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THE JEWISH WESTERN BULLETIPf
TEIURSDAy, MAY 30, 1935
The Jewish Western Bulletin
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THE UNITED PALESTINE APPEAL
There is something stupendbus'iri the events of'our own day, something too stupendous for us to grasp in its full significance.
But we begin to see a faint glimmering when we note that for the first time in 1900 years the Jewish people are slowly beginning to move by their own volition. It is undoubtedly true that the real force that is actuating Jewish life and transferring the centre of gravity from the tragic diaspora to hope-inspiring Palestine comes from the inner wealth and energy of the Jewish people itself. The emancipation we are struggling for and slowly achieving is an autoemancipation, deriving its vital breath from the free and voluntary interest and activity of the Jewish people.
In this sense Zionism and its popular agencies, the Jewish National Fund and the Keren Hayesod are out of the class of campaigns and charity drives but are national institutions expressing fully the self-confidence and the self-awareness of the Jewish people.
In this sense, also, the donor to the Keren Hayesod Campaign is an active agent proving his awareness of the significance of what happens about him, of his role 'in the impressive play of historic forces now in progress.
It is unnecessary to urge any Vancouver Jew to contribute to the Keren Hayesod. The position of World Jewry and the role of Palestine as a refuge for the victims of antisemitism and as a radical and permanent solution of the Jewish problem are known to every literate Jew.
Now it is necessary only to remind our readers that the time for contributing has arrived. The Keren Hayesod is on.
THE FUTURE OF PALESTINE    Zionist President
By, NAHUM SOKPLOW
Palestihe is no longer merely d a question as'to whether Jews can
land with a past. Its future has become an important factor in the • consideration' of many present problems. The growth of the country within recent years has been so steady and so consistent that
rebuild their homeland if they must count always with hostility-on- the part of a native population. The answer is that time will brings Jews and Arabs together. The rea-
predictions as to further develop- sons are simple.   The Jews have
ment need not be purely. speculative.   '   '   ^   ' : • 'V
It is common knowledge that the Jewish people have salvaged Palestine fropi the arid wilderness of backward countries and given it a place inthe modern economic, industrial and social advance of the world. Encouraged by moral approval, fortified by international treaties, as represented in the Palestine Mandate awarded to Great Britain under the auspices of
come to Palestine to ..stay, yhey h^ve a peculiar attachment to'this land, to its soil. This fundamental feeling is in their blood. It is indestructible. No threats will deter them, no violence cow them. The Arabs will eventually recognize that. But what is more important is that, in coming to Palestine, Jews are animated by social vision and not the desire of exploitation. Social justice is the foundation of the rebuilding of the Jewish Na-
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people have made their dream of a restored Jewish National Home the instrument for giving back ,o the world a land that once bulked large on the material as well as spiritual horizon.
The actual reconstruction work was not begun until some twelve years ago. Much has been written
turies, the butt of discrimination, injustice, the Jews have vowed that they will create a land which can serve as a model to all mankind. Proof is to be found in the fact that in the majority of Jewish colonies, the settlers insist on doing their own work. They discounten-ence the employment of outside la-
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OUR GUEST
There is something remarkable about the guest speaker for this year's Keren Hayesod campaign.
It was customary in previous years to invite as guests the Keran Hayesod men who had made their mark in the world of Zionism.
This year the Keren Hayesod has seen fiit to invite Dr. Abraham Leon Sachar. This is very gratifying to us. The circles in which Dr. Sachar has distinguished himself are those of academic life and of B'nai B'rith work among Jewish students. When the Zionist movement begins to draw its leadership personnel from circles not narrowly its own it is a positive sign that it has struck roots in the widest section of Jewish life and that the roots it has struck are productive of the richest fruit in the movement.
We, therefore, welcome Dr. Sachar not only as a Zionist but as an academic scholar of high repute, as a B.B. worker and educator of high achievement, and as a fully rounded Jew.
Baruch Haba'h Sachar!
TWO YEARS OF ACHiEVEMENT
By AZER ROTHSTEIN
Prevention of the Formation of a Legislative Assambly —'■by focefully presenting argument against the proposal (showing that the majority of Arabs in the Assembly would be unjust to the Jewish minority resident in Palestine and to those 16,000,000 Jews living in the lands of the Diapora.
Increase in National Fund from £170,000 to £200,000 last year and a prospect of some £300,-000 for this year. Increases were particularly evident in South Africa, England and even impoverished Poland.
Increase in immigration. Industrial and agricultural activity progressed to such a point that a shortage of labor was soon apparent and the use of Arab (cheap) labor imminent, but the Zionist executive insisted on the employment of Jewish labor and secured additional immigration certificates.
. Loan from Lloyds. The securing of this huge loan, $500,000, for the term of 15 years at the exceedingly low rate of 4 per cent was an achievement unparallelled in Zionist history. For not only was this a practical demonstration of the vital growth and potentialities of Zionism in Palestine, lj even more it ensured the continued support and co-operation of the British mandatory powers towards the achievement of a homeland.
Huleh Concession. The acquisition of the Huleh region was a feather in the cap of the present Zionist Executive. Largest single purchase of land — 57,000 metric dunams in extent—potentialities for development unlimited— Huleh with its available water bas-
ins and fertile land is ideally suited to further the development of Palestine. Once rid of the malarial and mosquito-infested swamps, this territory on the border between Syria and Transjordania will be one of the most productive areas in Eretz Yisi'oel and will make easy the future development of the 100,-000 dunams of Transjordinia land —purchased by Baron Rothschild.
