Citation de Ernest Laharanne “Your gold will be used to fertilize these fertile lands” — 1860

In a mixture of imperialist greed, anti-Jewish prejudice, and historical fabrications, Ernest Laharanne, secretary to Napoleon III, urges the Jews to participate in the collapse of the Ottoman Empire.

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... A lofty mission awaits you. Positioned as a living link between three worlds, you must bring civilization to peoples who are still inexperienced, you must bring them the enlightenment of Europe that you have gathered in abundance. You will serve as intermediaries between Europe and the Far East, and you will open up the great routes that lead to India and China and to archipelagos that are still unknown but which must be explored... Your gold will be used to fertilize these fertile lands; and where the desert had sown its dust and aridity, there you will bring riches, and the soil will regain its greenery through the work and assistance of modern industries... March on, Jews of all countries! The ancient homeland calls you, and we will be proud to come and reopen your homes! How the East will thrill on the day of your arrival! How the tension between races will disappear under the law of work and the brilliance of free progress! [And] the lessons of history, evoked after a thirty-century slumber, will tear out the cancerous seeds of materialism and extirpate materialism itself, so that aspirations and thoughts will have no other obstacle than the infinite. And as you walk, remember, sons of Israel, remember France, for France has loved you and France has not finished defending you! 

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Ernest Laharanne. La nouvelle question d’Orient. Reconstitution de la nationalité juive. E. Dentu, ed. (1860) 

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