John the Priest Reverend John Stanley Grauel, the Man Who Helped Make Israel Possible1 by Jerry Klinger
1 John the Priest Reverend John Stanley Grauel, the man who helped make Israel possible1 By Jerry Klinger 1939 … It is becoming increasingly urgent to completely halt all Jewish immigration to Palestine. But his Majesty’s government cannot be resolved to make such a decision that would endanger the entire economic and financial system in Palestine and would at the same time affect the interests of the Jews and of the Arabs. ...Taking into consideration the natural growth rate of the Jewish and Arab populations and the number of immigrants who illegally entered the country, that authorizes the admission of approximately 75,000 (Jewish) immigrants during the next five years beginning in April of this year… 1945 After the war, the British would not change their policy in spite of the protest and the intervention 2 of foreign powers that were discovering to their horror the monstrous dimensions of the Shoah. 1 “Golda Meir, in a speech to the Jewish Agency, referred to his testimony as the first appeal by a “priest, a perfectly worthy gentile, a priori, no Jewish witness was to be believed,” and because of this, his graphic account became a turning point in the attitudes of the U.N. representatives. …Incidentally, in Hebrew there is no distinction between Catholic and Protestant clergymen. In Golda Meir’s speech she referred to John Grauel as the ‘Komer,” the priest. Thus, he is known in Israel as Jochanan Ha Komer, John the Priest, and the title is uniquely his. Grauel, An Autobiography as told to Eleanor Elfenbien, 1982, Ivory House, Freehold, N.J.
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