Jews to Settle Thousand in Palestine for Every Jew Killed in Jaffa

The Jewish people will assist one thousand Jewish immigrants to settle in Palestine for every Jew killed in Jaffa during the past few days, it was declared tonight by Dr. Stephen S. Wise, national chairman of the United Palestine Appeal, speaking over Station WJZ and a national hookup on a Public Forum on Palestine” with Nathan Straus and Arthur M. Lamport.

Declaring that what had happened in Palestine is “a challenge to the Jews of the world” which will spur them to renewed activity on behalf of the rebuilding of the Jewish National Home, Dr. Wise emphasized that Jews reaffirm their desire to live in peace with the Arab population.

He characterized the events in Jaffa “as nothing more than passing disorders that take place between neighboring populations during a period of mutual adjustment.”

Rabbi Wise said in part:

“I am not disheartened by what has taken place in the last few days in Jaffa. After all, these are nothing more than the passing disorders that take place between neighboring populations during a period of mutual adjustment.

“Of this I can assure you. The Jews in Palestine are doing everything they can to bring about the best kind of peaceable relationship between Arabs and Jews. There is abundant room for a growing number of Jews.

“In any event, this constitutes a challenge to the Jews of the world. I must say, without bitterness or rancor, that for every Jew killed in Palestine we shall assist a thousand more Jewish immigrants to find homes in Palestine. A great people engaged in a great task cannot permit itself to be discouraged by minor incidents, even though these involve some injuries and some deaths.

“It is for us to take the long view, and the long view includes the vision of hundreds and hundreds of thousands of additional Jewish settlers in Palestine, who will live in peace with the Arabs but will be prepared to defend and to safeguard the Jewish homeland, which has grown out of centuries of dreaming and of decades of incredible and miraculous work in self-redemption.

“These incidents are nothing more than the clashes of heated individuals. We must reaffirm the resolution of American Jewry to make the largest possible contribution of strength in every way to the upbuilding of the Jewish homeland. The answer to the riots of ’29 was the growth by 300 per cent. of the Jewish population. A similar answer would, within the next eight or twelve years, give us a million added Jews in Palestine. As in the past, the increase of Jewish population is certain to bring to the Arabs great good in every possible respect. And as the years go on, there is bound to be greater mutual understanding between the two peoples. We must resolve to give a generous outpouring of our means to the United Palestine Appeal so that our program for the rebuilding of Jewish life in Palestine may continue with ever greater strength.”