Fromm the heart

I’ve recently been reading Fromm, as in Erich Fromm. Here’s a gem:

The principle holds that no citizen loses his property or his rights of citizenship and the citizenship right is de facto a right to which (Palestinians in Israel) have much more legitimacy than the Jews…If all nations would suddenly claim territories in which their forefathers lived two thousands years ago, this world would be a madhouse.

Jewish Letter, February 9, 1959

• israel
• palestine
• politics