The Rape of Palestine The Mid-East Realities, 13 April 1998

The Rape of Palestine

The Mid-East Realities,
13 April 1998

The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin el-Hueeeini, was appointed by the British, much as Feisal Husseini plays a similar role in Jerusalem today on behalf of the Israelis and Americans.

MER - Washington - April 13 - One always has to be a bit suspect with commentary coming from the Israelis these days. The Labor Party/Peace Now crowd are pretty crafty. And the Likud has picked up a-lot of the P.R. and journalistic tricks as well.

Even so, there are sometimes very interesting columns and editorials in the Israeli press; and as long as one puts them in perspective and remains alert for often subtle biases and slants they can be of considerable interest.

No doubt this recent article by Joel Bainerman has exceptionally apologetic Zionist overtones, more overt than subtle in fact. But even so, there's considerable history here that has been forgotten or misplaced; and which should be revisited and re-pondered today by those seriously involved.

For whatever ones views of the end-result of these past 50 years, and of the peace process underway today, there are strong threads of continuity in history and remembering this is of considerable importance to the present.

Were Jews and Arabs destined to hate each other?

By Joel Bainerman

Zichron Yaacov, Israel -- Probably one of the most important books for both Jews and Arabs to read is called The Rape of Palestine first published in 1938 by William Ziff by Argus Books in the US. The cover says nothing about who William Ziff is.

The book documents the difference between the overall pro-Jewish sentiments of the British political elite who saw a strong Jewish presence in Palestine as being good for the British empire, and the group of high level anti-Jewish British officials who believed that the Jews would become so powerful (if Britain let them) that they would no longer have to accede to British demands.

The latter group was entirely right. A strong Jewish presence in Palestine meant Jewish national independence which wouldn't serve the British masters the way the Arab puppets did. Arab tribal leaders were corruptible and this was the only way those running Britain's colonial policies could control them. They realized that controlling the Jews was not going to be so as easy. So they placed obstacle after obstacle before any attempts to settle large numbers of Jews in Palestine. The official reason for restricting Jewish immigration was that the economic capacity of the land could not support more than a million people. This was a lie, but few challenged the British when they proclaimed it in their various government commissions.

The book also documents how one-sided the British were in doling out public funds. As the Jews in Palestine increased in number the economy boomed and in 1935, the Yishuv, even though only comprising one-third of the residents, were paying 75% of the taxes to the British occupiers. Yet little of that money found its way back into roads or schools serving Jewish towns. Ziff must have gone through nearly every British government archive to document his claims that had the British left Palestine in the late 1920's or early 1930's, the Jews would have had a reestablished state before 1948 and which would possibly have been established around (and thriving) before Hitler came to power thus saving the bulk of European Jewry. While no historian has ever blamed the British for the destruction of European Jewry, Ziff's book documents that claim.

Ziff's book (which was published first in 1938 but probably took three or four years of research to write) documents how the British created the opposition to Zionism and that up until these so-called radical Arab leaders came into the picture, most Arab residents of Palestine wanted nothing more than to live in peace and prosperity with the Jews which they believed was their good fortune.

The Muslim religious leaders, the Mufti, was openly friendly. Throughout Arabia, the chiefs were for the most part distinctly pro-Zionist: and in Palestine the peasantry were delighted at every prospect of Jewish settlement near their villages. Commercial intercourse between Arab and Jew was constant and steady. pp.13

The Arab National Movement was hated by the huge Levantine population who continued to regard themselves simply as Ottoman subjects, looked to the strong, influential Zionist Organization for sympathy and assistance.

Hussein of the Hejaz looked to the Zionists for the financial and scientific experience of which the projected Arab state would standly badly in need. In May 1918, Dr. Chaim Weizmann and Hussein of the Hejaz met in Cairo where the latter spoke of mutual cooperation between Jews and Arabs in Palestine. In early 1919 a Treaty of Friendship was signed to provide for the closest possible collaboration in the development of the Arab state and the coming Jewish Commonwealth of Palestine. On March 3, l9l9, another Arab leader, Feisal, son of Sherif, wrote: We wish the Jews a most hearty welcome home.

If Ziff's words are accurate, there was no Arab opposition to Jewish immigration to Palestine at least as far back as l919.

Ziff writes:

With conscious design the Administration fostered hostility between Arab and Jews. It directly advised the amazed Arabs of Palestine and Egypt to abstain from any concessions to the Jews. It formed the Moslem-Christian Association and used it as a weapon against the Zionists. It instructed astonished Arab young-bloods to the technique and tents (sic) of modern nationalism, in order to resist Jewish 'pretenses.'

And in London it contacted reliable anti-Jewish elements to form a liason which has endured to this day. The Arabs were not only instigated and advised, but supplied with funds, and their arguments ghost-written by Englishmen in high places. They proved a good investment.

Matters came to a head in l920 when Feisal staged a revolt against the French in Damascus, with money and ammunition supplied by the British General Headquarters. He had been proclaimed King by a 'Syrian Congress' which included Palestinians, and which asserted the principle that Palestine was a part of Syria and couldn't be cut off from it.

Almost simultaneously, in order to show how impossible it was to implement the Balfour Declaration in the face of native hostility, the Generals arranged a pogrom in Jerusalem.

Ziff believed that the stage was set charging that the riots of April 1920 was perfectly timed. He reveals how Arab agitators ran through the Muslim crowds gathered for the Nebi Moussa festival in Jerusalem, urging 'death to the Jews' and that 'the government is with us.'

Ziff discovered that all Jewish policemen had been relieved from duty in the Old City.

He says that such planned riots occurred again in April 1921 in Jerusalem. Ziff charges that the British Commandant of Police was conveniently out of the country. The few Jews on the police force had been mysteriously taken off duty for the day. The Arab mob shouted: Bolshevki! Bolseviki! The Zionists are flooding the country with Bolsheviki! pp. 20

While many students of the Arab-Israeli conflict have heard the name the Mufti of Jerusalem most don't know how the Mufti became the Mufti. Ziff writes:

Implicated in the disturbances was a political adventurer named Haj Amin al Husseini. Haj Amin, was sentenced by a British court to fifteen years hard labor. Conveniently allowed to escape by the police, he was a fugitive in Syria. Shortly after, the British then allowed him to return to Palestine where, despite the opposition of the Muslim High Council who regarded him as a hoodlum, Haj Amin was appointed by the British High Commissioner as Grand Mufti of Jerusalem for life. pp. 22

Regarding the Arab pogroms of 1929, Alif Beh, an Arab newspaper in Damascus, wrote: the uprising was the result of British intrigue...the English were looking for an excuse to reject the demands of the Jewish Agency to participate in the administration of the country, and encouraged the Arabs to teach the Jews a lesson.

Regarding Arab views towards Jewish immigration, Ziff quotes Count Carlos Sforza in his books, 'Europe and Europeans': Syrians of all classes, who had been watching Palestine's development with envious yes, were anxious to have something of the same phenomena duplicated in their country.

This desire is written in the clamorous petition sent to the French in 1935 by the inhabitants of Lebanon, begging them to encourage Jewish immigration as that would bring prosperity. Said the Damascus newspaper, Iissan Alkhar: We ought to demand Jewish immigration, for through it our situation will be saved.

Sensing that some crude agenda was being played out with their collective destiny, in May l930, the Jerusalem-based Arab newspaper 'Al Iqdam' in wrote: We are led by a group of men who bargain us away, buying and selling us like cattle. The Arab people have not yet said their last word on the Arab-Jewish question. When this word has been said, it will not be one of hatred, but one of peace and brotherhood, as is suitable for two people who live in one country.

During a seminar of leading Moslems and Christians of Nazareth in March l934, as statement given to the press read: On behalf of the majority of the property-owners and consumers, we declare that we would welcome Jewish immigration and trust that the enlightened Jews with their financial commercial associations bring.

Ziff is suggesting that the opposition to Jewish immigration to Palestine by Arabs was not nearly as widespread as conventional wisdom and standard history books on the subject has led us to believe. By the time the Peel Commission was in full swing in 1937, Arab desires for rapprochement began appearing, there had begun appearing in the press Arab desires for rapprochement with the Jews. From the New York Times of August 5th, 1937, we read: For the first time in the twenty years since the 1917 Balfour Declaration, the Arabs openly censured the Palestine Government for never having attempted to bring the two peoples together.

The Arab newspaper 'Falastin,' claimed in an editorial that, despite British allegations of an unbreachable enmity between Jews and Arabs, we cannot recall a single instance since the British occupation here when they made the slightest effort to bring the Arabs and Jews together. Pre-war Jewish residents lived here peacefully with Arabs for hundreds of years. To this day these Jews, in addition to the Arabs, maintain that if it were not for British policy of divide and rule the Arabs and Jews would again live in Palestine in peace and harmony.

On November 15th, 1937 the Arab daily 'Ad-Difaa' asserted that the British Government had categorically rejected all proposals for a round-table discussion between Jews, Arabs and British, through the Jews and Arabs alike were anxious for such a meeting. After talking to all sections of the Arab population, the Near East correspondent for the New York Times reported on November 21st, that their unanimous cry was we've suffered enough and we don't wish to have any more trouble. May Allah curse them and cut off the lives of these intruders from the outside who are disturbing our existence.

Pamphlets were distributed in Arab villages throughout Palestine violently attacking Great Britain as being the cause of their ruin. (pp.104)

Dr. Gustavo Gutierrez, former President of Cuba's Chamber of Deputies, stated after his visit to the Holy Land in late l936, that he saw no evidence of friction or disagreement between the Arab and Jewish people in Palestine, and that if Arabs and Jews were let to their own councils they could settle the Palestine problem wisely and permanently.

Contrary to what history books tell us, there was Arab opposition to British rule - and a genuine desire to live in peace with the Jews - even as late as 1937.

Describing the Arab predictment, which has not changed in the six decades since he wrote his book, in the epilogue Ziff states: The Arabs are compelled to free themselves from the present despotic and feudal regimes under which all the Arab peoples suffer. In Arab countries, despite the paper constitutions, which exist in several of them, there is little in the way of liberty. Poverty and ignorance are endemic.

What is important about Ziff's book is that it was written close to when the events were taking place. It is a version of history that few of us who believe ourselves to be students of the Arab-Israeli conflict have ever come across. It is the first revisionist historical account of the role the British played in the modern Middle East in general, and in the Arab-Israeli conflict in specific. Its main premise, that the Arab-Israeli conflict was created and stoked by the British, and isn't the result of ethnic hatred of the participants, is in a sense a revolutionary new perspective in Zionist history.

If nothing more, Ziff's book should encourage the Israeli government to establish a body that aims to change all of the street names in the country that are named after British Mandate personalities. The British government was the reason why it took Israel until 1948 to reach independence costing many Jewish lives. Considering the state of the Yishuv's economy in 1937, independence then was possible. Had the British not ruled Palestine, by 1930 unrestricted Jewish immigration and the hard work and creativity of the new Jewish immigrants would have created an economy twice as large as it was at the time. in 1930. The Arabs themselves acknowledge that they would have participated fully in this unprecedented economic boom.

Instead, the British government created phony Arab radicals like Haj Amin, to stoke the conflict. The British government was also to blame for corrupting Arab leaders and conspiring to keep all Arabs poor and their economy undeveloped.

Just as French collaborators and Nazis are still brought before tribunals and charged with crimes against humanity so too should members of the British colonial office who directed the overall policy in Mandated Palestine to pit the Jews and the Arabs against each other. As this policy kept the Jews from being able to help their brothers fleeing from Nazi Germany, the crime is also of Genocide.

Reprint of 1938 edition. The Rape of Palestine is a scathing indictment of the British administration in Palestine. It is well documented and makes full use of quotations from the writings of non-Jewish persons who served under that administration and themselves complained of the anti-Semitism shown by government officials. Among them was Douglas V. Duff, who complained that "it did not pay for one's seniors to think that one had any undue sympathy for the returning Jews". Even if only one-half of the evidence amassed by the author were true, he would have proved that nearly all the persons sent out to administer Palestine were anti-Semitic and determined to evade the Mandate and destroy the Jewish national home.

Were the Arabs Indigenous to Mandatory Palestine?

by Sheree Roth
Middle East Quarterly
Fall 2016 (view PDF)

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The Rape of Palestine, 1st ed. By William Ziff. London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1938. Reprint. Mansfield Centre, Conn.: Martino Fine Books, 2010. 630 pp. $60.

A train of donkeys and Arabs crosses from Transjordan into Palestine on a bridge over the Jordan River, July 3, 1936. The assertion that Palestinian Arabs are the indigenous population is central in their dispute with Israel. But waves of immigration from other Arab countries brought many to the territory. In 1936, a French high commissioner for Syria asserted that Arabs were moving from Damascus to Palestine because of the prosperity there.

The assertion that Palestinian Arabs are the indigenous population is central in their dispute with Israel. The message is that Jews stole and now occupy the land of the indigenous Arab population. Rarely challenged, the claim is widespread, such as this statement from Henry Cattan, a Palestinian Christian jurist and writer born in Jerusalem:

The Palestinians are the original and continuous inhabitants of Palestine from time immemorial.[1]

Palestinian Authority (PA) president Mahmmoud Abbas elaborated this claim in a recent speech:

Our narrative says that we were in this land since before Abraham. I am not saying it. The Bible says it. The Bible says, in these words, that the Palestinians existed before Abraham. So why don't you recognize my right?[2]

Saeb Erekat, the PA's chief negotiator, stated:

I am the son of Jericho. ... the proud son of the Netufians and the Canaanites. I've been there for 5,500 years before Joshua Bin Nun came and burned my hometown Jericho.[3]

To be sure, some Arabs are descendants of the indigenous occupants. But waves of immigration into the Holy Land brought Jews, Arabs, and others to the territories, to the point that most of today's Arabic-speakers do not trace their roots back for centuries.
A number of analyses address the subject of Arab immigration to Palestine: Joan Peters' From Time Immemorial,[4] Arieh Avneri's The Claim of Dispossession,[5] and Fred M. Gottheil's essay, "The Smoking Gun: Arab Immigration into Palestine, 1922-1931."[6] But, William B. Ziff's little remembered The Rape of Palestine, published in 1938, adds an important first-hand source to these recent studies. None of the modern authors used Ziff as a source, so this is new information to present-day analysts.
Ziff (1898-1953) was born in Chicago and co-founded the Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, which specialized in technical magazines in such subject areas as aviation, radio, and photography. Active in Zionist politics, his Rape of Palestine was considered by the British Foreign Office "a violent and offensive book," and for years afterward, the British monitored the Zionist writings and speeches of this "unscrupulous gangster," fearful that his audiences were "lapping this poison up."[7]
The thrust of Ziff's book is on British policy in Palestine during the mandate period, but what is especially interesting today are his comments on the migration of Arabs and the squelching of Jewish immigration by the British. The following extensive quotes show the value of his work.

"Indigenous" Pre-20^th Century Foreigners

In 1830, Egypt's governor Muhammad Ali colonized Jaffa, Nablus, and Beisan with Egyptian soldiers and their Sudanese allies. Fourteen years later, the nationalities of the inhabitants of Jaffa were estimated at 8,000 Turco-Egyptians, 4,000 Greeks and Armenians, and 1,000 Jews and Maronites.

Ziff notes that foreigners already peopled the land:[8]

It was always the foreign soldier who was the police power in Palestine. The Tulunides brought in Turks and Negroes. The Fatamids introduced Berbers, Slavs, Greeks, Kurds, and mercenaries of all kinds. The Mamelukes imported legions of Georgians and Circassians. Each monarch for his personal safety relied on great levies of slave warriors. Saladin, hard-pressed by the Crusaders, received one hundred and fifty thousand Persians who were given lands in Galilee and the Sidon district for their services.
Out of this human patch-work of Jews, Arabs, Armenians, Kalmucks, Persians, Crusaders, Tartars, Indians, Ethiopians, Egyptians, Sudanese, Turks, Mongols, Romans, Kharmazians, Greeks, pilgrims, wanderers, ne'er-do-wells and adventurers, invaders, slaves ... was formed that hodge-podge of blood and mentality we call today "Levantine." ...
In the fourteenth century, drought caused the immigration into Palestine of eighteen thousand "tents" of Yurate Tartars from the Euphrates. Soon followed twenty thousand Ashiri under Gaza, and four thousand Mongols under Moulai, who occupied the Jordan Valley and settled from Jerusalem south. Kaisaite and Yemenite tribes followed in their trail. ...
In 1830 the Albanian conqueror Mehemet [Muhammad] Ali colonized Jaffa, Nablus, and Beisan with Egyptian soldiers and their Sudanese allies. Fourteen years later, Lynch estimated the thirteen thousand inhabitants of Jaffa to be composed of eight thousand Turco-Egyptians, four thousand Greeks and Armenians, and one thousand Jews and Maronites. He did not consider that there were any Arabs at all in that city.[9]

Ziff continues:

One hundred years ago, [Jaffa] had a population of four thousand. Today it holds seventy thousand, overwhelmingly Arab, who are largely descendants of the Egyptians and Ethiopians brought in by the conqueror Ibrahim Pasha [Muhammad Ali's son]. The few thousand Jews who lived here fled during the 1936 riots, abandoning their shops and property.[10]

Arabs Attracted to Jewish Settled Areas

Ziff reports that Jews invested large sums of money to "facilitate" Jewish immigration and encourage Jewish settlement in Palestine:

The amount of Jewish capital invested in this tiny land is estimated to total more than £120,000,000. Prior to the recent riots, Jews were bringing in money at the rate of two to five million dollars a month. In 1934 alone, they are estimated to have invested approximately £10,000,000 in Palestine. Today the productive output of the Jewish community is placed at £20,000,000 annually.[11]

All the authors mentioned above refer to the Arabs as being attracted by Jewish economic activity to their settled areas. Ziff describes this pattern:

Not until the Zionists had arrived in numbers did the Arab population begin to augment itself. The introduction of European standards of wage and life acted like a magnet on the entire Near East. Abruptly, Palestine became an Arab center of attraction. By 1922, after a quarter century of Jewish colonization, their numbers mushroomed to 488,000. Today they are over a million.
If the English contention were accurate, we should expect to find an exodus of Arabs from areas where Jews are settled into purely Arab regions. But exactly the opposite is true: It is precisely in the vicinity of these Jewish villages that Arab development is most marked. Arab Haifa, profiting by the Zionist boom, grew from 1922 to 1936 by 130%, Jaffa by 80%, and Jerusalem by 55%. The Arab rural settlement in the Tel Aviv district increased by over 135%. The all-Arab city of Nablus, which held 33,000 before the war, has fallen to less than 12,000. Safed which had 20,000, dropped to less than 9,000.[12]

Lack of Jobs for Jews

Palestine skyrocketed along on the most insane economy modern industry has ever seen.

Ziff elaborates on Jewish efforts, both from within and from abroad, to create more jobs for those Jews emigrating to Palestine as well as those already living there. These efforts spurred significant economic growth and consequently accomplished the goal of providing employment. However, British policy resulted in a stream into Palestine of illegal Arab immigrants who filled these jobs in lieu of the barred Jews. (All of the above-mentioned modern authors also address the influx of Arabs lured by the booming economy.)

With feverish energy and determination, the [Jewish] newcomers applied their money and experience, hoping to create opportunities for their poverty-stricken brothers in Europe to join them in building the new nation. Factories and enterprises of all kinds were started. The result was a critical scarcity of labor in which the entire economy of the country went lunatic. Workers were drained out of the farms to take the more lucrative position in the cities. In the towns, the same process repeated itself in favor of the "boom trades," which could afford to pay wages far out of line with those of normal occupations. Employer competed desperately with employer for the available labor supply. Industries had to curtail their activities; factories shut down altogether. Palestine skyrocketed along on the most insane economy modern industry has ever seen.
The condition is partially glimpsed in a semi-official report of August 27, 1934, admitting that the entire Palestine export trade was at a standstill due to a shortage of labor. Two-thirds of the workers on Jewish land, says the report, are now Arabs, "and those Jews remaining will soon be displaced due to labor scarcity." The problem became so acute that populations of whole districts, including school children, had to be mobilized to keep crops from rotting in the fields. While anxious Jews were being turned away at the docks of Jaffa and Haifa, the Nesher Cement Works, engaged in a £150,000 expansion in Haifa, announced November 16, 1933, that it was unable to proceed due to "acute scarcity of labor." In Tel Aviv, £1,000,000 worth of building had to be held up for the same reason. The story repeated itself everywhere.[13] ...
The Zionists have been mercilessly jobbed. They choked and spluttered in amazed exasperation. The incredible posing of "landless Arabs" in a country suffering from a drastic shortage of workers was past understanding. So, too, was the Commission's demand that Jewish capitalists be forced to put all Arab unemployed to work before another Jew could come in, which meant literally the employment of all the natives of Northeast Africa and Arabia (since these outsiders were already flowing into the country in a steady stream).[14] ...
Whole villages in the Hauran have been emptied of their people, who are drifting into Palestine. Count De Martel, French high commissioner for Syria, asserted in the summer of 1934 that even Arab merchants were moving from Damascus to Palestine because of the prosperity there; and in 1936, the head of the Moslem Youth Association at Beirut, Jamil Bek Basham, wrote that "there is a penetration into Palestine of an army of Syrian laborers."[15]

British Obstruction of Jewish, Not Arab, Immigration

The introduction of European standards of wage and life in Mandate Palestine acted like a magnet on the entire Near East. Abruptly, Palestine began attracting Arabs. By 1922, after a quarter century of Jewish colonization, Arab numbers mushroomed to 488,000. By 1938, the Arab population had reached over a million.

