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Excerpt from The Physical and Political Conditions of Palestine: A Course of Lectures Delivered Under the Auspices of the London Zionist League, Session 1906 Christian intolerance to the worse type of the already harsh legislation of ancient Rome; they might have told you of the conflicts between Persian and Christian armies contending for the supremacy of Asia Minor, in which the Jews of Pales tine were necessarily implicated. Ithey might have given you a description of the carnage of the God-fearing Crusaders, who celebrated their victory by wading knee-deep through the streams of blood flowing in the streets of Jerusalem and in other places conquered by them, and again of the revenge of Saladin's troops, of the extortion of Seldjuks and Mameluk rulers, and lastly the conquest by the Turks, which brings us down to the year 1799, when the French and English fought their battle before Acre. But all these are not my concern, all these form part of general history, the history of the world, and affect very little Palestine in its relation to Jews and Ju daism. The question which I will em deaver to answer is: Have we ever relin quished our claim to the land in face of these succeeding conquerors; has the J ew ish conscience ever cut itself adrift from the intimate connection with the land; have we ever denied the hope of regaining it once more with the political status of ancient times? To be driven away by force is not the same as giving up by one's own free will, and the right which be longed to us two thousand years ago has not been forfeited, because we have not been able to exercise it in a political sense in face. Of adverse circumstances and over whelming inimical forces. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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