DaasYochid: I am not sure what you are alluding to. I checked the text of the Hatikvah in all its forms. Written in 1878-a time when no one ever imagined that there would be an independent israel-it deals virtually in its entirety with a return to the land and for Jews to be free of oppression.-chofshi meant free of oppression. Very clearly, Zionism was a movement to return to israel but did not, at that time, envision an independent israel.At that time, the Ottoman empire was still whole and no one could envision a totally independent Israel. Indigenous Arabs feared any jewish influx, regardless of its political implications.
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