Peters and Avneri describe how the British obstructed Jewish immigration while facilitating or ignoring Arab immigration. Ziff adds details about immigration certificates, labor visas, taxation, and Hadassah aliyahs:

As the "absorptive capacity" of the country increased so tremendously under the stimulus of Jewish investment that any effort to deny it became ludicrous, the government produced still other cards out of its sleeve. It announced in 1936 that 70 percent of the thirteen hundred immigration certificates available for the following six months were ear-marked for bachelors, ten percent for maidens, and 20 percent for men with families, thus cutting down immigration without appearing to do so. Another able device was the refusal to allow the wives and families of employed residents to enter without the precious labor visas though in many cases they were an actual charge on these same residents, who sent money abroad to maintain them.
Such an obvious attempt was made to restrict the entry of women that the Jewish Agency flatly accused the government in November 1934 of a mischievous and willful attempt "directed against any considerable development of the immigration of women into Palestine."
Many of the administration's reasons for refusing entry permits would do credit to Herr Hitler as witness the refusal to grant a visa to a refugee Russian rabbi on the excuse that "there were enough rabbis already in Palestine." Some of the regulations designed to restrict Jewish immigration are classic. One of these edicts, promulgated November 14, 1933, allowed only 250 immigrants "to enter Palestine from any one vessel." Its effectiveness rested on the fact that few of the ships touching Palestine ports could make a payload out of such a small number of travelers, forcing the cancellation of sailings.
Perhaps the outstanding example of official artifice was the schedule announced for the period between October 1, 1935, and March 31, 1936. Four thousand, three hundred and fifty visas were granted ... What was not mentioned were the following deductions made from this schedule in advance: 1,000 certificates "advanced" during the previous six-month period; 250 reserved by the government (for non-Jews); 1,200 taken off to cover "illegal" immigrants who could not be apprehended; and 1,900 for dependents of employed residents (who in any other country would have entered as a matter of course). If these deductions are added up they are found to equal exactly the number of certificates granted; so that the administration was only perpetrating a crude joke on the Zionists and in effect issuing no certificates at all.[16] ...
Everything in this business is made subject to cash. Even the boasted Hadassah aliyahs, by which a few hundred Jewish children were brought in from Germany, were made conditional on a substantial money deposit, much as would be charged if the children had entered a boarding school. The Department of Immigration is a paying business, showing in a typical year a net income of £333,200 against an expenditure of £209,100.[17] ...

It is by disguising themselves as Arabs that "illegal" Jews accomplish immigration.

Lured by stark evidence of labor scarcity and big pay, peoples from all surrounding states began to drift into Palestine. Though a huge corps of coast and frontier guards kept vigilant watch to prevent the entry of "illegal" Jews, Arabs from anywhere entered without even the gesture of passport investigation. The report of the Peel Commission admits frankly that the inhabitants of Syria and Transjordan "are free to enter the corresponding districts in Palestine without special formality." It is, in fact, by disguising themselves as Arabs that most "illegal" Jewish immigration is accomplished.
A news item of July 4, 1934, gives the circumstance more lucidly than pages of reference. It reads: "Five Jewish women coming overland from Damascus, attired in the traditional costumes of Moslem women, including the black veils, were apprehended at the border when police saw through their disguises. They could not answer questions put to them in Arabic."[18]

Hunting down Jews

Though guards kept watch to prevent the entry of "illegal" Jews, Arabs from anywhere entered without any passport investigation. The Peel Commission admitted that Arabs from Syria and Transjordan "are free to enter ... Palestine without special formality." Illegal Arab immigrants were also known to work on road and house construction in Petach Tikvah and Haifa.

Only Ziff mentions the British practice of hunting down "illegal" Jews:

Coincident with the advent of Hitler, the business assumed the proportions of an out and out Jew-hunt. In a nice piece of collusion between the colonial secretary, Sir Phillip Cunliffe-Lister, and an M.P. named MacDonald, the Government "admitted" that "illegal" Jewish immigration existed but stated in assurance that "practical steps would be taken to deal with the matter." The very next day Cunliffe-Lister announced stringent measures to prevent "illegal" Jewish immigration into Palestine.
The system of tourist deposits was instituted. Holders of Nansen [League of Nations] passports, that pitiful army of staatenlos [stateless] men, were not in future to be granted even tourist visas. An air-tight frontier control in collaboration with the agreeable French authorities in Syria was to be put in effect. On the subject of illegal Arab immigration, the announcement was expressively silent.

Showing the extent of its preorganization, the campaign at once assumed the proportions of a large-scale pursuit of Jews over the length and breadth of Palestine. Ironically paid for out of Jewish tax moneys, a dragnet of airplane and motor boat patrols were detailed along the borders while British and Arab constables, assisted by organized groups of fellaheen, enjoyed themselves in scouring the coast-wise territory.

At Beirut and other Syrian cities, British and Arab police questioned motorbus drivers, asking if Jews were among the passengers, carefully examining the passports of all suspected of being Jews while others were as scrupulously ignored.[19]

According to Ziff,

Hunting "illegal" Jews became a major game, with illegal Arab newcomers enlisting gleefully in the chase. Savage Bedouins joined in under promise of a reward for any Jewish man, woman, or child they could catch. Palestine was under a virtual reign of terror. Anyone who could not immediately prove his citizenship, or produce his or her certificate of entry, was tracked down, jailed, and brutally beaten. ...
A fair example is the case of a woman and six small children, who had arrived legally with the proper passport and visa from Turkestan. On the way, her husband had been killed at a railway station. The whole family was arrested on the grounds that the passport provided not for a woman and six children but for a man, a woman and six children. On this pretext the woman and her children were ordered to prison.[20]

Illegal Arab Immigration

A group of Jewish picketers assemble to stage a demonstration in 1934 against the Borovsky House construction site where only Arab workers were employed. The British authorities arrested fifty-three Jews and sentenced them to prison. Borovsky eventually conceded and employed Jewish workers.

Ziff also writes about futile attempts by Jews to bring the problem of illegal Arab immigrants to the attention of British authorities:

It is, of course, difficult to attain any adequate idea of the extent of this flood of non-Jewish immigration since officially it does not exist. In the absence of accurate canvass, its size must be pieced together and surmised. Such calculations as are available show an Arab immigration for the single year 1933 of at least sixty-four thousand souls. Added to the acknowledged Hauranese infiltration are some two thousand who arrived from Damascus alone. Mokattan, the leading Cairo daily, announced that ten thousand Druses had gone to the Holy Land, and according to al-Jamia al-Islamia, an Arab newspaper of Jaffa, seventeen thousand Egyptians had come from Sinai Peninsula alone.
To these must be added considerable groups of Numidians and even Abyssinians, and a vast uncounted army from Transjordan about whose movement into Palestine not the slightest pretense of legality is maintained.[21]

Ziff adds:

Exasperated by the government's lack of good faith, which was illicitly converting the Holy Land into an Arab country, groups of courageous Jewish youths volunteered in 1934 to point out what apparently the authorities were unable to see. Fourteen hundred of these illegals were quickly shown to be working at Petach Tikvah and 1,200 in Haifa on road and house construction alone. Their probable numbers could be gathered from a test count of 357 Arab laborers in the buildings material industry, which showed 273 to be Hauranis illegally in the country. A check of Arabs employed in Palestine ports on December 23, 1936, showed that only 50 of the 750 workers were Palestinians. The remainder included 200 Egyptians and 500 Hauranis. Whole hordes of these people were demonstrated to be in the employ of the government itself.
Without deigning to make a reply, the administration pointedly told the Jews to mind their own business. When Jews picketed Jewish employers of this alien labor, the government bared its teeth and sentenced the demonstrators to six months at hard labor for their pains. Undeterred, Jews again picketed a Haifa theater being erected by a contractor named Borovsky where illegal Hauranis were employed. Immediately the authorities arrested fifty-three Jews and sentenced them to prison terms.[22]

Population Numbers

Modern authors agree with Ziff that the huge increase in Arab population numbers cannot be accounted for by natural growth. Ziff does the math:

Though the government solemnly estimates in 1937 a total Moslem increase by immigration of only 22,535 since the time of the British occupation, evidence of a vast influx of desert tribesmen is obvious everywhere. As early as 1926, Colonial Secretary Amery cautiously conceded that despite the growth of the Jewish element "the increase of the Arabs is actually greater than the Jews." Figures presented before the Peel Commission in 1937 showed the Arab population to have more than doubled in fourteen years. This admitted gain in half a generation must either be attributed to outside immigration or to the most astonishing philo-progenitiveness in medical history. ...
[T]he government itself acknowledged in 1922 the immigration of whole tribes "from the Hejaz and southern Transjordan into the Beersheba area," a fact which in itself must make its estimates of Arab immigration far-fetched. Other approximate figures are available from scattered but credible sources. One of these is the statement of the French governor of the Hauran in Syria, that from his district alone, in the summer of 1933, thirty-five thousand people had left for Palestine as a consequence of bad crops.[23]

The native Arab population in Palestine was small before Jewish settlers made it an attractive and prosperous place.

The increase in Arab population due to immigration was no secret. Another important testimony came from Robert Kennedy, the future U.S. attorney general, who traveled at age twenty-two in 1948 to Palestine and reported from there for the Boston Post.He also noted the influx of Arab immigration into Palestine:
The Jews point with pride to the fact that over 500,000 Arabs in the 12 years between 1932 and 1944 came into Palestine to take advantage of living conditions existing in no other Arab state. This is the only country in the Near and Middle East where an Arab middle class is in existence.[24]

Fred Gottheil summarizes why finding the truth on this topic is important:

[F]or Arab Palestinians, the character of their demography is at the heart of their claim to territorial inheritance and national sovereignty. Their contention, seen by them as being beyond dispute, is that Arab Palestinians have deep and timeless roots in that geography and that their own immigration into that geography has at no time been consequential. To challenge that contention, then, is to challenge their self-selected criterion for sovereignty.[25]

While Ziff's book has lain dormant, his insights regarding the waves of Arab immigration into Palestine substantiates the assertions of later scholars. During the mandate period, Arabs from many lands flowed freely into Palestine while Jewish immigration was severely limited. The truth remains that the native Arab population in Palestine was relatively small before the first
Jewish settlers made it an attractive and prosperous place.

Sheree Roth writes about the Israel-Arab conflict from Palo Alto, California.

---

[1] Palestine and International Law: The Legal Aspects of the Arab-Israeli Conflict, quoted in Alan Hart, Arafat Terrorist or Peacemaker? ( London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1984), p. 49.
[2] PA TV, Mar. 21, 2016, PMW Bulletin, Palestinian Media Watch, June 6, 2016.
[3] The Times of Israel (Jerusalem), Feb. 12, 2014.
[4] From Time Immemorial: The Origins of the Arab-Jewish Conflict over Palestine (New York: Harper Collins, 1st ed., 1984).
[5] The Claim of Dispossession: Jewish Land-Settlement and the Arabs, 1878-1948 (New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers 1982).
[6] Middle East Quarterly, Winter 2003.
[7] Rafael Medoff, Militant Zionism in America: The Rise and Impact of the Jabotinsky Movement in the United States, 1926-1948 (Tuscaloosa: University Alabama Press, 2002), pp. 39-40.
[8] See also, Daniel Pipes, "The 11th-Encyclopaedia Britannica on Who Is a Palestinian," Lion's Den: Daniel Pipes Blog, July 31, 2016.
[9] Ziff, The Rape of Palestine, pp. 368-9. Italics in original.
[10] Ibid., p. 185.
[11] Ibid., pp. 178-9.
[12] Ibid., pp. 385-6.
[13] Ibid., pp. 235-6.
[14] Ibid., p. 135.
[15] Ibid., p. 248.
[16] Ibid., pp. 237-8. Italics in original.
[17] Ibid., pp. 238-9.
[18] Ibid., pp. 246-7. Italics in original.
[19] Ibid., pp. 243-4.
[20] Ibid., pp. 245-6. Italics in original.
[21] Ibid., p. 248.
[22] Ibid., p. 249.
[23] Ibid., p. 247.
[24] Robert Kennedy, "British Hated Both Sides," The Boston Post, June 3, 1948.
[25] Fred M. Gottheil, "The Smoking Gun: Arab Immigration into Palestine, 1922-1931," Middle East Quarterly, Winter 2003, pp. 53-64.

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Mid-East Realities, 11 May 1999. Early in 1914, Lord Kitchener, had a visit from the son of the leading member of the Hashemite family, the traditional guardians of Islam's holiest sites. And the Middle East has never been the same again; the meeting had a decisive influence on the entire history of the Middle East throughout the rest of the century. In a sense, the Arab world has never freed itself from the shackles and intriques that began with the Hashemite-British alliance at this time.

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THE RAPE OF PALESTINE - Notes - Index - 525-617 - Draiman

THE RAPE OF PALESTINE - Notes - Index - 525-617 - Draiman

The ideal situation for a Jewish Palestine would undoubtedly 

# See Appendix D, p. 582. 



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be a permanent alliance with the English people ; but certainly 
if the politicians in Whitehall speak the true spirit of Britain, 
the Jews have no other recourse than to look elsewhere for allies. 
And they may then believe with confidence that their hopes 
based on the fall of the British Empire will not be long in fulfill- 
ment. For when the policy of a nation no longer depends on 
the broad outlines of creative action and degenerates into a mere 
olio of petty treachery and scheming, that nation has passed its 
heyday — it is decadent, and on the verge of a collapse which 
will be as swift as it is unexpected. 

Then if the Jews are smart, they will turn to anyone who has 
a quarrel with England, and take their chances on the result. 
And they will say in effect to the Powers : "No, gentlemen, 
unless you wish the foul dreams of the anti-Semites to come true, 
and the soul of torn Israel turn in despair to that destroying 
agency it has so far manfully resisted (Communism), you had 
better curb this destroying British camarilla. They and their 
philosophy of intrigue and hate must yield ; for if the people 
of Jehovah are to be thus driven to national suicide because flesh 
and spirit can suffer no more, let the world take warning that 
one of its props of sanity is collapsing. It cannot gloat over 
the miseries of this determined, intelligent race, or be indifferent 
to its fate. The future of man is indivisible from morality, 
decency, fairness and honor. If these virtues in their broad 
outline no longer exist, and if the people of the Bible are to be 
wantonly wiped out in this Twentieth Century with no more 
mercy than if they were rats in a trap, then this civilization must 
fall. It is then proven hard and worthless, and the virtues you 
pose for it do not exist. By the very nature of things, men 
everywhere will instinctively seek a better morality, even if that 
attempt ends in death. Gentlemen of the Great Powers, this 
is not a Jewish problem alone. It is your problem too !" 

Despite the drab cruelty which obscures it today, it may be 
deemed certain that the world conscience still exists. If the 
Jews take the lead with stern and unbending courage, yielding 
nothing that brave despair can hold, that conscience may be 
relied on to reassert itself. They have at least no other choice, 



'AM I MY BROTHER'S KEEPER?" 



unless they are to go down in some general catastrophe which 
may well signal the end of civilized man on this planet. Mean- 
while they can only fight on, sustained by that undimmed faith 
which valiant men have never questioned over the ages. It rings 
imperishably in the sad, beautiful words of Bialik : 

"Around the last dead slave, maybe tonight 
The desert wind and desert beast shall fight. . . 
Beyond the howling desert with its sand 
There waits beneath the stars the Promised Land." 



NOTES 



PREFACE 

x De Haas and Wise, The Great Betrayal, pp. 21-22. 

2 See Balfour's introduction to History of Zionism by Nahum Sokolow. 

3 Josiah C. Wedgwood, The Seventh Dominion, p. 3. 

BOOK ONE 

CHAPTER I — THE PEOPLE OF THE BOOK 

1 Sir Leonard Woolley, Abraham. 

2 J. Garrow Duncan, New Light on Hebrew Origins. 

8 Sir Charles Marston, "Old Testament Corroborated," The Jewish Spectator, 
November, 1936. 

4 R. A. S. MacAlister, A Century of Excavation in Palestine, p. 254. 

6 Altorientalische Texte und Wilder zum Alten Testament, ed. by Hugo 
Gressmann, p. 213. 

*The Letter of Aristeas, paragraph 112, translated by H. Thackeray, p. 47. 
7 1 Sam, 13:20. 
8 Hos. 10:11. 

9 1 Sam. 11:5; cf. A History of Hebrew Civilization by Alfred Bertholet. 
10 H. B. Tristram : The Land of Israel ; A Journal of Travels in Palestine, 
p. 340. 

11 1 Kings 5:25. 
i 2 Neh. 2:8 ; Ezek. 21:2. 

is Hermann Guthe, Paldstina, Bielefeld, 1908, p. 75 ff. 

14 Melvin G. Kyle, Excavating Kirjath-Sepher's Ten Cities, p. 82. 

15 W. F. Albright, The Archaeology of Palestine and the Bible, pp. 1 19-120. 

16 N. Glueck, King Solomon's Copper Mines, p. 26 ft". 

17 Alfred Bertholet, A History of Hebrew Civilization. 

18 Sir Harry Johnston, Britain Across the Seas, p. 24. 

19 George Rawlinson, The Story of Phoenicia. 

20 Herodotus History, Book VII, p. 89. 

21 Joseph Klausner, The Economic Conditions of Palestine in the Time of 
Jesus of Nazareth. 

22 D. D. Luckenbill, Ancient Records of Assyria and Babylonia, Vol. II, 
p. 120. 

23 Flavius Josephus, Bellum Judaicum 111, Chapter III, 2. 

24 Diodorus. SicxLEclog.i. Strabo xvi.2. Tacitus Hist. v. 8. 

26 Rev. H. G. Adams, The History of the Jews from the War with Rome 
to the Present Time, Appendix 1, p. 380. 

26 A. A. Berle, The World Significance of a Jewish State, p. 33. 

27 Marion E. Cady, The Education that Educates, p. 32. 

28 Dr. E. C. Baldwin, Our Modern Debt to Ancient Israel, pp. 6 and 7, 

29 Dr. F. T. Lamb, The Making of a Man, pp. 1 61-162. 

30 Graham and May, Culture and Conscience, pp. 11 ; 228-230. 
»i D. B. MacDonald, The Hebrew Philosophical Genius. 

82 The books of Jewish law. 
33 Exod. 23:4 and 5. 

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84 Deut. 22:1-3. 

85 Exod. 23:5 ; Deut. 22:4. 

86 Deut. 25:4. 

37 Deut. 24:17-22 ; Exod. 22:21-24; 23:9. 
88 Lev. 25:35-38. 
8 »Deut. 23:15^. 

40 Lev. 20:6, 27; Deut. i8:nff.; Isa. 8:10, 19:3, 29:4; II Kings 21:6, 23:24. 
41 Dr. Victor Robinson, p. xv, Introduction, Medicine in the Bible by 
Chas. S. Brim, M.D. 
42 Prov. 27:2. 

43 Eccles. 31:16-21. 

44 Max Radin, The Life of the People in Biblical Times, p. 82. 

45 Babylonian Talmud "Tract Kiddushin," 30 b. 
46 Exod. 22:28; Deut. 17:18, 19. 

46a Dr. J. H. Hertz, "Free Government in Ancient Israel," Gibeath Saul, 
pp. 14-19. 

47 Isaiah 2:4; Micah 4:3. 

48 Lamentations, 1, 2, 5. 

49 The Jewish feast of Chanukah, beginning with the twenty-fifth day of 
Kislev, commemorates this Maccabean victory of over 2 100 years ago. 

60 Henry M. Battenhouse, The Bible Unlocked, p. 406. 

fil Says Tacitus : "Men and women were equally determined, and they plainly 
showed that, if they were forced to abandon their homes, they would dread 
life far more than death." — History, II, 10-13. 

62 According to Tacitus, such an immense booty was acquired by the vic- 
torious Roman soldiery "that gold in Syria was reduced to one half of its 
former value." The loot included rich robes, purple and scarlet stuffs, gums, 
perfumes and other material such as one would expect from a rich and luxuri- 
ous town. — Ibid., History VII : 13. 

* 8 Ibid. VII : 28. 

54 So many Romans were slain in the war, writes Dio Cassius, that Hadrian 
"writing to the Senate, would not use the Emperor's wonted opening form of 
words, 'I and the army are well.' " Returning to Rome, he was given the great 
title of "Imperator" II, and the Senate voted him a monument "For his deliver- 
ance of the Empire from a redoubtable enemy." Says De Haas : "The shower 
of honors, medals, and titles awarded the officers eloquently attest how precious 
was victory, how great the stake involved." History of Palestine, p. 59. 



CHAPTER II — "MAY MY RIGHT ARM WITHER. . " 

1 These last few stones constitute what is now commonly known as the 
Wailing Wall. The plaint which has been recited there continuously through 
the ages by forlorn returning exiles cries : "For the palace that lies desolate 
we sit in solitude and mourn ; for the Temple that is destroyed we sit in 
solitude and mourn ; for the walls that are overthrown we sit in solitude and 
mourn. He who sees the cities of Judea in their desolation should say with 
the Prophets, 'Thy Holy cities are a wilderness* and rend his garments like a 
mourner. He who sees Jerusalem in its sorrow, should say with the Prophets, 
'Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation' and again rend his garments." So 
the Jewish child was taught from generation to generation to keep the sense of 
great loss perpetually alive. R. Joseph Karo, compiler of the Shulchan Aruk, goes 
further and decrees that the rent in the garments "must be so thorough that 



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the heart is laid bare and the torn garments must never be sewed together 
again." 

2 Mordecai M. Kaplan, Judaism as a Civilization, p. 188. 

8 Dr. William E. Blackstone, "May the United States Intercede for the Jews?", 
Our Day, Vol. 8, No. 46, October 1891. 

4 Peace Handbook No. 162 on Zionism, prepared under the direction of the 
Foreign Office, Historical Section, and published by H. M. Stationery Office, 
London, 1920. This was part of a series issued for the instruction and infor- 
mation of British officials and representatives throughout the world. 

CHAPTER III — THE WANDERING JEW 

1 Herbert B. Adams and Henry Wood, Columbus and His Discovery of 
America, 

2 For additional information see Professor Cortecao, /. T. A. Interview, Oc- 
tober 15, 1926 ; Maurice David, Who Was Columbus? ; Blasco Ibanez, En Busca 
del Gran Khan ; and Laurie Magnus, The Jews in the Christian Era. 

3 Werner Sombart, "Die Juden und das Wirtschaftsleben," S. in Les Documents 
du Pr ogres. Rev. Internat., 4b (1910), pp. 128-135. 

