Friday, November 30, 1945
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle
Two
Pure and Impure Oil
The Modern Maccabees
against its better knowledge, and
greatest national traditions to
deposits of Arabia and Persia close its eyes before the greatest
which is largely, if not wholly, catastrophe that has ever over-
responsible for the present come a people which has lost a
plight and unequalled calamity third of its population — six
of European and world Jewry. million of its best people — in
It is oil, the lifeblood of our the crucial fires of persecution
mechanical civilization, the dy- and extermination, and which
namic power which feeds and prompted it to stoop down to
drives battleships, tanks, and such a low ebb of morality that
all the engines of death, that it has closed the gates of their
caused mighty, powerful England own homeland to the pitiful sur-
to trespass on and to dishonor vivors who "succeeded" after
the Balfour Declaration, to twist superhuman efforts and endeav-
and to distort its content until ors to land on the shores of Pal-
this Magna-Charta of a Jewish estine.
homeland, covenanted by Eng-
I wonder, has England never
land and the Mandate-powers read in the King Jam s version
became a "Document of Infamy of the Bible the law, '•1f a slave
and Treachery" whih will cast escapes to thee, don't deliver
a stain upon the shining shield him to his master. IIe shall
of its honor and integrity for live with you wherever it is
generations to come.
well with him?"
It was oil — the wrangle and
I wonder whether the states-
struggle for a monopoly upon men and diplomats of England
it — that made England forget are able and possess the mental
the invaluable death - defying, resources to twist and turn the
death-courting services rendered clear Biblical promise "that
by volunteer Jewish battalions Palestine shall belong to the
in the days of its supreme crisIr Jews" as they have twisted and
up to the very point that they misinterpreted the Balfour Dec-
are considered as the "Forgotten laration? Will they explain that
Allies" of the Allied Powers. In the Bible and the Prophets
contrast to this attitude toward meant something else, everything
the Jews, England has elevated else, only not that Palestine
and raised the predatory half- should belong to the Jews?
civilized, treacherous Arab princ-
And, if the Balfour Declara-
es to the rank of equality, and
tion be silent, the very con-
has granted them a seat of hon-
science of England, its historic
or in the Council of Nations.
past, the dreams and visions of
It was the lure and bait of its saints — should cry out
oil which prompted England, against this evil inflicted upon
the "biblical people" to forget the Jews!
the qualities of brotherly "Mer-
Indeed: oil is pure until it is
cy and Compassion" toward the
made impure, contaminated by
people that have given it the
power politics and the diplo-
Bible, the Words of the Proph-
macy of Britain.
ets, the Songs of the Psalms, the
Let us pray that the pure
very ideals which have fed,
nourished and illuminated the oil of divine promise that Pal-
souls of its greatest bards and estine shall become a homeland
of the Jew will prevail and over-
statesmen.
come the darkness that eman-
It was the greed and craving
ates from the impure oil of na-
for oil, for more oil, that has
tional self-interest and greed.
ultimately determined England
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the message of the ever-increas-
ing light of the Menorah. A
"New Tomid," a perpetual light
which should inspire us to a
deeper loyalty, to a greater re-
sponsibility for our Jewish her-
itage.
Sincere Chanukah Greetings!
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by a culture other than their
own. It was evident in the pre-
war Central European Jewish
communities, where you found
an exact parallel to the circum-
starlets which existed in the time
of the Maccabees. There were GREETINGS . . .
those who succumbed complete-
ly to the blandishrw nts of tem-
porary social and ma'arial po-
sition, and they were countered,
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which the Maccabees fought.
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or V-2 weapons; the great dan-
gers are the dangers of the spir-
it, and the greatest heroes are
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