ZIONISM DYING.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIV, Issue 4584, 9 July 1923, Page 3

ZIONISM DYING.

Mr. James Douglas, the editor of the "Sunday Express,” and Lord Beaverbrook, its proprietor, have just been to Jerusalem to investigate the Zionist problem and how it is regarded by.the Arabs. Mr. Douglas writes : The little inverted pyramid of Zionism is ephemeral. Already it totters on its apex of illusion. Let me catch it before it crumbles in a cloud of dust. The Jewish national home is hard to discern. The Jewish colonies are but motes in the Arab sunbeam. Even in Jerusalem it is not easy'to unearth a Jew. What are 79,000 Jews in apopulation of 755,000? They are drops in the Arab ocean. The Jews are thick in only one nest—the nest of Government. There they are, a cryptic hierarchy of eosteric oligarchs, closely guarded by British bayonets, British aeroplanes and British armoured cars. Our parade of military power is visible to the naked eye ; Zionism is visible only under the microscope. The golden rivers are no longer flowing into The promised land. Their beds are drying up. The pools of Solomon are choked with dust. The sad little Zionist settlements are bankrupt live on foreign alms. They were built upon a fantastically uneconomic foundation. The opulent dreamers of an exiled Jewry have grown weary of pouring their donations into the insatiable soil of a thirsty land. Without their largesse Zionism cannot live an hour. The Arab nation are ironically watching the last agonies of the great Zionist delusion.