Hello Ofer
Just "google" "Deir Yasin' sometimes spelt "Deir Yassin" and lots of things come up. It was a village wher the Irgun massacred 240 or so inhabitants - the village had a non-agression pact with a neighbouring Jewish village because they saw, early in 1948, what was happening. The Irgun ignored this pact. You will get google results from both spellings.

We are going to have to stop meeting like this, "Jew". (I wish you would change your userId it seems somehow disrespectful to address you as "Jew".

I was referring to the fact that prior to May 1948 Jews had taken, eg. Deir Yasin - several miles outside the area proposed for the Jews and well inside the territory proposed for the Arabs. A lot of Arabs left their homes after hearing about this massacre, fearful for themselves, and the Jews took those villages/towns also. That is one example - there are others. I agree with you that the lines drawn by outsiders determining the boundaries were illogical in many cases, given the Jewish population cf the Arab population. But that is history. and I doubt Israelis would ever countenance a majority of Arabs in Israel.

We the Muslims have no unity.Remember divided we fall,united we stand.There is no Muslims standing.I saw many Prostestants and Catholics having unity at dining tables.We the muslims hate either of sunnis and shias.One notable thing we should remember is all the dacoities,lootings,terrorist activities carry the Muslim name.As a Muslim community we could not prevent the terrorism.We should remember Islam stands tall but Muslims are watched as a culprits.Islam have failed to contain the terrorism,Muslims too failed.Finally before Qayamat,not a single Muslim will not have the characters what a Muslim is suppose to have

I agree that Israel has grown up to be a paranoid nation because of the Holocaust. Being in a position of domination has become a value to Israeli citizens beyond logical reasons. But the truth is that at the beginning of Israel's foundation, not only the Holocaust caused this. Right after its foundation, Israel's 600, 000 citizens were attacked by all Arab nations around them, who drastically exceeded Israel in numbers and firepower. These nations included those who were not of Palestine and were therefore not fighting for rights to land or any logical reasons, rather religious or emotional ones. The conflict with these countries, which lasted decades, was the main source for Israel's protective identity. It's not only the Jewish history in Europe that is responsible for the Spartan Jew but the illogical emotional mentality of the region.

The Spartan Jew is becoming a copy of the German Nazi or the Waffen-SS during WWII, going after the same Jews ... It is a pity that no one learns from history. This is not the way to solve a problem: violence has never solved anything!

As for selling Palestine, the Jews can sell their own Israel: they are the ones after the money!

