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The Track of the Jew through the Ages

that they could align their interests with those ofthe German eastern
policy, but the impossibility of this standpoint came increasingly to
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the fore.A German, Lazar Pinkus, dared to express this recognition
in the following words: "A Jewish community in Palestine cannot
become the central point of German interests in the east. The strong
national feeling of the Jewish people guarantees the complete
exclusion of foreign special interests".
Since Turkey now was once Germany's ally, the Zionists
could not loudly voice the wish for a partitioning of Palestine but
had to satisfy themselves with obtaining reasonable colonisation
rights or with removing the question at first from the war-aims in
order to bring it up so much more vigorously later. All the above-
mentioned Jewish statesmen supported the English world-empire
as a patron saint of Jewry.
The latter wish to be based in a strong state which represents
a power in the east that is strong enough to ensure, for the Jews, a
maximum of national security there. Now England possessed Egypt,
India, bases in the Persian Gulf, and lacked only an overland
connection between these countries, and there Palestine was
positioned excellently as a link in a chain. Turkey was, besides, the
enemy, and to promise their land to the Jewish people as a state
territory meant getting their sympathy.
This was increasingly understood by the Jews and the
English and the statement of the hot-blooded man and at the same
time cool-headed politician, Theodor Herzl, was fulfilled:
"England, the powerful, free England, which with its glance
encompasses the world, will understand us and our aspirations. With
England as the point of departure we can be certain the Zionist idea
will be powerful and will rise higher than ever before". In England

301 Vor der Grundung des Judenstaates, Zurich, 1918, p. 33. [Lazar Pinkus (1881-
1947) was a Jewish banker and writer.]
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[Nahum Sokolow (1 859-1 936) was a Zionist leader from Poland who lived in
England during the first World War. He was a supporter of the Balfour Declaration
of 191 7 and served as President of the World Zionist Congress from 1931 to 1935,
when he was succeeded by Chaim Weizmann.]
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[Herbert Louis, Viscount Samuel (1870-1963) was a Jewish British politician
who was appointed High Commissioner of Palestine from 1920 to 1925.]
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