We want to resume the broken thread of our national existence; we want to show to the world the moral strength, the intellectual power of the Jewish people. We want a place where the race can be centralized. LEON ZOLTOKOFF. It tries to restore the old solidarity, the old unity, of Israel; not with a view to any mere monetary aggrandizement, but for the purpose of securing the right and the opportunity for the Jews to live and to develop. It believes that this is possible only if there is some spot on earth which the Jews can call their own, and which can be a place of refuge, legally secured by international obligations, to which the oppressed of Israel may flee whenever necessity arises. RICHARD J. H. GOTTHEIL. It is for these Jews (of Russia, Roumania and Galicia) that the name of their country (Palestine) spells "Hope." I should not be a man if I did not realize that for these persecuted Jews, Jerusalem spells reason, justice, manhood and liberty. RABBI EMIL G. HIRSCH. Jewish nationalism on a modern basis in Palestine, the old home of the people. MAX NORDAU. Palestine needs a people; Israel needs a country. Give the country without a people to the people without a country. ISRAEL ZANGWILL. To find for the Jews a legally established home in Palestine. BASEL PLATFORM. In a word, it is the purpose of "Zionism" to redeem Palestine, and give it back to Jewish control, create, in fact, a Jewish state in the land promised to their fathers.