The Actions Committee meeting, which opens in Jerusalem on March 27, according to the announcement made yesterday by the World Zionist Executive, will be one of the most historical gatherings in the Zionist movement. It will decide the fate of Zionist unity.
It is at this session of the Actions Committee that drastic measures may be expected against the Revisionists. It is at this session that a resolution may be adopted to throw the Revisionists out of the Zionist party. It is at this session, also, that it will be decided whether it should or should not be made possible for the Revisionists to participate in the forthcoming Zionist Congress.
GRIEVANCES TO DEAL WITH
The session in Jerusalem will also have to deal with the grievances of Zionist groups, other than the Revisionists. It will have to decide once and forever whether the present Zionist Executive should remain as it is, or whether it should be extended also to include representatives of the Mizrachi, General Zionists and other groups in the Zionist movement.
At the last session of the Actions Committee, which was held in Jerusalem a year ago, the question of admitting representatives of the Mizrachi and General Zionists into the Executive was one of the major problems discussed. As a matter of fact it was the problem, for which the session of the Actions Committee was chiefly convoked.
The last meeting, however, failed to effect a reunion in the Zionist ranks by expanding the Executive so as to have all groups of the Zionist movement represented there. The Laborites. being the dominating power in the Executive, refused to accept the offers made by the Mizrachi and the General Zionists with regard to a proportionate representation in the Executive.
LABORITES MAY COMPROMISE
The forthcoming session of the Actions Committee may find a more suitable compromise for the admission of the Mizrachi and the General Zionists into the Executive. Everything points to the fact that the Laborites will yield to the Mizrachi and the General Zionists in order to procure unity in Zionism, at least a few months before the World Zionist Congress is convoked. Such unity is especially essential for the Laborites if the plan to throw the Revisionists out of the Zionist party should really materialize.
The question remains, however, whether the Mizrachi leaders as well as the leaders of the General Zionists will agree to accept any position in the Executive. With the Congress only a few months off, it may pay for them to stay out of the Executive another few months in order to come to the Congress as a strongly organized opposition, which may form a coalition with all the other elements in the Zionist movement opposed to the present Executive.
TWO ZIONIST ORGANIZATIONS
Should the present session of the Actions Committee decide to isolate the Revisionist party from the Zionist Organization or even to make it impossible for the Revisionists to participate in the next Zionist Congress, it may then lead to the creation of two separate Zionist organizations, since it is difficult to believe that the 150,000 organized Revisionist youths will relish seeing themselves altogether outlawed from the Zionist movement.
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