Evening star., 1938-07-17

euUul 10 VI CCI uSdiCm COIlcS away
loaded with attgactively printed
booklets and pamphlets, not all
wholly ingenious. BY contrast the
Arabs know nothing about propa-
ganda.
Two points seem vital to the whole
case. One is that only money from
the outside has made possible the
success already achieved by Zionism
Second, in any long-range view
of the Zionist project, is the arrest
ing fact that. from the beginning Of
Jewish immigration until now, less
than one-fifth of the newcomers
have settled on the land. Zionist
figures have been about 20 per cent;
government figures are about II per
cent. Add to these possibly per
cent engaged in new industries, and
we have the picture Of a structure
established on less than one-fourth
of its productive parts. Seventy-f1ve
persons cannot be maintained by
fewer than 20 agriculturists and
fewer than S industrial workers.
Economic War With Arabs.
In other words, the big building
blocks and huge apartment houses
in New Jerusalem and Tel Aviv and
Haifa must have a surer foundation
than the group of 200 small agricul-
tural settlements scattered through
out the land. Jews must depend on
Jews, for economic war exists be-
tween them and Arabs. BY the
terms of his contract with the Zion
ist fund the Jewish farmer is for
hidden ever to employ Arab labor or
to sell his land to an Arab. And the
Arab retaliates in kind. For illustra-
tion. no Arab would ever think of
riding in Jewish taxicab.
The idealists and dreamers among
the Jews-and they are many-com-
mand the sympathy of every fair
mind. 1t is the only homeland they
ever knew. Here they came to ma
tionhood and received the revelation
Of their religion. Their lot as the
Diaspora has kept the heart of devout
Jews turning toward the land Of which
the psalmists and prophets OF the
Old Testament have written with such
feeling.
Zionists Held Not Religious.
Curiously. ultra-orthodox Jews here
oppose Zionism, because the Zionists,
they say. are not religious. The Span
ish Jews, who have been here 400
years, have no part or lot in Zionism
or its funds. 1t is a nationalist as
piration, rather than religious
dream, that has concentrated Jewish
interest on Palestine.
Jews are no longer allowed to visit
the temple area, where Moslems hold
sway; Christians will not let them
into the Church Of the Holy Sepulchre
They have been driven out OF Hebron,
the home Of Abraham. There are no
Jews in either Bethlehem or Nazareth.
No building or shrine in the Holy
Land, associated specifically with
Hebrew history, is In the possession
of Jews today.
The shootings and bombings that
keep a huge British force busy in the
Holy Land are, when compared to the
larger conflict between world Jewry
and world Islam, Of only trifling i'm
portance.
Solidarity Achieved.
Citing many grivances, the Jews
OF the whole world have become vocal
in behalf of Zionism. Their organi-
cations and meetings are beyond
reckoning. Under the Zionist banner
they have achieved a Jewish solidarity
unknown for centuries. Many OBJ
servers declare that this new Zionist
consciousness and aggressiveness has
been factor in stirring up the anti
Semitic feeling that is increasing
throughout the world
The Arab has one weapon with
which he can outmatch the Jews. He
Is killer. He and his party out
number the Jews. and they profess q
faith the symbol OF which is q sword.
know, from words spoken to me
personally by the responsible heads of
neighboring Arab nations, that they
contemplate solution OF the Zionist
question by the sword.
More slowly than the Zionists. the
Arabs have aroused their worldwide
front. The general public has missed
the significance Of the fact that all
the rulers Of Anticipating nations,
or their parliaments by official deliv-
erance, have protested to Great Bri-
tain and to the League of Nations
against the proposed partition of Pal
estine and against Zionism itself. These
include Egypt. Suadi Arabia, Syria,
1rak, the Yemen, Lydia, Morocco and
lesser states. Joining in the same con-
cert Of protest have been the Mos
lens OF India and elsewhere. The ter
ritory covered is essential to the i'm
perial interests Of Great Britain, Italy
and France.
Britain Must Heed Moslems.
With Great Britain bound to con-
slider the mood of her vast Moslem
population. it is apparent that these
formal national aff1rmaitons Of soli-
darity with the Arabs of Palestine
may not be lightly regarded. They are
vital factors with which the British
commission, now in Palestine to re-
view the whole situation, will have to
reckon.
Nobody likes the plan Of partition
of Palestine proposed last year by a
| royal commission. An alternate pro-
posal. fraught with grave consequences,
has lately been made by the Arabs,
formally debated in the Irak Farlia-
ment and raised by questions in the
British Parliament. It is that the
three nations, Irak, Trans-Jordan and
Palestine, and possibly also Syria, be
united into one independent country,
stretching from the Mediterranean to
the Persian Gulf. In such q large ter
ritory, with complete Arab authority,
there might be room, it is suggested,
for 100000 Jewish immigrants, but
no place for a Jewish state.