I read your discussion about the spartan jew, I don't personally have access to the problems that existed with the various cultures to make a conclusion as to why the jewish people are so hateful, or appear to be so hateful as to murder the masses of innocent women and children which they certainly do, to a people whose homeland they stole from them. Historically, when they joined the United Nations it was under the promise they would settle this account, return the homes of those they took, or settle with them. This promise has yet to be fulfilled. I have come to believe that while those who control the laws, academia, and the published media like to group peoples under a single banner, This Idea runs parallel to classifying the intelligence of the other species under one word, instinct. Its easy to call everyone who goes to a mosque a moslem, a synagogue, a jew, a church a christian etc etc. To me this is ibvalid and merely serves to point that the languages are still in a primative state, unable to define reality, but, to admitt this would be to admitt that the entire basis on which you supposidly live your life is at best a lie, and that the laws are invalid, made without access to the variables, or for some other reason, like predatory, for the sole purpose of giving one man power over another so he may steal his assets, Or in the case of academia it would be to admitt that most of what you teach as fact is at best trivia, based on unfounded principles made without access to the variables as well, and that academic ventures are in the education business to make money and create classes of peoples, favoring the wealthy who have the cash to buy nobility degrees. The reality is simple really, as our instrumentation changes we change with it, our languages change, new words come into being that displace the words left by the preliterate scribes who wrote down absolute truths that time revealed as lies. Examples are too many to name but a few: the earth is flat and square, with a foundation, It is the absolute center of the universe and the sun, moon and stars rotate around it, mental illness is caused by demons, not brain damage and enzymatic imbalences, Illness is caused because you broke moses laws, The earth was created in 6 or 7 days, Its about 6,000 years old the list goes on and on. The only way people can continue to pretend they believe is through literary hypnosis, chanting the same things over and over, rituals. Fear that to disbelieve will bring you and your family harm. The real truth is that only real truth can exist, truth being the absence of a lie. We know very little about the real truth, My belief is that there is a spiritual world unseen by most and that truth is an ancient word ment to describe God. We are all of us individuals and bo one is the same and that all the land is holy land and all the children are chosen people. I studied the jewish community very closely, there are like any religion a lotta sects;Hassidic, ultraorthodox, orthodox, conservative, modernistic, etc. Similar to the moslems, they pretend to be intolerent of the others. The jews are similar to the Inuit Tribe of Indians, They n believe they were the only living survivors of the last great ice age, and that the rest of humanity evolved from them. A majority of jews pretend to believe they are gods chosen people and that everyone else comes in second to first, their secular communities neighbors are either servants, hirelings, customers, or enemies. The world is theirs, as they populate it to the 4 corners it is the others who must dissappear into time. They believe that deception is the key to tikum olam 9 a complete undoing of the world , to make way for their every growing population explosion. Their goal is to individoally and collectively control the productive assets, and ther is no crime unless you can describe it and that if your gang is large enough, this can happen. I am similar to the palestinians in that I tried to go into a business someone in their group felt was theirs, I faced an unending wall of strangers willing to act against me. They destroyed my business, my family, had the police shoot my dog, imprison my 15 year old daughter for 5 years trying to get her to connect me to murder crimes. My spouse barely escaped with our son, and is afraid to be around me. I fought a large jewish group in court and won a small victory. They had to end their pseudo zealous selfserving business because a federal government fired them because they were using a gobernment agency for ethnic cleansing. The head rabbi called me up and said " we will make your life a living hell " Since then I have been in prison four times, they have clout in some courts ( whatever they say is fact---whatever you say is hearsay---The facts are they will win the accuse, right or wrong "deception " They believe in it. When you are a commercial criminal gang this large you can do things, they real biggy was after WW1 The world court declared Germany would pay for the cost of the war, The bailiffs went to germany and took over the german infrastrusture, the people were virtual slaves, meinwhile Hitler, his mom was jewish, decided to go into the greeting card business, he went to the effort of the poems and the artwork , but when he tried to get them published, he was told that he was not in fact jewish and the greeting card industry was an established jewish business. He became so mad, that he left austria and went to germany and entered politics and his promise was to rid germany of the jewish bailiffs, in fact the jews altogether. Hw was elected. In 1949 he advised the 900,000 jews to get out of germany because he felt they would sabatogue his war effort which he felt was inevitable because of communist russia--karl marx--jewish. give according to your ability and receive according to your needs " utopia " The Vikings fell for the trick.To get all the assets under one owner, the government, and when the government failed then get title to the assets, It took 150 years but it worked out well for them. The world class mafia, armed with international law has reared its ugly head. the law is that anything goes, slavery, genocide, with enough money, you can have anything you want. If its not for sale, then ethnically cleanse the region and simply take it, with legal title and all, anything is fair in war, and your neighbor is your ultimate enemy. Personally I have devoted my life to instrumetation, I believe everyone is the same and the only thing separating them is the awareness that they would be no different than anyone else if they had lived their lives. Sure what Hitler did was a horrific crime, In my opinion, murdering innocent people and indeed destroying nature is a crime. I believe the children, armed with one book will join under one banner, the truth, and go into the future searching for truths instead of memorizing trivia and theoretical academic constructs that are just a lot of fiction, for want of a better understanding of reality I believe all children are good, or want to be, and armed with one book will soon see through the veil of ignorance and make this earth a better place, respecting the other vetrabrates with languages, cultures, families, emotions, they meet fall in love and many live happily ever after, the ones lrft are equiped with the assets to live in a natural world. I have hope, and respect, for all people, and pray that we see reason, and quit the chase for who can pile up the biggest pile of trash, fueled by lust and greed, Blaming everything on their respective gods. Good luck and may god bless america and indeed the world

