JEWS IN PALESTINE.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 707, 5 January 1910, Page 5

JEWS IN PALESTINE.

.-.'■..■ ZIONISTtCONGRESS. V A CO-OPEEATIVE ; SETTLEMENT. By Telegraiih-Preas Assoclation-OopyriEht. i (Rec. 1 January i, 9.35 p.m.) . ',- '■.'•' ; Berlin,. January '.A The Zionist Congress, now; sitting at Hamburg;.unanimously 'decided to establish a co-operative, settlement in Pales-' tine. The sum .of .£BOOO '<was voted .for preliminary operations. .'■'■.•"". : ' ■. TURKEY AND The object of the Zionist movement-is to socui'e Palestine for the Jews. Some time : ago Mr. : Zahgwill and .other Jews broke away from this movement, differing froin Zionism so far as. it is exclusively directed; to the possession of Palestine., They.' regarded the gates-of 2ion as closed to them under Turkish rule, and proposed a .colonisation scheme in East Africa. •' But the Young Turk regime in .Turkey, with. its policy of constitutionalism, and racial, equality,' is a new factor; and may- opon up to Jews who 'return' to Palestine , a' prospect of that autonomy ...which they desire and which was not pocsible under the deposed Sultan. . .■'.-•■. . ■,'■•■'-•■"'.-■ . ■";-.■'.■ .;; - ■■■: ''■■'.•■ f

■ "For several.'years, (says an English paper) there'has been a. steady-, immigration; into' Palestine cf young; vigorous Jews''not' without capital. Small industries and small colonies .are -being established; . and .a new society is coming into existence, feeble ' still- but : with'' seed ■ for development., The 'Jews in '.Palestine are' already a factor to.be counted'with/: : The Jewish Bank;;; with branchosVat ; Jaffa, Jorusalem,'•". and Beyrout, is. gaining : influence; the Jewish. National ; Fund'is being employed; as was intended, for the purchase of ■' Palestinian land;; , while Zionist educational i institutions are taking root. iThe; Bezaleli'. a modern' arts and. crafts' School; now iri its second year, the High School at' Jaffa ,; and the .National/ Library; at • Jerusalem—these .are bulwarks' of ''-Jewish But'ithis work of individuals must be co-ordinated .to take'.its place in arpolitical scheme. 'The .necessary,-legal guarantees .must:,bo secured fronv the. Turkish 5 Government,, the land must be investigated arid- waste 'land.be brought under,cultivation." : ,.'r.:"w