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the media of the time. Kicked off by the publication of Theodor Herzl’s Jewish State in 1896, the Zionist plan translated only slowly into facts on the ground through small-scale acts of colonization, which were eventually accepted and given legitimacy by the dominant imperial powers of the day. But consider the consequences
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