The Zionist movement is of value to Greece from the strictly national viewpoint because it takes the Jews out of the country and opens new sources of employment to Greeks, the Phoni Tou Ipirotou, new Greek paper in Jannina, declares in its first issue.
Editorially commenting on the anti-Zionist agitation conducted by a number of Greek newspapers, the paper declares that Zionism does not harm the country but the Jews themselves.
“If we examine the question objectively,” it declares, “Zionism does not harm the country but the Jews themselves since it gives them the feeling they are here temporarily, not permanently. That is why we consider as unjustified attacks against Zionism. Zionism claims no territorial concessions. It aims at assembling Jews on their ancestral soil. That harms neither Greeks nor Greece. If Zionism does well for the Jews, it is a question for them alone. Nothing gives us a right to interfere with their affairs.”
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