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Will Jewish Zionism Bring Armageddon?

Palestine Problems Constitute Serious Situation;

The Balkan Question Moved to the Holy Land

WHEN the British Army passed into Jerusalem

in the memorable capture of the city in 1917.

the Protocols went in with it. A symbolic circle

was thus closed, though not in the way the Protocolists

had hoped. The man who carried the Protocols knew

what they signified, and they were carried not in tri

umph but as the plans of the enemies of world liberty.

Zionism is the best advertised of all present Jewish

activities and has exerted a greater influence upon world

events than the average man realizes. In its more ro

mantic aspects it makes an appeal to Christian as well

as to Jew. because there are certain prophecies which

are held to concern the return of the Jews to Jerusalem.

W hen this return takes place, certain great events are

scheduled to ensue.

Because of this admixture of the religious sentiment,

w will be rather difficult ior a certain class of people

to scrutinize modern Political Zionism ; they have been

too well propagandized into believing that political

Zior.i-m and the "return" promised by the prophets are

the same thing. Having succumbed to the initial con

fusion of mistaking Judah for Israel they have entirely

mistaken the ancient writings that relate to these two.

and have made the single tribe of Judah ( whence comes

the name of Jew) the hub around which all history and

humanitv swing. Judah was the tribe with which Israel

could not live in peace over two thousand years ago.

and which has the fateful gift of stirring up the same

kind of dissension today. And yet no one ever thought

of charging the Ten Tribes of Israel with "anti

Semitism." Zionism in Russia and Berlin

ZIONISM is challenging the attention of the world

today because it is creating a situation out of which

many believe the next war will come. To adopt a

phraseology familiar to students of. prophecy, it is be

lieved bv manv students of world affairs that Arma

geddon will be the direct result of what is now be

ginning to be manifested in Palestine.

For these, if for no other reasons, the subject be

comes important.

With Zionism as a dream of pious Jews this article

has nothing to do. With Zionism as a political fact,

every first-class government is now compelled to have

something to do. It is a bigger question than the

German indemnities or American immigration, be

cause it lies back of both, and is rapidly proceeding

under cover of both.

It is worthy of note, if only in passing, that Zionism

in the active modern political sense took its rise racially

and geographically where Bolshevism arose, namely,

in Russia, and that its center, the seat of its Inner

Actions Committee, was at Berlin. There was always a

close relationship between the Zionists of Russia and

the New York Kehillah. as is evidenced by public ut

terances made in Russia after the Revolution in which

the Kehillah is extolled.

Jews Free in a War-Locked World

AT THE time the war wa declared in 1914, the Inner

.Actions Committee was spread about in various

countries. For example : Dr. Schmarya Levin, of Berlin,

was in the United States and remained here. He was

Russian rabbi, German scholar, and cosmopolitan. Al

though his headquarters were Berlin, he remained in the

United States and became recognized as the leader of

the leaders of Zionism, until the great Jewish shift to

Versailles. Another member of the Inner Actions

Committee was one Jacobson, who was in Constanti

nople. "When he saw that Constantinople could no

longer be the center of Zionist politics, he left and went

to Copenhagen. Denmark, where in a neutral country

he could be of practical usefulness to the Zionists by

transmitting information and funds.9' (Guide to Zion

ism, page 80.) In fact, the entire Inner Actions Com

mittee, with headquarters at Berlin, moved freely

through a war-locked world, the only two exceptions

being Warburg and Hantke and there was no need

for the Berlin Warburg to move about, for there were

others who represented him.

Dr. Ievin gave his sanction for the shifting of the

center of Jewish gravity from Berlin to America, and

4as early as August 30, 1914, a month after the out

break of war, an extraordinary conference of American

Zionists was called in New York."

What this change of scat meant, has formed the

subject of much discussion. In 1914 the Jews appar

ently knew more about the probable duration of the

war than did the principals. It was not to be a mere

excursion through Belgium, as some fancied. There

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was time to dicker, time to show the value of certain

Jewish support to the governments. Germany gladly

pledged the land of Palestine to the Jews, but the Jews

had already seen what Wilhelm had done in that an

cient State when he enthroned himself on the Mount

of Olives. Evidently the Allies won in the contest of

making promises, for on November 2. 1917, when

General Allenby was pushing up through Palestine with

his British Army. Arthur James Balfour, the British

secretary of state for foreign affairs, issued the famous

declaration approving Palestine as a national home for

the Jewish people.

'The wording of it came from the British foreign

office, but the text had been revised in the Zionist of

fices in America as well as in England. The British

declaration was made in the form in which the Zion

ists desired it, and the last clauses 'were added in order

to appease a certain section of timid anti-Zionist

opinion." (Guide to Zionism, pages 85-86.)

Now please read the declaration and note the ital

icized clauses just referred to:

"His Majesty's Government view with favor

the establishment in Palestine of a national home

for the Jewish people and will use their best en

deavors to facilitate the achievement of this ob

ject, it being clearly understood that nothing

shall he done which may prejudice the cizil and

religious rights of non-Jewish communities in

Palestine, or the rights and political status en

joyed by Jews in any other country."

Zionist Jews Compel Western Jews

ZIONISM is of particular interest, not merely because

of the quarrels which have arisen among the leaders

over money it is the war of "interest" against "cap

ital" but also because of the light it throws on the two

great armies of Jews in the world, the way in which

they use their power where they can, and the trouble

that always embroils the nations which become Jewish

tools.

