The Executive of the Revisionist World Union has issued a statement here on the recent decision of the Permanent Mandates Commission of the League of Nations on the petition submitted by the Revisionist Central Committee in Palestine.
“For some time our attention has been directed,” it says, “to the campaign carried on by representatives of the Zionist Executive, and in its official organs, Haolom and New Judea, on the alleged failure of the Revisionist petition, accompanied by indignation at the ‘irresponsible policy of a minority group’ which, for the sake of demonstration, proclaimed the maximalist aim of a Jewish State, which inevitably had to bring a negative answer from the Mandates Commission.”
“The Executive of the Revisionist World Union regards it as its duty in this connection to state the following:
HITS AT EXECUTIVE POLICY
“The qualifications of the postulate of a Jewish State as maximalist, and as liable to lead to calamity which must afterwards be put right by the Zionist Executive, made in organs which call themselves Zionist, represents another link in the system of denying or ignoring the Judenstaat character of Zionism, a system which has been practiced by the Zionist Executive for the last seventeen years. This system has brought it about that both the government of the mandatory power and the Mandates Commission of the League of Nations have adopted the view that the creation of a Jewish State is not the aim of the Zionist activity in Palestine, and that it is even in conflict with the fundamental principles of the Palestine Mandate.
“One of the principal objects of the memorandum which was sent by the chairman of the Revisionist Central Committee in Palestine, Dr. Weinshall, in accordance with a provision in the Palestine Mandate that every Palestinian citizen has the right to approach the Mandates Commission, through the High Commissioner, with a petition or a complaint, was indeed the unequivocal proclamation of the National State ideal of the Jewish people, an ideal which has been constantly denied or ignored by the Zionist Executive.
ANNOYED AT ‘NAIVETY’
“It would be naive to imagine that at the first proclamation of our National State postulate, which has been ignored for many years, the Mandates Commission would immediately accept it. That is both against the tradition and the desire of the mandatory power. Only people without a national political perspective would express cheap ‘schadenfreude’ at the negative answer of the Mandates Commission, and describe it as the failure of an action which is calculated on system, time and endurance, and envisages a series of political activities.
“The organs of the Zionist Executive describe Dr. Weinshall’s memorandum as the ‘Revisionists’ petition, which the Revisionists boast obtained 600,000 signatures.’
“That is a malicious attempt to make the Jewish people believe that the failure in Geneva was that of the big Revisionist petition movement. Actually Dr. Weinshall’s memorandum as such has nothing to do with the world petition movement which has not yet been collected for a petition to the Mandates Commission.
“Dr. Weinshall’s petition was an Independent political step, taken on the instructions of the Revisionist Executive; its purpose was to put to the League of Nations and world opinion, and particularly British opinion, for the first time, the postulate of the Jewish State endeavor. This object has been fulfilled,” the statement concluded.
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