If you were told as a child that you are superior to the others " goyim " and all your friends and neighbors were like this ( secular community ) then you would be like that. Your neighboring communities would be viewed as servants, hirelings, customers, or enemies. The average jewish family has 5.7 children per family. They were disposed from germany becuase so many of them were there as bailiffs to collect the costs of WW1 as granted by the world courts. The germans lost far more people that the jews. Anyone would be the same as anyone else if they had been raised like them. Its too bad when people believe its OK to take the lands and resources of others, thats why we have wars, people fight back against injustice. Perhaps with one book the children of the future will abandon the words of preliterate scribes that dictate their uninformed lives, and we can diminish and make the world a better place and worship " Truth " an ancient word ment to describe god, truth being the absence of a lie, is in reality all that exists. Different constructs of truth have been created in an effort to conceal untruths, or lies. The world and beyond is an incredible complex and interesting reality, of which we know so little, the discovery of these things will bring us ever closer to the truth, which is all that exists. Don't let yourself become a slave to someone elses wishes and desires, respect every thing and everyone, don't make decisions without access to the variables, and protect yourself against those that do, because they act without respect, and this era of vast unawareness must end and be replaced with a world ruled by respect, kindness and caring in our search for the truths that may save us from this impending doom we burden ourselves with by overpopulating and denaturing the earth on which we rely for the continuation of life itself. Live the Golden rule, do unto others as you would have them do unto you

thanks for the email. I was quite aware of the israelie's intent on the palestinians. My people have suffered many years of genocide. From the day we allowed the colonizers on our land, that is the day the destruction took place. I understand everything you are talking about only because of the similarities in their attack on my people. They use their churches, their bible and the government system to abuse my people. The sexual abuse and the torture that took place within the residential schools have had a long term effect on my people, including myself. I hated myself, i hated who i was, i disliked my people, my family and what my culture reflected, but as the years went by, i realized who i was and it took years for me to like myself, to fit into my own skin and to realize that i have lost so much. We as indigenous people had no idea what was happening, and even today alot of my people are not well , although we struggle to try and find something we know we have lost....ourselves , and the government continues to take advantage of a very unhealthy race, by signing treaties that make no sense, by taking away our self identifying indentity, our language, our culture, our families. He use so many tactics such as taking away our land, our homes, our families, our culture. We are misrepresented as the first people. We are on this land they have occupied and they call it canada. I continue to see the destruction and the system taking advantage of my people. I see my people homeless, dealing with diseases and our inherent rights to this land we call mother earth. I see the palestinians struggling against a system that wants only to destroy. I see my indigenous people all over the world dealing with genocide. And they understand and know who has inherent rights to the land and that is why they bring war and their weapons. Canada has gotten quite strategic about their tactics. Destroy and conquer. Divide and separate. Devide us from ourselves. Our men are displaced, dealing with addiction, and jail. Our women are dying and going missing and our children are caught up in a system that makes no sense, because once you are caught up in this canadian government system, you can't do anything right for them, because every thing we do is wrong. So mothers lose alot of their rights to their own children and my people then become a commodity for this society. My people are dying and the silent screams for "help" is going un noticed. The government got very smart and started using our own people against each other. We've been pushed so far into poverty, that alot of my people need the money the government offers that they turn their very backs on their people. If the government can't control my people, then they sent in the churches and if this doesn't help, he took away our hunting and fishing rights, put us on small reserves and formed the chief and coucil. This is a way of controlling our people on their reserves. He disregards our hereditary chiefs and the elected chiefs get paid to keep our own people oppressed and dealing with many dysfunctions. Yes i understand what is happening and i can see it slowly destroying not only our land, but our people. But......we are waking up. It took year.....but we are waking up to the realization of this systemic racism, this destruction of a race and the inherent rights to this land. We are all dealing and battling for our rights, not only to our self identifying identity, but our culture, our language and our pride as native americans. I senf deep prayers out to the people in gaza and the palestinians who continue to stand strong. My partner is from palestine, he was born in the refugee camp. So when he speaks about what is happening, i understand and see so much similarities in the destruction of a race and their land. It's all about land, but we have to remember that the creator knows who the defenders of the land are. Stay strong palestinians, and know that we are a strong race. Your blood runs strong and your voices will be heard. In the end....you will be the ones standing strong. We as indigenous people are a strong race, that is why the creator picked us to stand against policies of genocide. If we were weak, we would not be standing here now.

