Independent Israel

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• The right of the Jewish people in their Land to
self-defense will continue to be a central tenet of Israel.
• Immigration will continue to be a major effort in
our lives. We hope for more immigrants from the Soviet
Union, from the few Jewish communities still surviving
in Arab countries, and from the countries of America
and Europe.
• Social and cultural integration will continue to
be a major effort of Israel. We hope to create a society
where every social gap—subjective and objective—has
been closed, and where all individuals enjoy equal
opportunities, in education and in conditions of living.
• Lastly, we hope that a rapidly developing Israel
will continue to contribute from its experience to the
needs of developing societies elsewhere.

March 16, 1973—Supplement to The Jewish News—Page 29

ACME
MILLS
CO.

Our vision of the future can best be summed up in
the words of the Prophet Amos, who lived 2,800 years
ago:

I will restore the fortunes of my people Israel,
And they shall rebuild the ruined cities and
inhabit them;
They shall plant vineyards and drink their wine,
And they shall make gardens and eat their fruit.
I will plant them upon their land;
And they shall never again be plucked up
Out of the land which I have given them.

Balfour Declaration
Had Arab Support

On Nov. 2, 1972 the British Government issued the
Balfour Declaration of sympathy toward Jewish Zionist
aspirations, pledging support for the establishment in
Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people. The
Allied governments were parties to the antecedent nego-
tiations and approved the Declaration. So did the Arab
national leadership at that time.

The Jewish national revival always regarded the
emerging Jewish Slate as an organic part of the Middle
East as a whole, sharing responsibility in the solution
of its problems and contributing to its development and
progress. Zionism looked forward to Jews and Arabs
living peacefully, side by side within the Jewish State,
enjoying the same rights and opportunities. It still
looks forward to that regional coexistence in mutual
profit, and the State of Israel, in hope and determina-
tion, clings to that high purpose.

The view has been shared by the Arab national
movement. In the early years after World War I,
King Hussein of Hejaz wrote:

"We saw the Jews . . . streaming into Palestine from
Russia, Germany, Austria, Spain and America . . . The
cause of causes could not escape those who had the gift
of deeper insight; they knew the country was for its
original sons. for all their differences, a sacred and be-
loved homeland."—(Al Qiba, Mecca, No. 183,23; March,
1918; George Antonius, Arab Awakening, page 269.)

In an agreement concluded on January 3, 1919 be-
tween his son Emir Feisal, chief Arab delegate to the
Paris Peace Conference, and Dr. Chaim Weizmann, on
behalf of the World Zionist Organization, the Balfour
Declaration was endorsed and Palestine recognized as
a separate Jewish entity, with which the then imminent
Arab State would maintain diplomatic relations, on con-
dition that Britain and France meet Arab demands in
other territories.

Salutes

the

State

of

Israel

on her

25th

Anniversary

Sh alom ! !

