(ZIONISM)

The Jewish Regiment arrived in Palestine after the Armistice with Turkey when the entire territory of Palestine was liberated from the Turks and taken over by the British. The Legion, which had been formed and trained while fighting on the Desert front, was originally conceived as a step toward the fulfillment of the Balfour Declaration- the formation of a Jewish National homeland in Palestine. Although the liberation had already been achieved by the time the Jewish Legion Battalions were ready for deployment, the Jewish volunteers, comprising Jews from Britain, America, Canada, Argentina and Palestine itself, took over line of communication duty in the immediate aftermath of the armistice. The historic and symbolic landing of the Jewish Regiment at the early stages of the formation of the Jewish State in Palestine is emotively depicted in this colored lithograph. The fact that it was printed in the United States, is testimony to the shared enthusiasm of American Jews for the new zeal for the creation of a Jewish Homeland in Palestine in the New World Order. On the Jewish Legion in general, see EJ X, cols. 69-76