4 Dr. M. I. Schleiden, The Importance of the Jews for the Preservation and 
Revival of Learning During the Middle Ages. 

6 Valeriu Marcu, The Expulsion of the Jews from Spain, translated from the 
German by M. Firth, pp. 34-36. 

6 Dr. Ignatz Zollschan, Das Rassenproblem, pp. 351-353. 

7 La Lumia, Gli Ebrei Siciliani in Studi di Storia Siciliana, ii, 38, 50. 

8 Israel Abrahams, Jewish Life in the Middle Ages, p. 247. 

9 Ismar Elbogen, History of the Jews. 

10 Literally, Jews' quarters, i.e., the ghetto. 

11 The Founding of New England. 

12 History of England, Chap. I. 

18 Charles Wareing Bardsley, English Surnames, j>. 10 1. 

14 They believed that the so-called Lost Ten Tribes of Israel had not been 
lost at all, and attempted to prove by a host of circumstantial evidence, that a 
number of these tribes had found their way to England through Europe. 
Among these was the Saxons, whose name they asserted derived from the 
Hebrew word Saac which, says the Watchman of Israel, organ of the American 
branch of the Anglo-Israelite Association, "is nothing more than Isaac with the 
prefix 'i' dropped according to a very common custom of the Israelites to allow 
the introduction of an affix, in this case 'on,' rendering it 'son,' meaning the 'Son 
of Isaac* " (Issue of December 191 8.) The merchants of Tarshish, identified 
by Ezekiel with Israel, they considered to be themselves — that is, that the British 
Isles were the actual isles of Tarshish mentioned. The Jews they therefore be- 
lieved to be descended from Judah and the English from Israel. The two groups 
are distinct, but are due to be merged in accordance with Prophecy. Thus there 
will be an eventual composition of interests between the English (Israelites) 
and the Jews (descendants of Judah) along the lines of Jeremiah's prediction 
that "in those days the house of Judah shall walk with the house of Israel and 
they shall come together ... to the land that I have given for an inheritance 
to their fathers." 

Queen Victoria herself, says the Pittsburgh Daily Post of September 10, 1899, 
believed "that she was descended from the Psalmist [David] through Zedekiah's 
eldest daughter." It is said that Emperor Wilhelm's [of Germany] conviction of 
his divine origin is largely due to his grandmother's foible. 



530 THE RAPE OF PALESTINE 

15 As late as the period just before the War the great orator and divine, 
Pastor Russell, had built up an enormous following based on this concept. 

16 Lovers of Zion. 

17 Theodor Herzl was born in Hungary in i860. The Herzls trace their an- 
cestry from the Spanish Jewish family, Halevi, with the great poet Judah Halevi 
one of their forebears. 

18 Issued February 1896. 

10 Lord Melchett, Thy Neighbor, p. 108. 

Utterly unimpressed by the slogans of his time, Dr. Herzl had written: "My 
happier co-religionists will not believe me till Jew-baiting teaches them the 
truth ; for the longer Anti-Semitism lies in abeyance the more fiercely will it 
break out. The infiltration of immigrating Jews, attracted to a land by apparent 
security, and the ascent in the social scale of rising Jews, combine powerfully to 
bring about a revolution. Nothing is plainer than this rational conclusion.*' 

20 At still another time the Sublime Porte offered a charter for any part of the 
Turkish Empire except Palestine. Indignantly, Herzl wrote : "A charter with- 
out Palestine I I immediately refused." 

CHAPTER IV— THE JEWEL OF THE MEDITERRANEAN 

1 A Greek derivative of Assyria. 

2 Graham and May, Culture and Conscience, p. 10. 

3 H. B. Tristram, The Land of Israel : A Journal of Travels in Palestine, p. 138, 

* Churton, Land of the Morning, p. 185. 
B Walpole , s Travels, p. 206. 

6 Mark Twain, Innocents Abroad. 

7 Rev. A. G. H. Hollingsworth, Present Condition and Future Prospects of 
the Jews in Palestine, pp. 6-22. 

8 Selah Merrill, East of the Jordan, pp. 342, 468. 

9 J. S. Buckingham, Travels Among the Arab Tribes, pp. 60-63. 

10 The proper Arabic term for Bedouin is Bedoui or Bedawi. The plural is 
Bedu. The general, though incorrect, English usage of the word Bedouin, 
with its plural of Bedouins, is used in this volume together, as occasion warrants, 
with the more accurate Arabic terminology. 

11 Captains Irby and Mangles, Travels in Egypt and Nubia, Syria and Asia 
Minor, pp. 334-335* 3<5i-3 62 » 37°- 

12 Lord Lindsay, Travels in the Holy Land, Vol. II, p. 102. 

18 Bi/w is a contraction of four Hebrew words, translated loosely, "Sons of 
Jacob, forward ! " 

CHAPTER V — THE BALFOUR DECLARATION 

1 Glyn Roberts, The Most Powerful Man in the World, pp. 59-60. 

The financial section of London is known as The City, analogous to Wall 
Street in New York. 

2 John Gunther, Inside Europe, p. 208. 

8 Herbert Sidebotham, Great Britain and Palestine, p. 37. 

* Jacob De Haas, Theodor Herd — A Biographical Study. 

Count Von Bernsdorf declared November 1, 1928 in Berlin that, in fact, the 
establishment of a Jewish National Home in Palestine had been the intention 
of the German Government if the War had ended differently. 

5 German planes dropped leaflets urging Jews to repudiate the hated Russians. 
The following is an example : "To the Jews of Poland : The heroic armies of 



NOTES FOR PAGES 56 to 78 



53i 



the great mid-European governments, Germany and Austria-Hungary, have 
entered Poland. The mighty march of our armies has forced the despotic 
Russian Government to retreat. Our flags bring to you rights and freedom ; 
equal citizenship rights, freedom of belief, freedom to work undisturbed in all 
branches of economic and cultural life in your own spirit . . . Remember Kishi- 
nev, Homel, Bialistok and the many hundreds of other pogroms ! Remem- 
ber the Beilis affair when the barbaric government itself spread the terrible lie 
of ritual murder by Jews . . . You . . . must rise as one man to aid in the 
holy cause. . . Apply with the greatest confidence to the commandants of our 
military in the places that are nearest to you. Help bring the victory of free* 
dom and justice" 

6 British Peace Handbook No. 162 on Zionism. 

7 Philip Graves, Palestine, The Land of Three Faiths, p. 43. 

8 Says De Haas with some sly humor in reference to this debate : "The Zionist 
quest for Palestine, the character of the Zionist demands, and the alliance with 
Great Britain and subsequently with all the other Allied and Associated powers, 
was perhaps of all war policies the only case in which an 'open covenant' was 
'openly arrived at.' " History of Palestine, p. 484. 

9 A History of the Peace Conference in Paris, edited by H. W. V. Temperley, 
published under the auspices of the British Institute of International affairs, 
Vol. VI, p. 173. 

10 Nahum Sokolow, History of Zionism, Vol. II, p. 52. 

11 Herbert Sidebotham, Great Britain and Palestine, pp. 58-60. 

12 Much has since been made by the British in distorting this innocuous word- 
ing ; but it is interesting to note that the language of the Constitution of the 
United States (Article I, Section I), providing for the establishment of the 
Congress of the United States, employs like language, an able enough precedent 
in regard to usage : "AH legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in 
a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and a House 
of Representatives" ; and that likewise, Article II, Section I, the source of the 
power of the President, uses the following language : "The Executive Power 
shall be vested in a President of the United States." 

18 See testimony of Louis Lipsky at hearing before the Committee on Foreign 
Affairs, House of Representatives, Sixty-Seventh Congress, Second Session, 
April 18, 19, 20, 21, 1922, pp. 4-5. 

14 Herbert Sidebotham, Great Britain and Palestine, pp. 61-62. 

16 Report of the Palestine Royal Commission, published July 1937, pp. 23-24 ; 
London Times History and Encyclopedia of the War, Part 187, Vol. XV, p. 179. 

16 A History of the Peace Conference in Paris, edited by H. W. V. Temperley, 
Vol. VI, pp. 171-173. 

17 Among others promptly endorsing the Declaration were Greece, March 14, 
191 8 ; Holland, April 23, 1918 ; Siam, August 22, 191 8 ; Italy, May 9, 191 8 ; 
Japan, January, 1919. 

18 Portland, Oregon, Journal, issue of December 3, 1918. 

CHAPTER VI — BRASS BUTTONS AND STUFFED SHIRTS 

1 Dr. Josef Schechtmann, Transjordanien im Bereiche des Palastinamandates, 

P- 55. 

2 Ibid. p. 62. 

* Famous discoverer of 'wild wheat.' Aronson was a landowner of the colony 
Zichron Jacob. 

* Liverpool Daily Post and Mercury, August 17, 1918. 



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6 Jaffa, January 17, 191 8. 

fl Liddell Hart, Colonel Lawrence, p. 49. 

7 Says Bertram Thomas : "Had the Arab revolt been a spontaneous Arabian 
movement, Sherif Hussein would scarcely have been the acceptable leader, even 
with the lure of gold and arms, poured forth like water to tribesmen fulsomely 
appreciative of them" The Arabs, p. 282. 

8 Sir Ronald Storrs, Memoirs, p. 168 ; General Edouard Bremond, he Hedjaz 
dans la Guerre Mondiale and Yemen et Saoudia. 

9 J. de V. Loder, The Truth About Mesopotamia, Palestine and Syria, p. 18 ; 
Mrs. Steuart Erskine, King Feisal of Iraq, p. 38 et seq. 

10 Sir Ronald Storrs, Memoirs, p. 170. 

11 T. E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom, p. 166 ; Sir Ronald Storrs, Mem- 
oirs, p. 170. 
12 C. S. Jarvis, Three Deserts, p. 301. 

18 T. E. Lawrence, Revolt in the Desert, pp. 124, 268; C. S. Jarvis, Three 
Deserts, pp. 299-300. 

14 Liddell Hart, Colonel Lawrence, p. 58 ; Sir Ronald Storrs, Memoirs, p. 190 ; 
T. E. Lawrence, Revolt in the Desert, pp. 20-21. 

The German generals facing the Allied armies also had a poor opinion of the 
tribesmen under their command. States a typical reference : "The low caste 
Arab recruit is ... a traitor, liar and deserter by nature." — Rafael de Nogales, 
Four Years Beneath the Crescent, p. 294. 

15 C. S. Jarvis, Three Deserts, pp. 298-299 ; Sir Ronald Storrs, Memoirs, p. 191. 

16 Liddell Hart, Colonel Lawrence, 

17 T. E. Lawrence, Revolt in the Desert, p. 197. 

i Q Lowell Thomas, With Lawrence in Arabia, p. 189 ; Liddell Hart, Colonel 
Lawrence, p. 184 ; T. E. Lawrence, Revolt in the Desert, pp. 234-235. 

19 Lowell Thomas, With Lawrence in Arabia, p. 152. 

20 Liddell Hart, Colonel Lawrence. 

21 Lowell Thomas, With Lawrence in Arabia, p. 189. 

22 Bertram Thomas, The Arabs, p. 222. 

23 Ibid. 

24 J. M. Machover, Jewish State or Ghetto, p. 69. 

20 Yusuf Malek, The British Betrayal of the Assyrians, p. 36, 171. 

26 Douglas V. Duff, pp. 73-74, "The Mandates in Syria and Palestine," The 
Quarterly Review, London, January 1933. 

27 Royal Air Force Quarterly, April 1934, p. 156. 

28 Farid Kassab, Le Nouvel Empire Arabe, la Curie Romaine et le Pretendu 
Peril Juif Universel. 

29 Dr. Moses Gaster, late Chief Rabbi of Spanish and Portuguese Jewish 
Congregations, Journal of the Victoria Institute, February 1930, p. 111. 

30 The native name used for the incoming Zionists to distinguish them from 
the local Jews. The Zionists were all supposed to come from Moscow and to 
be uniformly rich and educated. 

81 H. W. V. Temperley, A History of the Peace Conference in Paris, Vol. 5, 
p. 152. 

82 This part of the agreement reads : "Immediately following the completion 
of the deliberations of the Peace Conference, the definite boundaries between 
the Arab State and Palestine shall be determined by a Commission to be agreed 
upon by the parties hereto." 

83 The text of this agreement is given in the London Times, June 10, 1936, 
in a signed article by Dr. Chaim Weizmann with photostat copy of the original 
agreement bearing Feisal's signature. It reads : 



NOTES FOR PAGES 78 to 10 i 



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"Racial Kinship" 

"His Royal Highness, the Emir Feisal, representing and acting on behalf of 
the Arab Kingdom of Hejaz, and Dr. Chaim Weizmann, representing and act- 
ing on behalf of the Zionist Organization, mindful of the racial kinship and 
ancient bonds existing between the Arabs and the Jewish people, and realizing 
that the surest means of working out the consummation of their national as- 
pirations is through the closest possible collaboration in the development of 
the Arab State and Palestine, and being desirous further of confirming the good 
understanding which exists between them, have agreed upon the following 
articles [Note : in the interests of brevity some of the articles have been sum- 
marized] : 

"Article I — The Arab State and Palestine in all their relations and under- 
takings shall be controlled by the most cordial good will and understanding, 
and to this end Arab and Jewish duly accredited agents shall be established 
and maintained in the respective territories." 

[Article II provided for the determination of the boundaries between the 
Arab State and Palestine.] 

"Article III — In the establishment of the Constitution and Administration 
of Palestine all such measures shall be adopted as will afford the fullest 
guarantee for carrying into effect the British Government's Declaration of 
November 2, 19 17. 

"Article IV — All necessary measures shall be taken to encourage and stimu- 
late immigration of Jews into Palestine on a large scale, and as quickly as 
possible to settle Jewish immigrants on land through close settlement and 
intensive cultivation of the soil. In taking such measures the Arab peasant 
and tenant farmers shall be protected in their rights, and shall be assisted in 
forwarding their economic development." 

[Articles V and VI provide for full religious freedom and Mohammedan 
control of the Moslem Holy Places. In Article VII the Zionist Organization 
undertook to assist the Arab State with the advice of its economic experts. 
They agreed in Article VIII to act in accord on the matters embraced in the 
pact before the Peace Congress so as to present a united or common front 
at the Congress. Article IX agrees to submit any dispute to the British 
Government's arbitration.] 

34 Dr. Chaim Weizmann, address to London Zionist Conference, July 1920 ; 
Political Report of the Executive of the Zionist Organization to the Twelfth 
Zionist Congress (September 1921), p. 24. 

35 Address made at dinner held under the auspices of the Anglo-Palestine 
Club, London, November 11, 1927. 

36 An exultant statement issued by the Zionist Provisional Executive Com- 
mittee, June 27, 1918. 

37 C. R. Ashbee, A Palestine Notebook, pp. 90-91. 
3 * Ibid. 

39 Horace B. Samuel, Unholy Memories of the Holy Land, p. 37. 

40 Ibid. p. 37. 

41 The anti-Zionist, Karl Kautsky, quotes a letter from a prominent Zionist 
written in 19 19, saying : "We are no longer of our former opinion as to immi- 
gration. . . We are coming to the conclusion that a mass immigration is not 
only undesirable at the present time, but that it would be an outright cruelty" 
because it [the country] is infected with malaria and other diseases, and because 
"it must be built on a firm foundation if sweatshops and other undesirable 
European concommitants of industry are to be avoided." The millions of 



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refugees ready to flock into the country would just have to wait, he concludes, 
until these niceties have been completed. Are The Jews A Race ? pp. 201-202. 

42 Sir Ronald Storrs, Memoir s, p. 360. 

48 Horace B. Samuel, Revolt by Leave, p. 9. 

44 Ibid. 

45 Address by Colonel Patterson, London, April 27, 1936. 

46 Horace B. Samuel, Unholy Memories of the Holy Land, p. 59. 

47 Ibid. p. 60. 

48 Letter to be found in the Biography of Michael Lange by Margery Bent- 
wich ; cf., J. H. Kann, Some Observations on the Policy of the Mandatory 
Government of Palestine, pp. 34-35 ; and Judische Rundschau, November 20, 
1923. 

CHAPTER VII — THE MANDATE BY THE LEAGUE 

1 Report of the Zionist Executive to the Zionist Conference, 192 1, Vol. I, 
p. 22. 

2 A History of the Peace Conference in Paris, edited by H. W. V. Temperley. 

3 The Commission consisted of Dr. Isaiah Bowman and Dr. S. E. Mazes for 
national questions ; Dr. R. B. Dixon, for ethnographic questions ; Dr. James 
T. Shotwell, for historical questions ; Prof. Mark Jefferson for geographical 
questions ; Dr. A. A. Young for economic questions ; Georges Louis Beer for 
colonial questions ; David Hunter Miller and James Brown Scott as legal ex- 
perts, and a number of other well known authorities. Their report was sub- 
mitted to President Wilson and the rest of the American delegation on 
January 21, 1919, and read : "It is recommended (1) that there be established 
a separate State of Palestine. (2) That this State be placed under Great Britain 
as a Mandatory of the League of Nations. (3) That the Jews be invited to 
return to Palestine and settle there, being assured by the Conference of all 
proper assistance in so doing . . . and being further assured that it will be the 
policy of the League of Nations to recognize Palestine as a Jewish State as 
soon as it is a Jewish State in fact. . . " The recommendation avers : "It is 
right that Palestine should become a Jewish State. . . It was the cradle and 
home of their vital race . . . and it is the only land in which they can find 
a home of their own ; they being in this last respect unique among significant 
peoples." 

4 Jacob De Haas, History of Palestine, p. 488. 

5 Memorandum to the Council of the League of Nations by the World Zionist 
Organization, published July 1922, p. 15. 

6 This latter proviso was similar in intent to the clauses which fixed the status 
of so-called minorities in the various States. 

7 See Official Gazette of Palestine Government, Jerusalem, January 23, 1926 ; 
and Mandate for Palestine, U. S. Printing Office, Washington, 1927. 

8 See Note 3, above. 

8 Jacob De Haas, History of Palestine. 

10 Josiah C. Wedgwood, The Seventh Dominion, p. 74. 

11 Address to protest meeting, London, April 27, 1936. 

CHAPTER VIII — A MAN NAMED SAMUEL 

1 Report of the Palestine Royal Commission, published July 1937, pp. 121- 
122. 

2 De Haas and Wise, The Great Betrayal, pp. iio-m. 



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* Abraham Revusky, Jews tn Palestine, p. 291. 

4 Sydney Moseley, The Much Chosen Race, p. 90. 

5 Heinrich Margulies, Kritik des Zionismus, Vol. II, p. 44. 

6 Speech at Twelfth Zionist Congress (1921), Protokoll, p. 287. 
T Jabotinsky was shipped out of the country. In Egypt, despite anything 

that the British could do about it, the populace made a hero out of him, literally 
strewing his pathway with flowers. 

8 Horace B. Samuel, Unholy Memories of the Holy Land, pp. 64-65. 

9 Issue of July 1925. 

10 Minutes of the Victoria Institute, May 1930, p. 249. 

11 Gershon Agronsky, Sir Herbert SamueVs Administration. 

12 Proces Verbaux des Sessions de la Commission Permanente des Mandats, 
$e Sess., p. 56. 

13 Gershon Agronsky, Sir Herbert SamueVs Administration. 

14 Rev. Amos I. Dushaw, "Who Provokes Riots in Palestine ?" Pro-Palestine 
Herald, December 1936. 

15 Horace B. Samuel, Unholy Memories of the Holy Land, pp. 71-72. 

16 "Arab Riots in Palestine," Current History, 192 1, p. 526; Rev. Amos 
L Dushaw, "Who Provokes Riots in Palestine ?" Pro-Palestine Herald, Decem- 
ber 1936. 

17 Horace B. Samuel, Unholy Memories of the Holy Land, pp. 71-72, 

18 Dr. Wolfgang von Weisl, Der Kampf um das Heilige Land, pp. 41-42, 

19 Horace B. Samuel, Unholy Memories of the Holy Land, pp. 72-73. 

20 A novel {The Quisto-Box) only slightly veiled as to persons and incidents, 
written by the Jewish barrister Horace Samuel, makes the charges circum- 
stantially. 

21 Empire Review, April 1924. 

22 Rev. Amos L Dushaw, "Who Provokes Riots in Palestine ?" Pro-Palestine 
Herald, December 1936. 

23 Horace B. Samuel, Unholy Memories of the Holy Land, p. 74. 

24 Ibid. pp. 73-74. 

25 Ibid. p. 75. 

26 Bessie Pullen-Burry, Letters from Palestine, February- April 1922. 
2T Berl Katznelson at the Twelfth Zionist Congress (1921), Protokoll, p. 150. 

28 M. Beilinson, Zum Judisch-Arabischen Problem, p. 15 ; Horace B. Samuel, 
Unholy Memories of the Holy Land, p. 71. 

29 Dr. M. D. Eder at the Twelfth Zionist Congress (1921), Protokoll, p. 355. 

30 Gershon Agronsky, Sir Herbert SamueVs Administration. 

81 The word Ha] means one who has made a pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina. 

82 Admitted Weizmann : ". . . the situation was fully discussed with us, and 
we agreed in view of all the circumstances — of our own difficulties in the 
execution of our work, as well as of the Government's difficulties — to the 
definition of the policy of the Jewish National Home contained in the Churchill 
White Paper." Address at 192 1 World Zionist Congress. 

83 M. Haskel, Ideals and Compromises. 

84 Address by Weizmann before the English-Zionist Federation, London, 
October 7, 1934. This statement was repeated by Dr. Weizmann before the 
Royal Commission investigating the 1936 disturbances. 

35 Issue of September 19, 1920. 

86 From the influential French journal, The French-Asian, issue of March 
1921. 

87 Lawrence had asserted emphatically just before this conference that there 
was no question about the incorporation of Trans-Jordan into Palestine "from 



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which it is inseparable." Dr. Joseph Schechtmann, Transjordanien rm Bereicbe 
des Palastinamandates, p. 51. 

88 The part Samuel played in this affair is not too edifying. His complicity 
may be seen in his own reports for the years 1920-1925. See also pp. 20-23, 
The Mandate for Palestine, U. S. Printing Office, Washington, 1927 ; and the 
testimony of Dr. Chaim Weizmann before the Royal Commission, November 26, 
1936. 

86 Dr. S. Fishelev, The International Statute of Eastern Palestine, pp. 41-43. 

40 Address delivered October 7, 1934 to special conference of the Zionist 
Federation of Great Britain and Ireland. 

41 The dunam measures 1000 square meters. Urban land is usually measured 
by the square pic, which equals 0.58 meters. 

42 Later the Jews, for propriety's sake, were to be handed a few acres of 
marsh and sand dune. 

48 Report of the Palestine Royal Commission, published July 1937, p. 261; 
Horace B. Samuel, Unholy Memories of the Holy Land, pp. 85-88 ; G. Hold- 
heim, "Ueber die Voraussetzungen und das politische Ziel des Zionismus," 
Preussische Jahrbiicher, April 1930, p. 62. 

