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rendering the Jewish state defense
less could hardly be devised, and it
may be taken for granted that the
Arabs will capitalize upon it in an
attempt to solve the Zionist prob
lem once and for all. The argu-
ment that the same sort of division
will separate the Arabs Is super
fetal. Palestine is itself q very
small segment of a very large Arab
world and all Arab segments except
the island" of Jaffa abut upon
Arab states.
The Arabs of Palestine can ex-
pect with confidence the assistance,
moral and physical, of some 300,-
100000 Moslems from Pakistan to
Morocco. Even if 100000 additional
Jews could be taken into Palestine
at once the total Jewish population
would only approximate that of
the Arabs now there. 1t may be
taken for granted that without ma
jor military protection by the
United Nations the Jewish groups
will eventually be eliminated in the
course of what might well become
a bloody jihad, or holy war. Of
course, the large Jewish groups liv-
ing elsewhere in the Arab world
could not be protected at all.
u. n. Force Unrealistic
No favor would be done the
stricken Jews of Europe by sending
them to Palestine for elimination.
At best they would be condemned to
a constant, bitter, bloody struggle
for existence, in the face of which
the requirement for refuge would be
intensified rather than eliminated.
1t is unrealistic in the extreme to
suppose that a military force from
the United Nations would long serve
adequately to protect them. Let
Americans ask themselves, as the
British have obviously done, if they
would care to sacrifice their own
soldiers in such a futile cause.
There is another humane con-
sideration which ought to have alert
attention in America, though it Is
rarely mentioned. The establish
ment Of the Jewish state in
Palestine may be found to wreak
serious harm to American Jewry,
which has never itself shown an
desire to move to Palestine
though it has generously supported
the efforts of others so to do.
II the Zionist state is successfully
where will rest the al
legiance of Jews who are American
citizens? The question has been
pointed up by the case of Rabbi
Korff, an American arrested in
Paris for planning to place revision
ist bombs in London. It is again to
the fore in the Zionist efforts to
recruit American Jews for service
against the Arabs. Most American
Jews would undoubtedly prefer to
remain Americans, but the problem
Of divided loyalty becomes real
when religious belief is metamor-
phosed into nationality. The Amer
lean government does not recog-
nize dual citizenship.
Ominous Precedent Set
But more sinister than the Of
fetal dilemma would be the oc-
casion which it could automatically
provide for the overt manifestation
Of an anti-semitism which is only
too strong even now in a relatively
latent state. In this regard it may
well be said that Zionism is the
most serious enemy to American
Jewry which exists today.
And here let there be an end, once
and for all, to the absurd charge so
often and so easily made by Zion
Ists that all opponents of Zionism
are anti-Jewish in sentiment. Mil
ions of Jews themselves are oppo-
1ents of zionism and deeply dis
;urbed at what may be eventual
world reaction to the Zionist course
From a standpoint OF much more
than the Palestine problem alone,
(see NEW PALESTINE, Page C-29