They have developed arid wastes. built cities and towns. and erected educational institutions. Approximately 500.000 Jews are now living there in a condition of advanced civilization. Largely because by the development of Palestine. the Jews have opened up widened economic frontiers for the whole Near East. because Palestine is the most readily accessible. easily reached country open for refugee colonization. because Palestine. historically. has been the home of the Jewish people from the Bible times until this day. because 52 nations. including our own. have recognized this historic claim of the Jewish people to Palestine. and solemnly affirmed the right of the Jews to settle there. because all these accomplishments have been to the advantage of the whole population. Jew and Arab alikefor all these reasons and for many more. which I might take time to enumerate. we ought seriously to direct our attention and our effort to the Holy Land and to the right of the Jews to occupy that faroff territory. Of all those who have migrated since 1933since the advent of Hitlerfrom the pestilential centers of Europe. more than half. more than 200.000. have goneto Palestine.