The Zionist movement began when one man, the Jewish-Austrian Journalist Theodor Herzl came to the realization that European Jews would have to be evacuated from Europe and specifically Eastern Europe, or else they would be genocided. His eureka moment came no less than four decades before this genocide actually happened and the safe harbor he had envisioned for them was ready only a few short years later. Still too late.
Herzl was not a psychic, nor was he a time traveler. He was simply a level-headed and well-informed guy who understood human nature and who, being at once a Westerner, a European, and Jew, knew his subject matter: the vast unassimilated ocean of Jews who lived in parts of the Austro-Hungarian, Ottoman, and Russian Empires, often comprising very significant fractions of the general population.
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