At the present rate of immigration, there will be 1,200,000 Jews and 1,600,000 Arabs on both sides of the Jordan by the year 1945, according to Jacob De Haas, veteran Zionist.
However, Jews must strive for an annual immigration of 120,000 to Palestine, declared De Haas, speaking Sunday night before the Manhattan Avukah, and if that pace is reached by 1936, there will be 2,000,000 Jews in Palestine by 1945.
Asserting that the majority of the Jews must and will leave Europe, De Haas declared that “we think of Zionism in terms of such a mass movement settling in the Orient.”
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