Rare video of Sultan Abdul Hamid II and Theodore Herzl, founder of Zionism.
Herzl begged for kindness and touched the hands and feet of the Sultan to agree to let Jews buy land In Palestine and live there.
To which Sultan Abdul Hamid Il replied:
I would rather push a sword into my body than see the land of Palestine taken away from the Islamic Nation. This will never happen. I will not start cutting our bodies while we are alive"