Eighth Congress - The Hague, 1907
The decision
to hold the Congress in the Hague was based on the knowledge that the
Second International Peace Conference was to be held in that city.
At the Congress the major debate concerned the conflicting approaches
of the practical and political Zionists.
The political Zionists demanded that a charter be secured before practical
work began in Palestine, while the practical Zionists argued that without
substantial settlement there was little hope of gaining legal sanction
from one or more of the Great Powers.
In the event, the movement supported a number of practical efforts and
established a Palestine branch of the WZO to be headed by Arthur
Ruppin.
However, the adoption of synthetic Zionism -- a synthesis of the two
positions -- became the clarion call of not a few delegates, their major
spokesperson being Chaim
Weizmann.
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