The Washington times., 1920-08-23
'SAYSENG[AND
.BETRAYS JEWS
Israel zangwiII, Noted Zionist,
Charges British Are False to
Palestine Promises.
ny ISRAEL ZANGMILL.
Copyright


LONDON, Aug. 23.-'Iife carica-
lures our concepts" complained Dr.
Hcrzl to me in the early days of his
movement, and. indeed, history has
. few grimmer .ironies to show than his
noble and pacific vision of the Jewish
. state should draw it's hopes of realiza-
4 tion from the bloodiest war I'm history,
or that. on the embod iment of Mr.. Bal
four's promise in the Turkish condi-
tions Zionist leader in Jerusalem
should have ordered the Shofar TO be
sounded as at the coming OF the Mes
siah; and have thus officially identi-
! ned dubious political transaction
, with the "one far-off divine event
for which Jewish mysticism has waited
q nigh 1000 years. 1t is only another
proof of the demoralizing effects of
racial egotism and political FICTION.
1t is true that the dispossession OF
! the Turk, the assassin of the Armen-
ians and the despoiler of Palestine, is
: process that makes for righteous
ness, and the yearning OF the Jewish
soul to which Jehuda Halevi gave
such touching expression is an emo
ton of no small spiritual potency.
JEWS LIKE CASTAWAYS.
But unfortunately the disingcnuous
/ handling OF the .new-fangled rnanda-
/ tory system, the cynical houting OF
! the League of Nations on which II
processes to depend. reduces the world
again from commonwealth to
! cockpit. and in such a welter there
4 can be for Jewry neither spiritual nor
| political salvation.
At first, indeed, il seemed as il the
ancient belief that associated tho re-
turn OF the Jews to Palestine with a
millennial order would be realized by
, the triumph of the Wilsonian, princi-
/ pies. But these high-fown dreams
! have proved to be only the outcome
[ OF the opium with which humanity
: was ,drugged to continue it's mutual
| butchery. and the awakening has
! found the patient paying as usual for
! intoXication by depression and
katzenjammer.
We behold in fact the curious pho
. Iomenon that at a moment when
! ITndus. Egyptians. and Irishmen vie
I with enc another to shake off the
/ British yoke, the Jews are equally
! frenZied to put their nccks in It
J They are like castaways at sea. re-
: joicing to be picked up even by a
! SLAYER. 1t is a pathetic testimony to
twenty centuries of tossing on a pitt
less ocean.
Nothing could show the fasco OF
the eagerness Of Anti-Zionists to take
part in the work. Now that the ma
tional movement upon which so much
enthusiasm, eloquence, and money
have been expended and for which
fCaptain Trumpeldor died, crying at
is good to die for ones country" has
dwindled to the familiar philanthropc
!. task of immigration and colonization
'rnder alien authority and RESPONSE
bility, the communal leaders throw
themselves into the work with their
wonted benefcence.
POOR OUTLOOK.
The danger is over and the Messiah
will not come in their time. They
know better than to believe that
. trumpet.
SO far from the Zionists being in a
;position to build up the model state
ithey proclaim, even economic control
iof the country is not to be secured by
their organization or the Jews, ep.
cept for individual concessions from
which. as from immigration and col
onization, they could scarcely have
been barred, had there been no Bal
four declaration at all
British colony could not well ex-
clude the race, scion of which is
lord chief justice and another the
strated into Palestine even under the
sTurk. But the immigration OF Jews
is to be carefully restricted, and not
directly by the Zionists themselves;
and when they do come in they will
have to face the competition of the
cheap and abundant Arab labor. The
sole privilege of Jewry will be to
r supply the capital for sustaining them
Tin their arduous beginnings-two to-
three hundred pounds per immigrant
on Dr. Weizmann's calculation.
No verbal jugglery can make Mr..
Balfour's letter to Lord Rothschild
other than a promise of restoration
of Palestine to the Jews and Of the
Jews to Palestine. 1t is true that
this document nowhere speaks of
Palestine as a Jewish national home,
but only of a Jewish national hon..
in Palestine. and that in holding
service OF praise in the cathedral
synagogue thanking God for the for
,pncr concession, the Zionists have COM