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are there for two reasons: first, they are to drive the British out of Palestine, and next, to take care of whatever Jews they find who have returned for their inheritance. Zionism and Islam are deadly enemies and Islam is a fight ing power, whereas Zionism can defend itself only with the pen.” Hebrew in Palestine “Pew Christians know the story of how Hebrew, the language of the Bi ble, has been made a living, spoken tongue. One man, Ben Yehudah, a sort of divine fanatic, started the move ment. 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 every-day expres sions. 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 founda tions of a Hebrew university laid on the Mount of Olives, and schools through out the land.” Jewish Cities Being Unearthed Some Jewish workmen,' building a Government road near Tiberias, Sea of Galilee, have unearthed remnants of an cient walls and columns. The Govern ment immediately stopped the work, and Mr. McKay, Director of the Depart ment of Antiquities, visited the spot, with two members of the Jewish Ex ploration Society. There is reason to believe that the site of the ancient Ti berias, which played such a great role in Jewish and Christian history, is on the point of discovery. Permission has been granted to the Jewish Exploration Society to undertake immediate digging in the locality. •
A Land of Disappointments A writer in Tlie Literary Digest de scribes conditions in Palestine as fol lows: “The pilgrims are gone; the tourists come no longer; the shadow of approaching Zionism lies across the land. Bolshevism is slipping in at both doors, east and west. The Jews who have gone back to Zion for their in heritance have found the conditions im possible. They have nothing to eat ex cept .at prices that make American H. C. of L. l<5bk like a paupers’ paradise, and no opportunities of making a liv ing. As with all big movements, the Zionist movement is slow in getting un der way. The land ,is full of western ers but they have not come to brood over the past of the Judean country, neither to pray at the foot of Golgotha nor to weep in the Garden of Geth- semane. They are here to face these large new movements in the regions where the floods of Bast and West meet. What is going to come out of all this? When you stand on the high walls of Jerusalem today, you no longer gaze only backward into the ages. You feel as though you are standing on a pinnacle from which you will get first sight of things that are coming.” Zionism and Islam Cecil I. Dorrian, a special correspond ent of the Newark News in Palestine, writes: “Today I have come up from the Jordan where I saw an armed fron tier, for there on one bank of the river were the British sentries and on the other the guards of a desert Arab army, standing with their guns in hand. Even the Jordan cannot now be crossed in either direction. except for war. This froptier you overlook from the walls of Jerusalem, this side of Moab. The Arabs
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