PALESTINE REPEOPLED.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2764, 19 March 1910, Page 6

PALESTINE REPEOPLED.

ONE VAST GARDEN.

The Jewish question is mow T faoing the Constitutional Government in: Turkey as it never has done before. Although the admission of Jewish colonists from Russia, the Balkan, States, Austria and Persia seems, to. be sanctioned ,by. constitutional principles, still self-preservation, is a motive more potent than equality. The inhabitants of Palestine are beginning to see the reason why Russia has shown .such intolerance of the descendants of Abraham. Thousands and tens of thousands of Jewish colonists are already settled in the fairest lands of Palestine. Helped by rich capitalists' in Europe, they build comfortable homes and establish flourishing colonies. Large portions of land round Lake Tiberias nave been bought up from poor natives and converted into prosperous domains. The Plain of Sharon, between Jaffa and Lydda, is one vast garden, ■ owned and tended by Jewish skill and labour. The Hauran, one of the most fertile wheat districts in the world, is .being gradually, sold to Jewish syndicates. The Ghor (Valley of the Jordan), which two years ago belonged to Abdul Hamid, who was in communication with Jewish capitalists for its sale when his dethronement took place, is now being bargained for, and will soon become Jewish property. To say that Jaffa- and Jerusalem are Jewish towns is only saying the bare truth. Towns like Ramoth-Gilead, Bethlehem, Nazareth, and Gaza, where a. few years ago no Jew dared show his face, have now their Jewish quarters and synagogues. Zionism in Europe lias, indeed, been working with a wM.