The Ottoman Empire Procedures in Preventing Zionism Infiltration to Jerusalem in the Reign of Sultan AbdulHamid II District of the (1876-1909)
Walid Subhi Aridi and Omar Saleh Al-omari, Department of History, Yarmouk University, Irbid, Jordan.
Abstract
The current study is seeking to answer one main question which is: Did the Ottoman take proper and critical procedures to prevent Zionism infiltration to district of empire Jerusalem? What are the related consequences?.
The study deals with three domains:
1. Herzl international communications.
2. Immigrations to Jerusalem.
3. proper and critical procedures taken by the Ottoman Empire to prevent Zionism infiltration to Jerusalem.
The researchers attached two reports for governors Akram Bek and Ahamd Rasheed Bek as two main sources of this study.
The study adopted Ottoman documents, Arabic studies, Turkish studies and foreign studies. The study concludes that the Ottoman empire represented by Sultan Abdulhamid did not ;legitimize the Jewish immigration to Palestine and loyal employees such as Akram Bek transformed this into practical procedures. Meanwhile, some corrupted employees breached this and facilitated the immigration of jews to Palestine.Similar breach are taking place nowdays.