In The Chosen, why is Reuven glad he restrains the anger he feels toward the anti-Zionist Hasidic students after the UN declares it will vote on...

The answer you are looking for can be found in Chapter 14
of this great novel, which details the progress of the creation of the first Israeli
state and the huge variety of reactions that there are to this policy. Reuven, as
somebody who supports this move, finds himself in opposition with a number of different
groups of Jews who do not, most prominently Reb Saunder's followers. Although he is very
angry, Reuven manages to suppress his emotions and maintain a stoical silence, which he
is very glad for as the next few weeks show how the situation is
developing:

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For as the Arab forces began to attack the
Jewish communities of Palestine, as an Arab mob surged through Princess Mary Avenue in
Jerusalem, wrecking and gutting shops and leaving the old Jewish commercial centre
looted and burned, and as teh toll of Jewish dead increased daily, Reb Saunders' league
grew strangely silent. The faces of the anti-Zionist Hasidic students in the school
became tense and pained, and all anti-Zionist talk
ceased.

The events that
transpired showed that Reuven was write to keep silent and let what happens do the
talking for him, for the continued violence depicted in this quote argued far more
eloquently for the need of the creation of a Jewish state than Reuven himself could have
argued.