Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-09-24
PALESTINE CLAIM
BY JEWS UPHELD
Rabbi J. T. Loeb Writes to
Deny Arabs Have Holy
Land Rights.
70 the Editor of The Star:

Go''u shSssAos
TO the Editor of The Star:
As if to add to the general confusion
and the stultifying influences from
abroad comes a new arrival, by name,
FAkhiri Bey, with his old Arabian
tales" and new Arab propaganda.
This Arab national leader and men,
Der of the Syrian Parliament is re-
ported in The Star of September 20 as
saying that Italy might as well claim
England for it spossession as the Jews
lay claim to Palestine"
What crude comparison, and how
typical of the false propensities and
pretexts Of those seeking to justify
terrorism in Palestine!
do not know to what extent Rome
had once contributed to the upbuild-
ing of the British Isles, but the Ro-
mans are no more! And even if they
were existent today. their rightful ma
tional homeland would be Italy. with
Rome its chief city and namesake.
The Jews who replaced an extremely
corrupt and degenerate group of pagan
tribes in Canaan, had not only
built up the land. but made it holy
land for the enrichment of the human
soul and the upliftment of mankind.
Israels inspired prophets. Sages and
bards. forming the people of the book,
have been the protagonists OF all civil
liaed religion and progressive thought,
As well as of the principles Of democ-
racy and ideals of social justice.
Claim Their Own Land.
The Jews are here today to claim
the historic land of their forefathers.
not by mere within of vain glory of
their own, but by virtue of the cove
nant more ancient than the Arabs and
more sacred than the existing creeds
Of present-day civilization.
1t is the covenant of God with
Abraham. reafirmed by Moses and
through the mouth of nearly all the
prophets. And now the solemn pledge
Of nations through the Balfour Dec
laration and the Palestine Mandate.
with So nations as Signatories; and
this combined with the present stress
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Jews to 60 forward in their movement
for the reha buitstion of Zion.
Fifteen centuries Of settlement in
the land of Israel, with interruption Of
but 10 years of Babylonian captivity,
surely makes the Jews the legitimate
owners of the land Their hope for
its return has never been abandoned.
And at this time the Jews have no.
where to turn save to their own ma
tional homeland.
The World War, which has re
apportioned the boundaries Of peoples.
great and small has likewise assigned
10 the Jews the portion OF their IN
heritance-a Jewish National Home
land IN Palestine"
The Jews. outside of central Europe.
were loyal to the cause OF the Allies
IN the great war Of nations they max
ine their notable sacrifices on all
fronts. and giving their fullest sup
Palestine, which the Arabs have
failed to do. as for the most part they
fought on the side OF the Turks. their
former owners and tormentors Lloyd
George in an official statement before
British Parliament, July 10, 1880.
Jews Free Arabs.
Now the Jews have come and built
up the land and benefited the Arabs
and the entire population in Pales-
tine. Jewish colonization in Pales-
tine has raised the Arabs out of an
abject state of serfdom under the
Effendis and given them a status OF
free citizenship and of useful workers,
instead of their wonted incidence and
DO nothings" The Jews are in the
process Of making out of q wild waste
Of desertland veritable Garden OF
Eden on a civilized basis But, the
Arabs would not let them do it, as in
the story of the dog in the nanger."
They would never do anything by
themselves toward the improvement
and development of the land.
True. the Arabs for time welded
. civiliza ton of their own. in con-
junction with Jewish savants, dur
Ing the earlier part OF the Middle Ages.
But since they had INDUCED in con-
tinual warfare, pleasure-seeking and
ease. they have gone down into a
state of coma. without ever produe-
ing anything that is constructive and
beneficial to the cause of humanity.
Their present acts Of terrorism, rob-
berry, arson. destruction of life and
property, with that latest fad, the
brutal bomb throwing in civilian Arab
quarters for provocateur (Which is
now clearly shown as daylight, all OF
that is certainly not conducive to the
upbuilding of an Arab civilized state.
The Arabs, who did nothing to de-
kerve 1t. had already been given their
self-government in the formation OF
five regular kingdoms and four terri
tories. with chieftains of their own,
and enormous tracts of land that are
theirs for the living and working Of
The Arabs have the Iraq, Syria, Egypt,
Trans-Jordania. etc. Very we'll! But
why begrudee the expatriated, home
less people that little spot which they
have a right to claim as their own?
Jews Never to Surrender.
We may well issue this warning to
all malicious slanderers and foes of the
Zion movement, whatever their own
evil designs, and no matter what they
say or do in opposition to the move
ment. the Jews will never yield this,
their first and last hope for the resto-
ration of Zion
The so-called national leaders among
the Arabs may well learn the lesson
from history as to why many and pow
erful nations never were able to hold
the coveted land. which had been COW
enanted to Israel for everlasting gen.
erations by higher power than their
own earthly prowess.
Thus set in array came ASsyria.
Babylonia, Persia. Greece and Rome.
each one of whom had sought to dis
lodge the Jews from their native soil
and to foist their pagan practices upon
them
Titus, who, as the critic says, had