America lavish Periodical Carter FridaY, September 27, 1946 CLIFTON AVENUE - CINCINNATI 20, 01110 DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle Page Thirteen palestinemOur Only Salvation By DR. ABBA HILLEL SILVER President, Zionist Organ;zation of America When it is said that the people of Israel are the toughest among the people of the earth, what is meant is not our physical strength, but the persistent fact of Jewish 5tence. There is in us some lefinable strength, some inex- astible reservoir of power, which enables us to surmount one I defeat after another, and to over- come powers — empires — much stronger than ours. This is not sermonics but his- tory. And in such an unequal struggle, we are engaged at this moment. We were engaged in the some struggle fifteen years ago, but then we still had a great Eu- ropean Jewish community to help us in this struggle for survival and renascence. Today we have lost that spiritually creative—for us, spiritually replenishing— com- munity of the world. Today we li are fighting on alone — with six million of our people already slain. By so much, by a third, we are diminished. But we are fighting on, and—by the grace of God—we will win through! The report of the Anglo-Ameri- can Committee had some very sharp things to say about the ag- gressive nationalism of the Jews. It spoke of the rights of -every- body except Jews. On the right of Britain to establish a new nation in Transjordania, to call into existence this sovereign nation of slightly more than 300,000 people, which before long will have a seat in the Assembly of the United Nations. But it is all wrong for the Jewish people — one of the great, historic peoples of the To Our Friends GREETINGS • MEYER earth, without whose spiritual contributions to civilization, there would be no Christianity, no Is- lam, no ethical code; which gave to Mankind great visions: Jus- tice, Brotherhood, Peace, the con- cepts of the dignity of human life and of compassion; which gave to the world its prime figures in every field of endeavor; which, in the last war sent thousands of thousands of its sons to fight against fascism, against nazism, against the enemies of civiliza- tion —it is all wrong for this peo- ple to want to be a nation among the nations of the world at least equal to Transjordania. We are political nationalists in- sofar as we seek for our people that which every other historic people on the face of the earth possesses: a national home, a na- tional status. To us this issue is not a plaything for idle hours, it is not a diversion. It is not the conviction of irresponsible parties. The disastrous line of decline in the fortunes of our people—from 1903 when forty-five Jews were killed in the pogrom in Kishinev, to the last few years, when six million Jews were killed in gas chambers and abattoirs —• traces also the ascending line of inten- sive concentration upon the solu- tion of political Zionism. Zionism is not a product of book-learning, but directly the product of Jew. if ish experience which we our- us, we have not yet reached our selves witnessed and in which we first frontier, we have not yet a participated. home for a people that has been Had our people taken to heart homeless and wandering for more what life was trying to teach us than two thousand years. For all during those desperate years, and these dreams of internationalism, for that matter, through the we have been rewarded as was long, weary years of our disper- Prometheus who was riven to the sion, and our dependence, Pales- rock and tormented for having tine would be today a Jewish brought down from heaven the State. Millions now dead would be gift of fire. We helped mankind, alive, and free in their own home. but could not help ourselves. The time has come now — ur- We Zionists are not fanatics about Zionism; we are just realists gently the time has 'come—for us about Jewish life. But, true to the to help ourselves. We' need a great tradition of our people, we home! That is the cry which also know other frontiers beyond rises from Belsen and Dachau and Oswiecim, and from the hearts of those of state and nation. all those who have come to be It was our people who first di- spoken of as "displaced persons" rected man's gaze toward the —a tragic name. 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