Palestine Jews in Ghetto, Says Jabotinsky

The Jewish population of Palestine and the Jews of the rest of the world are convinced that the whole work of rebuilding Jewish Palestine under present political conditions is futile, Valdmir Jabotinsky, Zionist Revisionist leader said, in an address to newspapermen attending the disarmament conference here.

Jabotinsky charged that the Palestine administration is using Jewish enthusiasm for building up a non-Jewish Palestine, where the Jewish minority is in a ghetto, as it is elsewhere.

“This is not a rejection of the mandate system or a protest against Great Britain as the mandatory power,” Jabotinksy said. “But it is a condemnation of the regime of colonial bureaucracy in Palestine.

“Guided by a stubborn belief in the intrinsic fairness of the British nation with regard to the re-establishment of Palestine as the national home of the Jewish people, we have addressed a petition to the League of Nations, to the various governments, to he British government and to the people of Britain, urging that masses of the Jewish people are in distress, distress for which there is no real solution but that of large-scale emigration to Palestine,” the speaker continued.

TRANSJORDANIA ESSENTIAL

He declared that the opening of Transjordania to Jewish settlement is an essential condition no longer opposed by the Transjordanian Arabs but by the mandatory administration.

“A Transjordania which would have the same population density as Palestine has room for one and a half million immigrants, while a Palestine on both sides of the Jordan would harbor five or six millions,” Jabotinsky asserted. “A political regime which would promote settlement instead of hindering it would in a few decades solve the tragic problem of the Jews without harming their non-Jewish neighbors.”