ACompare this, with Trump's declaring Jerusalem the exclusive-Zionist center -- to spite other faiths, both Christians...
Posted by Bobby Fischer's True History on Wednesday, January 22, 2020
New-York Tribune New York, New York Tuesday, January 15, 1918 - Page 8 — The Future of Palestine
Palestine at present is not a desert but an empty and deserted land which has been deprived of its inhabitants. It is emptier than ever since the recent famines and massacres -the latter systematically conducted by the Ottoman oppressors, with the knowledge, if not under the direction, of their German overseers have cleaned the country of several hundreds of thousands of the population. The land assigned to the Twelve Tribes could at most accommodate only a fraction of the 14,000,000 Jews who are scattered over the face of the earth. But “there is room in Palestine for at least another million Jews without displacing the present inhabitants.” It is not contemplated that their increase shall be at the expense of the non-Jewish population, or that their rights and liberties shall diminish those of their neighbors. In particular, the Zionists disown any “desire for the responsibility of the guardianship of the places which they recognize as holy to Christian and Moslem, as well as Jew” — the root of the quarrel that brought about the Crimean War; and they acknowledge the right of all faiths and races to “free access to the centers of devotion which the Holy Land encloses.”
Posted by Bobby Fischer's True History on Wednesday, January 22, 2020
