The seeds of trouble amongst intellectuals in Zion antedated the state itself. On May Day 1936 the Labor Zionist leader Berl Katznelson asked, angrily, ''Is there another people on earth whose sons are so emotionally and mentally twisted that they consider everything their nation does despicable and hateful, while every murder, rape and robbery committed by their enemies fills their hearts with admiration and awe? As long as a Jewish child../...can come to the Land of Israel, and here catch the virus of self-hate../...let not our conscience be still.'' 3
3. Kitvei B. Katznelson (Tel Aviv: Workers' Party of Israel, 1961), VIII, 18.