Goldmann Sees Danger for Israel; Also Great Immigration Prospect.

The Jewish people, led by the Zionist movement may soon be called upon “to throw in its full support to Israel” as it did in last year’s crisis, Dr. Nahum Goldmann, president of the World Zionist Organization, indicated in a statement which he sent from Europe to the Zionist Organization of America convention which concluded here last night. The statement, addressed to Dr. Emanuel Neumann, ZOA president, reads:

“It seems to me that Israel is entering into a period full of political difficulties and dangers but, at the same time, full of great prospects for large aliyah and development of the country. As long as the cold war goes on and in view of Soviet Russia having established itself in the area of the Middle East, the danger of a policy appeasement vis-a-vis the Arabs by both blocs and the isolation of Israel will be permanent and may even grow. At the same time, the Arab states are being strengthened militarily, the ones by the Soviet Union and the others by the Western Powers which may alter the military balance to the detriment of Israel.

“This development will, naturally, weaken the influence of more reasonable leaders in the Arab world, who, after the Sinai campaign, may have begun to think of the possibility of some arrangement with Israel and will encourage the xenophobic and extremist elements in the Arab leadership who still hope to be able to eliminate Israel in some future. In this period, the Jewish people led by the Zionist movement will have to be ready to throw in its full support to Israel as it has done in the past crisis of last year, although this time the critical situation may last much longer than the crisis following the Sinai campaign.

“At the same time, there are prospects for large immigration into Israel even from Eastern European countries will all the historical signifcance which is attached to it. But in order to cope with this task the Jewish people will have to make a much greater financial effort than it has done till now; otherwise we will all be guilty of the historical crime of not having provided the means to save ten thousands of Jews who have suffered so much for decades and whose return to Jewish life and to Israel is something like a miracle in our modern history. “

SAYS U.S. JEWISH YOUTH CAN BECOME CHALUTZIC MINDED

Touching upon the need for clarification of the ideological and historical position of the Zionist movement, Dr. Goldmann referred to the “paradoxical positions” taken by Israel Premier David Ben Gurion on the meaning of Zionism in public statements in Jerusalem, and stressed that the existence of a strong Zionist movement is essential to Israel’s future.

“The movement, ” he stated “has by far not yet fulfilled its historical tasks. It is fortunately true that the overwhelming majority of the Jewish people is ready to support Israel. But a people has always to be organized and led by dynamic movement this is one of the laws of democracy. Just as the Zionist movement has mobilized the people to support the fight for the creation of the State of Israel we will have to go on, for a long time, to rally the people around Israel and bring it into a position not only of friends, helpers, and benefactors, but of partners, sharing responsibility for Israel’s future and destiny.

“It will be the task of our movement to overcome the difficulties to such a concept of partnership both within the Jewish communities of the Diaspora who may be frightened by notions of double loyalty and similar fears, and within Israel where some like the Prime Minister feel that only those who live there are the builders and responsible shapers of its destiny. We must make them realize the specific position of the Jewish people, at least as long as its majority lives in the Diaspora which make. it essential that Israel be the joint greatest enterprise of the whole Jewish people.

“To put through this concept both in the Diaspora and in Israel seems to me to for the next years, the most essential historical task of the Zionist movement. Because if we will not succeed and a gap should develop between Israel and the Diaspora this will be, as I said it in Israel, disastrous for Israel and catastrophic for the Diaspora. This leads me to emphasize the necessity to concentrate more and more, in addition to whatever we do in developing and maintaining Jewish life in the Diaspora, on educate Zionists and especially the youth to connect their life with Israel, starting with person investments and findings its most ideal expression in personal aliyah.

“Between these two poles many other methods have to be worked out, regular visits to Israel, seminars, years of study and work, participating in concrete enterprises; all this will lead, I am convinced, more and more young people to be attracted by what only Israel can offer to a young Jew, a harmonious and perfect life as a Jew and a human being. I have never agreed with those who think that American and Western Jewish youth cannot be chalutzic minded. It is a question of time, of education of emphasis, of new methods. But, I am sure, that a vital I and vigorous Zionist movement can develop a chalutzic movement in the course of time both in Western Europe and on the American continent. “