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...were on trial ... but when the Government prosecutor asked for a verdict of guilty, his finger pointed to deeper issues. The ghost on the witness stand was Zionism with its Western dynamics, its strengths, its weaknesses, and its overtones of sorrow and terrorism...
Principal stumble points for this dream solution: 1) French interests in Syria and the Lebanon; 2) British mandates in Trans-Jordan and Palestine; 3) Zionism; 4) the still undisclosed attitude of Saudi Arabia's powerful, circumspect Ibn Saud...
...deposition of a Moslem ruler by a Christian power would impress the Tunisians and their fellow Moslems in Africa and the Near East remained a question. Axis propaganda had stimulated anti-Zionism throughout Islam, and had left Moslem nationalism aglow. General Giraud's firm stand last week was probably the wisest policy for the moment, but it did not allay the Moslem suspicion that the Allies have only one war aim-to chase out the Axis, insure a safe base for military operations and keep what they have won in battle...
TIME has a fair and a friendly account of the Committee for a Jewish Army and its many distinguished Christian adherents. Next, however, it characterizes the so-called "opposition" to Zionism and the Army within Jewry. Is TIME so innocent-innocence is hardly its "note"-so simpleheartedly unaware of the quality of men and events as to use the adjectives "potent" and "sturdy" in this connection without its tongue in its cheek? Does TIME really not know that Rabbi Wolsey and his fellows represent a negligible minority within our honorably and stanchly Zionist Reform rabbinate? Is TIME so guileless that...
Pierre Van Paassen, no Jew but a longtime friend of Zionism, set up his committee to seek, through U.S. pressure, what Britain has thus far refused. Britain permits Jews in Palestine to enlist as individuals (20,000 have); it has set up several all-Jewish regiments. But again last week it balked at an independent Jewish Army-largely because the British must also consider the sympathies of 30,000,000 Middle Eastern Arabs...