“The Arabs have demonstrated their intention to push the Jews into the Mediterranean, but I don’t think they’ll succeed,” Dr. Chaim Weizmann, president of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, declared today at a meeting of the Central Asian Society here.
The Palestine disorders, Dr. Weizmann said, are political and economic in derivation.
Referring to Jewish immigration, the world Zionist leader declared there is room for 100,000 Arab families and between fifty and sixty thousand Jewish families on irrigatable land available today. He said Zionist policy is based on the principle that Arabs and Jews can live side by side for the common good.
Absorptivity of the Holy Land was declared by Dr. Weizmann to be determined by the intensity of the will to develop it.
“Arabs have demonstrated their intention to push Jews into the Mediterranean,” he said, “but I don’t think they’ll succeed. It’s tragic when one is engaged in a huge constructive task that attention should have to be devoted to preventing arson, banditry and destruction. Still, the Jew, in the knowledge of what’s happening to him in other countries, knows that what is happening in Palestine is to a purpose from which nothing can make him desist.”
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