ibid., vii. If so, he had sources beyond Orot, which was
criticized by Orthodox writers for lending aid and comfort to Zionist secularism by seeming
to detach the holiness of the Zionist effort from obligations to halakha. Glatzer, introduction
to Orot, by Abraham Isaac Kook, ed. and trans. Bezalel Naor (Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson,
19 93), 37. - Aviezer Ravitzky, Messianism, Zionism, and Jewish Religious Radicalism, trans. Mi-
chael Swirsky and Jonathan Chipman (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996), 111. - Ibid., 110. This is the difference between Buber’s prophetic eschatology and Scholem’s
disavowed apocalyptic messianism; cf. Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin, “The Golem of Scholem,”
in Politik und Religion im Judentum, ed. Christoph Miething (Tübingen: De Gruyter, 1999),
223–238. - Ravitzky, Messianism, Zionism, and Jewish Religious Radicalism, 123.
- A. I. Kook, “The War,” in Hertzberg, The Zionist Idea: A Historical Analysis and Reader,
ed. Arthur Hertzberg (Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1997), 422; Z. Y. Kook, To ra t
Eretz Yisrael: The Teachings of HaRav Tzvi Yehuda HaCohen Kook, ed. and trans. Tzvi Fishman
(Jerusalem: Torat Eretz Yisrael Publications, 1991), 287. - Andrea Nüsse, Muslim Palestine: The Ideology of Hamas (Amsterdam: Harwood Aca-
demic Publishers, 1998), 48. - Marc Ellis, Towards a Jewish Theology of Liberation: The Challenge of the 21st Century,
3rd ed. (Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2004), 189. - Buber, “And If Not Now, When?” in LTP 106.
- The text, from April 1920, responds to the first major outbreak of Jewish-Arab violence
in Palestine by warning that only by living up to its true socialist principles, adhering to non-
violence, and forming a joint front with the Arabs can Zionism avoid “the constant spiritual
pogrom that threatens us in the Land of Israel.” Buber, “At this Late Hour,” LTP 41–46. - Viteles, A History of the Co-operative Movement in Israel, Book One: The Evolution of the
Co-operative Movement (London: Vallentine, Mitchell & Co., 1966), 78; Henry Near, The Kib-
butz Movement: A History, vol. 1, Origins and Growth, 1909–1939 (Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 1992), 63, 78. - Gershom Scholem, “At the Completion of Buber’s Bible Translation,” in The Messianic
Idea in Judaism and Other Essays on Jewish Spirituality (New York: Schocken Books, 1995), 316. - Ibid., 318.
- Herzl, The Jewish State, in Hertzberg, The Zionist Idea, 226.
- Herzl, Old-New Land, in Hertzberg, The Zionist Idea, 153.