Quotation from Chaim Weizmann “Viz ; the Jews take over the country” — 1949
Chaim Weizmann, the main Zionist lobbyist during the First World War, explained in March 1915, in a letter to the editor of the Manchester Guardian, his plan to use Great Britain as a protector for the development of the Zionist settlement in Palestine.
- Weizmann, Chaim (1874-1952) ( 27 quotations )
- Zionism as an imperial interest ( 51 quotations )
- No Zionism without colonialist protectors ( 41 quotations )
"If Great Britain does not wish anyone else to have Palestine ... it will have to watch it and stop any penetration of another power. Surely ... that involves as much responsibility as would be involved by a British protectorate over Palestine, with the sole difference that watching is a much less effective preventative than an actual protectorate. I therefore thought that the middle course could be adopted ... viz; the Jews take over the country; the whole burden of organization falls on them, but for the next ten or fifteen years they work under a temporary British protectorate.
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Chaim Weizmann, Trial and Error, Harper & Brothers, 1949, p. 224
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