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The lessons of Passover
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleGrowing up in different parts of the world “with no firm roots,” he says, the holiday spoke to him of a yearning for home.
He says people must struggle for freedom, and quotes Martin Luther King as saying before his death that he might not reach the goal, but his people as a group would.
He mentions “centuries of suffering and exile” suffered by Jews. But the “dream of freedom finally found its full expression in the Zionist idea.”
Zionism is rooted in the idea that “people deserve to be free in a land of their own,” he says, to more applause.
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