Below we publish quotes from the founder of Zionism, the Jew Theodor Herzl.
Turkey´s leading circles in modern times have been staunch allies of Israel and the Jewish influence in the "New Turk" movement under crypto-Jew - "the founder of secular Turkey" - Kemal Ataturk, could well explain this position.
But Turkish feelings towards the Zionist colonial project in Palestine and the attitudes of Turks towards World Jewry and its most revered leaders should be evaluated only after Turks have read the following excerpts from the very strategy books of the near-mythological hero of today´s Jewry, Theodor Herzl.
In the texts below taken from his diaries we will see how Herzl is using classic Jewish tactics when he tries to get his way regarding Turkey and the establishment of a Jewish base in Palestine, then under Ottoman rule. In his tactics towards the Turkish Sultan and his entourage Herzl at first uses the falsely friendly approach, trying to convince the Turks of the economic gains of a Palestine deal between Turkey and the Zionist movement. Turkey's heavy debts to the European powers formed the crux of Herzl's negotiations at court, and he put forward the idea that the Zionist movement could assist Turkey in paying its debts, in return for which the Zionists would be granted a charter for Jewish settlement under Turkish aegis.
"We shall bestow enormous benefits upon Turkey and confer big gifts upon the intermediaries, if we obtain Palestine. This means nothing less than its cession as an independent country. In return we shall thoroughly straighten out Turkey's finances." (volume 1, page 344)
But when the Sultan declines, using strong words of honour and national pride, the Zionist leader changes face, and shifts from boot-licking emmissary to a man who instead can use the very influence in the international finacial world that he was to assist Turkey, into an instrument to harrass an entire empire. Herzl even contemplates "going off to war against Turkey", only restrained by the lack of a political climate for such a war at the time:
"However, now I am medidating on what our next step could be. Partir en guerre contre la Turquie [Go off to war against Turkey]? We are not strong enough in public opinion, either, and have too many weak spots. (...)
At present I can see only one more plan: See to it that Turkey's difficulties increase; wage a personal campaign against the Sultan, possibly seek contact with the exiled princes and the Young Turks; and, at the same time, by intensifying Jewish Socialist activities stir up the desire among the European governments to exert pressure on Turkey to take in the Jews." (volume 3, page 960)
At last even a Zionist sponsored coup d´etat is contemplated, the plan and details are all ready (as presented to Herzl by a Turkish traitor):
"Sail into the Bosporus with two cruisers, bombard Yildiz, let the Sultan flee or capture him, put in another Sultan (Murad or Reshad), but first form a provisional government---which is to give us the Charter for Palestine. (...) The scheme could be carried out with a thousand men. Preferably during the Selamlik. The cruisers would pass through the Dardanelles at night and could bombard Yildiz by morning."
There are no moral contemplations on the Jew Herzl´s part of such actions against a man - the Sultan - that the Jew leader just some time before had pretended to have a friendly relation to. No, only the goals of Zionism and World Jewry are what are in Herzl´s mind.
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From ''The Complete Diaries of Theodor Herzl, Edited by: Raphael Patai, Translated by: Harry Zohn, New York, 1960''
"A hundred years after his birth, fifty-six years after his death, and twelve years after the realization of his dream in the State of Israel, Theodor Herzl is universally recognized in Jewish history, and, in fact, in world history, as the founder of political Zionizm and the father of the Jewish State." (volume 1, page v)
March 10, 1896
" The Rev. William H.Hechler, chaplin to the British Embassy in Vienna, called on me.
A likable, sensitive man with the long grey beard of a prophet. He waxed enthusiastic over my solution. He, too, regards my movement as a ''prophetic crisis''---one he foretold two years ago. For he had calculated in accordance with a prophecy dating from Omar's reign (637-638) that after 42 prophetical months, that is, 1260 years, Palestine would be restored to the Jews. This would make it 1897-1898." (v.1, p.310)
April 21, 1896
"...Thinking of Newlinsky, I said that someone had already offered to speak with the Sultan.
At that point I set forth the advantages which the project would bring to the Orient. If Turkey were partitioned in the foreseeable future, an etat tampon [buffer state] could be created in Palestine. However, we could contribute a great deal toward the preservation of Turkey. We could straighten out the Sultan's finances once and for all, in return for this territory which is not of great value to him." (p.338)
Budapest, May 3, 1896
"Dionys Rosenfield, editor of the Osmanische Post of Constantinople, called on me here.
