Admittedly, the Zionist leaders never really abandoned wider territorial dreams; but they would never have considered delaying the establishment of the Jewish state for the sole reason that it would not have access to the Western Wall or the Temple Mount. The positive ethos of building a new society was supposed to compensate for the poverty of the territorial solution.
早期锡安主义的务实智慧很容易解释：与反闪族的“犹太势力”的陈词滥调相反，锡安主义是弱势民族的民族主义运动，这个民族因为压迫和大屠杀而饱受摧残，如果在抉择时刻做出了错误的选择，可能遭遇灭族之灾。诚然，锡安主义领袖从来没有真正放弃领土梦想；但他们永远不会仅仅因为无法到达哭墙和圣殿山而考虑推迟建立犹太国家。建立新社会的积极呼声被认为可以补偿领土解决方案的贫乏。