Database of Palestine colonization quotes

PALCIT is a database of quotes on the Zionist colonization of Palestine. Quotations do not replace History, but there is no History without quotations. Those in PALCIT come either from recognized historians or from media that have shed light on the news. Their authors are most often people who have played a direct and important role of political power. This choice is intended to give a raw material to understand the ideology that has guided the decisions taken since the birth of Zionism to lead to today's Israel.

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Quotation from Henry John Temple “It would be of manifest importance to the Sultan to encourage the Jews to return” — 1840

For more than 60 years, Henri John Temple served british imperial interests. He shows little regard in « jewish » interests but insists on « return » as a means to check Egypt and increase the Sultan financil status.
Here in a letter to the British Ambassador in Constantinopolis.

Author :

Temple, Henry John (Lord Palmerston) (1784-1865) ( 2 quotations )

Thematics :

Zionism as an imperial interest ( 52 quotations )
The myth of Roman exile as a justification for a "return" ( 34 quotations )

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There exists at the present time among the Jews dispersed over Europe, a strong notion that the time is approaching when their nation is to return to Palestine. . . . It would be of manifest importance to the Sultan to encourage the Jews to return and to settle in Palestine because the wealth which they would bring with them would increase the resources of the Sultan’s dominions; and the Jewish people, if returning under the sanction and protection and at the invitation of the Sultan, would be a check upon any future evil designs of Mehemet Ali or his successor. . . . I have to instruct Your Excellency strongly to recommend [the Turkish government] to hold out every just encouragement to the Jews of Europe to return to Palestine.
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Quoted in Thomas D. Ice, Lovers of Zion : A History of Christian Zionism (2009).
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