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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 763, 11 March 1910, Page 8

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JEW AND TURK. ' • The proclamation of the Constitntio'n in Turkey .(writes a Jerusalem correspondent) nas thrown open the doors of Palestine,.to the incoming of Jews from all parts of the world. In Jerusalem alone four-fifths of the population (100,000) now belong to the Jewish faith, while at Jaffa, Tiberias, Safred,- and . Haifa (Mount Ca'rmel); Jews are reckoned bv tens of thousands. , : ' ■'■■ Almost the whole of the extensive'plain of Esdraelon has 1 been bought up by them. Their, prosperous colonies spread from Dan to Beersheba, and even farther south to the outskirts of-Egypt. Thousands are escaping from Persia' to find shelter and protection in the';H6ly Land, while every ship from Odessa, carries hundreds; of them. The Jordan Valley, once the property of the ex-Sultan Abdul Hamid;' is being eagerly sought after by Jewish capitalists and syndicates. The Zionists, whose agentß are distributed all over the land, are buying up' the: rich properties of the Mahommedan Effendis, whose incomes since the revolution have considerably lessened. The whole city is essentially- a Jewish town. Banking, as well as trade and commerce, is monopolised by Jews. The Government has found it necessary . to organise a company of Jewish gendarmes.' Hundreds of thousands of pounds are annually sent from Europe and America to enable the colonists to build homes, hospitals, schools, and invalid I homes. Over one hundred Jewish schools already exist in Jerusalem alone. Synagogues are, rising up everywhere. . ■ The value of land has risen fourfold: The ignorant and poverty-stricken fellaheen (peasants) are being ousted from their homes and villages by the sharp European Jew sottler, whose modern agricultural implements and methods have made the land produce harvests never before dreamt, of by the natives. The AngloPalestine Company, a Zionist banking and commercial enterprise, is, : pushing the cause of Israel with splendid determinaiion. --' >' The racial' exclusiveness of the Jews and their clannish proclivities are arousing tlio opposition of Ottomans. Tho Turkish Constitutional regime has' in this question one of the greatest problems that havo ever faced a new and patriotic Government. ; .