44 Samuel was to be heard from again. When early in 1936 Mr. MacDonald 
resigned as head of the Refugee Committee, thus pointedly calling attention 
to the wretched situation of Jewish refugees, the British Government was in 
an impasse. At that moment it was indignantly asking the world to participate 
in sanctions against Italy as a treaty-breaking nation. It was at that moment 
that the Jews could have pointed to English hyprocrisy in reference to Palestine. 
To safeguard itself from this possibility, Samuel was sent over to the United 
States with a vast scheme for settling refugees and for raising money. America 
was assured that if Jews would raise $15,000,000, hundreds of thousands of 
sufferers in Europe could be transported to Palestine and settled there. Yet at 
the moment that Samuel, and his colleague Weizmann, were asking for these 
tremendous sums, they must have known that at least 75,000 German Jews, as 
well as innumerable sufferers in East Europe, who were being hounded over all 
the borders of the Old World, would have gladly gone to Palestine and could 
have done so on their own resources if the British would have let them in. 
Under Mr. Samuel's capable counter-attraction the critical point was soon over 
for England : no one raised the question as to why Britain had shut the doors of 
their homeland to these Jews. 

46 These loans are practically a gift. No one ever expects them to be repaid. 

CHAPTER IX — THE WHITE PAPER BARRAGE 

1 For typical example see manifesto published in the entire Arab press of 
June 30, 1928. 

Following the Communist line religiously, even the New York Communist 
paper Freiheit (Yiddish-language) asserted that "the war of the Jews against the 
Arabs was and is unjust. The war of the Arab masses against the Jewish invaders 
is just. The war of the Jews against the Arabs is a part of imperialist exploita- 
tion. The war of the Arabs against the Jews is, despite its religious snell, a 
part of the world struggle of the subjected masses." (Issue of September 6, 
1929.) The American Communists went so far as to establish their own fund 
called "Workers International Relief," which in its proclamation asking for 
support, published in The Daily Worker of September 13, 1929, characterized 
Zionist defense groups as "Zionist gunmen." The West European Bureau of 
the Executive Committee of the Communist International issued a wide-spread 



NOTES FOR PAGES 124 to 138 



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circular stating that "it is the duty of all our Parties to fight against Jewish 
immigration into Palestine" With Machiavellian amorality it advises that "one 
must remember that the Communists are not instigating Marxian scholars. 
Phrases like 'class-struggle' mean very little to the illiterate fellah, the Arab 
peasant, but he does understand phrases like 'Zionists have succeeded in seizing 
the largest part of your community land' or words such as l Don y t stop the strike 
unless they disarm the Jews and arm the Arabs' " 

2 Ittamar Ben Avi, "A Self -Contained Jewish Homeland," The New Palestine, 
September 11, 1936. 

3 A man of many affectations, linguist and litterateur, Luke's original name 
appears to have been Harry Charles Joseph Lukach — at least, such was the 
name used in the book he wrote while stationed in Sierra Leone, Fringe of the 
East (London, 191 3). In 1927 he managed to write Prophets, Priests and 
Patriarchs, Sketches of the Sects of Palestine, in which he did not find it neces- 
sary to mention the Jews at all. Together with Keith-Roach, fellow anti- 
Zionist official, he wrote Handbook of Palestine in which the word 'Jew' was 
only mentioned when it became plainly impossible to leave it out, and in 
which Jewish accomplishments were again totally ignored. 

4 In later years Storrs resented keenly any inference that he was anti- Jewish. 
He was afterwards elevated to the governorship of Cyprus, where his advent 
coincided identically with the issuance of anti- Jewish rulings there. During his 
term a wild anti-British outbreak convulsed the island, the enraged Cypriots 
burning Storrs' personal library. 

6 Judische Rundschau, September 13, 1929 ; Horace B. Samuel, Beneath the 
Whitewash. 

6 Spanish and Portuguese Jews and their descendants are known as Sephardim, 
differentiating them from the Eastern Jews, known as Ashkenazim. 

7 Maurice Samuel, What Happened in Palestine. 

8 J. H. Kann, Some Observations on the Policy of the Mandatory Government 
of Palestine with Regard to the Arab Attacks on the Jewish Population in 
August 1929. 

0 Col. Josiah C. Wedgwood, "Palestine," Pro-Palestine Herald, Fall Issue, 1937. 

10 Maurice Samuel, What Happened in Palestine, p. 176. 

11 Judische Rundschau, September 17, 1929; J. H. Kann, Some Observations 
on the Policy of the Mandatory Government of Palestine with Regard to the 
Arab Attacks on the Jewish Population in August 1929 ; Maurice Samuel, What 
Happened in Palestine. 

12 J. H. Kann, Some Observations on the Policy of the Mandatory Govern- 
ment of Palestine with Regard to the Arab Attacks on the Jewish Population 
in August 1929. 

13 Eye-witness report in the Frankfurter Zeitung (Morning Edition, Octo- 
ber 3, 1929). 

14 Berliner Tageblatt (Morning Edition), September 13, 1929. 
15 Douglas Duff, London Quarterly Review, issue of July 1933. 
lfl Manchester Guardian, May 20, 1935. 

17 Interview with Jewish Morning Journal, November 1, 1930. 

18 Evening Edition, September 3, 1929. 

lfl Minutes of the Seventeenth Session, Geneva, June 1930. 

20 Frankfurter Zeitung, Evening Edition, October 8, 1929. 

21 Statement signed by all of the Jewish National Institutions, including the 
Jewish National Council, the Chief Rabbinate, and the Central Agudath Israel. 
In sickening detail this communication outlines the whole shocking train of 
events, accusing the Government of having taken steps which led the Moslems 



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to conclude that it supported their movement. It reads on : "During the first 
days of the riots, the Jewish community, which suffered a general attack, was 
deprived of all Government defense. . . In many cases the police were pas- 
sive onlookers. . . Not even fines were imposed on those who looted Jewish 



arrested nor tried any of the principal agitators. . . Officers of the Govern- 
ment whose responsibility for the events is beyond doubt, have to this day 
neither been dismissed from their posts nor committed for trial." Instead of 
strengthening the hands of those who were in danger, the Administration "has 
prosecuted and is still prosecuting those Jews who defend themselves. It 
disarms them, arrests them and commits them for trial as ordinary offenders. 
. . . The Government has attempted in its official communications to distort 
the truth concerning these events. This distortion of the truth is an inevitable 
epilogue to the plan of destruction which was only partially realized, thanks 
to the Jewish self-defense" 

22 See docket for June 22, 193 1. 

In striking contrast was the severity with which the slightest offense offered 
against an Englishman was punished. A characteristic incident occurred on 
February 4, 1930, when over a hundred Arabs were arrested in a thorough 
scouring of the whole vicinity, in connection with the firing of the house of 
Mr. Strawberrs, English manager of the Athlet quarries. 

28 Issue of January 4, 1930. 

24 The Jewish Labor Parties, as always pathetically unaware of the empty 
character of Socialist resolutions and promises, actually thought they had won 
a great victory. Jarblum exults : "In its heroic struggle Jewish Labor does 
not stand alone. The opponents of Labor Zionism, both those of the anti- 
Zionist Socialist camp and those of the bourgeois Zionist camp, must reckon 
with this fact." {The Socialist International and Zionism, p. 23.) 

20 K. W. Stead, Report on the Economic and Financial Situation of Pales- 
tine, London, 1927, Department of Overseas Trade, p. 6. 

26 New York American, April 13, 1930. 

27 The part played by Hope-Simpson is rather puzzling. Though events 
proved him to be obviously an anti-Zionist, he was not an anti-Semite per se, 
many of his attitudes apparently being guided by what he conceived to be 
Imperial interests. Recently (1938) he has altered much of his attitude and 
admits the "most remarkable development of the country [Palestine]," and that 
it has been literally "transformed by the energy of the Jewish immigrant." 
(Sir J. Hope-Simpson, Refugees, Preliminary Report of a Survey.) In 1938, 
also, he has shown a deep interest in the plight of European Jewish refugees 
and, though ignoring Palestine as a potential home for these people, has strongly 
advocated that the British Government allow large groups of them to find 
sanctuary in Britain itself. Sir John, however, remains an anti-Zionist, holding 
Jewish nationalism in large measure responsible for the present plight of the 
Jew in Europe. "Zionism," he writes, "has given to the anti-Semite a plausible" 
though baseless argument against the Jew which "is being used to justify the 
process of reducing the Jew to a position of political inferiority" in the various 
countries. (Ibid.) 

28 Known almost immediately as the Passfield White Paper, due to its spon- 
sorship by Lord Passfield. 

28a In nearby Cyprus, where standards of living are a great deal higher than 
in Palestine, Great Britain and the East estimated (issue of September 1, 1938) 
that "about 27 acres of unirrigated land is needed to keep a man and family 
of four. . . But less than six acres of irrigated land is enough to keep a family" 



property, as though 




The Government has neither 



NOTES FOR PAGES 138 to 189 



2fl Not three years afterward, an official report published by the Palestine 
Department of Agriculture, showed that excluding State lands, fallow lands, 
and the great hill country, there were at that time 10,000,000 dunams actually 
under cultivation. (See Palestine Census Report of 1933, including a statistical 
summary of Palestine's cultivated area.) In 1935 Dr. Alfred Michaelis esti- 
mated a cultivated area of 12,000,000 dunams. 

80 The actual wording is : "Control of all irrigable water should remain with 
the Government and all surplus water above that on which rights may be 
established should be the Government's property." 

31 Interview November 11, 1930 by the correspondents for the Jewish Daily 
Forward, radical Yiddish newspaper. 

82 Herbert Sidebotham, Great Britain and Palestine, p. 269. 

88 The question was, explained Weizmann at the following Zionist Congress, 
whether a compromise should be reached "or whether we should insist on the 
clear and simple withdrawal of the Passfield White Paper . . . On such a de- 
mand on our part . . . our friends in the House of Commons, at the end of a 
debate on Palestine, would have had to press the question of the White Paper 
to vote. Such a vote . . . would, I am afraid, have turned the great mass of 
the Labour Party against us, and Palestine would have become a party question 
at Westminster." 

34 The eminent French Senator, Justin Godard, had recommended that the 
whole matter be brought up for airing before the International Court of Justice 
at the Hague. 

30 The expert whom Shiels was referring to was the Colonial Office function- 
ary Lewis French, whose later report, considering all of these circumstances, is no 
less remarkable than the matters which had already preceded. 

36 Geneva, June 16, 193 1. 

37 Andrews was murdered in Galilee late in September of 1936 by Arab 
thugs. 

88 It is worthy of note that Hitler, a number of years later, actually did 
reestablish this Medieval institution in relation to the peasants of East Prussia ; 
indicating clearly the general pattern of thought to which French and his as- 
sociates subscribed. 

BOOK TWO 

CHAPTER I — JEWS HAVE A REPUTATION FOR INTELLIGENCE 

1 This arrangement caused Rabbi Stephen S. Wise to flatly accuse Weizmann 
of handing autocratic authority to "the same men who went to President 
Wilson and asked him to take back his word endorsing the Zionist ideal." 

la The attitude of these Marxist extremists reached such lengths that it was 
embodied in the axiom, "An organized Arab is more important than an un- 
organized Jew." In 1927 the Third Congress of the Histadruth adopted a 
resolution favoring the establishment of a joint union of Jewish and Arab 
workers (Brith Poale Eretz Israel), and began to organize Arab labor unions, 
going so far as to publish an Arab newspaper, Itahad el Amal (Workers Unity) . 

The Arab Labor Federation, which had thus been instigated into being, as one 
of its first acts decided to picket Jewish enterprises and to conduct an anti- 
Jewish boycott (October 28, 1934). Pickets from these labor unions forced 
Jewish workmen from their jobs. An example taking place early in 1936 is 
connected with the erection of Jaffa school buildings by a Jewish contractor 
affiliated with the Contracting Department of the Histadruth. Employed on 



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this project were an equal number of Arabs and Jews. The Arab unions picketed 
the enterprise, insisting upon one hundred percent Arab labor. A few months 
later, the most blood-thirsty of the attackers who signaled the outbreak of the 
1936 insurrection, was the Union of Jaffa Arab Stevedores which the Histadruth 
had organized. 

2 Held in September 1930. Adding a note of grim humor to these destruc- 
tive proceedings, a message came to the same Congress from the 'Comrades' of 
the British Labour Party, concluding with the sage hope that "the recommenda- 
tions of Sir John Simpson will inaugurate an epoch of prosperity in Palestine." 

8 September 24, 1933. 

4 Joseph F. Broadhurst, From Vine Street to Jerusalem, p. 236. 
°Dr. Solomon B. Freehof, Race, Nation or Religion. 

6 Charge of Deputy Isaac Gruenbaum, member of Polish Parliament, at Basle 
Congress, 1927. 

7 Wise had leaped to his feet, characterizing Weizmann's opening address 
as a personal apologia and not a political address, roaring that "Weizmann's 
speech sounded like a statement by the British Government." 

8 Jewish Daily Bulletin, November 27, 1934. 

9 Address at 193 1 World Zionist Congress. 
i° Ibid. 

11 Jewish Daily Bulletin, February 14, 1934. 

12 Palestine Review, December 25, 1936. 

CHAPTER II — "THE DESERT SHALL BLOOM LIKE THE ROSE" 

1 Including £3,000,000 in agriculture, £6,500,000 in industry; £2,000,000, 
housing; £750,000, transport; £3,000,000, distribution; £750,000, professional 
services ; £ 2,000,000, cafes, restaurants, hotels, theaters, etc. ; £ 500,000, bank- 
ing and insurance ; and £1,500,000 miscellaneous. 

2 Ernest Main, Palestine at the Crossroads, p. 31. 

8 Report by His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom of Great 
Britain and Northern Ireland to the Council of the League of Nations on the 
Administration of Palestine and Transjordan for the Year 1936, p. 236. 

4 A wild arhythmic dance in which participants gather in a huge circle with 
interlocked arms as children do in the old American game of London Bridge 
is Falling Down, whirling themselves in a dizzy circle until they literally drop 
from exhaustion. The compelling gaiety of this dance can hardly be described 
or appreciated unless seen. 

0 Joseph F. Broadhurst, From Vine Street to Jerusalem, p. 225. 

6 Quoted by Joseph F. Broadhurst, From Vine Street to Jerusalem, p. 227. 

7 Organized in 1935 by Bronislaw Huberman. It is composed of eminent 
musicians exiled from Germany and contains a number of non- Jewish exiles as 
well as 65 prominent Jewish players. 

8 Hebrew had degenerated into a stratified medium for religious instruction 
and service, intoned invariably in a sing-song fashion. Its use m secular affairs 
came to be looked on by the devout as sacrilegious. 

The early Zionist immigrants were impressed by the peculiarly soft, even 
elegant quality, of the Hebrew spoken by the handful of Sephardic Jews in 
Jerusalem. Its lyric flow struck the ears of these psychically thirsty men 
like the swift roll of mighty rivers. It still held that commanding quality 
which made Renan describe it as "a quiver full of steel arrows, a cable with 
strong coils, a trumpet of brass crashing through the air with two or three 
sharp notes." 



NOTES FOR PAGES 189 to 206 



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Hebrew is written like shorthand. Much is compressed in a little space. 
In this superlative tongue a flow of abstractions and nuances, difficult to cap- 
ture in other languages, may be perfectly expressed. It is the almost perfect 
medium for poet or philosopher. As a vehicle for sentiment and love-making 
it is unsurpassed. 

9 Spoken in the ghettos of Eastern Europe, Yiddish is a low German' or 
Plattdeutsch tongue written in Hebrew characters and bastardized with some 
Hebrew and an infiltration in each country of the local language. 



CHAPTER III — BUREAUCRACY LOOKS AT JEWS 

1 Scotsman, issue of February 8, 1938 ; c.f., New York Journal and American, 
March 15, 1938. 

2 Ladislas Farago, Ken, April 7, 1938. 

3 Dr. J. Morton Howell, Egypt's Fast, Present and Future, pp. 244-245. 

*Quincy Howe, England Expects Every American to Do His Duty. See 
also speech by former Ambassador Dodd, New York, January 13, 1938. 

Particularly during the latter part of the Nazi fight to attain power, Eng- 
lish influence alone was a factor of strong importance in swaying the aged 
Hindenburg, the Rhineland industrialists, desperately seeking foreign relief, 
and the Hugenberg nationalists through whose efforts Hitler finally secured 
control. When Nazism was desperately weak and on the point of disintegrat- 
ing, Sir Henry Deterding, the master of Shell Oil, placed at their disposal 
4,000,000 guilders. (The Brown Network, with Introduction by William 
Francis Hare, Earl of Listowel, pp. 66-69, 129; Glyn Roberts, The Most 
Powerful Man in the World, p. 305.) Deterding secured the aid of prominent 
English moneyed men who gave liberally. Among others said to have con- 
tributed heavily was the great Vickers munitions firm in England. Hitler's 
bid for anti-Communist support in the Western democracies was the cry, 
Deutschland kampft fiir Europa ! (Germany fights for Europe.) The com- 
mon denominator of all Nazi contentions was a violent anti-Semitism which 
accused the Jew of being at the bottom of all troubles. 

Such noteworthy figures as the Marquess of Londonderry (see London- 
derry's book, Ourselves and Germany) and Lord Mount Temple, used their 
influence to assist the Nazi Government. Generous loans were granted to 
Germany by British bankers, and, from the Bureaus, pressure was brought to 
bear on France to restrain her from interfering with the Nazi program. 
With the aid of English permanent officials the first direct breach was made 
in the Versailles Treaty. An example is the sweeping provision made in the 
Anglo-German Naval Agreement reached in June 1935. General Goering's 
report entitled "German Air Force Manual," revealed that Great Britain had 
officially placed its seal of approval on Nazi torpedo-carrying seaplanes, 
bombers fitted with machine guns, large aircraft carriers, warships fitted with 
seaplane catapults and seaplanes for spreading smokescreens. (The Versailles 
Treaty absolutely prohibited any German Air Corps.) Today, as a result of 
Britain's action, Germany's rebuilt air fleet is the paramount threat to the 
peace of Europe. 

What England never deigned to do for Republican Germany, she hastened 
to perform for the swashbuckling Nazi. Though English Liberals expressed 
horror at the Nazi outrages, in the practical business of life England as a 
nation has been the best friend Hitler has had. At the very moment the 
Jews and Liberals were boycotting Germany, Whitehall sent (during 1937) 



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one of her ace manipulators, Walter Runciman, to America in an attempt to 
get a loan of $500,000,000 for Germany, designed to keep the Reich afloat 
economically. Accompanying him was Sir Otto Niemeyer, a director of the 
Bank of England. In addition to exerting all possible influence on the Amer- 
ican Government, the British have been pressing American bankers in favor of 
this loan. 

The general attitude may be read in Lord Redesdale's exclamation when 
Hitler marched in on Austria : "The gratitude of Europe and the gratitude of 
the whole world is due at this time, in my opinion, to Hitler ! " 

6 George Stewart, The White Armies of Russia, pp. 244-253. 

The British hoped in this adventure to secure control of the new Caucasian 
republics and thus to get at the rich oil fields of Baku. Its unfortunate result 
was the assassination of almost half a million Jews in the Ukraine under the 
most horrible conditions. Taking quick advantage of foreign intervention, 
the Bolsheviks used this psychological advantage to cement wobbling Russia 
behind them. 

8 The Protocols were first published in 1905 in Russia, by Prof. Sergei 
A. Nilus of Moscow. In the 1917 edition Nilus for the first time linked them 
with the August 1897 Basle Zionist Congress of Theodor Herzl. The Protocols 
allege to present a detailed account of the secret meetings of the Elders of 
Zion. They are presumed to represent the essence of a Jewish attempt to 
seize world power by cunningly destroying the foundations of government 
everywhere. Like a gigantic, unseen octopus the monstrous depravity of 
these Machiavellian schemers is always present. They are responsible for 
Marxism, International Capitalism and cataclysms of all kinds. They operate 
with inhuman cunning and their chief weapon is the power of gold. Their 
hidden terrifying control is seen everywhere ; and their ultimate purpose is to 
reduce the gentile world to abject slavery. 

Philip Graves demonstrated that the Protocols were a rank forgery of a 
work written by the brilliant French-Catholic author, Maurice Joly : 
"Dialogues aux Enfers entre Machiavel et Montesquieu, ou la Politique de 
Machiavel au i$me Steele" {Dialogues in Hell between Machiavel and Montes- 
quieu, or the policy of Machiavel in the 19th Century), It had been published 
in 1865, concealing a polemic against Napoleon III and his alleged plans of 
world conquest through guile. All that was done by the plagiarizers who 
issued the Protocols was to substitute the Jews in place of Machiavel- 
Napoleon. The fraud was shown in the London Times in its issues of Au- 
gust 16, 17, and 18, 1 92 1, where it was clearly proven that the Protocols al- 
leged to date from 1897, me year of the First Zionist Congress, had been in 
print since 1865. The anti-Semites immediately retreated to the position that 
the Protocols represented old Jewish ideas and had been written by a circum- 
cised Jew named Moses Joel, who passed under the name of Joly. 

7 London, November 19, 1930. 

8 Memorandum to the British Government by the Executive Committee of 
the Palestine Arab Congress, October 1923. 

9 /. 7\ A. News Service, September 2, 193 1. 

10 House of Commons Debate, June 21, 1936. 

11 Chief Political Officer in Palestine and Syria during 19 19 and 1920, and 
military adviser of the Colonial Office's Middle East Department. 

12 Horace B. Samuel, Unholy Memories of the Holy Land, p. 35* 
18 Joseph F. Broadhurst, From Vine Street to Jerusalem, p. 213. 
14 Ibid. p. 250. 



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10 Dr. John Haynes Holmes, ¥ destine Today and Tomorrow, pp. 1 51-157. 
18 Beverley Nichols, No Place Like Home, p. 254. 

