Evening star., 1919-02-23
RABBI WISE SEES NO SEPARATE !.
JEWISH STATE OF PALESTINE, NOW
Declares That With League Help and Under
Trusteeship of British Will Come Re-
occupation Which Will Be Foundations :

bled through it's representatives at
Paris dare not forget that Jews have
greatly and nobiy served in the
armies of all nations, and that is true
even. OF the Russia of the old order.
The happiest. circumstance connect
ed with the peace conference arises
out of the fact that Jews have no
special case to present to the peace
conference. In other words, we do
not and Will not appear before the
peace conference as special pleaders
The world has moved since 1878, for
the war that has just ended has been
fought for the fundamental convic-
tions and contentious of the Jew
What we have long held to be our
right the allied world finally found
it necessary to defend at infinite
cost of blood and treasure as against
the intolerable invasionS of justice
by Prussianized and central Europe.
Has Faith in Conference.
l cannot bring myself to believe
that it will be necessary to argue
or to plead on behalf of Jewish equal
ity of status in European lands be-
fore the peace conference A peace
conference that would suffer repe-
titien of the Rumanian fiasco of 1878
vould be a crime against history and
the CAUSE for which the allied peo-
pies have bted. If the tctory Of 1915
meant more than a military feat it
must mean the end of those disabif-
ties and inequities and injustices of
which the Jew has too long been the
victim in many European lands. Sure
ly il is not chance that the nations
that are together to decree the fu-
ture of humanity are those in. which
the Jew stands out as enjoying equal
ity of status with his fellow citizens.
America and England. France and
italy will not do less than insist upon
bringing within the domain of legal
status that position which the Jew
has of right long enjoyed in these
lands t-
In The third place. it must be borne
in mind that the four nations which
after all are the leaders Of the peace
conference are England. France. Italy
and our own land.
Britain Generous to Jews.
Great Britain has tradition oi
nearly three centuries of wholly just
and even generous treatment of the
Jew. an attitude eliminating in the
Balfour ecIaration of November. 1877
AS for France. l have. not only conf
dence in the leadership of the people
of France. but have reason to believe
the French government viii not
stand in the way of a Just and equi-
table solution of thePalestine problem
at the peace conference. There may
be elements in France which are eager
for territorial advantage and indus
trial opportunities, but I will not be-
lieve that France. which better thar
any other great nation knows what /,
is to- suffer the denial of justice, will
fall to insist that the oldest of the ire
dentas. the Jewish irredenta, must be
restored as the Jewish homeland to
the Jewish people.
Hopes for British Trusteeship.
Is Palestine at once to become ar
Independent Jewish state? 1 answer
no. We may not hope for any such
outcome of the peace conference
What We may hope for. what, we have
reason to believe will come. to pass
what we ought. to look forward te
with grateful satisfaction is tha,
Great Britain shall receive from the
league Of. nations a mandate which
will confer up on Great Britain the
power and responsibility and trustee
ship for "a Jewish Palestine. 5E@f-' .
The rest of the picture it is for US
to fiji out, for after all the future Cd
the Jewish Palestine VIII not be q
matter of conference and of charter
The Balfour. declaration did not re-
store Palestine to the Jews. The
league of nations cannot re-establisf
the Jews in Palestine =
What may be hoped for is that under
the league of nations and with the
furthering helps of British trusteeshiI
there. will be such re-occupation OF
Palestine as will in itself constitute
the foundations of that Jewish COM
monwealth which under God is once
again to arise in the land of Israel