More on the Zionists cultivating the deserted land... published in 1920
New Outlook: Volume 126 - Pages 55-56 Alfred Emanuel Smith - (Outlook Publishing Company, Inc.,) 1920 - Free Google eBook - Read
...a land flowing with milk and honey only under Jewish settlement. Centuries of Turkish rule, of Arab squatting, have desolated a beautiful country. Sand dunes, pyramid high, shift along the coasts where once were splendid forests. The Jews are planting them again. They have set a million trees in Palestine— eucalyptus for shade, boxwood for orange crates and as an antidote against malaria. Olives, almonds, and oranges have been planted.
If Palestine is a prize for which peoples bid with tangible demonstrations of their love, then to date the Jews are bidding highest. Not from Jewish lips alone does the testimony come. Major Ormsby Gore, a British attache of the Zionist Commission in Palestine, said: "I have crossed miles of desert, broken only by the mud huts of the Arabs, in stretches of desolate land. And then I have come upon green groves; a synagogue; a school; white stone houses, with red-tiled roofs; civilization. These were the Jewish colonies, the only oases in the Palestinian desert." There is water-power in Palestine, and shortly it will have to be utilized for canneries, box factories, and other industries which will inevitably follow agricultural development. But for the time being the Zionists are placing their confidence in a sound agricultural life.
Few Christians know the story of how Hebrew, the language of the Bible, has been made a living, spoken tongue. One man, Ben Yehudah, a sort of divine fanatic, started the movement. He would speak no language but Hebrew even to his old mother, who could not understand a word. He is writing the first dictionary which can be used for modern everyday expressions. Twenty years ago, when he went to Palestine and undertook the task, he was dying of tuberculosis. He still has tuberculosis, but his dictionary, they say, is keeping him alive. He has lived to see Hebrew spoken by every Jewish child in Palestine, the foundations of a Hebrew University laid on the Mount of Olives, and schools throughout the land.
THE POLITICAL EFFECT OF ZIONISM!
Jews from Palestine were warm in the assertion that their troubles with the Arabs had been stirred up by outside imperialistic influences. At no time during the Conference was there a dissenting voice to the often-repeated policy that the interests of Arabs and Jews in (Palestine and in the East must be considered-identical. They pointed out that Palestine under cultivation can accommodate five times its present population, and that no Arab need be crowded out. Moreover, the temper of the Zionist movement is distinctly anti-imperial. , The writer was probably the only Christian who sat through every session of this historic Conference. By far the most memorable impression of the meeting is of the courage and idealism which never failed to rise above the often sharp dissonances of varied experiences and insuperable gulfs of language and custom. This was the meeting of a nation which lies, outside of Palestine... The predominant aim could excite only admiration, and regret that so many eminent Jews, whose talents have contributed greatly to the building of other nations, were not present to contribute to the planning of this their own peculiar experiment.
The eyes of Jewry, and of many nonJews, will watch three men upon whose shoulders the Conference put the execution of its plans: Mr. Chaim Weizmann, whose irresistible presentation of Zionist claims..
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The Rape of Palestine and the Struggle for Jerusalem - Page 67
Lionel I. Casper - 2003 - 305 pages - Google eBook
In 1933, owing to a poor harvest, 35000 Arabs immigrated from the Syrian province of Hauran. Two-thousand came from Damascus and ten- thousand Druse fled from Egypt to Palestine. Years earlier whole tribes had come north from the Hejaz.
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Arab Nationalism: An Anthology - Page 140
Sylvia Kedourie - 1962 - 255 pages
It seems that the Arabs did not then occupy Palestine and the Lebanon, but that for periods of time circumstances ... those towns near the desert, such as Horns , Hama, Damascus, and al-Ruha, as well as the towns of Hauran and al-Balqa’.
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Palestine, a Study of Jewish, Arab, and British Policies: Volume 2; Volume 2 - Page 682
Esco Foundation for Palestine, inc, Kraus Reprint Company, 1970 - 1380 pages
The Hauran in Syria and the Trans-Jordanian part of Palestine were probably the most prolific sources of the illicit Arab immigration, although Egypt contributed a share. On August 12, 1934, La Syrie published an interview with the ...
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Until a century ago, the population of this region was as nebulous as the shifting sands which constituted the major part of the terrain in the Holy Land. Of some 300,000 people in Palestine at the turn of the century (according to Ottoman estimates), most were Bedouin, who recognized no geographical boundaries, knew nothing of Palestinian identity, were merely Arabs within an Ottoman empire. Many townspeople could not trace their roots in the land beyond the 1830’s..).
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The Palestinians: a political masquerade - Page 11
Arthur Kahn, Thomas F. Murray, Americans For a Safe Israel - 1977 - 40 pages
According to a contemporary account: “One always finds in Palestine Arabs who have been in the country only a few weeks ... representatives of every Arab country: Arabs from Transjordan, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Egypt, the Sudan and lraq.
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Toward a new Israel: the Jewish state and the Arab question - Page 75
Mordechai Nisan - AMS Press, 1992 - 276 pages
Villages in the area of Jaffa, for example, were populated almost entirely by Egyptians; Arabs from the Hauran in southern Syria migrated to the Galilee.
These Arabs and many others were neither inhabitants of the land from the beginning of time, nor even for hundreds of years. The clear conclusion is that there is no basis for talking of “Palestinian Arabs,” but rather of different ...
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