Re: Ibrahim Ghoul

Israel doesn't want peace
By Gideon Levy

The moment of truth has arrived, and it has to be said: Israel does not want peace. The arsenal of excuses has run out, and the chorus of Israeli rejection already rings hollow. Until recently, it was still possible to accept the Israeli refrain that "there is no partner" for peace and that "the time isn't right" to deal with our enemies. Today, the new reality before our eyes leaves no room for doubt and the tired refrain that "Israel supports peace" has been left shattered.

It's hard to determine when the breaking point occurred. Was it the absolute dismissal of the Saudi initiative? The refusal to acknowledge the Syrian initiative? Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's annual Passover interviews? The revulsion at the statements made by Nancy Pelosi, the speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, in Damascus, alleging that Israel was ready to renew peace talks with Syria?

Who would have believed it? A high-ranking U.S. official says Israel wants peace talks to resume and instantly her president "severely" denies the veracity of her words. Is Israel even hearing these voices? Are we digesting the significance of these voices for peace? Seven million apathetic Israeli citizens prove that we are not.

Entire generations grew up here weaned on self-deception and doubt about the likelihood of achieving peace with our neighbors. In our younger days, David Ben-Gurion told us that if he were only able to meet with Arab leaders, he would have brought us peace in his time. Israel has demanded direct negotiations as a matter of principle and Israelis have derived great pride from the fact that their daily focus on "peace" has concealed their state's lofty ambitions. We were told that there was no partner for peace and that the ultimate ambition of the Arabs is to bring about our destruction. We burned the portraits of "the Egyptian tyrant" at our bonfires on Lag Ba'omer, and were convinced that all blame for the lack of peace lied with our enemies.

After that came the occupation, followed by terror, Yassir Arafat, the failed second Camp David Summit and the rise of Hamas to power, and we were sure, always sure, that it was all their fault. In our wildest dreams, we wouldn't have believed that the day would come when the entire Arab world would extend its hand in peace and Israel would brush away the gesture. It would have been even crazier to imagine that this Israeli refusal would have been blamed on not wanting to enrage domestic public opinion.

The world has been turned upside down and it is Israel that stands at the forefront of refusal. The policy of refusal of a select few, a vanguard of the extreme, has now become the official policy of Jerusalem. In his Passover interviews, Olmert will tell us that, "The Palestinians stand at the crossroads of a historic decision," but people stopped taking him seriously a long time ago. The historic decision is ours, and we are fleeing from this crossroads and from these initiatives as if from death itself.

Terror, used as the ultimate excuse for Israeli refusal, only helps Olmert keep reciting, ad nauseum, "If they [the Palestinians] don't change, don't fight terror and don't adhere to any of their obligations, then they will never extract themselves from their unending chaos." As though the Palestinians haven't taken measures against terrorism, as though Israel is the one to determine what their obligations are, as though Israel isn't to blame for the unending chaos Palestinians suffer under the occupation.

Israel makes a point of setting prerequisites and believes it has an exclusive right to do so. But, time and time again, Israel avoids the most basic prerequisite for any just peace - an end to the occupation. Of all the questions asked during his Passover interviews, no one bothered to ask Olmert why he didn't react with excitement to the recent Arab initiatives, without preconditions? The answer: real estate. The real estate of the settlements.

It's not only Olmert who is dragging his feet. A leading figure in the Labor party said last week that "it will take five to 10 years to recover from the trauma." Peace is now no more than a threatening wound, with no one still talking about the massive social benefits it would bring in development, security, freedom of movement in the region and by establishing a more just society.

Like a little Switzerland, we are focusing more these days on the dollar exchange rate and on the allegations of embezzlement leveled against the Finance Ministry than on the fateful opportunities fading away before our very eyes.

