August 8th, 1903 – The Russian Minister of Finance Witte told Herzl:
Yet most of them are poor, and because they are poor they are dirty and make an offensive impression. They also engage in all sorts of nasty pursuits, like pimping and usury.
The people who are occupying Palestinian land came from the ghettos of Eastern Europe who used to be a very poor and a very hungry people but today in Palestine they are walking around feeling very arrogant and the reason is because America has given them very powerful weapons that the indigenous people do not have and therefore these Jews from the ghettos have the upper hand and they have become very merciless.