He offered his services as an intermediary. (...) I told him in a few words what it was all about. We shall bestow enormous benefits upon Turkey and confer big gifts upon the intermediaries, if we obtain Palestine. This means nothing less than its cession as an independent country. In return we shall thoroughly straighten out Turkey's finances." (volume 1, page 344)
Vienna, May 7, 1896
"Newlinsky came to see me after I had telephoned him.
In a few words I brought him au courant [up to date]. He told me he had read my pamphlet before his last trip to Constantinople and discussed it with the Sultan. The latter had declared that he would never part with Jerusalem. The Mosque of Omar must always remain in the posession of Islam.
(...) Newlinsky thought that the Sultan would sooner give us Anatolia. Money was no consideration to him; he had absolutely no understanding of its value..." (v.1, pages 345-346)
June 9, 1896
"Newlinsky described his English impressions. People there believe in the impending downfall of Turkey. No English prime minister can dare to declare his support of the Sultan because he would have public opinion against him. There is some thought of making the Bulgarian Prince Ferdinand, because he is a Coburg, heir to the Turkish Empire. If this is no diceria [rumor], it is most interesting. Newlinsky thinks the only salvation for the Sultan would be to make an alliance with the Young Turks ---who in their part are on good terms with the Macedonians, Cretans, Armenians, etc.---and to carry out the reforms with their help. He said he had given this advice to the Sultan in a report. Now I said he should add to this program the fact that he was bringing the Sultan the means to carry this out, in the form of Jewish aid. Let the Sultan give us that piece of land, and in return we shall set his house in order, straighten out his finances, and influence public opinion all over the world in his favor." (v.1, p.362-363)
June 15, 1896
" He came to Baden at nine o'clock, and I asked him to brief me on the Turkish National debt. While he was explaining to me the status of the dette publique [public debt], I worked out the financial scheme. We spend twenty million Turkish pounds to straighten out the Turkish finances. Of that sum we give two millions in exchange for Palestine, this amount being based on the capitalization of its present revenue of eighty thousand Turkish pounds per annum. With the remaining 18 millions we free Turkey from the European Control Commission. The bond-holders of Classes A, B, C and D will be induced by direct privileges we shall grant them---increased rate of interest, extension of the amortization period, etc.---to agree to the abolition of the Commission." (p.365)
June 18, 1896, Istanbul
"Newlinsky is extremely valuable to our cause. His skill and devotion are beyond all praise. He will have to be given an extraordinary reward. (...) We arrived in Constantinople yesterday afternoon..." (p.370)
June 19, 1896, Istanbul
"In the evening Newlinsky returned from Yildiz Kiosk with a long face and bad news.
He ordered only half a bottle of champagne --- en signe de deuil [as a sign of mourning] ---and told me in two words: ''Nothing doing. The great lord won't hear of it!''
I took the blow stout-heartedly.
''The Sultan [Abdulhamid Han] said:
'If Mr.Herzl is as much your friend as you are mine, then advise him not to take another step in this matter. I cannot sell even a foot of land, for it does not belong to me, but to my people. My people have won this empire by fighting for it with their blood and have fertilized it with their blood. We will again cover it with our blood before we allow it to be wrested away from us. The men of two of my regiments from Syria and Palestine let themselves be killed one by one at Plevna. Not one of them yielded; they all gave their lives on that battlefield. The Turkish Empire belongs not to me, but to the Turkish people. I cannot give away any part of it. Let the Jews save their billions. When my Empire is partitioned, they may get Palestine for nothing. But only our corpse will be divided. I will not agree to vivisection.' ''
(...) I was touched and shaken by the truly lofty words of the Sultan, although for the time being they dashed all my hopes. There is a tragic beauty in this fatalism which will bear death and dismemberment, yet will fight to the last breath, even if only through passive resistance."
(vol.1, page 378-379)
October 14, 1896; Vienna
"Today, I went to see Mahmud Nedim Pasha, the Turkish Ambassador.(...) I said there is only one salvation for Turkey: an agreement with the Jews regarding Palestine. In this way the finances could be straightened out, reforms carried out, and after a restoration of orderly conditions any foreign intervention could be permanently forbidden..." (v.2, p.482)
July 1, 1897
"I am thinking of giving the movement a closer territorial goal, preserving Zion as the final goal.
