Organizations/movement: Jerusalem civic leadership. Action: Al-Khalidi communicated objections to establishing the Zionist project in an already inhabited Palestine; Herzl answered on 19 March. Result: Herzl offered assurances about local welfare and denied an intention to remove the existing population. The exchange produced no agreement abandoning the project. Impact / interpretation: The correspondence records an early Palestinian argument about inhabitants and political consent. Herzlโs assurances are evidence of his stated position at that time, not proof of what subsequent institutions did.
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The 1899 correspondence concerned the interests of Palestineโs existing inhabitants.
Al-Khalidi raised objections and Herzl answered with assurances concerning local welfare.