But why in The Atlantic

But also, Zionism itself - in the sense of an attachment to the ancestral homeland and a formal, ritualized intention to one day return to it - is no recent thing. Herzl merely gave it a name and a modern movement.

what happened?

It's a crushing disappointment.

Or maybe he's a snake himself.

I think we will see over time that even the worst fears will turn out to have been prescient, not catastrophizing.

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