17 Jewish section of London. 

18 C. R. Ashbee, A Palestine Notebook, pp. 90-91, 107. 
19 Ladislas Farago, Palestine on the Eve, pp. 245-246. 

20 Palestine Post, July 2, 1936. 

21 Interview, January 23, 193 1. 

22 Dr. John Haynes Holmes, Palestine Today and Tomorrow, pp. 118- 
119. 

23 Senator Royal S. Copeland in the New York American, October 10, 
1936. 

24 'Here I am, and here I stay.' 

28 The English originally went into Egypt to support the authority of the 
Khedive and to suppress a military revolt. 

26 Statement by Sir Samuel Hoare, First Lord of the Admiralty, July 1936. 

27 Herbert Sidebotham, Great Britain and Palestine, p. 191. 

28 Great Britain holds controlling interests in the Iraq Petroleum Co., with 
its subsidiaries, Mosul Oil Fields, Ltd. and British Oil Development, Ltd. 
They have a concession of some 45,000 square miles in Iraq. The oil flows 
through the Mediterranean at Haifa through 1200 miles of steel pipeline, every 
foot of the way in territory under British military supervision. 

29 In 1935 the quotations for such a representative commodity as railway 
materials - steel rails, bolts, screws, etc., delivered in British South Africa, were 
£}0-ios* per ton British and only £12 Japanese. In Malaya, India and Africa, 
Japanese textiles are underselling the British products. Even against the Ger- 
man manufactories, the apprehensive traders of England have watched them- 
selves rapidly losing ground. 

80 Herbert Sidebotham, British Interests in Palestine. 

81 Control of a Vital Corridor, London Daily Telegraph, February 15, 1929 

82 Canada set a precedent when in 1923 she signed the Halibut Fisheries 
Treaty with the United States, an agreement which bore the signatures only 
of the American and Canadian representatives. This was followed by a num- 
ber of other independent treaties between Canada and the United States, and 
Canada and European Governments. When Lloyd George, sending a British 
detachment to stop the Turks who had just routed a Hellenic Army, appealed 
to the Dominions for immediate military cooperation, the Canadian Prime Min- 
ister bluntly refused, saying that the Canadian Parliament alone could deter- 
mine whether the country should participate in wars in which other nations 
or other parts of the British Empire might be involved. The Dominions have 
since shown a certain amount of restiveness and a vigorous attitude where their 
own self-interests are concerned. This was brought out clearly in 1938, during 
the negotiations with Germany over the fate of Czechoslovakia, when South 
African, Irish, Canadian and Australian statesmen delivered sharp warnings to 
London that their assistance in time of war could not be taken for granted by 
Britain. 

83 A further sidelight on this subject was revealed by Sir John Chancellor on 
March 29, 1938, when he stated that he had discussed this projected incorpora- 
tion of Palestine in the British Commonwealth with various authorities, who 
had assured him that there was no hope that any nation in Europe would 
consent to it. 

84 Peace Handbook No. 162 on Zionism. 

88 The bulk of Persian and Indian Moslems maintain the hereditary right of 



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Ali Mohammed's adopted son and son-in-law, Hashimid Ali Ibn Abu Talib, to 
the Caliphate, placing him above Mohammed himself. 
s8 Yusuf Malek, The British Betrayal of the Assyrians, pp. 28-31. 

87 Memoirs, p. 379. 

38 J. de Vere Loder, The Truth About Mesopotamia, Palestine and Syria, 
p. 16. 

88 Bertram Thomas, The Arabs, pp. 229-230. 

40 La Vita Segreta DelV Arabia Felice. 

41 Palestine Review, June 10, 1938. 

42 pp. 307-3 10. 

48 Water C. Langsam, The World Since 1914, p. 151. 

There have been a number of rebellions against the British in Iraq, and the 
country is still essentially anti-English. London's methods of handling this sit- 
uation are simple. When the previous Cabinet grew obstreperous in the Fall 
of 1936, the British financed the politician, Hukmat Suleiman, who made a mili- 
tary putsch and treated his predecessors to the firing squad. Suleiman was an 
outspoken Nazi and anti-Semite. Great Britain and the East speaks of "his rec- 
ognition that the British were hated in Iraq, and his personal resolve to 'try 
again* to convince the Iraqis of British honesty." (Issue of December 10, 
1936.) 

44 Great Britain and the East, Issue of August 6, 1936. 

45 H. St. John Philby, "British Bombs Over Arabia" World Review, Jan- 
uary 1938. 

48 Palestine at the Crossroads, p. 61. 

47 Great Britain and Palestine, pp. 290-291. 

48 Liddell Hart, Colonel Lawrence. 

49 Palestine at the Crossroads, pp. 58-59 ; cf., Quincy Howe, England Expects 
Every American to Do His Duty, p. 144. 

50 Dr. John Haynes Holmes, Palestine Today and Tomorrow, p. 127. 

51 One needs hardly to be reminded that it is not possible to discover in the 
history of legislative practice any formula, however short or drastic, which 
does not provide for two or more 'obligations.' Even the law proclaiming the 
freedom of the subject or citizen, contains a limitative condition — 'provided' 
he obeys the law and does not encroach upon other subjects* or citizens' free- 
dom, etc. The reservations are obviously appended to prevent abuses, not 
for the purpose of nullifying the main object. 

52 Speaking in Commons, May 2, 1929, defending the Administration against 
charges of hindering Jewish settlement. 

58 A reply to an English-instigated Arab Memorandum to the League. 

54 Dr. Chaim Weizmann, "A Common Fatherland for Arab and Jew," sup- 
plement to Palestine, October 7, 1936. 

The occurrences in Egypt to which Weizmann obviously refers, are of con- 
siderable interest. England entered Egypt in 1882. According to the scholarly 
Englishman, Francis Adams, she entered on a solemn pledge of temporary occu- 
pation, which she was later disloyal to. Just as the Suez Canal pact forbids mili- 
tary occupancy, and gives England not a shade of right to legal possession, her 
de facto possession argues ill for Palestine. Adams repeats the Khedive's mourn- 
ful remark : "But it is impossible. A promise is a promise — the pledged word 
of England — it is impossible ! " — Francis William Lauderdale Adams, The New 
Egypt. 

55 Berlin, August 28, 1930. 

58 Great Britain and the East, June 4, 1936. 



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CHAPTER IV — WELCOME HOME ! 

1 Douglas V. Duff, Sword for Hire. 

2 New York American, October 13, 1936. 

8 Chairman of the London Unemployment Insurance Fund and Director of the 
London School of Economics. 
4 October 25, 1933. 

B In January 1936 the Government stopped receiving applications for im- 
migration certificates for relatives of Palestine residents altogether. 

6 This is at the rate of 200 per month. It may be contrasted with the High 
Commissioner's statement in his official report for the same year, in which he 
says : "We do not consider that the number of illegal immigrants exceeds 100 
per month." 

7 October 25, 1933, at Berlin. 

8 Proclamation issued in November 1934, by the Syrian Government. 

9 Jewish Daily Bulletin, August 13, 1934. 

10 Jerusalem, May 9, 1931. 

11 Report by His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom of Great 
Britain and Northern Ireland to the Council of the League of Nations on the 
Administration of Palestine and Trans jordan for the year 1936, p. 236. 

12 Statement at British Imperial Conference, London, October 23, 1926. 

13 Report and General Abstracts of the Census of 1922, p. 4. 

14 Stated H. Frumken, head of the Histadruth Central Labor Exchange, on 
August 3, 1934 : "The figure of 35,000 illegal Arab immigrants as reported in 
the Damascus press, is not exaggerated." 

15 From the Damascus paper, Al Ay am; cf., Palestine Economic Review, 
January 1936, p. 10. The Damascus press stated, August 3, 1934, that a total of 
$200,000 was remitted to families left behind by Hauran immigrants, who were 
sending for wives and children. 

16 Report by His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom of Great 
Britain and Northern Ireland to the Council of the League of Nations on the 
Administration of Palestine and Trans jordan for the year 1936, p. 71. 

17 Palestine on the Eve, pp. 18-19. 

18 Palestine and Middle East Economic Magazine, January 1937. 

19 August 30, 1934. 

20 See formal complaint of the Zionist Executive to the Persian Government, 
March 12, 1926. 

CHAPTER V- CLOSE SETTLEMENT ON THE LAND 

1 An Interim Report on the Civil Administration of Palestine during the 
period July i, 1920-June 30, 1921 (Cmd. 1499, 1921). 

2 No Place Like Home, p. 259. 

8 Procurator of the Salesian Fathers in Palestine. 

4 Head of Mount Carmel Bible School in Haifa. See Minutes of Victoria 
Institute, February 1930. 

5 In reply to Cardinal Gasparri, Papal Secretary of State, who had objected 
to Article II of the draft Mandate. (Article VI of the Mandate places the 
Mandatory under specific instruction to "encourage close settlement by Jews 
on the Land.") 

6 There are private-estate owners in the United States and Canada who own 
larger acreage than this individually. 



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7 Israel Cohen, Recent Progress in Palestine, p. 8, published by the Centra! 
Office of the Zionist Organization, London, 1934. 

8 Late officer of the Palestine Government Service. 

9 This survey has not yet been completed. 

10 A. Granovsky, The Land Issue in Palestine, p. 23. 

11 Says the British Report to the League for 1936, laconically : "16,000 dunams 
have been set aside for Arab cultivators in the area, and will be drained and 
irrigated by the concessionaires free of charge to the cultivators." — p. 54. 

12 /. T. A. News, January 27, 1937. 

13 The inclusion in the Ordinance of the word "sufferance," that is, without 
the knowledge or authority of the owner, was a particularly significant in- 
novation. 

Dr. A. Ruppin, Three Decades of Palestine. 
16 Turkey itself discarded them in 1926 in favor of statutes based on the 
most efficient European models. 

16 Jewish Daily Bulletin, November 16, 1934. 

17 March 13, 1932. 

18 Announced by J. H. Thomas, British Secretary of State for the Colonies, 
in a message transmitted to the Arab political leaders through High Commis- 
sioner Wauchope, February 5, 1936. 

10 Joseph F. broadhurst, From Vine Street to Jerusalem, pp. 243-244. 

20 Report of the Palestine Royal Commission, July 1937, p. 224. 

21 This sum is paid direct to the Palestine Treasury. It is independent of 
local community levies, which must be paid in addition. 

22 It may be expected that even this sum will usually be canceled. 

CHAPTER VI — BRICKS WITHOUT STRAW 

1 "And the same day Pharaoh commanded the taskmakers of the people, and 
their officers, saying, 'Ye shall no more give the people straw to make brick 
as heretofore . . . and the number of the bricks, which they did make here- 
tofore, ye shall lay upon them.' . . Then the officers of the children of Israel 
came and cried unto Pharaoh, saying 'Wherefore dealest thou thus with thy 
servants ? There is no straw given unto thy servants, and they say unto us, 
make brick : and behold, thy servants are beaten ; but the fault is in thine 
own people.' But he said . . . 'There shall no straw be given you, yet shall 
ye deliver the number of bricks.' And the officers of the children of Israel 
did see that they were in evil case . . . " — Exodus 5:6-19. 

2 This may be compared with the agreement of the same Company with Iraq, 
under which it pays over to the Iraqian Government a huge sum yearly for its 
privileges there. The agreement stipulates that drastic reductions are to be 
made in the price of petroleum products sold in Iraq. Iran was also not behind 
in demanding its compensation for any benefits given. In the concession signed 
at Teheran, April 30, 1933, a low price was fixed on oil sold in that country, 
on the score that "cheap oil is of importance for the modernization of agri- 
culture and of transport." The Company is moreover required to replace, 
progressively, all its foreign employees with Iranians, and to spend £ 10,000 a 
year on the education of Iranians in England in all engineering and research 
work ; to pay government taxes of £225,500 a year for fifteen years, and £300,- 
000 a year for the following fifteen years. An additional royalty basis is provided 
for every ton of crude oil extracted. 

8 Statement by S. Hoofien, December 20, 1935. (Palestine Economic Review, 
February-March 1936, pp. 16-18.) 



NOTES FOR PAGES 274 to 307 



547 



* Another attempt is now being made to erect a brewery enterprise in Palestine 
— it is understood, under more favorable conditions. 

8 It is contrary to the American treaty with Britain covering the Palestine 
Mandate to levy any discriminatory tariff against American goods. This situ- 
ation is all-important to both English and American manufacturers since Pales- 
tine is the jumping-off place for the fast-growing hinterland market of Middle 
Asia. 

a A mil is half a cent. A kilogram equals approximately two and one fifth 
pounds. 

7 Statement to the Jewish Press, Berlin, August i, 1927. 

8 The Sachs Mills, opened in November 1933, had been the pride of the grow- 
ing textile industries of Palestine. When together with other great textile 
factories it had to give up this unequal struggle, a host of skilled Jewish workers 
were thrown out of employment. 

9 This transport system is practically valueless to the Jews of Palestine and is 
favored by the British for reasons of Imperial policy. 

10 For the first nine months of 1937, states Great Britain and the East with 
undisguised alarm, Germany outsold England by 20% in Palestine. The figures 
are : Germany, £ 1,079,934 ; Great Britain, £909,268. Says this voice of White- 
hall pointedly : "The irrationality of the whole procedure [open door policy] 
is obvious." — Issue of January 28, 1937. 

11 "The Economic Capacity of Palestine," Palnews Economic Annual of 
Palestine, 1936, p. 65. 

12 March 5, 1935. "The world," he declared, "looks admiringly on our 
prosperity, but disaster and ruin lie in wait for us if the government of the coun- 
try will not awake to a correct appreciation of its duty before it is too late." 

18 "Cyprus : The British Settler's Latest Colony," Great Britain and the East, 
February 4, 1937. 
14 /. T. A, News, November 17, 1937. 
"P. u 7 . 

16 Speaking by radio hookup, September 20, 1937. 

17 In England, itself, a protected foreign trade is always foremost in the 
minds of her leaders. The economist Augur estimates that only 8,000,000 of 
Britain's 40,000,000 people could live off the land. 

18 In respect to its own economy, Turkey was not so foolish. Rigid govern- 
ment supervision brought Turkey's trade balance from a deficit of $47,288,000 
in 1929, to a surplus of $10,163,000 in 1933. 

19 This treaty was signed December 14, 1936. Its face purpose was the fa- 
cetious one of "facilitating trade between Palestine and Iraq." It is in such 
obvious contradiction to the actual status of the trade relations between the 
two countries, that little comment is required. There is no question but that 
this very valuable concession might have been used as a basis for bargaining, 
to allow for an expansion of Palestine foreign commerce into central Asia. 

20 /. 7\ A. News, August 16, 1937. 

21 Protest Memorandum submitted October 13, 1925, by the Executive Com- 
mittee of the Palestine Arab Congress. The Turkish Piaster (PT) was worth 
about five cents before the War. It has since deteriorated heavily in value. 

22 The Jewish Chamber of Commerce revealed the shortage in an appeal to 
the Palestine Government to "withdraw an order prohibiting import of flour 
from abroad, enacted to aid Arab peasants in Palestine." 

28 Minutes for July 1925. 

** Colonial Secretary Ormsby-Gore, replying for the Government, February 
I7i "937- 



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25 June 21, 1935. 

20 Concluded July 6, 1934. As in the case of the similar treaty with Poland, 
it bears the signatures of Sir John Simon and Sir Walter Runciman for Great 
Britain. 

27 "Zebulun shall dwell at the haven of the sea; and he shall be for a haven 
of ships." — Gen. 49:13. 

28 Recent archaeological diggings prove that Solomon had a great port here, 
with full dockage, piers and warehouses. 

29 Jews have already invested almost £300,000 in the construction of this new 
maritime outlet. 

80 Temporary or no, the Jews are making the most of their opportunity. 
There are now some 500 workers employed at loading and unloading goods at 
this 'port.' 

81 This despite the fact that imports through Tel Aviv in 1937 already totaled 
98,000 tons compared with Jaffa's 127,000. Imports through Acre in 1937 were 
only 4000 tons, yet there is no question of Acre's independent status vis-a-vis 
its great neighbor- Haifa. 

82 Pp. 171-172. 

38 Known as Palestine Airways Ltd., it is closely connected with Palestine 
Air Transport Ltd. Its chairman is Mr. L. Amery, former Secretary of State 
for the Colonies. 

According to last minute cable reports, a new civil airport was inaugurated 
in Tel Aviv (September 1938) under a 'temporary* permit from the High 
Commissioner (this permission was granted only because the roads to the Lydda 
Aerodrome were unsafe due to the presence of Arab bandits) . 

84 The existing Turkish track had been laid along a route which removed it 
as far as possible from the range of naval gunfire. The British part, built from 
the opposite end, was deliberately constructed to be under the protection of 
warships. The later joining of these tracks accounts for this twisting indi- 
rection, which remained uncorrected. 

85 Palestine and Middle East Economic Magazine, July 1937. 



CHAPTER VII — DUAL OBLIGATION TO TWO PEOPLES 

1 Joseph F. Broadhurst, From Vine Street to Jerusalem. 

This proposed tax would have forced the largest part of Palestine business 
institutions to pay a double income tax. The majority of the large companies 
in the Holy Land are subject to British income tax, which at present is at the 
rate of 27.5%. Practically all large Palestine organizations are registered in 
England, including the Palestine Potash Company, Nesher Cement Works and 
the Jewish National Fund (which by decision of the English courts must pay 
an income tax the same as any commercial body). The two big electric com- 
panies in Palestine, while registered in Palestine, are managed in England and 
thus must, according to English law, also pay an English income tax. It is 
estimated that, on the basis of 1938 returns, about £ 170,000 is thus paid into the 
London Treasury from Palestine. 

2 From 19 1 9 to 1928 alone, this amounted to X 809,766. 

8 Joseph F. Broadhurst, From Vine Street to Jerusalem^ p. 216. 

8ft In addition to such indirect revenue as is secured through income tax, 
Palestine pays tribute to Great Britain through various other channels. A sub- 
stantial part of the country's expenditure goes to English officials who also have 
a claim upon the Palestine Treasury for pensions. The various banks in Pales- 



NOTES FOR PAGES 307 to 335 



549 



tine, too, maintain considerable cash reserves in the banks of 'The City' in 
London. 

4 Joseph F. Broadhurst, From Vine Street to Jerusalem, pp. 202-203. 

5 Jewish Agency Report to the Government, June 1928. 

6 "Children are to be cheated with cockles and men with oaths." — Lysander. 

7 Indignant protest by the Jewish Agency, September 25, 1930 ; Dr. Isaak 
B. Berkson, "Jewish Education in Palestine," Annals of the American Academy 
of Political and Social Science, Vol. 164, November 1932, pp. 146-147. 

8 Report of the Palestine Royal Commission, July 1937, pp. 133-134. 

9 Ibid. p. 340. 

He concedes that if Arab and Jewish children had been taught in school 
together, under a curriculum devoted to the languages, literature and history 
of both races, the barriers between Jew and Arab would have broken down. — 
Report of the Palestine Royal Commission, July 1937, p. 333. 

10 Memorandum submitted to Permanent Mandates Commission, June 1926. 

11 Joseph F. Broadhurst, From Vine Street to Jerusalem, p. 230. 

12 Douglas V. Duff, Galilee Galloper, p. 249. 
18 Memorandum of September 25, 1930. 

14 Palestine As We Saw It. 

16 The relative figures up to 1928 on health services showed that voluntary 
Jewish agencies had expended £ 1,160,000, compared with only £912,600 on the 
part of the Government for the entire country. 

18 Michael Langley, "Jerusalem," Great Britain and the East, May 14, 1936. 

17 Andrew Koch, "The Jerusalem Water Supply Today," Palestine Post, 
July 12, 1936. 

18 This gruesome piece of Jew-baiting found its mark in the sheer horror 
with which religious Jews regard any disturbance of those who have gone 
to their final sleep. 

19 Statement issued October 13, 1925, by the Executive Committee of the 
Palestine-Arab Congress. 

20 Much of their time is spent in the inevitable 'club* and at the hunt. In 
Palestine they chase the jackal instead of the fox over the countryside, follow- 
ing the strict English 'Shire tradition' of pink coat and white breeches, pre- 
senting a unique spectacle to an incurious East. 

21 Through its subsidiary, the Jerusalem Electric and Public Service Cor- 
poration Ltd. Just what kind of a paying proposition this turned out to be, is 
shown by its net profit of £58415 in the year 1936, a literally staggering sum 
for so small a city. 

22 Joseph F. Broadhurst, From Vine Street to Jerusalem, pp. 202-203. 

28 Michael Langley, "Jerusalem," Great Britain and the East, May 14, 1936. 

The latest cable dispatches describe the inauguration of a new automatic 
telephone exchange in Jerusalem (June 20, 1938). Just how this will affect 
the existing situation remains to be seen. 

24 Minutes of the Mandates Commission for February 1932. 

25 Maimonides, greatest of medieval Jewish scholars, was born at Cordova 
about 1 131 and died about 1205. He was not only a great thinker from whom 
the Christian church borrowed liberally, but a famous physician as well. He 
systematized the whole mass of Jewish tradition, redemonstrating the rational 
principles on which Judaism is based. 

28 This particular case was unmasked by the Hebrew paper Hashavua Ha 
Palestinai in its issue of March 7, 1929. 

27 Palestine Defense Order in Council, Section 6 of regulation issued April 19, 
1936. 



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28 See House of Commons debate, September 23, 1931. 

29 Hyamson was one of that set of queer men who had been devoted disciples 
of Achad Ha'am. He had a large hand in helping the Shaw and Hope-Simpson 
Commissions in preparing their data. After his resignation from the Palestine 
Service, the British Government appointed him Secretary of the Board of 
Anglo-Jewish Deputies, who, to their credit, rejected the nomination, declaring 
him "unfitted for the office ... in view of his past record." 

80 Protest Memorandum to the British Government, September 25, 1930. 

81 Palestine and Middle East Economic Magazine, issue of April 1937 ; Report 
of the Palestine Royal Commission, published July 1937. 

82 Report of the Palestine Royal Commission, p. 139. 

88 £E is a symbol for the Egyptian pound. It is worth approximately $5.00. 
84 Protest Memorandum submitted October 13, 1925. 

88 A few days after the Nazis took over Austria and began their bloody 

Sersecution of Austrian Jews, the King David Hotel flew the swastika flag in 
onor of a party of Nazi guests. Protests by the deeply indignant Jewish 
Community brought a cold rejoinder from the management. 

