uching into the Red Sea
_via_ the Gulf of Akabah, the most advanced champion of French influence
in the Near East would see no objection to this rectified frontier.
There is no question of competition involved. The proposed change is but
a rational rectification of the present status.

This scheme of delimitation leaves Palestine inset into the French
protectorate of Syria, and it is difficult to see to whom the
protectorate of Palestine should be properly assigned except to France.
Italy has no expansive ambitions in that sector of the Mediterranean;
England's national sphere of influence in this partition of the
districts now occupied by alien peoples in the Ottoman Empire lies
obviously elsewhere; and since the Jews, who settled in ever-increasing
numbers in Palestine before the war, and will assuredly continue to
settle there again, come and will come as refugees from the Russian
Pale, it would be clearly inadvisable to assign to Russia the
protectorate of her own refugees. The only other alternative would be to
create an independent Palestine for the Jews, and the reasons against
that are overwhelming. It would be merely playing into the hands of
Germany to make such an arrangement. For the last thirty years Germany
has watched with personal and special interest this immigration of Jews
into Palestine, seeing in it not so much a Jewish but a German
expansion. Indeed, when, in the spring of this year, as we have noticed,
a massacre and deportation of Jews was planned and begun by Jemal,
Germany so far reversed her usual attitude towards massacres in general,
and her expressed determination never to interfere in Turkey's internal
affairs, as to lodge a peremptory protest, and of course got the
persecution instantly stopped. Her reason was that Pan-Turkish 'ideals'
(the equivalent for the massacre of alien people) had no sort of
meaning in Palestine. But the Pan-Germanic ideals had a great deal of
meaning in Palestine, as Dr. Davis Treitsch _(Die Jueden der Tuerkei)_
very clearly states. For 'as a result of the war,' he tells us, 'there
will be an emigration of East-European Jews on an unprecedented scale
... the disposal of the East European Jews will be a problem for Germany
(and) Germans will be only too glad to find a way out in the emigration
of those Jews to Turkey, a solution extraordinarily favourable to the
interests of all _three [sic]_ parties concerned. There are grounds for
talking of a German protectora