[#178] THE LAND BELONGS TO WHOM IT BELONGS, Part 5: Theodor Herzl and the Mighty Dream of Altneuland
Dimitri and Khalid continue their multi-episode journey into the actually existing history of the geographic region known for millennia as Palestine, and the actually existing people who inhabited it under (mostly) uninterrupted Ottoman rule from 1516 to 1918. Part 5: Theodore Herzl and the Dream of Altneuland, 1890-1904 How an Austro-Hungarian Substack Guy memed the hitherto non-existent ideology of Political Zionism into being, and how he came to fixate on Ottoman Palestine as the future site of his glorious “Old New Land”.