Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1922-06-30
Zion and the Jews

Over $5000000 has been raised the past year
for the development of Palestine Jewish homeland
for Jews according reports read the Silver Jubilee
convention OF the American oniss session at Pha
delphia Over $10O0000O most of it from America has
now been spent to rebuild Palestine.
The Zionist effort purely sentimental one based up
fiction, tradition and deasm, effort by exied
homeless people to realize dream and provide homeland
It has been cherished by the orthdox Jews the desruc
tion of the Temple GO A. ID when the a nation
enslaved and scattered by Titus although Palestine
remained the center Of Jewish religious thought
fifth century zionism has assumed definite form and
in late result of the of antSemitsm
Confusion of and religion, both bearing the same
name, complexities any study of the Jews Many outside
the tribe Of Judah adopted the religion of judaism
rated Jews and yet not of Jewish blood raciay speaking
When Alexander destroyed Tyre many Of the dispersed
Phoenicians, who also Semitic adopted the Jewish
religion and when Rome destroyed Carthage of the
surviving Carthagenans did likewise and hence became
classified Jews. These people the merchants
traders and manufacturers of the ancient world Their
blood still flows in the dark compexioned hoonosed Jew
who his decent to Spain and the Mediterranean
countries and still maintains the commercial character
istics of his ancestors.
On the other hand entire tribe of Turks adopted the
Jewish religion in its migration into Europe and mixed
with the Jewish refugees, settling in Poland Marriage and
with the natives of the various countries in
which settlement forced during hundreds Of of
forced mgraons and prosecutions have given the Jews
of the local characteristics of the country of their
nativity that there really homogeneous Jewish
despite the binding influence of religion
The Jews of ancient Palestine primitive farmers
and nomad herdsmen They poor people and Pales
tine comparatively poor country though the greater
rainfall of that before desscation had advanced
made it much fertile than today It's possession
disputed for centuries by alien and civil ragged
among tribes On occasions the entire nation deported
and ensaved, only remnant returning to mix with in
vaders Such prosperity enjoyed due to trading
carried it's borders by Phoenicans and Egyptians
with the far east.
The Jews of today primarily traders and manu-
acturers instead of farmers Upon them has fallen the
mantle of the ancient Phoenicians much of whose blood
flows in their veins. They exploters rather than de-
veopers By training and environment they unsuited
for pioneering and recaming the desert Centuries in
northern and distant cities have made them untitled for
life of toll in semi-ropic region So is not surprising
that of the pioneers by the Zonsts have recorded
failure
The efforts of the Zonss to appropriate Palestine has
been received with enthusiasm the natives of that
country who Turks Syans Arabs and Jews and who
get along together peacefully despite the fact that they
Mohammedan, Christian and Jewish in religion Naturally
the prospect of big invasion of European and American
Jews is viewed with apprehension by the natives In ad
don, Palestine in rather small place, miles long
100 wide its broadest part for such people
the Jews of today
The world proved the patriotic citizen of his
home country He credtaby in all the
materially financing Such people have easily
earned their citizenship in the land of their nativity and
ought not to need any other homeland. fc
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