"It's not the same country you grew up in," but (at least one) is still the country that makes you cry.

Israel from the Inside with Daniel Gordis · Nov 9, 2025 · 1m

“Eliminate the Diaspora,” said Vladimir Jabotinsky, one of the great minds of early Zionism, “before it eliminates you.” Jabotinsky used that line, apparently, in a speech to Polish Jewry on Tisha B’av, 1938, when he also said:

It is already three years that I am calling upon you, Polish Jewry... I continue to warn you incessantly that a catastrophe is coming closer... I see that you are not seeing this because you are immersed and sunk in your daily worries... in this 12th hour: In the name of God! Let anyone of you save himself as long as there is still time. And time there is very little…