80 Joseph F. Broadhurst, former Assistant Inspector General C.I.D., Palestine 
Government, "The Underworld of Palestine," Great Britain and the East, 
April 1, 1937. 

87 Joseph F. Broadhurst, From Vine Street to Jerusalem, p. 203. 

88 Ibid. p. 201. 

39 Report of the Palestine Royal Commission, published July 1937, 
Symbolic of this whole disreputable business is the appointment of the anti- 
Jewish agitator, Musa Elalami, in February 1934 as Government Advocate for 
Palestine. 

40 From Vine Street to Jerusalem, p. 201. 

41 This was at the same time that repeated assaults on Jews and the continued 
pelting of Wailing Wall worshipers with rocks, elicited no punishment at all. 

42 Special correspondent for The Neiv Palestine, issue of April 1, 1938. 

48 Admitted by Dr. Drummond Shiels, Under-Secretary for the Colonies, 
under questioning by P. Freeman, M.P., in Commons, April 21, 1931. 

44 Report by His Majesty 7 s Government in the United Kingdom of Great 
Britain and Northern Ireland to the Council of the League of Nations on the 
Administration of Palestine and Transjordan for the year 1936, p. 96. 

40 Douglas Duff, Galilee Galloper, p. 251. 

46 Douglas Duff, Sword for Hire. 

47 December 21, 1930. 

48 August 1, 1928. 

49 April 1, 1930. 

80 Dispatch, August 13, 1928, by Dr. Alexander Mombelli, Jerusalem Cor- 
respondent for the National Catholic Welfare Council's News Service. 
61 July 2, 1928. 

52 Involving several cases affecting Americans, including that of an American 
girl, niece of a prominent American Zionist woman. Protest made in May 1928. 



84 The Jewish Frontier, March 1937. 
68 Horace B. Samuel, Unholy Memories of the Holy Land, p. 142. 
88 London, February 16, 1937. 

87 J. H. Kann, Some Observations on the Policy of the Mandatory Govern- 
ment of Palestine ivith Regard to the Arab Attacks on the Jewish Population 
in August 1929, pp. 37-38. 

88 May 20, 1927. 




NOTES FOR PAGES 335 to 369 551 

88 Dr. Josef Schechtmann, Transjordanien im Bereiche des Palastinamandates, 
pp. 120-130. 

60 Memorandum to the British Government, September 25, 1930. 

61 Re-quotation in the Jewish World, November 9, 1936, from the London 
Daily Telegraph of a few days earlier. 

82 Joseph F. Broadhurst, From Vine Street to Jerusalem, p. 240. 
68 London Jewish Chronicle, June 5, 1936. 

84 The J. T. A. News Service quotes a sample as of March 10, 1935, printed 
in Arabic and English, urging a Jewish boycott, screeching that "every cent 
which goes into a Jewish pocket is a nail in the coffin of an Arab !" 

68 It is sold in great quantities in both English and Arabic translation, appar- 
ently with official encouragement. 

66 Roman Slobodin, "I Cover Palestine," The Jewish World, December 27, 
1937- 

67 In its defense it is alleged that this regulation was introduced in the inter- 
ests of the Arabs. The fact, however, is that most of the Arab villages in 
Palestine have neither a doctor nor even a midwife. These villages alone could 
profit tremendously from the knowledge and experience of skilled Jewish phy- 
sicians. 



CHAPTER VIII — TRANS JORDAN THE JUDENREIN 

I High Commissioner's Report to the League of Nations for Palestine and 
Transjordan for the year 1936, p. 316 (full title in Note 5 following). 

8 Mandates Commission Report issued August 25, 1930. 
•February 20, 1931. 

* Minutes of the Thirteenth Session, June 1928, p. 47. 

8 Report by His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom of Great 
Britain and Northern Ireland to the Council of the League of Nations on the 
Administration of Palestine and Transjordan for the year 1936, p. 322. 

6 Ibid. p. 376. 

7 Davar, issue of May 21, 1927. 

8 Issue of February 26, 1933. 

9 Great Britain and the East, issue of January 25, 1936. See also issue of 
June 25, 1936. 

10 Ibid., issue of June 11, 1936. 

II J. M. Machover, Jewish State or Ghetto, p. 33. 
12 Fourteenth Edition, 1929, Vol. 22* p. 411. 

18 Josiah C Wedgwood, The Seventh Dominion, p. 74. 
14 The High Commissioner allowed Abdullah ^5000 a month for pocket 
money. 

18 Palestine at the Crossroads, p. 56. 

16 Madeleine S. Miller, Footprints in Palestine. 

17 Kenneth Williams, "The Royal Commission Visits Trans jordan," Great 
Britain and the East, December 10, 1936. 

18 Letter to the New York Times, July 8, 1936. 

19 Abdullah thought he was being canny in leasing the land instead of selling 
it outright, thereby getting around the restriction on outright sale to Jews* 

so Al Jamia Arabia, December 10, 1932. 

21 Dr. Josef Schechtmann, Transjordanien im Bereiche des Palastinamandates, 
pp. 185-200. 

22 Ibid. pp. 181-184, 



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CHAPTER IX — WHOOPING IT UP FOR DEMOCRACY 

1 London Times, December 28, 1934. 

2 See various petitions by Shi'a Community to the League ; and recent state- 
ment by the Iraqi Prime Minister, Great Britain and the East, issue of July 18, 
1937- 

3 Palestine at the Crossroads, p. no. 

4 Prof. George L. Scherger, Ph. D., "Pan-Arab Aspirations and World Peace," 
The Pro-Palestine Herald, issue of April-May 1932. 

5 The Arabs, pp. 240-250. 

8 Brought out in evidence given before the Peel Commission, January 19, 1937, 
by Dr. Totah, Nationalist agitator. 

7 Report of the Palestine Royal Commission, published July 1937, p. 91. 

8 How the mayoralty was handed out on a platter to *deserving' Arabs is 
graphically told by Ronald Storrs, Memoirs, p. 251. 

9 J. H. Kann, Some Observations on the Policy of the Mandatory Government 
of Palestine with Regard to the Arab Attacks on the Jewish Population in Au- 
gust 1929, The Hague, 1930, p. 42. 

10 Issue of February 1938. 

11 Daniel Auster, "Competence of Municipalities," Palestine Review, April 17, 
1936. 

12 Report of the Palestine Royal Commission, published July 1937, p. 349. 
18 Beverley Nichols, No Place Like Home, pp. 218-219. 

14 Estimate by I. Ben Zvi, Chairman of the Vaad Leumi, September 17, 1934. 

15 J. M. Machover, Governing Palestine. 

16 Letter to Great Britain and the East complaining against disenfranchise- 
ment, censorship and despotism by the Colonial Office ; signed by prominent 
Cypriots including the Mayor of Larnaca and members of the Executive and 
Advisory Councils. Issue of July 29, 1937. 



BOOK THREE 

CHAPTER I — "A PEOPLE IN DESPAIR" 

1 Interim Report on the Civil Administration of Palestine during the period 
July /, 1 920- June so, 1921 (Cmd. 1409, 1921). 

2 Mrs. Steuart Erskine, Palestine of the Arabs, p. 26. 
8 Sir Mark Sykes, The Caliph's Lost Heritage. 

88 Qoraish was the historic family which held hereditary rights to the tradi- 
tional Ka L ba at Mecca. The Kdba, housing the famous piece of meteorite rock 
known as the black stone, was the center of all pre -Mo hammed an Arabic wor- 
ship. It has since become an object of adoration for all believing Moslems and 
is the most sacred of all their shrines. By visiting this sanctified place a Moslem 
achieves holiness and with it the distinguished title of Haj. 

4 Asia Magazine, issue of March 1930. 

5 Around the Coasts of Arabia, pp. 137, 201. 

6 Jacob De Haas, History of Palestine. 

7 The Tragedy of the Assyrians, p. 18. 

8 Rev. W. M. Christie, Journal of Transactions of the Victoria Institute, 



NOTES FOR PAGES 369 to 396 



553 



February 1930 ; Jacob De Haas, History of Palestine ; Le Strange, Moslems in 
Palestine. 

9 Narrative of the U. S. Expedition to the River Jordan and the Dead Sea, 
Lieut. W. F. Lynch commanding (Official Navy Department Report), p. 446. 

10 See Sir Charles Wilson, Picturesque Arabia, Sinai and Egypt ; Dr. E. H. 
Palmer, The Desert of the Exodus ; Isaac Ben Zvi, "Vestiges of a Jewish Tribe 
in Transjordan," Palestine Review, October 2, 1936. 

11 Europe and Europeans, p. 258. 

12 Holy Land Under Mandate, Vol. I, p. 183. 

13 "Arabs and Jews in Palestine," p. 98, journal of Transactions of the Victoria 
Institute, February 1930. 

14 A black and white, or brown and white, striped coat. 

15 A cylindrical red hat with tassel attached. 

™ Narrative of the U. S. Expedition to the River Jordan and the Dead Sea, 
Lieut. W. F. Lynch. 

17 Seven Pillars of Wisdom, p. 47. 

18 Three Deserts, pp. 142-143 ; 159-161. 

19 Narrative of the U. S. Expedition to the River Jordan and the Dead Sea. 

20 Three Deserts, p. 161. 

21 A Journey to Jerusalem, p. 301. 

22 In the Steps of the Master, p. 239. 

23 F. G. Jannaway, Palestine and the World, p. 179. 

24 Ermete Pierotti, Customs and Traditions of Palestine, pp. 173-179. 
28 Submitted by Moslems of Nablus District, May 14. 

26 Peace Handbook, Turkey and Asia, published by H. M. Stationery Office, 
1920, p. 14. 

27 A Journey to Jerusalem, p. 243. 

28 Customs and Traditions of Palestine, p. 105. 

29 Palestine of the Arabs, p. 216. 

80 Galilee Galloper, p. 53. 

81 These are about six or seven feet high, rectangular in form, and are made of 
camel's or goat's hair. Generally black, they are spun by the women on a 
common loom. 

82 Among the Holy Hills, 

83 With Lawrence in Arabia, p. 97. 

84 Ermete Pierotti, Customs and Traditions of Palestine, p. 256. 
8B Selah Merrill, East of the Jordan. 

86 Ibid. pp. 144-145. 

87 Footprints in Palestine. 

88 Alfred Bertholet, A History of Hebrew Civilization, p. 160. 

89 Journal of the Victoria Institute, London, May 26, 1930, p. 261. 

40 Three Deserts, pp. 142-143. 

41 These are the sects of Shafi, Hanbali, Hanafi, and Maliki. 

42 The Druses consider prayer to be an impertinent interference with the 
Creator. They believe the last incarnation was Hakim, the Sixth Fatimite Ca- 
liph. Hakim will reappear in the world to make his religion supreme. Polyg- 
amy and the use of wine and tobacco are forbidden. 

48 Memoirs, p. 372. 

44 Zev Abramowitz, "Social-Economic Structure of Arab Palestine," Jews and 
Arabs in Palestine, pp. 41-42. 
44 No Place Like Home, p. 195. 
46 March 17, 1927. 



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47 Journal of Victoria Institute, February 1930 ; Horace B. Samuel, Unholy 
Memories of the Holy Land, p. 141 ; Colonel Josiah C. Wedgwood, The Seventh 
Dominion, p. 8. 

48 Quincy Howe, England Expects Every American to Do His Duty, p. 143. 

49 In his book, Where Noiv Little Jew ?, the Swedish writer Magnus Her- 
mansson states that early in the present revolt "the Y.M.C.A. in Jerusalem 
ordered its Board to break off all relations with the Jews [this could hardly have 
been done without the consent of the Government] . They organized a meeting 
in the summer of 1936, on which occasion the speaker proved that God never 
promised the Jews the Holy Land." He states also that the Patriarch of the 
Greek Catholic Church has contributed large sums to the Arab strike leaders, and 
gives the case of an abbot in a monastery near Bethlehem who was caught red- 
handed having bombs made in the monastery itself. — p. 73. 

60 Galilee Galloper, p. 172. 

61 Horace B. Samuel, Revolt By Leave, 

02 It had accused the Catholics of lobbying to secure the Mandate for Italy. 

63 Issue of June 4, 1936. 

64 U. S. Consul Wilson, Consular Reports, October 1880, Vol. II, No. 37, p. 69 ; 
cf. Jacob De Haas, History of Palestine, p. 431. 

55 U. S. Consular Reports, October 1882, VIII, p. 411. 

56 U. S. Consular Reports, February 1881, III, p. 36. 
67 Land of the Morning, p. 185. 

08 Herbert Sidebotham, Great Britain and Palestine, p. 84. 

09 £7. S. Consular Reports, December 1898, L.I.X., p. 691. 

60 Jewish Agency Memorandum to the Secretary General of the League of 
Nations, June 1937, p. 36. 

61 Palnews Economic Annual of Palestine, 1937, p. 23 ; cf. Palestine, 1937, 
No. 1 ; Palestine Review, issue of April 1, 1937. 

62 Palestine Executive Survey, June 1930. 

63 Gerhard Holdheim, "Ueber die Voraussetzungen und das politische Ziel 
des Zionismus." Preussische Jahrbucher, April 1930, p. 65. 

64 December 1934. The newspaper contrasted its own situation with the 
prosperity of its southern neighbor. 

65 Boston Herald, November 30, 1926. 

66 Signed article, New York American, October 17, 1936. 

67 Interview in Vienna Stimme, August 14, 1930. 

68 See High Commissioner's Report for Palestine and Transjordan, 1935. 

68 Hadassah News Letter, July 1938 ; cf. Pro-Palestine Herald, August 1938. 

70 "The Mandates in Syria and Palestine," The Quarterly Review, London, 
January 1923. 

71 Near East and India in its issue of April 9, 1925 quotes a letter from Mc- 
Mahon addressed to the Palestine Government on March 12, 1925, to this effect. 
On July 23, 1937, McMahon again wrote the London Times, stating : "I defi- 
nitely and emphatically must declare that the promise to King Hussein for Arab 
independence did not include Palestine. . . The fact that Palestine was not in- 
cluded in this pledge was well understood by King Hussein." 

72 Protest Memorandum of October 13, 1925. 

73 It is a historical fact that Jerusalem owes its place in Moslem tradition solely 
to its association with Judaism, and to a lesser degree, with Christianity. It is 
hardly as sacred as the Tunisian city of Kairwan, the holy city of all North 
Africa. Yet today there is a great French settlement in Kairwan, and a French 
administration. Any tourist can enter its famous mosques and no one seems 
the worse off for it. 



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T * Ameen Rihani, "Palestine and the Proposed Arab Federation " Palestine — 
A Decade of Development. 
76 Galilee Galloper, p. 175. 

76 New York American, October 8, 1936. 

77 Hebrew : "Children of Israel." 

78 Series of League of Nations publications, 1930, VI-A, 37, 38. League of 
Nations, Seventeenth Session, Geneva, June 3 to June 21, 1930. 

79 With Lawrence in Arabia, p. 37. 

80 From Vine Street to Jerusalem, p. 250. 

81 "A Protest, Prospect and a Compromise," Pro-Palestine Herald, Fall Issue 
1937. 

82 J. M. Machover, Jewish State or Ghetto, p. 180. 
88 Requoted from Palestine Review, August 27, 1937. 

84 Issue of May 16, 1936. 

85 Palestine Picture. 

88 Palestine Today and Tomorrow, pp. 102-103. 

87 Joseph J. Williams, Hebrewisms of West Africa, p. 210 ; Nahum Slouschz, 
Travels in North Africa, p. 362 ; R. V. C. Bodley, Algeria From Within, p. 198 ; 
Paul Odinot, Les Ber teres La Geographic, Tome XLI, p. 137. This is also 
verified by the Babylonian Talmud (Sanhedrin 91a) ; St. Jerome (Onomastica 
Sacra) ; St. Augustine (Migne, "Patres Latini " Vol. XXXIV- V, p. 2096) ; and 
Procopius. 

88 History of the Rise and Influence of the Spirit of Rationalism in Europe, 
Vol, II, pp. 266-267. 

89 Outline of History, 

90 This condition is described by the Jews themselves with the term ahl ed 
drmma. They were deprived of even the most elementary human rights, to say 
nothing of political rights. 

91 The Arabs, pp. 223-224. 

92 History, Book V, p. 1. 

98 Palestine on the Eve, p. 122. 

94 Quarterly Review, January 1933. 

95 The British Betrayal of the Assyrians, p. 138. The author, Yusuf Malek, 
was for thirteen years a member of the Iraqi Civil Service. 

96 See // Aryan, Beirut, September 9, 1937. 

97 Lieut.-CoL A. T. Wilson, Mesopotamia : A Clash of Loyalties, p. 291 ; Sir 
A. Haldane, The Insurrection in Mesopotamia, pp. 288-296 ; Lieut.-Col. A. T. 
Wilson in The Nineteenth Century and After Review, October 1933. 

98 Sir Francis Humphreys, British High Commissioner for Iraq, speaking for 
His Majesty at Geneva, January 5, 1932. 

Only four years later, Great Britain and the East (issue of June 4, 1936) is 
glibly repeating the same assurances that "Jews and Arabs have lived in amity 
. . . for many centuries without racial or religious friction of any kind." 

99 Hamilton's statement was carried in the entire Hebrew press. See also his 
book, Road Through Kurdistan. 

100 Yusuf Malek, The British Betrayal of the Assyrians, pp. 267-268. 
i Q1 Lieut.-Col. A. S. Stafford, The Tragedy of the Assyrians, p. 168. 

102 Ibid. p. 169. 

103 Ibid. pp. 174-177. 

10* Yusuf Malek, The British Betrayal of the Assyrians, pp. 260-270; 281- 
284. 

105 Dr. David Barsum Perley, Nero's Rule in Iraq. 

106 The British Betrayal of the Assyrians, p. 78. 



SS 6 THE RAPE OF PALESTINE 

107 Palestine Review, October 2, 1936. See also Jewish Daily Bulletin, issue of 
November 14, 1934. 

CHAPTER II -JEHOVAH ABDICATES IN FAVOR OF DOWNING STREET 

1 Great Britain and Palestine, p. 273. 

2 December 26, 1933. 

8 Lieut. W. F. Lynch, Narrative of the U. S. Expedition to the River Jordan 
and the Dead Sea, p. 360. 

4 Palestine at the Crossroads, p. 29. 

5 Palestine on the Eve, pp. 50-51. 

6 While a Jewish deputation was received by the Colonial Secretary later, it 
was a voluntary body which had not been invited, but which took the initiative 
itself. 

7 Palestine Post, June 28, 1936. 

8 Palestine officials plainly resented the coming of these three Americans and 
practically told them they would have to go home. When the Senators replied 
that Americans still had certain rights under the Mandate, they were told by 
British officials that under no circumstances were they to visit the Jewish com- 
munities or colonies. 

9 Political Information Bulletin #9, World Executive Committee of the 
Jewish State Party, Tel Aviv, April 22, 1936. 

10 Horace B. Samuel, Revolt By Leave, p. 62. 

11 Dill had come in June with some 15,000 men, presumably to put down the 
emergency with a stern hand. His first act, described by Arab leaders as "evi- 
dencing great tact," was to let loose some 50 dangerous agitators who had been 
kept under surveillance. 

12 World Jewry, issue of September 1936. 

18 Robert Gessner, Some of My Best Friends are Jews, footnote, p. 274. 
i* Palestine on the Eve, p. 1 19. 

1 5 Palestine Picture, pp. 116-118. 

16 Issue of February 13, 1937. 

^Report of the Palestine Royal Commission, p. 135. 

18 An open letter published in the entire Hebrew press, end of August 1936. 
Dizengoff asserted that the Government wanted to suspend Jewish immigration, 
"but lacking sincerity and courage to make a forthright proposal in that direction, 
wishes to impose the suspension under cover of a Royal Commission." This 
courageous old pioneer finally died on September 23, less than a month later, 
his heart filled to the brim with bitterness. 

19 Palestine Post, April 23, 1936. 

20 New York American, issue of October 1, 1936. 

21 Issue of July 1, 1938. 

22 Palestine Review, August 14, 1936. 

23 Jaffa, July 1, 1936. 
2 * Jaffa, June 8, 1937. 

25 Associated Press Report, June 1, 1936. The High Commissioner's house was 
not damaged. 

26 The reputation of this place was such that whenever a serious theft oc- 
curred in Haifa, the police went to Tireh to look for the loot. 

27 Lord Melchett in Palestine Post, June 23, 1936. 

28 Berl Katznelson, Reaction Versus Progress in Palestine. 

29 Issue of July 15, 1936. 

80 Horace B. Samuel, Revolt By Leave, p. 56. 



NOTES FOR PAGES 424 to 441 



557 



81 Ladislas Farago, Palestine on the Eve, pp. 50-51. The French paper, Paris- 
Soir (issue of July 18, 1938) asserts that a great part of these funds came from the 
wealthy American, Charles Crane. 

82 /. T. A. News, December 21, 1936. 

88 Issue of July 21, 1936. 

34 Revolt By Leave, p. 53. 

38 Great Britain and the East, issue of August 27, 1936 ; cf. Report of the 
Palestine Royal Commission, July 1937, P« 101 • 

86 Issue of October 1, 1936. 

87 The organ of the Mufti, Ad Difaa, wails that "the voices of Mecca and 
Baghdad have been silent. The Arab kings have failed to express their opin- 
ions on the question of the highest importance. . . Seventy days have passed 
and all voices have been heard except those of the Arab kings." — Issue early in 
July 1936. 

**Neiv York Evening Post, August 28, 1936. 

88 Horace B. Samuel, Revolt By Leave, p. 29. 

40 Article headed "Army's Tact in Palestine," issue of October 27, 1936. 

41 Great Britain and the East, issue of September 26, 1936. Fawzy's checkered 
career had not yet ended. He was soon after thrown out of Iraq for subversive 
activities. 

42 London Daily Sketch, January 30-31, 1938. 
48 Issue of May 20, 1936. 

44 The only persons in Palestine able to read Italian are a handful of educated 
Jews and Catholic priests. 

45 When Mosley, the English Fascist leader, an avowed admirer of Hitler, 
went to Berlin a few years ago for advice on how to make his lagging movement 
successful, the Nazi Fuehrer advised him : "Forget all other issues. Simply con- 
centrate on the Jews." Mosley, who had until that time vigorously denied any 
anti-Semitism, soon after joined the ranks of the most violent Jew-baiters in 
Europe. 

