THE FUTURE OF PALESTINE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue 7363, 15 January 1902, Page 4

THE FUTURE OF PALESTINE.

MR ZANGWILL AND MR HALL

CAINE ON ZIOJNISM.

Mr I. Zangwill spoke at a metting of the Article Club on "Tbe Commercial Future of Palestine."

Palestine, he declared., must became the centre of great activity in the near future. Whoever might win the overlordship, the country could cot escape falling under tbe sphere of medern industrial civilisation. The best customer of the country was England, but English chirping with Palestine was going back. Oranges, raisins, oi 1 , wine, tobaoco, sugar, and rch mineral deposits were among the country's . possible resources. He had no doubt about the commercial future of Palestine, given the railways and roads, which were coming. Mr Zangwill spoke of the efforts of Birons Hirech and Edmond de Rothschild as " pauperisation on a magnificent scale." Zionism mu=t depend on a Jewish chartered company, and there is already a Jewish colonial trust, with fbarcholders among the poorest Jews in the KorJd,

Mr Hall Caice earnestly supported Mr Zangwiil's plea. Zioni. m might be a dream, but it was a dream that helped the poor Jew in Europe to ktep his eoul alive. He looked foiward to Palestine as a Jewish country protected, perhaps, by the Great Powrra.

Mr George Bernard Shaw spoke of the fascination which the subj ct of Zionism had for him as an Irishman, between whom and tbe Jevr thore wa3 much similaritiy, and declared that the new Palestine must be built up by the btet Jewish blood, acd must be an independent Jewish State.