The poor masses need immediate help, and Turkey is not yet so desperate as to accede to our wishes.
In fact, there will probably be hostile demonstrations against us in Turkey in the immediate future. They will say that they have no intentions of giving us Palestine.
Thus we must organize ourselves for a goal attainable soon, under the Zion flag and maintaining all of our historic claims.
Perhaps we can demand Cyprus from England, and even keep an eye on South Africa or America---until Turkey is dissolved..." (v.2, p.644)
November 7, 1899; Vienna
[Letter to Nuri Bey, Chief Secretary of Foreign Affairs in Istanbul:]
"...It is up to the statesmen of Turkey to understand in time the advantages that would slip through your fingers. You would not have the Jewish establishment in Palestine that would have brought you a great deal of money immediately, then the ordering of your entire financial situation, a modern fleet, industrial and commercial life, finally the well-being of the Empire." (v.3, p.884)
November 25, 1899; Vienna
"Yesterday Carl Herbst of Sofia was here and made the good suggestion of having the Young Turks work on the Sultan. In the papers of the Young Turks we should have the government censured for its carelessness in not taking up the advantageous offers of the Zionists." (v.3, p.889)
December 27, 1899; Vienna
"Nothing from Constantinople, nothing, nothing. Je me desespere [I am in despair]..." (p.898)
Telegram: Galata to Vienna, June 4, 1900
"Schlesinger [Herzl's nickname for Arminius Vambery] tried Sultan day before yesterday, flatly refused...." (v.3 p.959)
"However, now I am medidating on what our next step could be. Partir en guerre contre la Turquie [Go off to war against Turkey]? We are not strong enough in public opinion, either, and have too many weak spots. (...)
At present I can see only one more plan: See to it that Turkey's difficulties increase; wage a personal campaign against the Sultan, possibly seek contact with the exiled princes and the Young Turks; and, at the same time, by intensifying Jewish Socialist activities stir up the desire among the European governments to exert pressure on Turkey to take in the Jews." (volume 3, page 960)
''The Complete Diaries of Theodor Herzl, Edited by:Raphael Patai, Translated by: Harry Zohn, New York, 1960''
February 17, 1902; Istanbul
"...The Sultan [Abdulhamid Han] is willing to open his Empire to all Jews who become Turkish subjects, but the regions to be settled are to be decided each time by the government, and Palestine is to be excluded. The Comp. Ott.-Juive is to be allowed to colonize in Mesopotamia, Syria, Anatolia,anywhere at all, with the sole exception of Palestine! A Charter without Palestine! ..." (v.3, p.1222)
August 3, 1902; Istanbul
"...Their Excellencies Tahsin Bey, H.I.M.'s First Secretary, and Ibrahim Bey, Dragoman of the Imperial Divan, have done me the honor of transmitting the following communication:
''The Israelites can be received and settled in the Ottoman Empire under the condition that they be installed, not together, that is, dispersed, in the places adjudged suitable by the government, and that their numbers be fixed in advance by the government. They will be invested with Ottoman citizenship and charged with all the civic duties, including military service, as well as being subject to all the laws of the land like Ottomans.'' ..." (v.4, p.1340)
February 24, 1904; Vienna
"Yesterday I had a most curious visitor: ''Ali Nuri Bey, Ex-Consul General de Turquie,'' it said on his card. (...)
His proposal, which he made me in my house between 9:30 and 12:30 yesterday, comes to this: Sail into the Bosporus with two cruisers, bombard Yildiz, let the Sultan flee or capture him, put in another Sultan (Murad or Reshad), but first form a provisional government---which is to give us the Charter for Palestine.
A novel or an adventure?
The two cruisers will cost 400,000 pounds, the rest 100,000 pounds. The whole stroke would cost half a million pounds. If it fails, we would have lost the money and the participants their lives.
All this presented quite coolly and calmly, like an offer to buy a load of wheat. He said he would make the voyage and go ashore himself. The scheme could be carried out with a thousand men. Preferably during the Selamlik.
The cruisers would pass through the Dardanelles at night and could bombard Yildiz by morning." (v.4, p.1615)
March 22, 1904; Vienna
"I have sent Kahn [a rabbi and Zionist] and Levontin [a Russian Zionist] to Constantinople. If they return bredouille [empty-handed], there will follow Tell's second arrow: Ali Nuri." (v.4, p.1619)
