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Originally Posted by Truth-Finder
Zionism was officially founded by Theodore Herzl by 1897 though the basis and the doctrines were probably much older than that.
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Yes, some ideas pointing towards desirability of founding of a Jewish state in Palestine can be found in works of the 12th-century Jewish philosopher
Moses Maimonides, as well as among some of adherents of the 17th-century Jewish movement of
Sabbateans. Or it is at least a biased
a posteriori Zionist interpretation of those ideas that attempts to see in those scattered ideas a precedent of the modern Zionist conception of the State of Israel.