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Many a sentimental Gentile supposes Zionism to be a great pious urge to return the Jews of the world to the land of Abraham and Moses. Actually, as most Zionists know, it is no such thing. Of the world's 16,000,000 Jews only 175,000 live in Palestine.* In ratio to 750,000 Moslems they are a definite minority and many a Jew believes that Great Britain, despite past promises, intends to keep them a minority.? Furthermore Zionism's case is made no better for having long been rent not only by schisms but by schisms within...
...Municipal Council of the new, white all-Jewish City Tel Aviv (pop.: 105,000) took to rent-fixing to curb speculation. In New York U. S. Zionist Louis Lipsky said: "Palestine is building itself up and has all the symptoms of a boom." Begging for more idealism in Zionism, he reported seeing in Tel Aviv and elsewhere the same Jewish "brokers, speculators and profiteers that used to be seen in The Bronx during the building boom...
...Envious of Palestine's prosperity, the Syrian Government announced it would welcome Jewish immigrants who renounce Zionism, agree not to buy land near the Palestine border, and bring in enough capital to help revive Syria's sultry trade...
Only a third of the book is devoted to scientific papers while the remainder of the volume is devoted to remarks on Zionism, Pacificism, and Philosophy. They show us a man whose sincerity is the only force strong enough to break the barriers of his modesty and is not wholly successful in that. For his modesty is present in even the scientific papers in which he gives credit to the work of his associates and predecessors and in this volume has even included a series of biographical sketches of the great scientists who, according to the author, have made...
...officers of the Society have arbitrarily ruled out the simpler solution offered by Zionism in order to stimulate new thought on this controversial subject. Other solutions that will be suggested by the speakers are: a determined effort toward friendship and cordial relations toward conflicting minorities, greater homogeneity with the national community and perhaps assimilation...