Apparently the same advice has been given to Mussolini who, watching the 
success of Fascist groups in neighboring countries, with no better program than 
simple anti-Semitism, has taken the lesson to heart. Just as Germany found allies 
among reactionary groups in all countries when she adopted anti-Semitism as an 
instrument of State policy, so Mussolini, under German stimulation, hopes to 
similarly profit. In neighboring countries such as Rumania, Hungary and Po- 
land, whose friendship the Italian dictator must cultivate if he is to avoid isolation, 
anti-Semitism has developed into almost a religious frenzy. It is the Nazi parties 
in each of these States who are in liaison with Germany and hence, ipso facto, 
with Italy. To fit into this ideological unity the Italian was forced to simulate 
an artificial racialism completely alien to the character of the country. Until 
1938 a Jewish question had never existed there and anti-Semitism was practically 
unknown. 

46 In the Apennine Peninsula there are only 60,000 Jews, yet they have played 
a distinguished and brilliant role. The names of Luigi Luzzatti, recent Minister 
for Foreign Affairs, Ernest Nathan, late Mayor of Rome, General Giuseppe 
Ottolenghi, Minister of War, Guido Jung, until 1935 Minister of Finance, and 
Lodovico Mortara, Lord Chief Justice, are known to all who have followed 
news from Italy. Among others in the Fascist inner circle could be counted the 
banker Toeplitz, Mussolini's financial adviser ; Professor Olivetti, chief Fascist 
theoretician ; the airman Finci, long Mussolini's right hand and leader with 
D'Annunzio in the Fiume campaign ; Margherita Sarfati, author of the standard 
biography of D Duce and much of the Fascist ideology ; Amalia Besso, for years 



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President of the Federation of Fascist Women ; Ilvo Levi, long President of the 
Fascist Students Union, Giuseppe Bottai, Fascist Minister of Education ; Sena- 
tor Theodor Mayer, and Professor Areas, economic theoretician and adviser to 
the Government. The editor of the chief Fascist organ, Regime Fascista, was 
the Israelite Mario Levi. Another member of the Olivetti family was President 
of the Society of Italian Industrialists. It was he who was appointed a committee 
of one by Mussolini to study the economic possibilities of Ethiopia after the 
Italian conquest of that country. Of the fifteen lawyers appointed a few years 
ago to change the Italian Constitution to bring it in line with Fascist principles, 
three were Jews. The Trieste Irredentist movement was led almost entirely 
by Jews, Seure, Maier, Venizian and others. In the army were Ricardo Moizo, 
Commander-in-Chief of the Royal Carabinieri Corps ; the distinguished and 
loved General Mario Jona ; Field Marshal Graziani, conqueror of Ethiopia (of 
Jewish origin, though a professing Catholic) ; Admiral Paoli Maroni, Com- 
mander of the Fourth Naval Division ; Admiral Aldo Ascoli, Commander of the 
Italian Naval Forces in Aegean ; and the head of the Italian Marine Corps, 
General Umberto Pugliese. In commerce, the arts, professions and politics, 
Jews occupied the most prominent positions in Italian life. They held four 
hundred of Italy's eighteen hundred university chairs, not counting assistants 
and lecturers. When Jewish professors fled Germany, Mussolini gave fifty of 
them posts in Italian universities. Alone among the Governments, Italy granted 
the Hebrew University of Jerusalem a subvention for the purpose of establishing 
a chair in Romance Languages. Under the Jewish Communities Law, issued in 
1 93 1, a Federation of Jewish Communities and a Rabbinical Council were es- 
tablished with State subsidy and support. 

It is to be assumed, however, in view of Italy's latest orientation that the happy 
position of Italian Jewry will rapidly deteriorate much as it has in neighboring 
countries on the continent. 

47 Statement to a group of Rumanian press representatives. See the Rumanian 
newspaper Adeverul, November 24, 1927. 

48 From the Italian Government organ, Affari Esteri, Rome, March 25, 1935. 
48 The Brown Network, pp. 135, 227-234. 

Nazi conspiracy in Palestine was later brought forward beyond reasonable 
doubt when a delegation of one hundred Arabs embarked on the S.S. Galilee, 
for Germany, to attend the Nazi Party Congress at Nuremberg (J.T.A. dispatch, 
Sept. 2, 1938). 

80 Isaac Don Levine in the New York American, issue of May 3, 1936. 

81 Ibid. (This manifesto, at first denied by the New York Communist press, 
was later acknowledged by them.) 

82 Palestine As We Saw It, 

88 Palestine on the Eve, p. 103. 
84 Palestine Picture, pp. 146-147. 
88 /. T. A. News, January 7, 1937. 

86 Jerusalem, sitting of January 1, 1937. 

87 "A National Home for the Hauranis? rt Davar, December 18, 1936. 

88 What this means can be understood from the fact that the British originally 
went to Egypt also 'temporarily.' 

88 Accepting tentatively the findings of the Royal Commission, the Permanent 
Mandates Commission, Geneva, August 23, 1937, finds that "it is first necessary 
to lengthen the period of political 'apprenticeship' of the two proposed States 
either under a system of cantons or separate mandates until each State is fit to 
govern itself." 

60 The chairman of the Mandates Commission referred to this subvention as a 



NOTES FOR PAGES 441 to 457 



559 



"form of tribute which it was proposed by the Royal Commission . ♦ , to im- 
pose on the Jewish State for the benefit of the enlarged Transjordan." Minutes 
of the Thirty -Second (Extraordinary) Session, p. 202, 

61 Since the shadow Arab Government will be little more than a British prov- 
ince, Parliament is also asked "to make a grant of £ 2,000,000 to the Arab State." 

62 Herbert Sidebotham, Great Britain and Palestine. 

63 By this and corollary conventions, 1,300,000 Greeks were repatriated from 
Turkey to Greece, and 400,000 Turks transferred from Greek territory to 
Turkey. The agreement also involved an appraisal and exchange of property 
so as to normalize the transaction to the satisfaction of both contracting parties. 
This compulsory exchange of populations took place under the aegis of the 
League of Nations. 

To handle this great movement a proper machinery was set up, and vast 
refugee loans floated, organized by the League and guaranteed by the Greek and 
Turkish Governments. — See The Exchange of Minorities : Bulgaria, Greece and 
Turkey by Stephen P, Ladas, New York, 1932. 

In particular, Greece, a poverty-stricken small country already supporting a 
population vastly denser than Palestine, received a sudden increase of 25% in 
her population. She has not only absorbed these immigrants but has found 
arising from them a new prosperity due to the intelligence and industries they 
brought with them. 

64 In 1932 the Times of India (Bombay, December 5) suggested such an ex- 
change of the Jews of Iraq for surplus Arabs in Palestine. In September 1936, 
Dr. Edwyn Robert Bevan of New College, Oxford, again brought up this solu- 
tion in a letter to the London Times, Since Iraq is greatly underpopulated and 
therefore unable properly to develop its own resources, it could offer Palestine 
Arabs far larger and richer holdings than they now possess in the Holy Land. 
He voiced the opinion that the biggest proportion of the 900,000 Arabs in Pales- 
tine could thus be induced to migrate to Iraq. 

65 Commissioner Palacios said drily : "It would appear that the idea of such a 
highly important proposal had risen spontaneously as if by magic — yet it was 
difficult to believe that a scheme which had stirred public opinion to such an 
extent and awakened historical world ambitions, was devoid of deep founda- 
tions and really had been stumbled on accidentally. What, therefore, were the 
real reasons for the proposal ?" — Session of Mandates Commission, Geneva, 
September 5. 

66 Palestine of the Arabs, pp. 226-229. 

67 London, July 7, 1937. 

% *New York Journal and American, July 18, 1937. 

69 New York Her aid-Tribune , July 22, 1937. 

70 J. M. Machover, Jewish State or Ghetto. 

71 Address by Bishop Alma White of New Jersey, at London, before World 
Fellowship of Faiths. — Associated Press Dispatch, July 13, 1937. 

72 Pro-Palestine Herald, Fall Issue 1937. 

78 Heading in Gaelic American, Irish-American newspaper, July 25, 1936. 

74 "A Hindu Leader Discusses Partition," The Chicago Sentinel, September 

*3, 1937- 

75 Dusk of Empire, pp. 200-291. 

76 Washington, August 1, 1937 — Bishop Francis J. McConnell of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church, was chairman of the conference. The cablegram was signed, 
among others, by Senators Royal S. Copeland and Robert F. Wagner of New 
York, Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia of New York City, William Green, Presi- 
dent of the American Federation of Labor ; Governors Harold G. Hoffman of 



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New Jersey, Wilbur L. Cross of Connecticut, Louis Brann of Maine, Harry W. 
Nice of Maryland, and ex-Governors J. M. Futrell of Arkansas and J. C. B. 
Ehringhaus of North Carolina, and by a host of ministers, divines, and educators. 

77 Washington, July 25, 1937. 

78 Dispatch to the New York Times, by its London political commentator 
'Augur.' 

79 Les Troubles Sanglants En Palestine published by Antifa, Bruxelles, 1936. 

80 Le Grande Bretagne et les Juifs, London, 1928 ( (Organization Sioniste), p. 35. 

81 Statement before House of Commons, July 4, 1922. 

82 Lowell Thomas, With Lawrence in Arabia, p. 318. 

83 New York Times, August 20, 1936 ; and Minutes of the Mandates Commis- 
sion for period August 4 to August 20. 

84 London, July 21. 

86 Confidential Political Information Bulletin # / / from the World Executive 
Committee of the Jewish State Party, May 24, 1936, Tel Aviv. 

86 From the Zionist daily newspaper, The Haint, Warsaw, Poland, issue of 
July 8. 

87 J.T. A. News, January 24, 1938. 
88 /. T. A, News, October 27, 1937. 

89 The head of the Jewish State Party, Meir Grossman, published a memo- 
randum of the conversations between Weizmann and Ormsby-Gore on this 
subject. For this 'crime,' the Zionist hierarchy later suspended Grossman for 
a period of two years, "for a breach of Zionist discipline." In a blistering edi- 
torial, Dr. Fritz Bernstein, editor of the conservative Hebrew daily Haboker 
(and also a member of the Executive's 'Actions Committee'), warned that this 
chain of action carried the threat of converting the Zionist Executive into "a 
political police headquarters like the Gestapo," and was the beginning of "a 
system of political persecution under a so-called lawful mask. . . Moreover," 
the editorial continued, "we do not see even now in what way Mr. Grossman, and 
he alone, committed a breach of Zionist discipline. Actually, he proved by the 
strength of documents that which we all felt and which the Executive denied 
with all vigor : that Dr. Weizmann committed the movement to the British 
Government in favor of partition even before the Congress met," 

90 Palestine Post, May 13, 1936. 

91 Issue of August 19, 1937. 

92 /. T. A. News, August 15, 1937. 

93 New York Evening Journal, August 25, 1937. 

94 Declaration by Premier Mustapha El-Nahas Pasha, speaking before the 
Senate at Cairo, July 25, 1936. 

In July 1938, Premier Mohammed Mahmoud Pasha, on visit to London, re- 
versed his country's attitude once more. Pressed by English interviewers who 
asked whether it was his intention to take up the Palestine problem with the 
British Authorities, he replied laconically : "I am Prime Minister of Egypt, not 
of Palestine." 

96 Iraq's official statement was made together with that of Egypt before the 
Eighteenth Assembly of the League of Nations on September 19 and 20. The 
quotation is from ex-Premier Nagi Sweedy and made at Damascus, September 9. 

96 Sir Zafrullah, who knew what side his bread was buttered on, headed the 
Indian delegation to the Imperial Conference and represented India also at King 
George's Coronation. His warning was uttered at a meeting in the House of 
Lords Committee Rooms, held under the chairmanship of Lord Lamington, a 
well-known anti-Zionist and presumed anti-Semite, October 27-28, 1937. 



NOTES FOR PAGES 457 to 471 561 



&T Declaration by Nagi Sweedy, ex-Premier of Iraq at Damascus, Syria, Sep- 
tember 9. 

Such other individuals were introduced as Prince Omar Toussoun, cousin of 
King Farouk, who warned Britain on September 10, that there would be trouble 
"unless Palestine was returned to the Arabs." This is particularly interesting 
since the Egyptians consider themselves to be of a vastly superior race and heir 
to far finer traditions than the neighboring Arabs, despite the fact that they 
also speak a variety of Arabic. 

88 Several, like the Mufti, escaped this dragnet and took to their heels, and 
are now hiding out in surrounding countries. To show what the Government 
could do when it wanted to, the official Palestine Gazette (October 8, 1937) an- 
nounced a ban on literature relating to or written by the Mufti, as well as on all 
pictures of that gentleman. 

"This savage practice is described in Time, issue of November 1, 1937. 

100 Even Hadassah, organization of the American Zionist Women, and a 
powerful influence in Zionist affairs, demanded in convention on November 1, 
1937 that the World Zionist Executive negotiate with Great Britain "to bring 
about a constructive policy for complete implementation of the Mandate over 
an undivided Palestine," rejecting all palliatives short of that. 

101 Requoted from Great Britain and the East, December 30, 1937. 

102 G re at Britain and the East, June 25, 1936. 

102a Albert Viton, "Economic Consequences of Arab Rebellion," Great Britain 
and the East, issue of August 18, 1938. 
102b ibid. 

103 The Near East Correspondent of the New York Times, after interviewing 
numerous prominent Arabs in July 1937, found them unanimously fearful of dis- 
aster if Zionism was given the coup de grace envisioned in the Royal Commission 
Report. Each of these individuals at the same time maintained the pretense of 
being violently anti-Jewish, for fear of assassination at the hands of the little 
band of cutthroats who were staging the officially condoned revolution. 

™* /. T. A. News, April 27, 1938. 
™*New York Times, November 21, 1937. 

i° 8 Le Temps is recognized as the mouthpiece of the French Ministry of 
Foreign Affairs. Its correspondent, George Meyer, is one of the greatest living 
authorities on the Near East. Cf. Jewish Frontier, July 1938. 

10 7 Palestine Review, July 1, 1938. 

108 Time, November 1, 1937. 

108a i n ! 93 8 Wavell wrote a book on the conquest of Palestine, The Palestine 
Campaigns, in which the actions engaged in by the heroic Jewish battalions were 
not even mentioned. 

109 Palestine and Middle East Economic Magazine, November 1937. 
n° Geneva, September 23, 1937. 

m Geneva, September 16, 1937. 

Weizmann and Ben-Gurion were present in Geneva during the session, ap- 
parently plumping for all they were worth for the British case. 
112 March 8, 1938. 

London Jewish Chronicle, Rosh Hashonah Issue 1937. 

114 London, April 12, 1938. 

115 w as hington, November 8, 1937. 
lie Washington, January 23, 1938. 

11 7 Washington, May 12, 1938. 

ii« The newspaper Le Jour, in a dispatch from Rome (October 25, 1937), 



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reported that this suggestion was made to Premier Mussolini in Rome by Joachim 
von Ribbentrop, German Ambassador to London. 

119 /. T. A, News, September 5, 1937. 

120 The announcement in itself was more than offensive. The High Com- 
missioner simply stated that it had been decided to appoint two additional 
Moslem Arabs (which would put the Moslems in control of the Council) and 
that one of the Moslems to be appointed — still unnamed — would be Mayor. 
Thus the announcement that the Mayor will be a Moslem is unconnected with 
the naming of any individual. Were Acting-Mayor Auster a Moslem, he would 
be eligible for the position of Mayor. Because he is a Jew, in a town the ma- 
jority of whose inhabitants are Jewish, he is automatically disqualified for this 
position. 

121 This barricade, known as 'Tegart's Wall/ significantly follows the line of 
the strategic military road recently built along the northern frontier of the Holy 
Land. 

122 Ben Josef was a member of the right wing faction of the Revisionists and 
was militant vocally on the subject of direct resistance against terrorist activities. 
Though he did not agree with the passive attitude adopted by Jewish leaders, 
there was no evidence that he had committed any crime, and the Government 
presented none. 

123 /. T. A, News, July 13, 1938. 

lzea All effort at retaliation on the part of Jews is severely deplored by the 
Jewish Agency, which has imposed on its members the policy of havlaga (self- 
restraint). The younger Jewish element in Palestine, and in particular the 
Jewish nationalists, have rebelled bitterly against this passive attitude. This 
sentiment is eloquently given in a private letter from one of their leaders (now 
in hiding somewhere in Palestine) , smuggled through by courier to an American 
sympathizer. This dramatic communication is reproduced here in the same 
imperfect English in which it was written (the writer's native language is 
Hebrew). The determined courage of the youthful Jews it speaks for, and 
their striking likeness to the Irish Sinn Fein patriots, will be noted by all readers : 

"You know no doubt the amazing affect the execution of Shlomo Ben Yosef 
has had on our national youth and on the great Jewish masses in Eretz Yisroel 
and abroad. In the week of the execution was the influence of the Agency and 
the Mapai Lan influential left wing Zionist group] on the Yishub like zero. 
It may be said without exaggeration that in those days the Revisionists were 
the dictators of the Yishub — unfortunately for a short time. 

"The death of Ben Yosef, unparalleled in his heroism, has definitely broken 
the back of the havlaga, that shameful 'self-restraint' which is in fact pure 
cowardice and surrender of all our positions and aspirations in Eretz Yisroel. 
In a short time has our youth made wonderful achievements. What is now 
happening in Eretz Yisroel is no more 'pogrom,' as in the last two and a half 
years, but a heroic struggle for our homeland, a struggle for life and death. 
Our wonderful national youth does fear neither the mandatory hangmen nor 
gaols [jails] nor the denunciators from within. In one month over 140 Arabs 
were killed . . . and Arabs no longer attack with impunity but only by dark. 
... It is little doubt that when the so-called 'Jewish reprisals' [self-defense 
measures] continue — and they shall continue ! — the Arabs will brought to the 
necessity to capitulate. 

"Our Agency — Mapai traitors, who are far more angry when Arabs were 
killed than when Jewish children or women were wantonly murdered . . . 
make their best to overbring [turn over] our fighters in the hands of the 
British hangmen and jailors. 



NOTES FOR PAGES 471 to 485 563 

"The persecutions of our movement here are terrible. Many hundreds 
Revisionist leaders or simple members are detained in Acre of Jerusalem or 
Jaffa jail. The Palestine police together with the Mapai are busy in hunting 
those Revisionists who escaped till now the imprisonment. 

"All this has not broken the courage of our fighters. Our movement stands 
in -fire. . . From a semi-liberal and tame party it was transformed in a short 
time in a regular national revolutionary movement, with the slogan 'Liberty 
or Death/ or, with the words of Jabotinsky and Ben Yosef : 'To die or to con- 
quer the mountain/ 

"In these circumstances, when our heroic youth is fighting in Eretz Yisroel a 
threefold fight — against the British 'mandatory* anti-Semites, against the Arabs 
and against the traitors of Mapai — we are in bitterly need of help from abroad — 
both morally and materially, in our fight for Jewish honor, Jewish redemption, 
Jewish future. Our movement is now illegal in Eretz Yisroel in 95%. We 
have no possibility of making propaganda in legal ways, as the Bolsheviks of 
Mapai, the favoured children of 'the Imperialistic Power/ are making. We 
need therefore an 'underground press' for propaganda, as we need means for 
our fighting the foes of the Jewish people from without [Arab bandits], 

"I am certain that you, dear Mr. , could do very much for our struggle 

in Eretz Yisroel which is to decide the fate of our people and our homeland. 
. . . When [if] we only continue the struggle, our victory is certain. When 
you could provide us with some means, in money or in press machines, say, for 
a sum of some 1000 dollars, you would do very much for our movement and 
our people in the most deciding moment of his history. . 

"Your faithfully/' 



(The writer's name has been deleted for obvious reasons.) 

128b i t was pointed out by the Hebrew daily Davar (Tel Aviv, July 22, 1938) 
that it was a practical impossibility for any Jew to penetrate into the spot where 
the explosion took place (in the very heart of the Arab district), with a large 
and heavy bomb weighing more than forty-five pounds, deposit it, and then 
escape. 

124 Drily the American Rabbi Louis L Newman charged the British Govern- 
ment with not being "averse to having an unfavorable impression go forth as to 
the possibilities of making Palestine a refuge for many thousands of Jewish new- 
comers," asserting that this might "also be linked to Britain's desire to bring about 
the partition of Palestine in accordance with her plan of last year." — New York 
Times, July io, 1938. 

12s Jewish World, August 4, 1938. 

126 /. T. A. Weekly News Digest, August 19, 1938. 

127 Time, August 22, 1938. 

128 Issue of December 30, 1937. 
128 Time, August 15, 1938. 

180 New York Journal and American, August 8, 1938. 

In the event that this plan met serious obstacles which would prevent its being 
put into immediate operation the Commission was reported as offering as an alter- 
native a temporary interim system of cantonization, splitting the country into a 
score of regions — Jewish, Arab and mixed — with British police in control. 
This scheme would effectively isolate the Jews to their own cantons. 



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BOOK FOUR 



CHAPTER I — THE COLLAPSE OF EMANCIPATION 



1 The accusation of ritual murder was leveled originally not against the Jews 
but against the Christians during the early days of the Roman Empire. As a 
result of these false charges, thousands of Christians were tortured and put to 
death. Minucius Felix in Chapter XXX of his Octavius, describes these "Chris- 
tian rites for the admission of new members" which he asserts are "as horrible as 
they are well known." Often confessions were exacted from these unfortu- 
nates by torture. Even such cultured men as Tacitus, Pliny and Trajan believed 
implicitly in the truth of these canards. (See Tacitus, Annates XV, 44.) It 
was only after Christianity had become the religion of the Roman State that 
this slander ceased. It was not until the beginning of the Thirteenth Century 
that it was transferred to the Jewish religion. Since then it has shown irre- 
pressible vitality as an accusation against Jews. 

2 The height of absurdity was perhaps reached by Richard Walther Darre 
(Nazi Minister of Agriculture), reported in Die Neue Weltbuehne : "Pigs have 
their bad reputation only because the Jews hate their noble qualities and spread 
lies about them." 

