Intermountain Jewish news., 1926-04-08
THE JEWISH REALM OF ARTS AND SCIENCES

sentiment Of some seven hundred thous.
and Moslem and Jewish Arabs was
contemptuously ignored by the same
statesman"
To begin with, do not quite under
stand what the writer means by "this
amazing product OF the World War"
If he refers to Zlonism and to the de
sire OF the Jews to return to their
homeland, AZ n product OF the World
War, he is slightly out OF the way In
his chronology. The Zionist move
ment. the present political Zionist
movement. was organized In 1897.
Years before there were organized
groups Of Jews In Russia and elsewhere
who devoted themselves to the idea of
the Jewish national restoration. But
this is not Important. The important
thing is the Implication that the Jews
are aliens In Palestine. Who, I pray.
has a greater historic claim to Pales-
tine than the Jews? The historic
claim Of the Jewish people was organ
lied by fifty-one nations OF the world.
including our own. 1t was recognized
that the Jews have an historic right to
Palestine, not because OF any fear or
favor, as Mr.. Bennett later insinuates.
but because 1t was recognized that II
Palestine holds any place in the his
tory OF the world. II Is because OF what
the Jewish people created in Palestine,
and in this, ! do not exclude the found.
ing Of Christianity.
Viscount Cecil, speaking in London
in the Great Albert Hall, four or five
years ago, said:
II believe that when the history OF
the war comes to bc impartially writ
ten, the two greatest results will be the
establishment Of national Jewish
Home and the creation Of the League
Of Nations. The two are not really
disconnected. They represent the two
great ideas for which We fought. and
by which we conquered-the idea of
nationalism and internatlonalism. They
are not distinct or contradictory: on
the contrary. they are complementary
one to the other. You cannot have a
lngue Of free nations unless the ma
tions are free. II You are going to make
great attempt To reach peace. rot by
fOrra n ,lominutiap hnt he a
it must be agreement in perfect free
dom-and Mr.. Balfour has well said
that there Is no greater triumph for
he truest spirit of nationality, than the
establishment Of National Home for
the Jews in Palestine"
Which is the English point of view?
Lord Cecil's or Mr.. Bennetts?
In the concluding part of his article,
Mr.. Benunctt becomes the prophet of
darkness. He sees ominous clouds ris-
ing above the Jewish Homeland and
warns the Xionists to clear out of Pales-
tine before the storm of Arab fury
bursts upon their colonies. Done with
this. he pronounccs definitely that
sooner or later Zionism must newt
ably perish. either from Arab hostility
or from internal economic collapse?
The first is threat The second
prognostication, and as basis for his
prognostication, he claims that there
are signs that even the generosity of
American Zionists is being exhaust
ed".
II is a mystery where Mr.. Bennett
has observed the exhaustion of Ameri-
can Zionists' generosity. The cam
paign of the United Palestine Appeal
is nearing its close with its quota OF
5000 900 achieved. American Jewry
will have given more this year than II
has ever given TO Palestine.
This, the Century should have known,
instead Of accepting blindly Mr. Ben
nctt's English Point of View"
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