A land without a people for a people without a land

"A land without a people for a people without a land"is a widely-cited phrase associated with the reintroduction of a Jewish state in the land of Israel. Although usually assumed to have been a Zionist slogan,the phrase was in fact coined by a Christian Restorationist clergyman in 1843 and it continued to be fairly widely used for almost a century by Christian Restorationists. In the nineteenth and early twentieth century period in which this phrase was in common use, the Arab inhabitants of Palestine did not in their view constitute a coherent national group, "a people", and, therefore, Christian Restorationists argued that the "land of Israel" should be given to the Jewish people. It is now thought by some scholars that this phrase never came into widespread use among Jewish Zionists.

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"A land without a people for a people without a land"is a widely-cited phrase associated with the reintroduction of a Jewish state in the land of Israel. Although usually assumed to have been a Zionist slogan,the phrase was in fact coined by a Christian Restorationist clergyman in 1843 and it continued to be fairly widely used for almost a century by Christian Restorationists. In the nineteenth and early twentieth century period in which this phrase was in common use, the Arab inhabitants of Palestine did not in their view constitute a coherent national group, "a people", and, therefore, Christian Restorationists argued that the "land of Israel" should be given to the Jewish people. It is now thought by some scholars that this phrase never came into widespread use among Jewish Zionists.