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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.

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