Not every day and not even in every generation do we encounter an opportunity like this. Although it's not for sure if the initiatives are completely solid and believable, or if they are based on trickery, no one has stepped up to challenge or acknowledge them. When Olmert is an elderly grandfather, what will he tell his grandchildren? That he turned over every stone in the name of peace? That there was no other choice? What will his grandchildren say?

I have always believed that if I were born into a different culture, that I'd react in similar fashion to that society, give or take one standard of deviation. Therefore, one part of my brain prefers to be sympathetic to all cultures, regardless how repulsive they may be to the other side of my brain.

However, the real issue is not philosophical, but rather practical: how to reconcile the three Mosiac religions. In this regard, I believe that one major obstacle is that the various news agencies are subjective in their reporting. This coupled with the typical American disdain for reading and analyzing the news is another principle obstacle.

Having taken the Palestian side more often than not, I began urging my pro-Israel friends to start reading the Israeli Internet news source: Ha'aretz. This news source clearly outlines on a daily basis, the treatment of Palestinians by the Israeli government and the Israeli fanatics. Interestingly, those who began reading Ha'aretz, have almost universally begun to change their attitudes on the conflict. What my previously pro-Israeli friends conclude is that: 1) Israel main objective is to take posession of the entire Levant, and 2) when there is relative calm, the Isrealis continually provoke the Palestinians, e.g., a) the June 2008 Gaza Beach artillery firings, b) targeted assassinations of 'suspected' terrorists, usually in vehicles carrying innocent family members, c) continual expansion of their religious settlements, d) the siege of Gaza, preventing the Gaza from establishing a civil society and e) most recently as the last 'cease fire' was ending, proclaiming that they will never vacate their large settlements in Palestine.

In summary, my previously pro-Israeli now believe that the Israelis are a very insidious people and believe that the Israelis themselves are the root cause of Antisemitism.

Dear Abu al-Sous, thanks for your article.

You are right this "conflict" is not about religion but about plain and simple theft of Palestinian land by Israel.

The Jews have created the World's largest open air prison in Gaza where it has reduced the population to survive by eating grass -- there is/was no way in or out -- there is/were targeted assassinations -- bombs at any time -day or night -- continual non stop terror 24/7 !!!!!

Continued requests by the elected Palestinian Government (HAMAS) for a peaceful solution were dismissed and as a protest Palestinians continued to send their "home made" rockets into Israel in response to let the World know that in 2007--2008 there was this Warsaw type Ghetto situation being "allowed" and supported and paid for by US Taxpayers !!!

The Geneva Convention and many UN resolutions were ALL ignored by Israel and the US.

As with Lebanon in 2006 Jews are killing Arabs in Gaza at will and destroying any and all infrastructure that Israel has not destroyed previously again supported and paid for by American Taxpayers !!!!!

The logic of this is surely not unknown to Jews Worldwide and one can only wonder their long term objective !
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Jews consists of 0.02% of the World’s population.

Islam consists of 23% of the World’s population.

How can Jews or ANYONE think that 0.02% of the World’s population killing 23% of the World’s population at will is acceptable ?
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Israel with 250 NUKES the 4th strongest Military in the World created by the USA is just “completely” out of control!!

Shamefully it says a lot for the USA and its 80% Christians who have supported Israeli Nazi Zionist tactics for over 60 YEARS !!

The hypocrisy of Americans and Jews is shameful and shows their near total "ignorance" fed them by the US media as in the lead up to the US "War" in Iraq !!!

To really help Jews and Israel in its search for “peace” the USA must stop giving Israel $10 Billion of American Taxpayer dollars every year!!!!

The only solution is to educate the American masses --Jews especially - via personal contact and the Internet ----to explain with knowledge that it is a Jewish solution that is necessary -- Jews have to "rejoin" humankind and admit that they are not "chosen" but regular humans and rejoin "humankind"!!!

G.W.Bush called it a Crusade. A Judeo/Christion Crusade against 23% of the World's population who "adhere" to Islam.

Can any Jew or American still wonder "why do they hate us" ??????????

Israel is the out of control Jewish Nuclear super power in the middle of a sea of Islam.

HELP WANTED PLEASE -- the World may be counting on all of us humans yes you and the rest of us !!! NOW !!!!