People sometimes ask why Jewry, which is capi

talistic, should favor Bolshevism which is the announced

enemy of capital. It is an interesting question. Why

should a New York Jewish financier, an officer of the

government of the United States, help finance a "Red"

publication which even our tolerant government can

not stomach? In addition to the fact that it is only

"Gentile capital" that is attacked, the answer is that

the Jew who has fallen for the worship of the Golden

Calf is anxious to keep in the good graces of the Jew

of the Eat the Mongolian Jews who are rampaging

against orderly systems of society. It is quite useful

when there is a revolution in Paris to have the 600

houses which you may own spared by the incendiary

mobs as were Rothschild's houses. Zionism has been

one of the subjects upon which Western and Eastern

Jew can unite. Indeed, it was the Eastern Jew that

compelled the Western Jew to take a favorable stand

on this matter. The Jewish gentlemen who are re

ceiving the freedom of our cities today in their various

aspects as "German" and "British" scientists are East

ern Jews. They have come to a contest with the Jews

of America on the question of Money. The Jews of

merica have smothered some very ugly charges. The

Jews of the East, more recently of Germany or Eng

land, arc not likely to be browbeaten by the money

bags of Jewish New York, for the Eastern type of

Jew knows of a situation m which money is the most

useless thing in the U'orld and that is why he is feared

and favored by Western Jewry of the Golden Calf.

The Jewish defenders are just now capitalizing the

"split" in Jewry. The real split in Jewry will come

when Jews of vision begin to support the attempts

which have been made to liberate the Jews from their

leaders. This internal squabble means nothing but a

squabble of leaders J but when the Jews themselves di

vide, one side for twentieth century light and the de

struction of the class power of selfish leaders, then may

we look up hopefully. When the Jew recogr. izei the

honesty of his critics and the righteousness of what they

charge, then will there be a "split." but not before. The

division in Jewry as evidenced by the contempt of the

revolutionary party for the financial party, and a even

more strongly evidenced by the fear of the revolutionary

party by the financial party, is being brought about by

the insincerity of the Western Jew's Zionism. The

Western Jew says that the United States is the Prom

ised Land, profits and interest are the "milk ar.d honey"

and New York is Jerusalem ; the Jew of R . sia has

another view.

A knowledge of Political Zionism is worth while

also as an authoritative illustration of what the Jew

does when he is in power. Heretofore there has been

Russia to illustrate this, but now there is Palestine.

With every fact against them, with every traveler and

observer giving them the lie direct, there are still Jewish

spokesmen and poor befuddled "Gentile fronts' who

insist that Bolshevism is not Jewish and that Russia

is not now governed by Jews. It is just this constant de

nial of facts, this failure to use their opportunity to be

honest, that is going to be the judgment of Jewish

leaders. Bolshevism all over the world, not in Russia

only, but in New York, in Chicago, in New Orleans, in

San Francisco, is Jewish.

Palestine as a Mirror of Jewry

HOWEVER, there is no need further to insist upon

that, except occasionally to add confirmatory illus

trations of it. More to the present point is Palestine. It

will be very difficult for the most irresponsible Jewish

spokesman to deny that Palestine is Jewish. The gov

ernment is Jewish, the plan of procedure is Jewish, the

methods used are Jewish. Does anyone rie to deny

that ? Scarcely.

Very well. Palestine will do to illustrate the genius

of the Jew when he comes to power.

Professor Albert T. Clay, in the Atlantic Monthly

(will anyone declare that this long-estabrhcd and

thoroughly respectable Boston publication is "anti

Semitic"?) warns us that the information about Pal

estine which we receive in America corm s to us

through the Jewish Telegraph Service (which is the

Associated Press of world-wide Jewry) and the ZwBist

propaganda. "The latter," he says, "with its harrowing

stories of pogroms in Europe, and its misrepresenta

tions of the situation in the Near East, has been able to

awaken not a little sympathy for the Zionist propa

ganda." This propaganda of pogromsthousands upon

thousands of Jews killed" amounts to nothinu except

as it illustrates the gullibility of the press. No one be

lieves this propaganda, and governments regularly dis

prove it. But the fact that it continues indicate that

something besides facts is necessary to keep the scheme

going i lm

In Jerusalem, as this is being written, martial HP

is proclaimed. There has been a struggle between the

native inhabitants, whom the Balfour declaration sought

to protect, and the new-come Jews. As in the tamous

Easter disorders of last year, the wounded in the hos

pitals show that the Jews were armed and the natives

fought with whatever weapons they could find on the

spot; the conclusion of all impartial observers under

the circumstances being that the Jews prepared tor an

sought the fight with unprepared natives.

Zionist and Bolshevist Rule Compared

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IMP - t ru.rrkrtr.ltpd b' the JV

-i 'nnrcntpH" turned persecute",

i, .u:. Kr .-Ward to the general wuow

of the people in Palestine let it be said that the ri

were only expressing in deeds what cultivated .

ican and English Jews have expressed w0

namely, that the lawful inhabitants of the land c -to

be driven out, in spite of governmental prom m

the contrary. One of the first Easter rioters,

sky, whom the British authorities sentenced to J

in prison, was released immediately upon tne

of Sir Herbert Samuel, and is now traveling i

and is talked of as a possible successor to . i yiki

although he is originally one of the Rl,s,a" ibc jn

come down to practice the gentle arts of that

Pa,CStiflf- t u Sir Herbert SamuH.

The government is Jewish. Sir Mcrucr

High Commissioner, representing the po