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The Rothschild Dynasty 109<br />
newspaper, which was published on May 24, 1917, under <strong>the</strong><br />
heading Palestine and Zionism, Views of Anglo-Jewry:<br />
They reiterated <strong>the</strong>ir protest against <strong>the</strong> Zionist <strong>the</strong>ory of<br />
a homeless nationality, which if generally accepted,<br />
would have <strong>the</strong> effect everywhere of stamping Jews as an<br />
anachronism; religion was <strong>the</strong> only certain criterion. The<br />
signatories also said that it would be a calamity if Jewish<br />
settlers in Palestine were to get special rights in <strong>the</strong> way<br />
of political privileges or economic preference. This was a<br />
contradiction to <strong>the</strong> principle of equal rights for all. It<br />
would compromise <strong>the</strong> Jews wherever <strong>the</strong>y had secured<br />
equal rights and would involve Palestinian Jews in <strong>the</strong><br />
bitterest feuds with <strong>the</strong>ir neighbors of o<strong>the</strong>r races. (Pages<br />
193, 194)<br />
The wisdom and foresight of <strong>the</strong> religious non-Zionist<br />
Jews views is mirrored in <strong>the</strong> tragic events that overtook<br />
Palestine, which remains in a turmoil to this very day. Years later<br />
<strong>the</strong>ir views were echoed by a religious Jewish organization,<br />
Friends of Jerusalem (Naturei Karta). In a series of 12 full-page<br />
advertisements in <strong>the</strong> New York Times, <strong>the</strong>y decried <strong>the</strong> State of<br />
Israel as an illegitimate state, established in total flagrant<br />
disobedience to religious Jews and <strong>the</strong> Torah and a calamity for<br />
Orthodox Jews.