It is the first week of the cease-fire. You know why we agreed.
It is but four weeks since we established our State. You know
what marvels, peerless in history, we have worked in that spell--
an infant State under the unreasoning onslaught of five powerful
and populous neighbors. A small and young State, 700,000
against twenty-seven millions, one brave man victorious over
forty, and they with weapons and officers, money and influence,
supplied by a great Power. Much of what befell must now be
unspoken, but I cannot be silent on the grim glory of Jerusalem.
For centuries Christendom and Islam claimed holy to themselves
this city hallowed by our Prophets. Therefore was it decided,
upon the establishment of the Jewish State, to place the treble
sanctuary under international control. It is this sacred citadel
that has endured long bombardment by Moslem legionaries, its
shrines demolished and its churches wrecked in unspeakable
vandalism and cynical excess. Wordless, the Christian world
looks on. The Church of that same England that loaded and laid
the murdering Arab guns, has lost its tongue. All saw and heard,
yet no denomination speaks. The holiness of Jerusalem is for-
gotten, and oblivion buries memories sacrosanct to the greatest
faiths on earth. It has no shield but Israel, no savior but a small
and lonely people, wittingly stripped by Britain of all defense,
which in suffering and valor beyond the ken of man has shown
all the world who truly holds the city dear, and who renders its
worship lying and empty lip-service.

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