Internal discipline. Each shekel entitling the buyer to a vote for representatives to the Zionist Congress now has definitely stated on it: "Membership of the Zionist organization presupposes subordination to its laws and to the resolution of its governing bodies. In all Zionist questions the duty of discipline in regard to the Zionist organization must take precedence over the duty of discipline in regard to any other organization."
cultural improvement.
The world, perturbed by conflicting reports from the Holy Land, demands to know what prospects for success the Jews face. It ponders the problem of relationship between Jews and Arabs, wondering whether an Arab majority will be reconciled to . an enterprising persevering Jewish minority. It compares the Biblical vision of a "land flowing with milk and honey" with the less optimistic reports of dustries. hasty contemporary observers. It considers the glowing and eloquent prophecies of Zionist leaders that out of Zion may again come the spiritual enrichment which the ancient Hebrews furnished in an earlier day.
Palestine is being rehabilitated by enthusiasm. But its future must be judged on the basis of cold facts. One cannot understand the miracle that has been wrought in Palestine by the Jews' unless on^ takes into account the unreasoning idealism, the sweeping emotional force that brought a hundred thousand Jews into the country within a decade. They were not attracted by smoke-belching factories which ground out wealth; they were not drawn by vast acres of profitable grain. They came seeking peace of mind, self-respect. They found both, .even though many died clearing up the dreadful malarial swamps, though others were broken by the unaccustomed toil ' of afforesting barren hills, clearing rocky acres, plowing soil that had lain barren for centuries.
But not even the most overwhelming sentiment could prevail against impossibility. What makes the effort of Jews in Palestine so
family. This reliance upon individual effort, upon the participation of each man in the social system to the full extent of his specific capacities is the key to Jewish aspirations in Palestine. His in devotion to the Religion of Work that the Jewish National Home was conceived, has its being, and fulfills its destiny. This is the mainspring of the vast activities of the new Palestine with its colonization and in-
Many of the Arabs, if not most, recognize the social vision which inspires their Jewish neighbors. They profit by it. They demand a higher standard of living, a broader educational system, a more equitable distribution of the profits of their labor. It is recognized that the effendis — usually absentee landlords—most keenly resent the influx of the Jews because of the effect they have upon the social consciousness of the fellaheen, hitherto a docile, crushed peasantry.
It is often asked: what do the Jews aim at in Palestine? Essentially, they wish for the opportunity to lead a free life, so that they may develop their civilization in their own manner, at their own pace. Does the establishment of the Jewish National Home mean the creation of a State in which Arabs would be a disfranchised minority? Those who propound the query are guilty of animus to the .lewish work in Palestine; it is a mean-spirited speculation. The Jews, ■who are conscious of the closeness of their racial ties to the Arabs, who remember with pride and esteem the fruitful co-operation  between  Jewish  and Arab
worthwhile is that this is only the scholars in the Middle Ages, have beginning. Palestine has resources, prospects, realizable possibilities.
The Jews, spurred on by what has been called Oriental fervor, have brought Occidental efficiency. They have collided with the spirits which represent retrogression and demand the maintenance of the status quo. Out of that has arisen
feelings. What the political future of Palestine will be no one has the right to predict. When the time comes, when Jews are sufficiently numerous, sufficiently integrated into the economic life of the land, and fully settled in their plans and programme, they will determine for themselves the political complex of Palestine. That question has no genuine relationship to Jews outside of Palestine. In any. eveiit, the Arabs need have no fear that they will be subjected to domination. Together with the Jews, guided by the latter's experience and courage, they can help to build a Palestine that can be a credit to all the world.
It must be remembered, however, that the future of Palestine is of concern not only to the Jews in the country, but to those throughout the world who are now engaged in furnishing the funds to maintain the variety of communal activities
which constitute the basis of the Jewish National Home yet to be.
The rebuilding of Palestine has two phases, as far as the Jewish people are concerned. They seek to find a place for as many Jews as possible in a land where they can be primarily themselves. That is the. physical aspect. But Jews also recognize .the need for a laboratory where there may be fashioned new valufes tO' guide their intellectual and cultural life. That is the spiritual aspect. The forces of disintegration assailing . the Jewish people are potent, obvious. To counteract these influences there must be a centre for the distillation of a pure Jewish culture, untainted by hostile environment. Jewish history; Jewish traditions, Jewish ethics must be energized, revitalized. Palestine can produce this moral force. To that extent the future of the Jewish people as a whole is bound up with the future of Palestine.
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HIGHLIGHTS OF ZIONIST . SYMPOSIUM
"The Jew came to the realization that through their own powers, and their own powers alone, Palestine would be restored." — Dave Fouks.
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. . . We must not let ourselves be lulled into a false sense of security.   The present prosperity in Palestine should not give public opinion the illusion that the Jewish community is no longer dependent on Jews of the Diaspora.  The Jewish rehabilitation and rebuilding ir not the work of our generation alone ... it demands a continuation of the work . . . We must not stop, we must take up the torch where others left off and strive with every fibre of our being to make of Palestine a Jewish National Homeland—to make the world a safer and a more peaceful place to live in, for the Jews who are to follow us—the Jews of the future. —Jimniie White.
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