1880 ⟶ Laurence Oliphant Proposes Settlement in 'The Land of Gilead'
Laurence Oliphant publishes The land of Gilead, with excursi...
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✍️ Lord Palmerston Encourages Jewish Settlement
Lord Palmerston writes to Lord Ponsonby, British Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire: "There exists at the present time among the Jews dispersed over Europe, a strong notion that the time is approaching when their nation is to return to Palestine... It would be of manifest importance to the Sultan to encourage the Jews to return and settle in Palestine because the wealth which they would bring with them would increase the resources of the Sultan's dominions; and the Jewish people, if returning under the sanction and protection, and at the invitation of the Sultan, would be a check upon any future evil designs of Mehemet Ali (of Egypt) or his successor... I have to instruct Your Excellency strongly to re-commend (to the Turkish Government) to hold out every just encouragement to the Jews of Europe to return to Palestine."⟶
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Turkey🌱 George Gawler Encourages Jewish Settlements
George Gawler, previously the governor of South Australia, starts to encourage Jewish settlements in the land of Israel.⟶
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Australia🧑🌾 Founding of British Society for Jewish Agricultural Labour in the Holy Land
James Finn and his wife found the "British Society for the Promotion of Jewish Agricultural Labour in the Holy Land"⟶
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PalestineUnited Kingdom🏘️ George Gawler Founds Association for Promoting Jewish Settlement in Palestine
George Gawler founds the Association for Promoting Jewish Settlement in Palestine⟶
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Palestine🤝 James Finn Proposes Jewish Agricultural Settlement
James Finn, the second British Consul in Jerusalem, writes to Foreign Secretary the Earl of Clarendon regarding his proposal "to persuade Jews in a large body to settle here as agriculturalists on the soil ... in partnership with the Arab peasantry"⟶
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PalestineUnited Kingdom📝 Laurence Oliphant Proposes Settlement in 'The Land of Gilead'
Laurence Oliphant publishes The land of Gilead, with excursions in the Lebanon which proposes a settlement under British protection while respecting Ottoman sovereignty. He proposes that the 'warlike' Bedouins be driven out, and the Palestinians be placed in reservations like the native Indians of America.⟶
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