re: #477 jamesfirecat

Okay Jewish guy born in Austrian Empire,

After the Dreyfus Affair (a name I can’t read without wrongly chuckling because it makes me think of the Pink Panther) during which Jews were falsely accused of spying for Germany, Herzl decided that after seeing that evidently antisemitism was more or less at the time ingrained in European politics, an eternal pile of powder just waiting for a match to set it off, decided that the only safe thing to do was for the Jews to go somewhere else.

Well it was either the Dreyfus Affair or the rise to power of Karl Lueger in Vienna in 1895, but I’m only just getting into the topic via wikipedia so lets move on…

Either way after that he devoted his life to trying to get the heads of Europe and the Middle East to agree to set aside what was then called Palestine though with varying degrees of success…

I have that about right?

James. You want a good site for Jewish History, read here. The Wiki isn’t bad, but it doesn’t give the whole flavor which as you know, can fill volumes.

palestinefacts.org