![]() ![]() ![]() But by one of history’s ironies it was not the religious fervor of Judaism that finally brought them back from the Diaspora. In part it was as old (and as new) as the facts of 20th Century power politics.įor nearly two thousand years, since the Romans first drove them into exile, Jews, wherever they were, dreamed wistfully of a return to Palestine, waited for the Messiah who was to lead them back. ![]() In part it was as old as man’s desire to be free, now manifested in Arab determination to win independence. If I forget thee, 0 Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. Why had Palestine, a narrow, 10,000-square-mile strip of desert land, become a concern to all men? In part the answer, as old as history, was the yearning of Israel for its promised land: By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept when we remembered Zion. ![]() The struggle involved the British Empire, world Judaism, Pan-Islam, Russia and inevitably, as a result of its new world eminence, the U.S… Jerusalem, the thrice holy, a Christian, Jewish and Moslem shrine, dominated the bitter struggle over Palestine. One of Asia’s suffering cities, by virtue of its peculiar sanctity, destiny and tragedy, was a focus of world drama last week. ![]()
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