Barbara Adde’s Reviews > Melting Point: Family, Memory and the Search for a Promised Land > Status Update
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“Jabotinksy sent him (Yehuda Benari) on a lecture tour to Poland in 1938. He went from village to village, and from town to town, saying, ‘Get out while you can, don’t you see what’s coming?’ And they didn’t listen. Most people said, ‘It won’t happen here. I’m the only surgeon in this town,’ or ‘I’m the favorite opera singer. Don’t worry, it won’t happen to me.’ That phrase always …
— May 24, 2026 07:54PM
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Scotsman: The problem is heavily complicated by the official Jewish decision that they will not permit Arab refugees to return to their homes.
— May 25, 2026 12:26PM
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Shlomo Zalman Shragai: Today the Jewish people becomes an equal member among the family of nations. From now onwards, whoever so desires may return home.
— May 25, 2026 12:22PM
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Abba Hillel Silver: The Jewish people have kept their appointment with history. The Jewish State, the dream of twenty centuries of homelessness wandering, is today a reality. (May 14, 1948)
— May 25, 2026 12:19PM
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Sunday Mirror: The Mandate, dating from
The First World War, favoured ‘the establishment in Palestine of a National Home for the Jewish people.’ The Mandate also said that the rights of non-Jews must be protected.
— May 25, 2026 12:03PM
The First World War, favoured ‘the establishment in Palestine of a National Home for the Jewish people.’ The Mandate also said that the rights of non-Jews must be protected.
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John Hall: British rule came to a Palestine of primitive conditions. Its 750K inhabitants were disease-ridden and poor in a land that was poverty-stricken, undeveloped, and prey to raiding nomads from the desert borders. We taught them husbandry, made loans, and nurtured the Palestine of today, with its good roads, fruitful farms, and show-places like Tel-Aviv.
— May 25, 2026 12:02PM
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Harold Reinhart: The Christian nations of the world should vie with each other in offering asylum to the relatively few Jewish survivors of the Hitler terror.
The Times: There is little doubt that Zionism receives strong support from those who do. It give a fig where the homeless Jews go so long as they go somewhere else.
— May 25, 2026 11:59AM
The Times: There is little doubt that Zionism receives strong support from those who do. It give a fig where the homeless Jews go so long as they go somewhere else.
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The Times: The Jews have formed a valued and enriching element in the populations of Europe and America too long for world opinion to regard their segregation in Palestine as the sole hope of rebuilding their shattered lives.
— May 25, 2026 11:55AM
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The Times: There can scarcely be a limit to the reparation owed by the civilized world to a people so grievously wronged. Yet it is clear that the claims of conscience cannot be discharged by a process which creates new wrongs in remedying the old.
— May 25, 2026 11:46AM
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Thomas Horder: Is it fair to expect them to rebuild their shattered lives among the tombstones of their fellows? Uprooted and homeless, where in liberated or conquered Europe are they to feel secure?
— May 25, 2026 11:45AM
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“…haunted him: it can’t happen here. He felt that as a failure of his life, that he hadn’t managed to persuade them to leave. He took matters to heart.”
— May 24, 2026 07:55PM
