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"I think it is necessary to state here – Zionism is above everything."
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Yitzhak Gruenbaum was a Polish and later Israeli politician. He was a leader of the Bloc of National Minorities and one of the top Zionist leaders in interwar Poland. In 1933 he travelled to Mandatory Palestine and became active in Labor Zionist groups. He served as the first Minister of the Interior of Israel. In 1952 he was a candidate for President of Israel.
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"Indeed, there were Jews, like Yitzhak Gruenbaum, the Polish Zionist leader, who sincerely hoped for a united front of German and Jewish minorities [in Central and Eastern Europe]. Yet far from uniting in their common adversity, insecure Germans turned against even more insecure Jews."
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"I will not demand that the Jewish Agency allocate a sum of 300,000 or 100,000 pounds sterling to help European Jewry. And I think that whoever demands such things is performing an anti-Zionist act."
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