The Denver Jewish news. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1915-1925, 1920-02-18

world, in justice and in righteo
manity. That is the aim and ol
When the time comes that the J
land, the future will take care of
We are no longer concerned with
political problems. We have been CON
cerned with these. We have been con-
ccrned with them in the sense that as
ihe Jewish people for 1000 years have
prayed--so far Mt least the last ~
years the Jewish people have not only
Irayed, but worked--that it may come
to pass that they as IL people, thru
Eucleus of them. may he restored as
the dominating element in the life of
Palestine But within II monfh or two
that; problem Will be settled by the
unified action of the great powers,
and therefore l say political questions
need no longer divide us, whether we
consider it wise or unwise. desirable
or undesirable, in their interests, or
not in their interests, or in nobodys
interests, that this opportunity should
: .. gain he given to the Jewish people.
fpCiiuSe WHICH
will he signed. Palestine will he for
ever separated from the Turkish em-
pirc. and the mandate will be given
to Great Britain as trustee for thai,
League of Nations which surely is GO
ing to be established. The Mandate
will he given to Greht Britain in
which there will he expressly written
us its guiding purpose the establish
n,ent of the Jewish homeland in Pal
cstinc.
Nobody Expects All Jews to Return to
Palestine.
What does that all mean to us?
hardly need to brush away some of
the fullacies that have prevented some
Jews from joining our ranks. And yet
perhaps, n word or two OH this sub
,Cct is never out of place. OF course,
nobody aims, nobody expects, nobody
wants I'll of the Jews of the world to
he gathered in Palestine, and If they
did want it. they cannot accomplish
Il because at its best. when fully de
yeloped, as 1t will be developed in time,
Palestine, Id is estimated by the best
authorities. can sustain in decency and
in comfort, five to six million people
ut the most. There are at present
fourteen million Jews in the world,
and despite all the poSiuins and all
the terrors of life of uur Eastern
European Jews, the Jews are not in
Jnn Of II i,ni,isl,ipU N
number. a majority of the Jews will
always remain outside of Palestine.
Nobody dreams either that there is
today, or that when Palestine is estab-
lshed there will be outside of Pal
cstine n Jewish political nation. There
will be Pnlestinian nation FREEDOM
inately Jewish, but Christians and
Mollammedans will enjoy equal rights.
and will, of course, be citZcns of that
land. and that land will be Jewish
only in the sense that the Jews will
be numerically, l hope, the FREEDOM
iuant element. But the Jewish people
outside of Palestine, kin tv their breth-
ren in Palestine, proud of their COM
inents of the race. proud of the bear
ar's of all of the fine fruits that will
there be developed for the benefit of
mankind, bearers of this fruit to the
tables of their own country. America.
and the countries of Europe. will. of
course, have no political connection
with the Jewish people or with all
the peoples of Palestine.
Man Can Have But One Political Ma
tiOnaiity.
A man can have but one political ma
tionality, II man can have but one
polis sical loyalty. and that the loyalty
10 the country of which he is II citi-
zen. The American Jew, of course.
is and will be exclusively loyal polite