ZIONISM.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVII, Issue 108, 8 May 1909, Page 10

ZIONISM.

A TURKISH DEPUTY'S GOODWILL Dr. Eiza Tewfik, a member of the Chamber of Deputies, and one of the foremost leaders of the Young Turk party, delivered a lecture on the Jewish question recently in Constantinople, under the auspices of the Society of Young Jews. At the close of the lecture (cays the Jewish Chronicle), Dr. Riza Tewfik invited questions, and in reply to the enquiry whether a good Ottoman could be a Zionist, he replied, "Certainly, I myself am a Zionist. Zionism is fundamentally nothing more than the expression of the solidarity which, characterises the Jewish people. What is the aim of Zionism ? A humanitarian one : to find a more friendly fatherland for unfortunate co-religion-ists, where they can live "as free men in the enjoyment of their rights. The methods of Zionism are exclusively peaceful. Palestine is your land more than it is ours ; we may become rulers of the country many centuries later than you. A service would be rendered to our common fatherland by undertaking the colonisation of that uncultivated land, Palestine. Your nation has incomparable qualifications for trade ; your -fellow Jews are sober and industrious. They would restore this desoInto land. They would devqte nil their energies to the service of our dear fatherland, and I assure you that my co-operation will never fail you in order to attain this aim.' 1