Des Moines Register · Des Moines, Iowa · 24 October 1938
CP-1938-004
What Zionist Idea Proposes
Stability in strong Jewish state foreseen by supporters
Transcribed from the clipping
“Because of the current conflict in Palestine, The Register is reprinting this summary of Zionist purpose and achievement as presented in a bulletin of the Zionist Organization of America.” “Before the World War, the Palestine Arabs never claimed nationhood or statehood for Palestine.” “Only two generations ago, the entire Arab population of Palestine was less than 300,000.”
It credits Zionism with “the transformation of a fringe of the Arab desert into a land flowing with milk and honey.”
Context added by this archive
The Register reprinted a bulletin of the Zionist Organization of America as a summary of Zionist purpose. The words are the organization’s, printed by the paper without reply.
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"What Zionist Idea Proposes," Des Moines Register, 24 October 1938, p. 1. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1938-004. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1938-004
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