"As regards the future of Palestine, Mr. Chesterton is.on the side of Zionism, but not too optimism tically so. He puts the i situation" as it strikes him in 4 few brilliant sentences:
It is said again that the ancient Jews turned. their enemies into hewers of wood and drawers of water, The modern Jews have to turn them. selves into hewers of wood ard drawers of water. If they cannot do that, they cannot tum themselves into' citizens, but only into a kind of alien bureaucrats, of all kinds the most perilous ard the most imperilled. Hence a Jewish state will not be a success when the Jews in it are successful, or even when the Jews in it are statesmen. It will be a success when' the Jews in it are scavengers, when the Jews in it are sweeps, when they are dockers and ditchers and porters and hodman. When the Zionist can point proudly to a Jewish navvy who hag not risen in the world, an under-gardener who is not now taking his ease as an upper-gardener, a yokel who is still a yokel, or even a.village idiot at least sufficiently idiotic to remain in his village, then indeed the world will come to blow the trumpets and lift up the heads of the everlasting gates for God will have turned the captivity of Zion.
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