King's Business - 1922-05

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THE ARAB DELEGATION The. Arabs recently sent a delegation to Europe to present a case against Zionism in Palestine. The British au­ thorities, however, were not influenced and the Colonial Secretary pointed out to the delegation that the Zionists de­ sired the doors of Palestine open for free immigration until they form a majority in the country, and that Great Britain was in full sympathy with their de­ mands. The abandonment of the Bal­ four declaration, he declared, was im­ possible. PREPARING FOR WHAT? The frequent disturbances in Pales­ tine, due to the aggression of the Arabs, are laid by them to the arrogance dis­ played by certain Bolshevik-Jews who bring in from Russia wild and harmful ideas. The British government has to keep urging the immigrant Jews to adopt a considerate attitude toward the people among whom they are coming. This land is indeed threatened with more than one tyranny and one can see how the conditions are shaping up for the' Great Tribulation period. PALESTINE NEEDS THE JEWS Dr. S. Benderly, who recently made investigations in Palestine for the American Palestine Co., has the follow­ ing to say regarding the Arab problem: “ The total population of Palestine to­ day is somewhere around 75,000, of which 80 per cent are Moslems, 10 per cent Christians and 10 per cent Jews. The entire population cultivates today only 25 per cent of the arable soil of Palestine, and, with the exception of some of the plantation colonies, in the most primitive fashion. Intensive, cul­ tivation of -the soil is totally unknown there, in spite of the fact that with the

long periods of sunshine from three to four crops a year could be raised on ir­ rigated land. If Palestine is to be re­ stored, who is to cultivate the other 75 per cent of the arable soil? The pres­ ent Arab population will not do so, and does not need to do so, and many of the Bedouins, who have formerly drifted from the desert into Palestine and have become integrated into the peasantry, have a much greater opportunity now in Mesopotamia, where there is room for 20,000,000 people, and every one knows that the resources of Mesopotamia, from both an agricultural and industrial point of view, are very much superior to those in Palestine. If Palestine, therefore, is to be restored, there is only one people that can restore it, and that is the Jew­ ish people; for in the restoration of the land the Jews, in spite of their repu­ tation to be astute business men, are willing to do it primarily because of the great sentiment which they have for Palestine, It is the greatest advantage of the present Arab population that the Jews from Russia, Poland and other European countries shall come in and cultivate a part of the great stretches of land which have been lying fallow for hundreds of years, awaiting the hand of the husbandman. Such an event will make the country prosperous, and in this prosperity every inhabitant in Palestine, the Jew, the Christian and the Moslem, will have a share.” WHAT’S BACK OF THE DELAY? Again the long hoped for ratification by the nations, of the British Mandate over Palestine, has been postponed until the next session of the League of Na­ tions. The secretary of the League ex­ plained that the suspension was due to the fact that the United States and Italy

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