A JEWISH LEGISN

Waikato Times, Volume 89, Issue 13893, 19 October 1918, Page 2

A JEWISH LEGISN

' *M9,000 TO AID ALLENSY. A Jewish legion of SOOfl men is nmv fightin:; Willi Hi" ! "dish I'"" I'! '<' - ploti- eor ; ,p;est '■:' Pa! *stin •, Inii a fereo ton linn's ;>s groat is < vj<"«'i- <! t" f"!'m the Jewish Legion uf Honour t•» nt-ii"< ii in behalf of tin* coming Jewish ilepublic. On July Ist Ihe Kast Side of New York par" over i<)'M) m ils ■-■::> who wen! lo C.-i'vula for training before proceed: 1 ) ' '* l!i«' Kast. Al the record convenlmn itf Ho' Zionist <uv misalioti .if Ana I'.'ea. held in Piltsluir . it *vas staled by i>r. A. A. N"Wiii;.jJ, <•{' Ph;'adclpliia. thai "every Jew v.!;o :•.•;.. .-:•.- listed in the Legion from !!; ■ . :=:! I States '!..- |.!.' : iir.'d lor. Hi ii" : :>. !' •' '«- tine !i-v L:i• • remainder of his life."

There also t!;" statement was ma ,! e !>: Manner Hrouman White, chief of Ho British ; inline ofiie'> in Ibis ominlry that li' li.lt: Ii irni i| niin'Mri. I'v !!: :!

more linn riO.OOO American J. ws are now in Krynt on their way to join Ihe Legion already with lieni ral Allenby in the Floiy Land. A representative uf the British Embassy also said: THE FIGHT FOB "HOME."

"Great Britain, in taking Palestine from l!i ' Turk, did no! take it for h<-r----self, but for the Jewish people. 1! is the policy of England to do everything reasonably within her power to put the Jews back in the home of their ancestors in the Holy Land, and Ureal Britain looks to the Jews to set up a civilisation there."

"But the Jews themselves 'declare that they "do not want Palestine as a gift from England:" instead, they wart to fight for Palestine, their ancient home. The national consciousness of tlie Jew is expressed by Mr Aaron .1. Levy in a reeenl issue of the Ji wish daily, Warh-it New York; : "He believes Ih.it Ihe Jews are something more than a purely religious body: that they are nol only a race, bul also a nation; though a nation without, as yet, one important requisite —;i common homo. lie b> lirves that if an en,] is to be made to Jewish misery find lo the exceptional position which the .lows occupy—which is the primary cause of Jewish misery—the Jewish nation must be placed once again in a home of its own. NEW LIFE IN ZION.

Opposition to Zionism has disappeared almost in ils entirety, declares a statement in a Pittsburg despatch to the New York Tribune. "Every class of the J.'Wish people, in every land, is fast approaching unanimity on the subject. The extreme orthodox and the radical reform religious wings are drawing closer together. The proletariat and the 'bourgeoisie' anions the Jews stand on one platform, so far as Palestine is concerned." The dreams of the Palestine Jews for the establishment of a United States of the Far Hast, are based on the principles of the United States of America, but, so far as feasible, "laws relative to divorce, parent and child, inheritance, occupancy of land, and such" will be based upon ,the old Hebrew laws.