Addressing a large meeting here last night, Dr. Abba Hillel Silver said that the only organization that can mobilize aid for Israel is the World Zionist Organization. ”Those trying to reach over the head of the W.Z.O. to some synonymous mass beyond are deluding themselves,” he declared. “This amorphous mass can be brought to assist Israel, but it is not dynamic and falls away easily.”
Dr. Silver criticized the fact that there are twenty political parties in Israel. He pointed out that the United States, with a population of 150 million people, ”gets along with two or three parties.” Political partisanship in Israel is “too intolerant,” he said. ”We have the right to expect that the tolerance which Israel extends to Christians and Moslems, should be extended also to all Jewish sections,” he declared. He urged that Israel be built as a united nation and ”not a collection of political parties.”
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