That is the first and last great truth in Zionism.

Jerusalem was destroyed and Jews were destroyed with it, men who cared no longer to live because the city of their faith had fallen.

It may be questioned whether all the Zionists have all the sublime insanity of the Zealots.
But at least it is not nonsense to suggest that the Zionists might feel like this about Zion.

It is nonsense to suggest that they would ever feel like this about Dublin or Moscow.
And so far at least the truth both in Semitism and Anti-Semitism is included in Zionism.
It is a commonplace that the infamous are more famous than the famous.
Byron noted, with his own misanthropic moral, that we think more of Nero the monster who killed his mother than of Nero the noble Roman who defeated Hannibal.

The name of Julian more often suggests Julian the Apostate than Julian the Saint; though the latter crowned his canonisation with the sacred glory of being the patron saint of inn-keepers.