Estimating that it would cost three billion dollars to settle three million Jews from the devastated parts of Europe after the war, Hayim Greenberg, leader of the Zionist Laborite movement in America, warned that no money will be forthcoming for this purpose from other sources, unless American Jews raise the first hundred million dollars.
Mr. Greenberg made this statement addressing the 24th conference of the Zionist Laborite Party of America which concluded here last night after adopting a resolution to call an extraordinary convention early next Spring for the purpose of discussing methods of immediate post-war relief for impoverished European Jewry and to outline a program for a post-war Jewish Palestine.
Suggesting the establishment of “an International Administration in Palestine which, together with the Jewish Agency, would supervise settlement of Jews there,” Mr. Greenberg said: “A Provisional Condominium over Palestine should be set up, including representatives of the Jews in Palestine, the Arabs in Palestine, the Jewish Agency and the International Mandate. It is to be clearly understood that this Provisional Condominium must get into Palestine enough Jews to constitute a majority and thereafter turn the government over to the inhabitants of the country themselves. An Arab Federation is practically out of the question, as the Arabs themselves will not set one up without outside force. The Jews cannot do it for them. The concept of bi-national state is meaningless, especially as applied to Palestine, where the question not only involves the people living there but also millions who must come in.”
Is Mereminsky, representative of the Palestine Federation of Labor, addressing the conference, expressed the hope that “a really democratic England” will fulfill its promise to the Jews and make Palestine a Jewish Homeland. He also expressed the belief that Russia, after this war, will not ignore the need for a Jewish Homeland. He predicted that some Jews may return after the war from Palestine to Germany, Poland and other European countries, but this will only be a natural development which will not affect Jewish activities in Palestine, he said.
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