Billo_Really,
et al,
It doesn't change the timeline. He could not possibly be talking about Mandate era immigration because it was written 30 years before the immigration started.
Billo_Really,
et al,
The quote is true - that is - it comes from what Asher Zvi Hirsch Ginsberg (AKA: Ahad Ha'am, Russian Writer) said in 1891.
Here's a clue...
Who feels like making friends after that shit?
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This had nothing to do with Jewish immigrants going to Palestine. This was a statement
made in the 1891 published essay called "
A Truth from Eretz Yisrael." Written 23 years before WWI erupted (1914), a quarter century before the Sykes-Picot Agreement (1916), 26 years before the Balfour Declaration (1917), 28 years before the Faisal-Weizmann Agreement (1919), 29 years before the San Remo Convention (1920), three decades before the Mandate of Palestine was created (1922) and the implementation
(of Articles 4 and 6) to encourage and facilitate Jewish immigration for Jews willing to assist in the establishment of the Jewish national home.
Ahad Ha'am was talking about the relationship between the indigenous Jews and the indigenous Arabs; not immigrants under the Mandate.
Most Respectfully,
R
If what you're claiming was true, there would be more incidents of violence before the Zionist migration and there isn't. All the major incidents of violence occurred AFTER the Zionist migration.
Furthermore, I only posted the 2nd half of Ahad Ha'am's quote, here's the
full quote...
the settlers must under no circumstances arouse the wrath of the natives ... 'Yet what do our brethren do in Palestine? Just the very opposite! Serfs they were in the lands of the Diaspora and suddenly they find themselves in unrestricted freedom and this change has awakened in them an inclination to despotism. They treat the Arabs with hostility and cruelty, deprive them of their rights, offend them without cause and even boast of these deeds; and nobody among us opposes this despicable and dangerous inclination."
He wouldn't be calling indigenous, Palestinian-Jews, "settlers". That would be the migrating Zionists.
Hey, that's a good name for a Jewish rap group
...........The Migrating Zionists!
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Remember that Asher Zvi Hirsch Ginsberg (AKA: Ahad Ha'am) was a Jewish Russian Writer. In his time, he experienced the Russian MAY LAWs instituted by Emperor Alexander III of Russia (15 May 1882). This promoted a migration of Jews from Russia back to the Palestinian Territories. In the four decades following the MAY LAWs, about 2 million Jews left Russia; some to Argentina, some to the US, and some to Ottoman Palestine. And it was that migration that Ahad Ha'am wrote. Not Mandate era immigration.
It should be noted that since about 1870, Jews had a standing invitation from the Sultan Abdul Aziz, to relocate to Ottoman Palestine. The Sultan even allocated the "Alliance Israelite Universelle" 2600 dunams to establishment of a School of Agriculture. The Sultan granted special permission for Jewish immigrants to import special tools, equipment and machinery free of taxes and customs duty. This was further followed-up by Sultan Abdulhamid who planted nearly 200,000 Jewish immigrants from Russia in the Ottoman Palestine - most East of Jaffa. The Sultan's Project was to make the region more self-sufficient and productive; and the Empire needed the Jewish abilities to accomplish that. This was an extension of The Tanzimat
(reorganization of the Ottoman Empire). The Tanzimat encouraged Jewish immigration. The Ottoman Land Reform Laws of 1858, were specifically engineered to allow Russian Jews to buy land in Ottoman Palestine. Together with the Ottoman Act of Equality
(Reform Edict of 1856) and the reforms to integrate non-Muslims and Jews into Ottoman society through the application of civil liberties and social equality, Jews became welcome throughout the Empire.
This is what Ahad Ha'am was referring to in his writing. Jewish immigration to the Ottoman Palestine did not start with the Post-War Mandate period. It really started with the Ottoman Empire repealing the first century "Law of No Return" issued by the Roman Senate. Large scale immigration was encouraged and furthered by the Ottomans when Sultan Bayezid II dispatched Piri Reis, Grand Admiral of the Turkish Fleet in the Mediterranean Sea, to rescue the exiled Jews from Italy, Spain and Portugal.
You have to look at the perspective of Ahad Ha'am to understand what he meant when he said "settlers." From the time the New World was discovered, through to the present day, there have been cycles of migration and immigration into the territory. And over that time, many changes had occurred; socially and culturally.
Most Respectfully,
R
