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The U.S. 2009: “Two-state solution is the only solution”
Congress 1922: One Jewish National Home in Palestine
April 20, 2009 | Eli E. Hertz
The current U.S. administration that is so persistent on the need to honor ‘past
agreements’ seems to ignore unwavering support for reconstructing the Jewish
national home in Palestine by our past presidents and both Houses of Congress:
U.S. Resolution 322: A joint resolution of both Houses of Congress
unanimously endorsed the “Mandate for Palestine,” confirming the irrevocable
right of Jews to settle in the area of Palestine — anywhere between the Jordan
River and the Mediterranean Sea. June 30, 1922.
President Woodrow Wilson: “I am persuaded that the Allied nations, with
the fullest concurrence of our own government and people, are agreed that in
Palestine shall be laid the foundation of a Jewish Commonwealth.” March 3,
1919.
President Warren G. Harding: Signed the Lodge-Fish joint resolution of
approval to establish a Jewish homeland in Palestine. September 21, 1922.
President Calvin Coolidge: Signed the Convention between the United States
and Great Britain in respect to British rights in Palestine. The convention was
ratified by the Senate on February 20, 1925, and by the president on March 2,
1925. The Convention was proclaimed on December 5, 1925. The convention’s
text incorporated the “Mandate for Palestine” text, including the preamble. By
doing so, the U.S. government recognized and confirmed the irrevocable right of
Jews to settle in the area of Palestine — anywhere between the Jordan River and
the Mediterranean Sea – as is spelled out in the Mandate document.
© 2009, Eli E. Hertz 2 State
The following text was selected from the U.S. Congressional Record
(1922) and exhibits the powerful sense of the Member of Congress in
favor of reestablishing the Jewish national home in Palestine:
“Palestine of to-day, the land we now know as Palestine, was peopled by the Jews
from the dawn of history until the Roman era. It is the ancestral homeland of the
Jewish people. They were driven from it by force by the relentless Roman military
machine and for centuries prevented from returning.
“At different periods various alien people succeeded them, but the Jewish race
had left an indelible impress upon the land. To-day it is a Jewish country. Every
name, every landmark, every monument, and every trace of whatever civilization
remaining there is still Jewish. And it has ever since remained a hope, a longing,
as expressed in their prayers for these nearly 2,000 years. No other people has
ever claimed Palestine as their national home. No other people has ever shown an
aptitude or indicated a genuine desire to make it their homeland. The land has
been ruled by foreigners. Only since the beginning of the modern Zionist effort
may it be said that a creative, cultural, and economic force has entered Palestine.
The Jewish Nation was forced from its natural home. It did not go because it
wanted to. A perusal of Jewish history, a reading of Josephus, will convince the
most skeptical that the grandest fight that was ever put up against an enemy was
put up by the Jew. He never thought of leaving Palestine.
“But he was driven out. But did he, when driven out, give up his hope of getting
back? Jewish history and Jewish literature give the answer to that question. The
Jew even has a fast day devoted to the day of destruction of the Jewish homeland.
Never throughout history did they give up hope of returning there. I am told that
90 per cent of the Jews to-day are praying for the return of the Jewish people to
its own home. The best minds among them believe in the necessity of
reestablishing the Jewish land. To my mind there is something prophetic in the
fact that during the ages no other nation has taken over Palestine and held it in
the sense of a homeland; and there is something providential in the fact that for
1,800 years it has remained in desolation as if waiting for the return of its
people.”
U.S. Congressional Records 9801 (1922)
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