Lee Diamond – Herzl was Wrong
He should have known better
The dream is no less Important
than the will.
Willing makes it happen
But the dream Is the essence.
Herzl was a dreamer
He was the “Hozeh”
The visionary
Yes he willed
But it was the dream,
The dream embedded
Into the very nature of the Jew
That keep us alive
That keeps us alive
That will keep us alive.
Zionism is not practical
Zionism is the Jewish dream
Jews dream:
We dream of a Messiah
We dream of a Messianic Age
We dream of Jerusalem
We dream of a higher Jerusalem
We keep the dream
above our highest joy
We know that Zion is an aspiration to
Reach higher
We know that when we forget
The dream, we wither.
When we cease dreaming
When we cease envisioning
We will lose our cunning.
There Is no Judaism
without Zionism
For Zion Is vision
Zion is reaching higher
Zion is our collective dream
For the Jewish people
there Is no “Post Zionism.”
Or “Practical Zionism”
Or “Rational Zionism”
All of these terms
Simply misunderstand
The nature of the Jew;
The essence of Judaism
We are a nation of visionaries
For we long for Zion
Now and forever.
Herzl: we need to keep Dreaming
