Independent Jewish State

The following statement was issued to the Press by Veer Savarkarji on 19-
12-1947:
“I am glad to note that the overwhelming majority of the leading nations
in the world should have recognised the claim of the Jewish people to
establish an Independent Jewish state in Palestine and should have
promised armed assistance to get it realised. After centuries of sufferings,
sacrifices and struggle, the Jews will soon recover their national Home in
Palestine, which has undoubtedly been their Fatherland and Holyland. Well
may they, compare this event to that glorious day in their history when
Moses led them out of the Egyptian bondage and wilderness and the
promised land flowing with milk and honey came well within sight.
Judging from the Indian Press in general, our public seems to be
misinformed by a sinister pro-Moslem propaganda regarding this Palestine
issue. It must be emphasized, therefore, that speaking historically, the whole
of Palestine has been, from at least two thousand years before the birth of
the Moslem Prophet, the National Home of the Jewish people. A long line
of their great prophets and kings, of Abraham and Moses, of David and
Soloman, has endeared that country to them as their Fatherland and
Holyland. The Arabian Moslems invaded Palestine only a few decades
before they invaded our Sindh and just as their fanatical fury exterminated
the ancient Egyptians or Persians, they attempted to wipe out with fire and
sword the Jewish people too. But they failed in this unholy ambition. The
Fatherland and the Holyland of the Arabian Moslems lies in Arabia and not
in the Palestine.
In justice, therefore, the whole of Palestine ought to have been restored to
the Jews. But taking into consideration the conflict of self-interests of the
powerful nations in the UNO, their support to the resuscitation of the
Jewish State in a part of Palestine at any rate, wherein they still happen to
be in majority and which includes some of their prominent Holy Places
constitutes an event of historical justice and importance.
It is consequently to be regretted that the delegation that represented our
Hindusthani Government in the UNO should have voted against the
creation of the Jewish State. The speeches of Shrimati Vijayalaxmi in
particular were justly ridiculed when she declaimed melodramatically that
the Indian Government refused to stab the unity and integrity of the
Palestine State in the back by carving out a separate Jewish State—