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Even without such a joint settlement, however, the disposition of the holy places must be part of any broader agreement on Jerusalem. Jewish and Moslem shrines will not present much difficulty. Israel is not anxious to continue unilateral responsibility for non-Jewish holy places; soon after the '67 war, Defense Minister Moshe Dayan offered to let any designated Arab flag fly over the Dome of the Rock and other Moslem shrines. The offer still holds. Since Moslems already administer the shrines and support them as well, Arab flags above the minarets would be largely a matter of symbolism. What...
...early as 1919, when Jews were 8% of the population, a presidential commission visiting the region found that "the Zionists look forward to a practically complete dispossession of the present non-Jewish inhabitants of Palestine . . ." and also foresaw the likelihood of armed aggression in the accomplishment of the Zionist program. There was never really any doubt...
Hyperbole aside, it is estimated that perhaps 300,000 Soviet Jews would leave the country if they could-not to mention any number of non-Jewish Soviet citizens. Few get out, whatever their religion, but Moscow now grudgingly permits about 2,000 Jews to depart annually. Most emigrate to Israel: last week, for example, Physicist Boris Zuckerman, a leading Soviet authority on magnetic resonance, arrived in Jerusalem with his wife and two children. Like those who preceded him, however, Zuckerman may well be in for a few jolts...
...Lord Rothschild contained the words: "His Majesty's Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish People ... it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine." It will be seen that Mr. Balfour pledged nothing. Nor was he or the government of Great Britain in a position to pledge the creation of a Jewish homeland in Palestine. Palestine'' was never a British colony, territory or possession, though Britain later administered it in trust...
...American Jewish workers-be they painters, garment workers, or cigar makers-discovered their collective strength not by membership in equivalents of respectable Hillel Societies but by joining, and often leading, their non-Jewish brothers in militant labor organizations. The uprooted, first-generation Jewish immigrants aligned by choice and by necessity with other workers for "the right to live in dignity" (social, political and economic). In helping to build the American labor movement, they gained a foothold for themselves and their families in the new land. As liberal activists, socialists, and Communists, many of them, together with their children, continued...