may be, and quite possibly are, two Jewish programs in the world— one which it is intended the Gentiles should see, and one which is exclusively for the Jews. In determining which is the real Program, it is a safe course to adopt the one that is made to succeed. It is the Program sponsored by the so-called Zionists which is succeeding.
It was made to succeed through the Allied Govern¬ ments, through the Peace Conference, and now through the League of Nations. That, then, must be the true Jewish program, because it is hardly possible that the Gentile governments could have been led as they are being led, were they not convinced that they are obeying the behests of the real Princes of the Jews. It is all well enough to engage the plain Gentile people with one set of interesting things; the real thing is the one that has been put over. And that is the program whose sponsors also stand for the racial and national separateness of the Jews.
The idea that the Jews comprise a nation is the most common idea of all—among the Jews. Not only a nation with a past, but a nation with a future. More than that—not only a nation, but a Super-Nation.
We can go still further on the authority of Jewish statements: we can say that the future form of the Jewish Nation will be a kingdom.
And as to the present problems of the Jewish Na¬ tion, there is plenty of Jewish testimony to the fact that the influence of American life is harmful to Jewish life; that is, they are in antagonism, like two opposite ideas. This point, however, must await development in the succeeding article.
- Israel Friedlaender traces the racial and national exclusiveness of the Jews from the earliest times, giv¬ ing as illustrations two Biblical incidents—the Samar¬ itans, “who were half-Jews by race and who were eager to become full Jews by religion/’ and their repulse by the Jews “who were eager to safeguard the racial