The impression which Dr. Magnes, who died last week, made
on successive commissions of enquiry on the Palestine problem was hardly second to that produced by Dr. Weizmann.. His presence and eloquence may have been less, but the humanity, good sense and humility of his message were greater. Almost alone among Jews and Arabs he talked of co-operation between the two races as some- thing that could be accomplished. He believed in a bi-national State in Palestine; he believed that the Jews, if they were to make a lasting home in the Middle East, must make friends with the Arabs. This profoundly sensible point of view was so heretical to political Zionists that more than one effort was made to get Magnes removed from his post as President of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. They were fortunately unsuccessful, and Magnes, from his room in the dome of the university buildings on Mount Scopus, continued to look out over the city he loved, until rising chaos made his work impossible. He died in New York. There was- no room for men like him in the new IsraeL
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