"Iron Will" Zionist

Menachem Ussishkin, mighty namesake of an evil King of Israel, reached the U. S. last week from Palestine. The purpose of his visit is to bolster the rage of U. S. Jews against Great Britain's recent opposition to further Jewish colonization of Palestine (TIME, Nov. 3 et seq.), and to raise money for the Jewish National Fund of which he is world president. He is a short, powerfully built, deter mined man aged 63, a Russian-born engineer. He has lived in Palestine the past ten years. Nine years ago he visited the U. S. Fellow Zionists call him "The Iron Will." But his first name, Menachem, means "the comforter." There is an interesting reverse parallelism between Menachem Ussishkin, one of those under whom the Jews are trying to reestablish themselves in Palestine, and King Menahem under whom the Israel ites, Jewish brethren, almost lost the region. The Israelites were still worshipping Jeroboam's golden-calves in Menahem's reign, about 2,668 years ago, when Pul (nickname for King Tiglath-pileser of As syria) came down to conquer the region. Menahem paid Pul $1,940,000 to go away peacefully. Menahem got the money by exacting $32.30 from each of "all the mighty men of wealth" in Israel. But shortly after, Shalmaneser, Pul's successor, descended upon the kingdom, removed the idolatrous Israelites, made them the Ten Lost Tribes.

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