I read your article with very much interest. I am indeed baffled with the situation in Palestine. What are the sins of the Palestinian Muslims to receive such horrendous treatment from the Jews? Muslims were never the enemy of the Jews. In fact, Muslims were always protecting the Jews from the persecution of the Christians. For almost 2000 years, the Jews were scattered all around the world. The Christians hated the Jews because they believe that the Jews were the ones who crucified Jesus. But strangely, in the past century, the Christians became allies to the Jews and helped to liberate the Holy Land for them. Why this sudden change of stand? Who are these Jews?
As you had rightly pointed out, the Jews who live in Israel today are immigrants from Europe. These are not the original Jews who are descendants of Abraham but rather the decedents of the ‘khazar’ tribe that lived in the Caucasian mountains who converted into Judaism. These so called Jews do not prescribe to Judaism but rather believe in the doctrine of Zionism. The Holy Quran points out about the emergence of this group of Jews:
O ye who believe! Take not the Jews and the Christians for your friends and protectors: They are but friends and protectors to each other. And he amongst you that turns to them (for friendship) is of them. Verily Allah guided not a people unjust.
Al-Maidah; 5:51
I would like to bring your attention to the underlined verse. God Almighty restricts Muslims to become friends with Jews and Christians, but the Holy Prophet Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him) had friends who were Jews and Christians. In fact, the Prophet himself instructed the Muslims who were persecuted in Mecca to seek shelter in Abyssinia which was ruled by a Christian monarch. To have a clear understanding of this command, we must further look into the verse whereby God Almighty commands Muslims not to become friends with Jews and Christians who are ‘friends and protectors to each other.’
Therefore, this verse clearly explains that that would come a time whereby the Jews and Christians would become friends and allies of which we are witnessing before our eyes. I rest my case.

Thanks, very interesting (and moving) article.

The Times, Thursday, May 24, 1917. Page 5

THE FUTURE OF THE JEWS

PALESTINE AND ZIONISM

VIEWS OF ANGLO-JEWRY

In view of the statements and discussions lately published in the newspapers relative to a projected Jewish resettlement in Palestine on a national basis, the Conjoint Foreign Committee of the Board of Deputies of British Jews and the Anglo-Jewish Association deem it necessary to place on record the views they hold on this important question.

The Holy Land has necessarily a profound and undying interest for all Jews, as the cradle of their religion, the main theatre of Bible history, and the site of its sacred memorials. It is not, however, as a mere shrine or place of pilgrimage that they regard the country. Since the dawn of their political emancipation in Europe the Jews have made the rehabilitation of the Jewish community in the Holy Land one of their chief cares, and they have always cherished the hope that the result of their labours would be a regeneration on Palestinian soil of a Jewish community, worthy of the great memories of their environment, and a source of spiritual inspiration to the whole of Jewry. Accordingly, the Conjoint Committee have welcomed with deep satisfaction the prospect of a rich fruition of this work, opened to them by the victorious progress of the British Army in Palestine.

THE “CULTURAL” POLICY

Anxious that on this question all sections and parties in Jewry should be united in a common effort, the committee intimated to the Zionist organisations as far back as the winter of 1914 their readiness to cooperate with them on the basis of the so-called “cultural” policy which had been adopted at the last two Zionist Congresses in 1911 and 1913. This policy aimed at making Palestine a Jewish spiritual centre by securing for the local Jews, and the colonists who might join them, such conditions of life as would best enable them to develop the Jewish genius on lines of its own. Larger political questions, not directly affecting this main purpose, were left to be solved as need and opportunity might render possible. Unfortunately, an agreement on these lines has not proved practicable, and the conjoint committee are consequently compelled to pursue their work alone. They are doing so on the basis of a formula adopted by them in March, 1916, in which they propose to recommend to his Majesty’s government the formal recognition of the high historic interest Palestine possesses for the Jewish community, and a public declaration that at the close of the war “the Jewish population will be secured in the enjoyment of civil and religious liberty, equal political rights with the rest of the population, reasonable facilities for immigration and colonisation, and such municipal privileges in the towns and colonies inhabited by them as may be shown to be necessary.”
That is still the policy of the conjoint committee.
Meanwhile, the committee have learnt from the published statements of the Zionist leaders in this country that they now favour a much larger scheme of essentially political character. Two points in this scheme appear to the committee to be open to grave objections on public grounds.

