hat the unification of Italy
disfranchised the Italian Swiss, or that the Irish Home Rule Bill will
transform the populace of Boston into undesirable citizens. On the
contrary, the Zionists are convinced that the re-establishment of a
Jewish nation will strengthen, for example, the claim of the German
Jew that he is a German by distinctly separating the national from the
universal Jew--the sheep from the goats, if you will--and will render
his status less precarious because it will be more definable.
Moreover, such a national center will increase Jewish self-respect
with the consequence of increasing Christian respect. Jewish
"aloofness" need no longer be a reproach, because it may safely be
abandoned; with Zion itself preserving Hebraism in the East, the Jew
in the West may throw himself unreservedly into the life about him;
and a flourishing of Jewish culture will make his contribution the
more valuable.

Finally, the third objection is formulated in the question, "What is
the use?" Whether it be grounded in self-satisfied indifference,
hostility, or a sense of hopelessness, it forms the most insidious
opposition, because it betrays a lack of racial consciousness that
cannot be supplied by argument, and exposes a weakness that cannot be
remedied by emotional appeal. It is a weakness amounting to an
absence, a literal lack, of the very functions through which a cure
could be effected. An Englishman asking, "Why preserve the English?" a
Scandinavian asking, "Of what use are the Scandinavians?" a Swiss
asking, "Why maintain Switzerland?" is inconceivable. Answers indeed
can be found, but the point is that to put the question indicates that
the interrogator is beyond a comprehension of the reply. He is like a
congenital blindman, who asks: "Of what use is seeing?" The question
was, indeed, propounded in the third section of this paper, but only
as the hypothetical question of an outsider, much as an Englishman
might ask, "Of what value are the Chinese?" to secure an external,
historical justification of their existence. However, if the great
majority of Jews ever seriously question the need of preserving their
own race, the answer becomes immediate and conclusive; there is no
need, for there is no longer a race.

_Zionism Has No Insuperable Obstacles_

Theoretic opposition is determined on one hand by racial questions,
and on the other by religious dogmas. That the Jews are no longer a
race, that their preservation