Also regarding the anti- Semitic accusation we all the time hear about when ever anyone criticizes the zionist state, and beside the fact that a lot of the Ashkenazi Jews are from European roots and they are not "Semitics", the term Semitic is problematic in itself and by repeating wrong idea doesn't make it true or facts but this is what we are facing all the time; a well designed plan to keep confusing the obvious facts. Yes, both Arabs and Hebrews are "Semitics", but The root of the name came from the biblical story, the name of Sam, and now to call the whole groups, Canaanites, Babylonians, Aramaeans, Assyrians, Akkadians, Chaldeans, and later Hebrews, Arabs, and others, based on the believes and literature of the Hebrews whom were one of latest groups to arrive in the area, dose not make any sense. It would be a lot accurate to call it anti- Canaanism; if we want to be honest with history and archeology.
And here again Mr. Herzl:
The Mideast: A Century of Conflict
Part 1: Theodor Herzl and the First Zionist Congress
"Herzl...was completely secular and he had no particular attachment to the Jewish religion. As he conceived it, the idea of a Jewish state was a secular idea."
Avi Shlaim, author of The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World
http://www.npr.org/news/specials/mideast/history/history1.html
The Jewish State
Theodor Herzl
1896
http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/6640/zion/judenstaadt.html