The Jewish monitor. (Fort Worth-Dallas, Tex.) 191?-1921, 1920-03-19
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POLITICAL DESTINY OF PALES-
TINE WILL BE SETTLED SOON.
All Peoples in the Land Will Have
Full and Equal Rights.

address Delivered by Julian W.
Mack, president Zionist Organization
of America, at dinner to Hon. Joseph
us Daniels, Secretary Of the Navy,
Hotel Pennsylvania, New York;.
I know of no Zionist who does not
trust and expect that in the New Pal
estine, Jew, Christian and Moslem
will live at peace together, and that as
citizens in that land they will enjoy
full and equal rights. The Jewish
people have striven for this ideal at
all times. For themselves they have
been seeking it recently in the coun-
tries where it has long been denied
them, and surely in their own land,
when they will be the majority ele-
ment, the Jewish people will not fail
to remember the lessons of the past.
True to their ideals, true to the Bal
four Declaration, the charter Of then
new rights, they will see to it, as the
majority element, that no discrimina-
ton is practiced against any man.
But what is it that we want for the
Jew in Palestine? II is the opportun-
ity somewhere in the world, and that
place our ancient home, again to be a
people-a people that shall be in that
one place the majority element, so that
the Jewish genius for religion, for
social justice, for freedom and for
democracy may unfold itself for the
benefit Of the Jews who will be gath
cred there, for the benefit Of their
fellow men who will be gathered there,
and serve again, as they did in the an
cient days, as an example to the ma
lions of the world in justice and in
righteousness for the benefit Of all
humanity. That is the aim and OBJ
ject of the Zionist movement. When
the time comes that the Jews will be
in a majority in that land, the future
will take care Of itself.
We are no longer concerned with
political problems. We have been
concerned with these. We have been
concerned with them in the sense that
as the Jewish people for 1000 years
have prayed, so for at least the last
25 years the Jewish people have not
only prayed, but worked, that it may
come to pass that they, as a people,
through nucleus of them, may b
restored as the dominating element in
the land of Palestine. But within a
month or two that problem will be
settled by the unified action Of the
great powers, and therefore / say po-
litical questions neec no longer divide
US, whether we consider it wise or
unwise, desirable or undesirable, in
their interests or not in their inter-
ests, or in nobody's interests, that
this opportunity should again be CIV
en- to the Jewish people, because
when the treaty with Turkey will be
signed Palestine will be forever sep
arated from the Turkish empire and
the mandate will be given to Great
Britain as trustee for that League OF
Nations which surely is going to be
established. The mandate will be
given to Great Britain, in which there
will be expressly written as its guild
ing purpose the establishment Of the
Jewish homeland in Palestine.
What does that all mean to us? l
hardly need to brush away some OF
the fallacies that have prevented
some Jews from joining our ranks
And yet, perhaps, a word or two on
this subject is never out of place. OF
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