Raghib al-Nashashibi, resident of Jerusalem to the Ottoman Parliament in Constantinople:
“If I am elected as representative, I shall devote all my strength, day and night, to doing away with the threat of the Zionists and Zionism.”
Source: Shafir, Gershon. Land, Labor, and the Origins of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict,1882-1914. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1989