Quotation from Henry Dunant “... agricultural colonies, with the help and labor of those of their Eastern co-religionists...” — Jan. 1 1970
In 1866, Henry Dunant, Calvinist and founder of the Red Cross, recommended to Emperor Napoleon III the creation of a settlement society in Palestine for Eastern European Jews. The project never got off the ground. Dunant attended the First Zionist Congress of 1897.
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"The Compagnie Orientale Universelle (...) was to build a port at Jaffa and a railroad from there to Jerusalem. Along the route of this railroad, land would be granted by Turkey to this company, which would sell it at a profit, particularly to the great financiers of Europe and to the most opulent Jewish families. These in turn would create and develop agricultural colonies, with the help and labor of those of their Eastern co-religionists whose love for their ancient homeland remained as ardent as ever. Special committees will send, at their own expense, their co-religionists from Poland, Hungary, Moldavia, the Orient, Africa…
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Henri Dunant. Société internationale universelle pour la rénovation de l’Orient (1866)
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