The scheme, which had been proposed to Herzl by Joseph Chamberlain, Colonial Secretary in Balfour's Cabinet, following his trip to East Africa earlier in the year, had been subsequently voted down following Herzl's death by the Seventh Zionist Congress in 1905 after two years of heated debate in the Zionist Organization.
O esquema, que fora proposto a Herzl polo secretario de Colonias, Joseph Chamberlain, despois da súa viaxe a África oriental a principios do ano, quedara posteriormente rexeitado tras a morte de Herzl polo Sétimo Congreso Sionista en 1905, despois de dous anos de intenso debate na Organización Sionista.