A Zionist Answer to Mr. Levison

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PALESTINIAN SITUATION organization has allied itself with the partition plan. Certainly there Editor The Chronicle: Mr. George are risks-there were risks and the enemies of the Jewish people.

Levison has written to The Chron(perhaps greater) if the dangers The struggle is an unequal one in icle a letter of appreciation for the decision had been against partiWe Palestine, bitterly unequal. articles by Mr. Kilpatrick on the do not find the Arabs of Palestine Palestinian situation. This is his fighting. Rather do we Weighing all factors, the United find But what Mr.

Levison privilege.

Nations' decision was made. mercenary armies recruited and has done is to use this letter as a was made not in terms of power imported by the feudal Arab leadmeans of presenting again to the but rather on the besis ers outside of Palestine under the politics, the now discredited community of mature and realistic appraisal grand and glorious leadership of program of the American Council This is of the tacts as developed by the the Grand the | Mufti. for Judaism of which Mr.

Levison United Nations committee which "holy which Mr. Levison War" is the local president. The Counvisited the country and saw for feels is endangering American cil for Judaism is an organization, itsell.

In one stroke, historical security. financed, but disproportionately and legal commitments as well as All qualified observers of the with practically no popular supprophetic utterances received recMiddle East are united in saying port, which set out in 1943 to ognition, The only risk and danthat, rather than a danger, the destroy the Zionist movement and ger that now faces the world is Palestinian Jews are the only of the prevent the development that the decision will not be enfriends Western civilization has in Jewish community in Palestine. forced with full vigor and dethat section of the world, and The Council's thesis was based on termination. that the establishment of a peacethe contention that the surviving ful Jewish community in that Mr.

Levison is a man of little Jews of Europe should be allowed It appears that he has. country will insure faith. security to to rebulld their lives over the condemned the United American oil interests. already shell holes and mass graves of Nations to failure, chaos and inDoes Mr. Levison believe a Germany and Poland.

Jews, they feudal and Fascist-minded Arab eptness-for certainly said, should be entitled to live as Palestine decision cannot be sushierarchy will prove & more equal citizens of their land.

Two the demotained, there is little hope that it trustworthy ally of and a half years have passed cratic nations than a free and cán create and maintain a just since the war's end and the surdemocratic Palestine? and peaceful world. viving Jews of Europe languish It is a great pity for a fellow Jew Mr.

Levison has little faithin concentration camps and still even in the tolerance and democat this crucial period to furnish face anti-semitism, persecution racy of the American people. He ammunition to the G. L.

K. and the very real danger of uitiSmiths and his Council are prepared to who, for the past five The hismate extermination. trust the Jews of Europe to the years, have utilized the publicaof these torical developments tender mercies of the Poles and tions of the Council of Judaism post-war years have shattered the Germans. but has so little faith as a source of strength in their entire anti-Zionist argument. in his fellow Americans that he efforts to divide the community on racial and religious lines. fears for his position as a Jew if Mr.

Levison would have us believe that the decision to partition there be a Jewish state in PalesMORRIS LOWENTHAL, tine. Jews will be told to go to Palestine was a decision Ill-conChairman 8. F. Zionist Emergency Council. Palestine, he says. And this desidered and hastily arrived at.

GEORGE EDELSTEIN, spite the fact that every President of Palestine has The problem every political and been careful party in given President 8. P.

District Zionist long America and in Britain for 30 Organization of America. thought both by this Nation and years have consistently reaffirmed in the councils of the United NaROSE ETS-HOKIN, The decision the rights and position of the tions organization. President 8. Y. Chapter Hadassah.

Jewish people in Palestine. to partition Palestine was made At the same time, under the after extensive debate and with LOUIS TUSSMAN, banner of humanitarianism, and full attention to the complex facPresident Labor Zionist Council. tors involved-to the commitments protesting that the whole world that have been made to the ought to be a fit place for Jews RABBI JACOB KARASICK, to live in, Mr.

Levison disregards President Mizrachi OrganizaJewish people since 1917, to the the cruel reality that the world tion. great achievement of the Jews in in which he places such confiPalestine, to the tremendous need RABBI ELLIOT BURSTEIN, dence was unable or unwilling to of the surviving Jews of Europe RABBI FRANKLIN COHN. for rescue and rehabilitation, The stop the slaughter of one-third RABBI MORRIS FISCHL. made after decision was full of the Jewish people, among them RABBI MORRIS GOLDSTEIN, evaluation of the risks and diffimore than half a million children.

RABBI SAUL E. WHITE. culties involved in carrying out As in the past, Mr. Levison's San Francisco, January 30, 194R.

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"A Zionist Answer to Mr. Levison," San Francisco Chronicle, 4 February 1948. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1948-143. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1948-143