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OCTOBER 26." 1923
VOLUME IV. NUMBER 26
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Israel Zan^vill came, spoke and created a terrible rumpus in New York lafi week. He veritably threw-a bomb into a gathering Avhich \yiih6ut 'hi?; presence would have been born dead. : Zangwill's address'.pill .the Jewislv.Congress'on_ the front page of every New York
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. -He himself is authority -for the statement that it was .carefully prepared, diir.cuii 10 deliver, and the greatest of. all his many public utterances. The (k:cu;re. which contained not less than 25,(XX) words and'as :r.any mc>re [ iX'lvaltly as C'be's endurance powers to count after this figure can stand. KH>k over two hours to deliver. It is. typically ZaneAviHian, chuck full 6f clever ideas, \vith some:of which we agree,
Aviiiicism and borrmbt-s. . Zangwill called IVM> o.f the Jewish world situation, "\Yatch-There is.no denying that it is full of dark shadr$\v wiih very little light flickering . f words covering a heap of thoughts so v:r-id r-f form that as youTead column after
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The addressof Zangwill is,^^ neverthelese, worth ^ reading many flashes of wisdom and its treniendous power of suggestion,: After all is said and done, though we may npt always agree with him, Zangwill is one of the greatest Jewrlrrthe world to-day. He is one of England's really great litterateurs and a rare spirit. Now that Nordau is dead, he is the only fearless tribune our people possess. There is something prophetic in his daring, though his utterances do not always sound as though the voice of dod were speaking through him.
Zangwill is correct when he says that England is not altogether altruistic in her Palestinian policy; that she has interests in the near East, such as the Suez Canal, India and Egypt, and that it is to her advantage to have a friendly people such as, the Jews located in Palestine. That little country, located at the very heart of the East ^-the junction of three continents�is destined to again become the �centre of world political action. The Jews are willing to colonize the country at their own expense; they bring to the task their labor, their zeal, their wealth, their passionate love and their loyalty to the mandatory power. Any other people colonizing there would bring with -them an alien flag, the army and navy of a hostile power to protect tlifir interests. It would seem, therefore, as if England has everything to gain and nothitig to lose by Jewish colonization^
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Though this be true, it is nevertheless also triie:that the hopes and aspirations of- our people cbincide with Britain's interests in Palestine. Destiny has agreed that England 'and Israel should;be partners in the holy mission of upbuiiding Palestine. Under these circumstances what is more natural than that both should have much to gain from the partnership? If England appears not to be accelerating the plans for the speedy materialization of the Balfour Declar^ atipn, it is because she never accelerates evolution in the field of Empire development. Those who knQ^y^ how England has muddled throujgh in Egypt and Ireland and how she is muddling through in India, realize that she is merely feeling out her way in Palestine. That is England's method. There is, however, something which Zangwill forgets�and it is the one;thing that matters most in^iewing the situation�namely, that when two parties, enter into a partnership and draw tip a contractj it is exceedingly necessary that each party shall have implicit confidence m the other's good-will and intentions; In this alliance which England has made with us, it is essential that/ we shall place our complete trust in the good intentions of England to carty out tlie spirit of the Balfour declaration which means that Palestine shall in time �become the, not merely o, Jewish honieland. We believe that England will carry out her promise. We know that it will be a long and .difficult process. We believe and know this just because it happens to be to the interest of Great Britain to make of Palestine an autonomous Jewish country. The process of making Palestine a Jewish homeland, depends in reality, not so much on Great Britain, as it does on the Jews themselves, Why delude ourselves? It is not up to Great Britain to make Palestine the national Jewish centre. It is up to the Jews. Britain can only be the passive factor. Jt depends on how fast the Jews can pour money and men into the country, how zealous we will be in organizing necessary industries, purchasing good land of strategic value, bringing^in
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� rej;udia;e his central thesis. ffarRes. Great Britain cannot give us Palestine. We must take it� _3_h<r ix^itics of Great not as Zang^'ill or Jalxjtinsky believe, by force and aggression. This
type of cr^onizing conquest ceased long ago. Economic penetration is the only method. Why complain that there is no free immigration into Palestine when hundreds of Chaluzim are unemployed now in the country and last year we are told some fourteen of these Chaluzim com mi tied suicide because of the desperation into which they were driven by lack of work? If capital will create a demand for labor, no immigration laws in the world can stop the influx of people. Capita! will attrart people and people will attract capital. This is the cyde. If, in the next ten to twenty years, we can pour iota Palestine nuIIUnp* of i**inds of capital and a few million Jews, then Palestine will be the Jewihh homeland, Arabs or no Aral*., Mandate or no Mandate, politic*
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