Excerpt from The Tasks of the Jewish National Fund
The new phase upon which the Zionist movement has now entered makes it incumbent upon us to adopt all possible measures to ensure the success of our object, for the achievement of which we have been promised the powerful aid of the British Government. It cannot be emphasized too often or too strongly that the successful realization of our national ideals will ultimately depend upon the efforts and sacrifices of the Jewish people itself. These efforts and sacrifices must be carried on by individuals as well as by the nation as an organized body.
Just as in the case of the individual nobody would deny the wisdom of the principle mens sana in corpore sano - so in the case of the nation there cannot be any healthy activity unless the nation possesses a healthy organism. It is in order to create such a healthy national organism in Palestine that it is imperative to secure a large and adequate Jewish agricultural population in the country. Though agriculture would not monopolize all the energies of the people, the agricultural basis is necessary for two essential reasons: first, that the people of the country may be self-supporting, and secondly, that the people may really take root in the land in which they mean to re-establish their home.
The Jewish settlement in Palestine can acquire a real national character only by a consistent national policy of colonization. Such a policy cannot be conducted as long as the work of colonization is left only to private initiative.
Zionists in general have hitherto shown little interest in questions of colonization and land tenure.
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