Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-05-17
WOULD ESTABLISH
JEWISH REPUBLIC

LONDON, May 1.-THE Republic of
1udea, or the Republic of Israel, a
home-ruled Matchmaker the protec-
tcrate of the United States of America,
Site: The land of their fathers, Pal
estine; capital, Jerusalem.
The world war in the view of many,
seems about to bring true the dream
that has persisted through the CEN
turtles that the Jew has wandered the
earth. He is about to have his own
home back again to live there, or visit
in security. That this security should
be maintained by America is the idea
OF Israel Zangwill.
Such a protectorate," he said
would be expected, of course, to en-
dure only so long as was necessary to
see the Jewish nation firmly establish
ed among the nations of the EARTH"
This statement to the press by the
great leader of Jewish opinion is signi-
ficant for it's indication of meeting
goint between the efforts he has led and
the efforts of the Zionists, of whom
Louis D. Brandeis has been the most
prominent in America. The Zionists
have made Palestine their sole objec-
tive. Zangwill's organization has urg-
ed that it is more important that the
Jews should colonize somewhere at the
earliest possible time than that t hey
should return to their now ancient
land. Admitting the strength of the tie
that binds them to Palestine, he has
urged that if this is not feasible they
should settle elsewhere. He has in
tie past sought the British govern
ment's aid for proposed settlement in
South Africa, Canada, or Australia.
Now he agrees, Palestine itself seems
within reach.
The eyes of thirteen million Jews,
scattered throughout the world, are on
General Murray's army now seeking
to drive the Turks out of the country
that the Jews once had. From this
thirteen million, perhaps, should be
excluded the six hundred thousand
Jews who are fighting in the various
armies; they, by fate's iron, will be
last to know that the war may mean
something for their race.
There is strong belief in England
that restoration of Palestine to the
Jews would be a profitable political
undertaking for the British.
"It is not expected said Mr. Gang
will, that all the Jews of the world
would flock there to make their homes.
1t is nv belief that the Jewish agricul-
turalists who find living difficult else
where should be aided to return and
that they should form the basis of the
new nation. Jerusalem'S location
might make it the site for great COM
mercial or trading city, but the import
ant thing is not to draw there those
who have prospered in other corners
of the globe, but to care for the great
numbers of oppressed in other lands.
with Jewish nation established,
the Jews everywhere would feel they
have home again, whether or not cir
cumstances permitted them to live
there themselves.
Zangwill won the support of Joseph
Chamberlain and Winston Churchill to
his colonization scheme before the war,
but South Africa, Canada and Australia
opposed in turn. A Jewish nation in
Palestine is another matter.
The menace which Turkish possess
ion of Palestine offers Egype and the
trade route to India must be removed,
british statesmen agree. Even before
the war many considered the recreation
of the Jewish state the best solution.
Opinion changed, however, during the
war, largely because of the sympathy
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lea admitted for Germany. 1t was
feared that nation sympathetic to-
ward Germany would be a dangerous
one to have so close to the strategic
link in the British empire.
The Russian Revolution has changed
this. Jewish sympathy, alienated by
the treatment of the Jews in Russia
under the old regime has been won
back by the new regime. Jacob Shifts
declaration for the Allies, following the
announcement of the Provisional Gov
eminent of equal rights for the Jews
in Russia, was not the only one to
come to the attention of the British
government. A Jewish state in Pales-
tine now would be friendly-even
grateful-state, it is believed.
Zangwills idea of an American pro-
tectorate is based on the desire that
Jewish interests should be protected by
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