Rehmat
02-04-2008, 02:50 PM
As the leaders of Zionist entity and their puppet government in Washington, insists that Palestinian must recognize Israel as a “Jewish State” before Usrael consider a separate “Palestinian State” for the uprooted native Muslim and Christian Palestinians – the past history show that the idea of a so-called “Jewish State” was not only rejected by most prominent members of the world Jewry, but also the US government.
The opposition to World Zionist movements’ plea of a separate “Jewish State” goes back to 1896 – When Chief Rabbi of Vienna (the birthplace of Herzl), Moritz Gudemann refused to lend his approval to the concept of a “Jewish State”, for he perceived in such a concept “an anti-Semite label that reduced everything to race and nationalism”. The Executive Committee of the Association of Rabbis in Germany on the meeting of the First Zionist Congress at Basel (1897) – also declared their opposition to a “Jewish State” on the ground that such idea ran counter to Jewish messianism.
Dr. Hermann Adler, the Chief Rabbi of England and the prominent Jewish philosopher Herman Cohen were both hostile to Zionists’ idea of a “Jewish State”. On the other hand, prominent British Jew, Laurie Magnus characterized Zionism as threat to the Jews.
In the US, when the notorious Balfour Declaration was issued, it was immediately disavowed in a petition addressed to the US government, signed by 299 American Jews, who objected to it on the ground that it promoted a concept of “dual loyalty”. On March 4, 1919, Congressman Julius Kahn of California, along with 30 other prominent American Jews protesting writing to President Woodrow Wilson against the idea of a “Jewish State”. To declare Palestine a national home for the Jews, they wrote, would be a “crime against the lofty and world-embracing visions of their great prophets and leaders”.
In 1938, Einstein argued: “the essential nature of Judaism resists the idea of a Jewish State, with borders, an army, and a measure of temporal power, no matter how modest”.
The record at Congress Library shows that on May 14, 1948 – the request for the US government to recognize Israel as a “Jewish State” – the word “Jewish State” was crossed out by President Truman and corrected it with “State of Israel”.
The opposition to World Zionist movements’ plea of a separate “Jewish State” goes back to 1896 – When Chief Rabbi of Vienna (the birthplace of Herzl), Moritz Gudemann refused to lend his approval to the concept of a “Jewish State”, for he perceived in such a concept “an anti-Semite label that reduced everything to race and nationalism”. The Executive Committee of the Association of Rabbis in Germany on the meeting of the First Zionist Congress at Basel (1897) – also declared their opposition to a “Jewish State” on the ground that such idea ran counter to Jewish messianism.
Dr. Hermann Adler, the Chief Rabbi of England and the prominent Jewish philosopher Herman Cohen were both hostile to Zionists’ idea of a “Jewish State”. On the other hand, prominent British Jew, Laurie Magnus characterized Zionism as threat to the Jews.
In the US, when the notorious Balfour Declaration was issued, it was immediately disavowed in a petition addressed to the US government, signed by 299 American Jews, who objected to it on the ground that it promoted a concept of “dual loyalty”. On March 4, 1919, Congressman Julius Kahn of California, along with 30 other prominent American Jews protesting writing to President Woodrow Wilson against the idea of a “Jewish State”. To declare Palestine a national home for the Jews, they wrote, would be a “crime against the lofty and world-embracing visions of their great prophets and leaders”.
In 1938, Einstein argued: “the essential nature of Judaism resists the idea of a Jewish State, with borders, an army, and a measure of temporal power, no matter how modest”.
The record at Congress Library shows that on May 14, 1948 – the request for the US government to recognize Israel as a “Jewish State” – the word “Jewish State” was crossed out by President Truman and corrected it with “State of Israel”.