Hivi watu wanajuwa hawa mayahudi walishapewa ardhi wangekuwa jirani zetu pande za juu na kama wangekubali baada ya kuja kuona wangeshachukuwa lake victoria na Serengeti ila hali ya hewa hawakuipenda na wanyama wa porini na wamasai walikuwa issue kidogo ila kina Nentanyau wangekuwa mlango tu hatari wangetumeza taratibu tu. British walikuwa wanagawa viwanja tu kama mali zao.
The British
Uganda Program was a plan to give a portion of
British East Africa to the
Jewish people as a homeland.
The offer was first made by British Colonial Secretary
Joseph Chamberlain to
Theodore Herzl's Zionist group in 1903. He offered 5,000 square miles (13,000 km2) of the
Mau Plateau in what is today
Kenya. The offer was a response to
pogroms against the Jews in Russia, and it was hoped the area could be a refuge from persecution for the Jewish people.
The idea was brought to the
World Zionist Organization's Zionist Congress at its sixth meeting in 1903 in
Basel. There a fierce debate ensued. The African land was described as an "
ante-chamber to the Holy Land", but other groups felt that accepting the offer would make it more difficult to establish a Jewish state in
Palestine. Before the vote on the matter, the Russian delegation stormed out in opposition. In the end, the motion to consider the plan passed by 295 to 177 votes.
The next year, a three-man delegation was sent to inspect the plateau. Its high elevation gave it a temperate climate, making it suitable for European settlement. However, the observers found a dangerous land filled with lions and other creatures. Moreover, it was populated by a large number of
Maasai who did not seem at all amenable to an influx of people coming from Europe.
After receiving this report, the Congress decided in 1905 to politely decline the British offer. Some Jews, who viewed this as a mistake, formed the
Jewish Territorialist Organization with the aim of establishing a Jewish state anywhere.
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