Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.

Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.

And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do
for you--ask what you can do for read more

And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do
for you--ask what you can do for your country. My fellow
citizend of the world: ask not what American will do for you,
but what together we can do for the freedom of man.

Our true nationality is mankind.

Our true nationality is mankind.

Nations have lost their old omnipotence; the patriotic tiedoes not hold. Nations are getting obsolete, we go and live where read more

Nations have lost their old omnipotence; the patriotic tiedoes not hold. Nations are getting obsolete, we go and live where we will.

The root of the problem is very simply stated: if there were no sovereign independent states, if the states of read more

The root of the problem is very simply stated: if there were no sovereign independent states, if the states of the civilized world were organized in some sort of federalism, as the states of the American Union, for instance, are organized, there would be no international war as we know it ... The main obstacle is nationalism.

We are in the midst of a great transition from narrow nationalism to international partnership.

We are in the midst of a great transition from narrow nationalism to international partnership.

Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the read more

Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress.

Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of
mankind.

Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of
mankind.

My Palestinian intellectual friend tells me that he might
be willing to admit that God in Hebrew said Jews could
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My Palestinian intellectual friend tells me that he might
be willing to admit that God in Hebrew said Jews could
have Israel. But he said Allah did not speak it in Arabic
to the Arabs.
spoken on the Terry Gross Show
.. Arthur Hertzberg is a founder of the Jewish peace group
Peace Now and is the author of The Fate of Zionism.