Babylonian Talmud, Ta a nit 2a: “Three keys are in the hand of the Holy One, blessed be
He, that have not been delivered into the hands of an emissary. And they are the key of rain,
the key of birth and the key of the resurrection of the dead.” Cited by Buber (though only as
“the Gemara”) in On Zion, 41.
See Yitzhak Laor, The Myths of Liberal Zionism (New York: Verso, 2009).
Judith Butler, Parting Ways: Jewishness and the Critique of Zionism (New York: Colum-
bia University Press, 2012), 36.
Ibid., 37.
Atalia Omer, When Peace Is Not Enough: How the Israeli Peace Camp Thinks about
Religion, Nationalism, and Justice (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013), 30–31, 42, 169.
Buber, “Zionism and ‘Zionism,’” LTP 223.
The question of the necessary conditions for “certain ideals of cooperation” to be culti-
vated is a thorny one, as Butler has acknowledged in a more recent and deeper consideration
of Buber; Butler, “Versions of Binationalism in Said and Buber,” in Conflicting Humanities, ed.
Rosi Braidotti and Paul Gilroy (New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016), 185–210.
Buber, On Zion, 125.
“[Ben-Gurion] is one of the proponents of that kind of secularization which... keeps
men from hearing the voice of the living God. This secularization takes the form of an exag-
gerated politization. This politization of life here strikes at the very spirit itself. The spirit with
all its thoughts and visions descends and becomes a function of politics.” Buber, “Zionism
True and False,” Unease in Zion, 1 17.
