He said that there were some things, such as children's education which were generally agreed to be good and beneficial. In a case like this it is foolish to avoid compulsion. Zangwill believed absolutely that a time would come when migration would be viewed in a similar light. However, before that came about, there would have to be a wholesale clearance of various false theories, such as that of migration being a tragedy. This is one of the most conspicuous falsehoods in the world.
Migration is a fortunate experience.
In an article written a few months before the publication of the Balfour Declaration, Zangwill again tried to grapple with the Arab problem in Palestine. And therefore we must greatly persuade them to 'trek'. He felt sure that the Jews would be prepared to pay their travelling expenses and purchase any immovable property. In conclusion, Zangwill wrote that the Jews of Palestine, if a minority, would either have to dominate the majority or be dominated by them and neither of these alternatives would be desirable. This article did however come up in a conversation between Elisha Friedman and the philanthropist Jacob Schiff in October 1917.