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In this sense Herzl could say later that the Dreyfus affair had made him a Zionist. He saw all about him the ever fiercer light of a blazing anti-Semitism. In the French Chamber of Deputies the deputy Denis made an interpellation on the influence of the Jews in the political administration of the country. In Vienna a Jewish member of the Reichstag rose to speak and was howled down.
'He's such a bigoted Zionist he cannot understand that Zionism is ein überwundener Standpunkt. 'I know. 'Ah! said the young man eagerly. 'Then you can understand how I have suffered since I evolved from Zionism. 'What are you now, if I may ask? 'The only thing that a self-respecting Jew can be a Sejmist, of course! 'A Jewish Party? asked David eagerly.
'You don't suppose she won't suffer dreadfully? Barstein went on, perceiving his advantage. 'Break her heart! repeated Sir Asher, startled out of his discreet reticence. 'I'd sooner break her heart than see her married to a Zionist! This time it was the sculptor's turn to gasp. 'To a what? he cried. 'To a Zionist. You don't mean to deny you're a Zionist? said Sir Asher sternly.
Yet, in the middle of a very temperate and magnanimous address on "Zionist Policy," he can actually say a thing like this, "The Arabs need us with our knowledge, and our experience and our money. If they do not have us they will fall into the hands of others, they will fall among sharks."
We wish to place the question under the control of free public opinion." His First Congress address contained the ideas which he had already expressed in previous speeches and articles, but there was a great difference between the views in "The Jewish State" and the address delivered at the first session of the Zionist Congress.
The document went on with an offer subject to the consent of the relevant officials of a Jewish governorship and internal autonomy. This was the first official proposal in connection with the Zionist movement which Herzl was able to submit to a Zionist Congress. When the letter of Sir Clement Hill was submitted to the Sixth Zionist Congress in 1903, it split the Zionist movement wide open.
When I happened to drop a remark to the effect that Hebrew, the language of the Old Testament, was a dead language, Wolpert exclaimed: "Oh no! Not any longer, Mr. Levinsky. It has risen from the dead." The other two chimed in, each in his way, the burden of their argument being that Hebrew was the living tongue of the Zionist colonists in Palestine
But it seemed to have more than a Castilian, more than a Free Zionist significance. He was still pondering over it when Mr. Finn, having bidden Jane and Barney Bill good-night, disappeared. "Ah!" said Barney Bill, lifting up the beer jug in order to refill his glass, and checked whimsically by the fact of its emptiness.
The first Zionist congress solemnly proclaimed in the face of the attentive world that the Jews are a nation, and that they do not desire to be absorbed by other nations. It vowed to work for the emancipation of that part of the Jewish race which is deprived of all rights, and which is dragging out its existence in undeserved misery, and to prepare for it a brighter future.
But he must have Palestine, and will move only into its vicinity." This was the first reference to Uganda which became the center of attention in Zionist circles. Herzl was told that the Egyptian Government would reject the plan. It was found that the area would require five times as much water as had been first estimated.
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