Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1921-12-08


OF Jerusalem seem to be fulfilled.
To-day the city stands midway between the hor
rorS of the Turkish regime and the promised good
of the British mandatory rule. Nothing has been
done as yet in a public way to aHautify the city.
North and west the houses struggle outside the
walls; on the south forbiddng slopes border the
road to Bethlehem; and on the east lies the ter
ribe valley of 'Jehoshaphat-a valley of dry bones.
Seventeen times DIES troyed-bitterly hated
anMously sought-how desperate history since
Nebuchadnezzar captured it more than twenty-five
centuries ago.
redeemed today, but in her nakedness, Jerusa-
lem waits to be clothed She has yet no grace
no covering for her ugly wounds. Some day her
sides will glisten with the brightness of heaven
~ radiance; she will be washed and anointed like
bride waiting for the bridegroom"
The prophetic part of this is written, of course
in Oriental imagery. Sir Herbert Samuel, the Brit
ish high commissioner, puts the situation in plain
English and says, in his report to parliament:
"Undeveloped and underpopulated Palestine has
possibilities of far more prosperity than the stand
ard attained before the war"
And Palestines future is the concern of half the
world. Christian Jew and Mosem see in Paes-
tine holy land. 1t is most interesting situa-
tion that is being worked out under our very eyes
1t is an obvious chance for the punster Palestine
is indeed the promised Land" To whom is it
promised? That is what Jew, Arab and Christian
in Palestine asking of the British government
The British government replies that under the
mandate there will be complete freedom and equal
ity for all religions and equal justice for all, re-
CARELESS of religion, position.
Sir Herbert'S report to parliament makes inter-
esting reading, of which nast be done be-
tween the lines. Concerning the policy followed
under the mandate he says:
"The policy of His Majesty's British govern
ment contemplates the satisfaction of the
legitimate aspirations of the Jewish race through
, out the world in relation to Palestine, combined
viii full protection of the rights of the existing
POPULATION.
For my own part am convinced that the means
eal be found to effect this combination The Zion
lisa that is practicable is the Zonism that fuills
This essential condition.
1T is the clear duty of the mandatory power to
promote the well-beng of the Arab population, in
the way British administration would
regard it as its duty to promote the welfare of
the local population in any part of our empire
The to foster the well-being of the Arabs
should be precisely those which should adopt
in Palestine if there Zionist question, and
| if there had been no Balfour declaration
There is in this policy nothing incompatible with
reasonable Zionist aspirations.
ION. the contrary, if the growth of Jewish in
fuence were accompanied by Arab degradation,
or by a neglect to promote Arab advance
j ment it would fail in one Of it's essential pur-
poses.
THE grievance of the Arab would be discredit
to the Jew, and In the result the moral influence
of Zionsm would be gravely impaired.
{. simultaneously there must be satisfaction OF
that sentiment regarding Paestine--a worthy and
enrolling sentment-whch, in increasing degree
1 animates the Jewries of the world.
THE aspirations of these 100000 of people
also have right to be considered. They ask
for the opportunity to establish a "home" in the
land which was the political and has always beer
the religious center of their race They ask thai
this home should possess national characteristics
in language and CUSTOMS in intellectual inter
csts in religious and political institutions.
This is not to say that Jewish immigration ]!
to involve Arab emigration, that the greater pros
pegity of the country, through the development O
Jewish enterprises, is to be at the expense, ant
MT to the benefit of the Arabs, that the use o
Hebrew is to imply the disappearance of Arabic
that the establishment of elected councils In tn
Jewish community for the control OF It's affairs
to be followed by the subsection of the Arabs t.
the rule of those councils.
"In word, the degree to which Jewish nationa
aspirations can be fulfilled in Palestine is condl