The Jewish Majority in Israel
What then is, practically speaking, a Jewish "State"? When can it truly be said that our country has ceased to be "Palestine" and become Eretz Yisrael? Only then, when there will be more Jews that non-Jews; for the first condition of a national state is national majority.
For a long time, many Jews, including Zionists, were unwilling to understand the simple truth. They maintained that the creation of important positions in Palestine (settlements, cities, schools, etc.) is enough. According to them a national life could be freely developed even though the
majority of the population were to be Arab. This is a great mistake. History proves that any
national position, however strong and important cannot be safeguarded as long as the nation
which built it does not constitute a majority. A minority can safeguard its cultural position only
as long as it can control the local majority. Sooner or later, every country in the world is to
become the national state of the predominant nation there. Thus if we desire that Eretz Yisrael
should become and remain a Jewish State, we must first of all create a Jewish majority.
The first step in Zionism consists of this, but it does not follow that it is the last step. After
attaining a majority in Palestine and being enabled to govern upon broad democratic principles,
we will have before us even a more important task: Shivat-Tzion (the return to Zion). By this we
mean the creation of such conditions which would enable every Jew who is unwilling or unable
to live in the Diaspora to settle in the Jewish State and earn his livelihood there. These would
probably reach into the millions, while a sufficient majority can be obtained by one million or a
million and a half settlers. Afterward will come probably the most important task of all: to make
Eretz Yisrael the leading state of the civilized world, a country the customs and laws of which
are to be followed by the whole universe. "From Zion shall go forth Torah", signifies a "Torah"
not merely in the religious sense. Zionism is a tremendous, overwhelming important tack, the
boundaries of which our generation cannot as yet envisage. The first step, that deed without
which there can be no Zionism, or a Jewish state, or a real Jewish nation, is the creation of a
Jewish majority in Eretz Yisrael on both sides of the Jordan.