Theodor Herzl Complete Diaries Vol 4 – page 1529 –
August 8th, 1903
Russian Minister of Finance Witte said:
But it must be admitted that the Jews do provide reason enough for hostility. There is a characteristic arrogance about them. 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.
Why would anybody think that the Arabs would want these people who were despised and hated by their own people in Europe? The Arabs did not even know the Ashkenazi because there was never a time that the Ashkenazi had ever lived anywhere in the Middle East before 1882 when they arrived as Zionists.
