Translator: Davood Salehan
Source: rasekhoon.net



 

England, following the loss of its American colonies, focused his colonial activities on India, and perhaps more importantly on the path to get there. British foreign policymakers believed that protection of the territorial integrity of the weakened Ottoman Empire is the best way to support the India route against Russia and France. Great Britain seek to use Napoleon's policy-Semitism in Europe and his Zionist Declaration about Jewish state in Palestine and focused his Zionist plans with tacit attention of other major European powers in order to accommodate the Jews in Palestine.
Despite extensive efforts of Lord Palmerston, British Foreign Secretary, and Lord Shaft Buri, Jews showed no desire to return to Palestine. England appointed a consul in Jerusalem in March 1838 and declared that the legal sphere of his influence is all the ancient boundaries of the Holy Land. This appointment was considered as the first step in a detailed strategy for the Jews' use in relation to British imperialist domination in Palestine.
British ordered his ambassador in Turkey in August 1838 to encourage Ottoman Sultan to issue permission of the European Jews' return to the Palestine. In August 1840, The Times of London published a note about the return of Jews which was written addressed to the Protestant Kings of northern Europe and North America. The Protestant note by quoting verses from the Bible reminds kings that Jews are the chosen people that God has separated them, and the lands from Nile to Euphrates and the Holy Land were promised to them.
Following the publication of the memo, Lord Palmerston declared is that he is deeply in thought of the future and prosperity of the Jews. He also added that the Queen of England is also pleased by reading the note wholeheartedly. In the meantime, Lord Shaft Buri ensured Palmerston that Zionist is the cheapest and fastest way for the colonization of Syria which its benefits will be for the whole civilized world. According to him, settlement of Jews in Palestine will not have much cost to the treasury of Great Britain.
Map of establishment of Jewish colony in Palestine
George Gadler, English Governor of South Australia, after visiting Palestine in 1852 presented a plan to colonize Palestine. He believed that the establishment of Jewish colonies in Palestine will weaken Syria and East. He also claimed that 90 percent of Palestinian land remained unused and useless and is waiting for civilized immigrants to use it.
Maybe he was the first Israeli who invented the Zionist myth that Palestine is a land without people waiting for the Jews, a people without land.
Following Benjamin Disraeli becoming Prime Minister in 1868, Gadler provided details of a plan to civilizing Palestine and East by the Jews that based on it, Britain was responsible of providing security of Jews, and France and Russia were responsible for security of Catholics and the Greeks in Palestine. In the wake of the Crimean War, Henry Dunnett founded World Forum for Revival of East and presented the plan of first Jewish agricultural colonies in Palestine. Following the invention of the steamship and the completion of the Suez Canal, the interests of Zionism and the international trade got closer to each other about establishment of colonies along the route of India and China through the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine. Zionists argued that the British maritime transport will be under the control of British lovers by the establishment of the Jewish state in Palestine. It was more convincing when Benjamin Disraeli bought the Suez Canal Company's shares thanks to the financial help of a Jewish banker family.
English Zionist and Gadler doctrine was strengthened by the publication of the novel "Daniel Derunda" by George Eliot (a non-Jewish writer whose real name was Mary Ann Evans). In this book, Jews were depicted as national heroes. Daniel Derunda said a complete Christian is three-quarters of a Jewish person and insisted on the need of Christians moral compensate to Jews. It can even be said that the book created Jewish nationalist spirit for Zionism which became an inspiration for Theodor Herzl as well.