NATIONALITY AND RELIGION

The first is a claim that the Jewish settlements in Palestine be recognised as possessing a national character in a political sense. Were this claim of prely local import, it might well be left to settle itself in accordance with the general political exigencies of the reorganisation of the country under a new sovereign power. The conjoint committee, indeed, would have no objections to urge against a local Jewish nationality establishing itself in such conditions. But the present claim is not of this limited scope. It is part and parcel of a wider Zionist theory, which regards all Jewish communities of the world as constituting one homeless nationality, incapable of complete social and political identification with the nations among whom they dwell, and it is argued that for this homeless nationality a political centre and an always available homeland in Palestine are necessary. Against this theory the conjoint committee strongly and earnestly protest. Emancipated Jews in this country regard themselves primarily as a religious community, and they have always based their claims to political equality with their fellow-citizens of other creeds on this assumption and on its corollary – that they have no separate national aspirations in a political sense. They hold Judaism to be a religious system, with which their political status has no concern, and they maintain that, as citizens of the countries in which they live, they are fully and sincerely identified with the national spirit and interests of those countries. It follows that the establishment of a Jewish nationality in Palestine, founded on this theory of Jewish homelessness, must have the effect throughout the world of stamping the Jews as strangers in their native lands, and of undermining their hard-won position as citizens and nationals of those lands.
Moreover a Jewish political nationality, carried to its logical conclusion, must, in the present circumstances of the world, be an anachronism. The Jewish religion being the only certain test of a Jew, a Jewish nationality must be founded on, and limited by, the religion. It cannot be supposed for a moment that any section of Jews would aim at a commonwealth governed by religious tests, and limited in the matter of freedom of conscience; but can a religious nationality express itself politically any other way? The only alternative would be a secular Jewish nationality, recruited on some loose and obscure principal of race and ethnographic peculiarity; but this would not be Jewish in any spiritual sense, and its establishment in Palestine would be a denial of all they ideals and hopes by which the revival of Jewish life in that country commends itself to the Jewish consciousness and Jewish sympathy. On these grounds the conjoint committee deprecate most earnestly the national proposals of the Zionists.

UNDESIRABLE PRIVILEGES

The second point in the Zionist programme which has aroused the misgivings of the conjoint committee is the proposal to invest the Jewish settlers in Palestine with certain special rights in excess of those enjoyed by the rest of the population, these rights to be embodied in a Charter and to be administered by a Jewish Chartered Company. Whether it is desirable or not to confide any portion of the administration of Palestine to a Chartered Company need not be discussed., but it is certainly very undesirable that Jews should solicit, or accept such a concession, on a basis of political privileges and economic preferences. Any such action would prove a veritable calamity for the whole Jewish people. In all the countries in which they live the principle of equal rights for all religious denominations is vital for them. Were they to set an example in Palestine of disregarding this principle they would convict themselves of having appealed to it for purely selfish motives. In the countries in which they are still struggling for equality they would find themselves hopelessly compromised, while in other counties where those rights have been secured, they would have great difficulty in defending them. The proposal is the more inadmissible because the Jews are, and will probably long remain, a minority of the population of Palestine, and because it would involve them in the bitterest feuds with their neighbours of other races and religions, which would seriously retard their progress, and would find deplorable echoes throughout the Orient. Nor is the scheme necessary for the Zionists themselves. If the Jews prevail in a competition based on perfect equality of rights and opportunity they will establish their eventual preponderance in the land on a far sounder foundation than any that can be secured by privileges and monopolies.
If the conjoint committee can be satisfied with regard to these points they will be prepared to cooperate in securing for the Zionist organisations the united support of Jewry.
(Signed) DAVID L ALEXANDER, President,
Board of Deputies of British Jews.
(Signed) CLAUDE G MONTEFIORE, President
Anglo-Jewish Association
London, May 17, 1917

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