The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-03-20

Zion
And so il has been since those
days Man is not easily torn from
his mooring and the older the tree.
the deeper and stronger the roots.
The sons OF lshmael remained IN
the desert while the sons OF Jacob
were scattered to every land At
my own wedding in Shanghai was
q Chinese Jew from Khotan. indis-
tinguishable from other Chinese ex-
Cept for his beard He insisted
upon orthodox Jewish rites. Also
present were several Jews from
India whose ancestors had been in
that land before Christ appeared
in the Garden OF Gethsemane.
Who can understand the historic
force that in a universal rhythm
tears this Jewish people asunder
and throws them violently together
again? And always before them
is the reality or the mirage OF
Jerusalem.
II is amazing 10 me that Ibn
Saud could. in FIVE minutes explain
10 President Roosevelt the mys.
terry OF the millions OF Jews who
have adhered to a religion. to a
community Of kind in spite OF aetu-
al and provable disslmiliarities
What mystice power keeps this
people together when there is
no tangible no visible. no provable
relationship.
The whole OF Jewish history is a
challenging record OF diffusion from
Abraham, the Canaanite, TO Theo-
dore Herzl. the Viennese journal
ist who discovered his affinity for
his own people only when he at
tended the trial of Alfred Dreyfuss.
the Alsatian officer in the French
Army who only became conscious
OF his Jewishness when he was
prosecuted for being one.
IL every Jew now in Palestine
were driven from that country and
all the lands and all the buildings
were given to the Arab history
then would start all over again.
/ In every country, the Jews would
/ divide \into three elements those
who would fantically devote them
selves to Zion; those who would OPP
! pose Zion as an outmoded shibtol-
/ eth: and those who would secretly
+ love Zion and outwardly wear the
f garb OF opposition Ibis is such an
old pattern. Actually. It is the pat
tern that kept Moses in the desert
for 40 years. And those who love
Zion will be the most articulate
and pressing because theirs is
positive design for life. The two
boys who assassinated Lord Moyne
in Egypt sought martydrom; they
were their own prosecutors at their
/ trial. They wanted to die for
/ Zion because the Valley OF the Jor-
dan was their only love such a
mystery no man can grasp in Ave
minutes OF conversation.
Lord Balfour and Woodrow vii
son tried TO find a solution and
curiously they nearly did. They
sought it in P mutually between
, Jew and Arabs under the aegis OF
Great Britain Had their plan not
been discarded, millions of Jews
might have moved from eastern
Europe 10 the colonies in Palestine
and even Trans jordania and Hitler
would have had no excuse for his
miserable racialism. Instead. Zion
has been kicked about in the poll
tics OF snide vote-gatherers and is
now a damned thing. a nuisance.
a discarded wanton. Zion will not
he represented at San Francisco.
And yet, Zion will live on long after
San Francisco is only another Til
sit where once also the affairs OF
the earth were permanently settled
For obviously. Zion is the promise
Of God and no two men can undo
it in FIVE minutes OF conversation.
Amylold degeneration IN whicr
waxy-looking masses grow on the
eye lids is a condition common in
China and elsewhere in the East