3 Drafted January 1, 1936. On September 19, 1938 it was officially estimated 
that 110,000 Jews would be thrown out of work when the announced ban on 
Jewish commercial travelers and sales agents goes into force on October 1 of 
that year. In 1938, also, a wholesale ban on Jewish physicians went into ef- 
fect. The 6400 Jewish doctors in Germany have now been forbidden to prac- 
tice. 

4 Hermann Gauch, New Principles of Racial Research (a standard textbook 
used in the German schools). 

6 New York Post, August 28, 1936. 

6 Vienna Morgen, October 8, 1935. 

7 The Yellow Spot, pp. 189-190. 

* /. T. A. Dispatch, March 21, 1938. 

• To this the French critic, Londres, snapped : "Do you hear, Jew, of what 
you are being accused ? Jew, eternal wanderer, you don't know how to walk ! " 



10 A law, in operation since 1932, automatically deprived at least 90% of the 
Jewish craftsmen in the country of the right to practice their trade or to employ 
apprentices. Innocent in appearance, it restricted artisan licenses to those ap- 
proved by guilds and unions which in practice will not admit Jews. 

11 David L. Cohn, Neiv York Evening Journal, February 24, 1937. 

12 "Don't Let Them Die." The Chicago Sentinel, May 6, 1937. 

18 Herbert J. Seligmann, director of public information for the American 
Joint Distribution Committee, "Night Over Eastern Europe," Chicago Sentinel, 
October 8, 1936. 

^The Jewish Daily World, July 17, 1936. 

10 Press statement on returning from Europe in the Summer of 1936. 
15a Moscow press report from the radical Swedish newspaper, Svenska Pressen 
(issues of September 2 and 3, 1938). 
itbTime, September 12, 1938. 

The Russian press, and reports of impartial visitors, all testify that anti-Semitism 
in its grossest forms is growing rapidly in Russia. Eugene Lyons noted that 




NOTES FOR PAGES 485 to 496 



Russians commonly refer to "this Jewish government" whenever any national 
disaster or private difficulty arises. "The recent trial in Moscow [the first big 
Russian purge]," asserted Trotzky, "was prepared with the almost open object 
of making the internationalists [those on trial] appear as Jews without ideals 
and law, capable of selling themselves to the German Gestapo [State Secret 
Police], Since 1925 . . . there has been in progress well camouflaged anti- 
Semitic demagogy, hand in hand with symbolic trials against open pogromists 
... a spirit of anti-Semitism which the leaders are using expertly, to direct . . . 
against the Jews the dissatisfaction which exists against the bureaucracy." 
(J.T.A. Report, January 26, 1937.) 

In September 1927 the well known Soviet journalist Sosnowsky wrote in 
Komsomolskaya Pravda that the Communist Party was full of members "who 
were at heart pogromists" but who kept their anti-Semitism quiet. The Amer- 
ican correspondent, Leon Dennen, declared : "It did not take me long last year 
[1933] to discover anti-Semitism in Russia. . . It crops up everywhere . . . one 
encounters it in the cooperative stores and in factories as well as in theaters." 
(Menorah Journal, Spring 1934.) 

An infinite number of examples graphically portray this hidden trend in the 
land of Soviets. The Leningrad newspaper, Krasnaya Gazeta, charged on Feb- 
ruary 9, 1926 that anti-Semitism was rife in hospitals and colleges ; and on 
December 8, 1927, Knorin, Secretary of the White Russian Communist Party, 
acknowledged in his report submitted to the Party Conference at Minsk that "it 
was impossible to deny the existence of a growing anti-Semitism among the 
working classes, not only in White Russia but also in Moscow, Leningrad and 
throughout the country." The newspaper Shtern of Charkov (July 18, 1930), 
complains that Jews are not employed on Soviet railways and demands an in- 
vestigation. 

Another example is the declaration of Sovostin, leader of the Bezbozhniki 
(official Russian league for promoting atheism), on March 4, 193 1, that Jews 
still killed Christian children for blood to use in preparing matzos. The news- 
paper Komsomolskaya Pravda (Moscow, January 10, 1929) lists many incidents 
of Jews compelled to leave factories and schools because of anti-Semitic per- 
secution in which members of the Communist Youth Organization were in- 
volved. 

Following the exile of Trotzky there occurred a wholesale expulsion of Jews, 
not only from political posts but also from technical and scientific positions as 
well as party membership, he Matin of Paris reported in October 1936 a 
systematic anti-Jewish drive led by Marshal Voroshilov, Soviet Army chief, to 
eliminate Jews from all high posts in the Government. Jewish leaders were 
systematically arrested and purged. Today there are only two Jewish figures 
in the entire Soviet government who are in positions of authority. One is 
Litvinov, who remains practically indispensable due to his experience and 
knowledge. The other is the organization expert, Kaganovich. 

While it is true that Jews possess, under the law, equality with other citizens, 
this is at the expense of their Jewish belief, since Judaism is persecuted with 
unabated ferocity in Russia. It must be pointed out that this was a kind of 
equality the Jew could also have had under the Czars, had he been willing to 
forego his religious convictions. The Czars, in fact, granted full liberties to Jews 
if they converted, and, far from being militated against, special favor was actually 
shown them. 

Despite catchwords, phrases and guarantees it may be logically assumed that 
Russia, which was the old land of pogroms, will again prove to be the grave- 
yard of the Jews. 



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15c The editor of El Popular is Vicente Lombardo Toledano, Secretary of 
the Confederation of Mexican Labor and its most powerful figure. 

The full realism of the Communist position may be seen in the various 
maneuvers which took place in pre-Hiuer Germany, where the Communists 
often joined in a 'united front* with their brown-shirted rivals. A speaking 
example was the resolution offered in the Prussian Diet on June 27, 1932, instruct- 
ing the Government to submit the draft of a law providing for confiscation of 
the property of all East European Jews who entered the country after August i, 
1914. The passage of this resolution (which was not carried into actual effect) 
was made possible by an alliance between the National Socialists (Nazis) and 
the Communist deputies in the Diet, 

19 From the records of the Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society 
(Hias), New York City. 

17 A sample of this condition is shown in the sudden action of republican 
Switzerland, which in August 1938 returned to Germany an estimated 1000 
refugees who were without proper papers, and which formally closed the border 
against any further infiltration. In London itself on August 19, 1938, Magistrate 
Herbert Metcalfe sentenced three of these unfortunate refugees to prison terms 
at hard labor for illegally entering England. "The way stateless Jews from 
Germany are pouring in from every port of this country," he declared, "is an 
outrage." 

18 J.T. A. News, February 1, 1938. 

19 Chicago Jewish Chronicle, January i* 1937. 

20 This organization which makes a humanitarian appeal for financial support 
by Jews in various parts of the world, operates under different names such as 
lkar i Iderd, etc. 

21 /. T. A. Report, February 17, 1937. 
42 Issue of June 23, 1938. 

24 Issue of July 27, 1938. 

24 /. T. A, News, June 26, 1938. Winterton, as will be remembered, was the 
man who led the Government's fight in the Lords for acceptance of the partition 
proposal. 

25 A. P. Dispatch, July 15, 1938. 

26 George Rublee, Washington attorney and close friend of President Roose- 
velt, was elected as "Director with Authority" of the permanent refugee bureau. 
Lord Winterton was chosen as chairman of the Intergovernmental Committee 
on Assistance to Refugees. 

2 * Issue of July 15, 1938. 

CHAPTER n — SOLVING THE JEWISH QUESTION IN THE HOLY LAND 

1 Raw Materials, Population, Pressure and War, p. 14, 

2 From Vine Street to Jerusalem, p. 180. 

8 An Interim Report on the Civil Administration of Palestine during the period 
July i, 1920-June 30, 1921 (Cmd. 1499, 1921). 

* Thy Neighbor, p. 208. 

5 In a series of articles appearing in the New York Sun, December 1926. 

• Reclamation Commissioner of the Department of the Interior for the Ameri- 
can Government. 

7 Palestine als Judisches Ansiedlungsgebiet. 

8 Statement January 9, 1938. 

9 Britain Facing Imperial Crisis, New York American, April 13, 1930. 

10 Palestine Today and Tomorrow, pp. 16, 99. 



NOTES FOR PAGES 496 to 518 



567 



« Sword for Hire. 

**U. S. Government Report, 1925. 

15 This virtually deserted territory is dotted with vestigial remnants of once 
prosperous cities and agricultural communities. In ancient times it had been 
traversed by a wide road system. Archaeological remnants show it to have been 
once a veritable Garden of Eden. 

14 Three Deserts, pp. 159-161. 

16 May 20, 1925. 

*• July 4, 1927, in a letter to Dr. Ruppin. 

17 Elias Ginsburg, "The Prevailing Approach to the Land Problem in Pales- 
tine," Palnews Economic Annual of Palestine, 1937, p. 199. 

* 8 Palestine Review, July 24, 1936. 
10 East of the Jordan, p. 63. 

20 Dr. W. Stern, "Palestine's Water Problem," Palnews Economic Annual of 
Palestine, 1936. 

21 H. B. Tristram, The Land of Israel ; A Journal of Travels in Palestine, p. 224. 

22 Palestine and Middle East Economic Magazine, September 1937. 

28 "The Water Economy of Palestine," Palnews Economic Annual of Pales- 
tine, 1937, pp. 114-117. 

24 An Interim Report on the Civil Administration of Palestine during the 
period July 1, 1920-June 30, 1921 (Cmd. 1499, 1921). 

25 Historical Geography of the Holy Land, pp. 521-522. 

28 Dr. Alfred Michaelis, "The Economic Capacity of Palestine," Palnews 
Economic Annual of Palestine, 1936. 

27 Admitted by Lord Plymouth, Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies, 
in response to a question in Lords, July 5, 1934. 

28 East of the Jordan, p. 229. 

28 Graham and May, Culture and Conscience, p. 14. 

80 G. S. Blake, "Mineral Deposits of Palestine and Transjordan," Palnews 
Economic Annual of Palestine, 1937. 

81 Dr. Stefan Loewengart, "The Principal Raw Materials of Palestine," Pal- 
news Economic Annual of Palestine, 1936. 

82 Published under the editorship of Prof. A. Fodor, Director of the Bio- 
chemical Institute, accompanied by a supplementary survey on the local geol- 
ogy by L. Picard. 

33 Opinion, July 1934. 

34 Among the secret agreements protecting British oil interests, says Pierre 
van Paassen (Opinion, July 1934), is one made at the time of the San Remo 
Conference, later extended and ratified (September 3, 1932, Mr. Alex Sutherland 
acting for the Company). Under this understanding the Palestine Govern- 
ment undertakes to see that there is no boring for o3 anywhere in the Holy 
Land or Transjordan. 

86 Journal of the Royal Central Asian Society, issue of January 193 1, p. 52. 

88 Revue Animateur des Temps Nouveaux, Paris, May 1929. 

8 ? Journal of the Royal Central Asian Society, issue of January 193 1, p. 52. 

38 It should be mentioned here that the Jewish members of this company state 
themselves as not averse to this participation by English interests, and regard 
the presence of such men as Lords Lytton and Gfenconner as a considerable asset 
to their corporation. 

89 The whole area of the Dead Sea minerals concession operated by the Pales- 
tine Potash Company is to be included within the Arab State. The expropria- 
tion of alien-owned oil properties in Mexico gives ample warning of what is 
likely to happen to this enterprise after the proposed Arab State has been 



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organized. Jewish participation would then depend entirely on the sufferance 
of the British and their Arab puppet State. Since it would be by far the most 
valuable asset contained within the boundaries of that State (which will be 
presumably ]udenrein) y its fate should not be difficult to foresee. 

40 The results of a study of the algae of the Palestinian shore have been pub- 
lished in a Bulletin of the Institut Oceanographique de Monaco (Dr. Jos. Carmin 
-No. 653, 1934). 

41 Convention of German chemists, Berlin, July 10, 1937. 

42 Evidence submitted to the Palestine Royal Commission, House of Lords, 
London, February 11, 1937, by Vladimir Jabotinsky on behalf of the New Zion- 
ist Organization. 

**New York American, October 13, 1936. 

CHAPTER III — "AM I MY BROTHER'S KEEPER ?" 

1 "And Jehovah said unto Cain . . . What hast thou done ? The voice of thy 
brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground." Gen. 4:9. 

2 The New Palestine, November 26, 1937. 
8 December 27, 1937. 

4 New York Post, February 22, 1937. 
8 Time, March 1, 1937. 

6 Volksworte, April 28, 1933. 

7 Wireless to the New York Times, September 19, 1936. 

The Nazi ideologists consider Christianity to be an alien importation, degrad- 
ing to the German soul. A German court recently refused to register the name 
of a newly born German child named Joshua, alleging that since the name was 
"typically Jewish" it was an affront to German honor. Since Jesus is described 
in the first chapter of Matthew and in the third chapter of Luke as "the son of 
David, the son of Jacob, the son of Isaac, the son of Abraham," he, too, obviously 
falls within the hated category. It is known that the whole of Chancellor 
Hitler's bodyguard has left the Church to become converted to paganism. Party 
leaders are increasingly giving up their Protestant and Catholic memberships 
and, without exception, those who still retain Christian affiliations merely do so 
nominally, for the sake of general world opinion. 

8 Rome, August 5, 1938. 

9 Cf., The Sun, Baltimore, Md., July 30, 1938. 

10 Issue of August 5, 1938. 

Recognizing the dangers in this program, Pope Pius VI immediately chal- 
lenged it as an attack on Church principles. Leaflets distributed by the thou- 
sands in all churches of Italy, declared : "The racial [pagan] theory seeks to 
replace the rule of law by the rule of blood hatred. It is an attack against re- 
ligion." 

11 Message from Pope Pius XI condemning anti-Semitism, published at Ant- 
werp, September 16, 1938, by the managers of the Catholic broadcasting station 
in Belgium after returning from Rome. 

12 Press interview in October 1936. 
18 Leeds, England, July 13, 1938. 

14 New York Post, November 23, 1936. 

18 America, too, as well as England, is apparently to be included in the great 
racial empire of the future. Else what are the sixty thousand Nazis doing here 
in uniform ? Why the pictures of Hitler in their halls ? Why the Horst 
Wessel song in New York and Chicago ? Why the Hitler salute and the typical 
frenzy against the Judeo-Christian-Liberal enemy ? The grandiose extent of 



NOTES FOR PAGES 518 to 523 569 



this ambition hardly cancels its existence. It is relatively no more fantastic than 
the plans the Nazi has already succeeded in translating into reality. And in 
the Reich, Brown Shirts still march to the exultant chant of "today Germany — 
tomorrow the world ! " 

16 Says Voigt in his book, Unto Caesar : "This Pact is an anti-British Pact. Al- 
though not an alliance, it expresses the common interest that Germany, Italy, 
and Japan have, not to strike at Communism, but at the British Commonwealth 
whenever the absolute weakness or passivity of England make an attack pos- 
sible. . . England is in danger. Her spiritual life is threatened by the Hybris 
of secular religion. Her material existence is menaced by the greatest military 
power in the world. Unless she is strong, the Third Realm will be to her as 
Sparta was to Athens, whose fate will be hers." — pp. 231-239. 

17 It is interesting to note, according to a dispatch on July 24, 1938, by Havas, 
the famous French News Agency, that Japan, too, has decided to join Italy in 
espousing the racial theories of the Reich and waging war on the Jews. Several 
eminent Japanese, according to Nazi spokesmen, are due to arrive in Germany 
"to study the Jewish question." Since there are practically no Jews in Japan, 
this anomaly speaks for itself. According to Havas : "Observers believe that 
these moves on the part of the two other members of the Berlin-Rome-Tokyo 
alliance herald an international offensive on the part of the Reich against world 
Jewry along the lines of its vast anti-Bolshevist campaign." Anti-Communism, 
it states, "is to be played down in favor of anti-Semitism" (with its inevitable 
corollary of anti-Christianity). It is believed that the adherence of Italy and 
Japan to the German racial theories presage a united anti-Jewish — anti- 
Christian campaign in the Arab world, with a similar, but more subtly organized 
effort planned in the Anglo-Saxon and South American countries. 

18 Anti-Semitism Throughout the Ages, pp. 200-210. 

19 Foreword to J. de V. Loder's book, The Truth About Mesopotamia, Pales- 
tine and Syria. 

20 M. Mayers, History of the Jews. 

21 The world has a definite stake in the survival of this brilliant people, which 
has produced some of the greatest ornaments of the human race. In music, 
literature, science, commerce and the arts, European Jewry has contributed an 
excessive proportion of notable figures. "Among all the world's groups of 
people," states Professor Ellsworth Huntington, "there is none which for so 
long time, uninterruptedly, and to so high a degree in proportion to its numbers 
has furnished great leaders." ("The Causes of Jewish Greatness," in the Aryan 
and Semite, p. 21.) In our day these same unwanted Jews have given to Europe 
some of her outstanding thinkers such as Einstein, Michelson and Cassirer in Ger- 
many, Freud in Austria and Bergson in France. (See Norman Bentwich, The 
Jews, p. 100.) Of the 29 German Nobel prize-winners, 13 were full-blooded 
Jews. The German films, once so widely known as an artistic product, were 
almost entirely the result of Jewish effort ; and, in 1934, a famous American 
physician declared, referring to such figures as Wassermann and Ehrlich, that if 
one were to erase the Jewish names from German medical textbooks, the books 
would consist only of two covers. The predominance of Jews in intellectual 
pursuits was acknowledged by the Nazi authority Richard Eichenauer, who com- 
plained in his book, Musik und Rasse : "Jewish conductors occupy the most im- 
portant posts ; Jewish singers dominate in opera and operetta ; Jewish virtuosi 
rule in our concert halls ; Jewish critics inundate our newspapers and peri- 
odicals ; Jewish councillors, professors and conservatory directors select what 
music . . . our youth grows up with." Practically all of the great violinists 
of the world, from Zimbalist and Heifetz to Kreisler, are of this same Central 



570 THE RAPE OF PALESTINE 

and East European Jewish stock. So is that long list of noted poets and writers 
such as Schnitzler, Werfel, Zweig, Wassermann and Feuchtwanger. 

In science are such commanding figures as Heinrich Hertz, who made the first 
wireless experiments ; Emil Berliner, inventor of the microphone ; David 
Schwartz who invented the rigid gas bag later to bear the name of Count Zep- 
pelin ; Otto Lilienthal, the great pioneer of flying ; Leo Graetz, inventor of the 
Graetzian light ; and an unending list of others such as James Franck, Gustav 
Hertz, Max Borne, Hermann Arons and Jacques Loeb, without whose great work 
human life and knowledge would be infinitely poorer. The history of philo- 
logical science, of botany, of archaeology and of astronomy are studded with 
Jewish names. 

Though Jews were not even one percent of the population, 14.2% of the law 
professors in German universities in 1909-10 were born as Jews, as were 12% of 
the professors in the Department of Philosophy and 16.8% of the professors in 
the Medical Department. 

The German chemical industry, as another example, is largely a product of 
Jewish genius. It was Adolph Frank whose technical and scientific work laid 
the basis for the founding of the potassium industry, Heinrich Caro whose dis- 
covery of aniline dyes gave Germany preeminence in commerce and industry, 
and an inexhaustible list of other great experimenters such as Karl Leibermann, 
Victor Meyer and Fritz Haber whose work utterly revolutionized chemistry. 
Without these men, and other Jews who collaborated with them to develop the 
business and commercial ends of these great enterprises, the German chemical 
industry would be virtually non-existent. 

Much the same situation is true in neighboring countries where the Jews are 
now suffering so severely. In Poland the Jews supplied almost the entire 
middle class, and says Fraser : "When we talk about Russian art, we generally 
mean Polish Jewish art." {The Conquering Jew, p. 280.) Similarly in the 
surrounding countries, Jews have contributed heavily to both intellectual and 
industrial life. In Rumania they started practically all of the principal indus- 
tries, and it was they who developed the country's basic resources. It was a 
Jew, Berkovici, who put the Rumanian language on a grammatical basis. Jews 
founded and carried on the only banking system of Rumania until the Gov- 
ernment banking system recently supplanted it. In all the arts and sciences they 
have played a foremost part ; and nave also produced the country's greatest 
poets. 

Additional detailed information may be secured from the following books : 
Fritz Kahn, Die Juden als Rasse und Kulturvolk ; Fritz Lenz, Menschlicbe 
Auslese und Rassenhy giene ; Heinrich Berl, Das Judentum in der Musik; 
Meyerson and Goldberg, The German Jew, His Share in Modern Culture. 



APPENDIX A 



THE MANDATE FOR PALESTINE 

The Council of the League of Nations : 

Whereas the Principal Allied Powers have agreed, for the purpose 
of giving effect to the provisions of Article 22 of the Covenant of 
the League of Nations, to entrust to a Mandatory selected by the 
said Powers the administration of the territory of Palestine, which 
formerly belonged to the Turkish Empire, within such boundaries 
as may be fixed by them ; and 

Whereas the Principal Allied Powers have also agreed that the 
Mandatory should be responsible for putting into effect the declara- 
tion originally made on November 2, 191 7, by the Government of 
His Britannic Majesty, and adopted by the said Powers, in favour 
of the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish 
people, it being clearly understood that nothing should be done 
which might prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non- 
Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status 
enjoyed by Jews in any other country ; and 

Whereas recognition has thereby been given to the historical con- 
nection of the Jewish people with Palestine and to the grounds for 
reconstituting their national home in that country ; and 

Whereas the Principal Allied Powers have selected His Britannic 
Majesty as the Mandatory for Palestine ; and 

Whereas the mandate in respect of Palestine has been formulated 
in the following terms and submitted to the Council of the League 
for approval ; and 

Whereas His Britannic Majesty has accepted the mandate in respect 
of Palestine and undertaken to exercise it on behalf of the League 
of Nations in conformity with the following provisions ; and 

Whereas by the afore-mentioned Article 22 (paragraph 8), it is 
provided that the degree of authority, control or administration to 
be exercised by the Mandatory, not having been previously agreed 
upon by the Members of the League, shall be explicitly defined by the 
Council of the League of Nations ; 

Confirming the said mandate, defines its terms as follows : 

Article 1. 

The Mandatory shall have full powers of legislation and of ad- 
ministration, save as they may be limited by the terms of this mandate. 

571 



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Article 2. 

The Mandatory shall be responsible for placing the country under 
such political, administrative and economic conditions as will secure 
the establishment of the Jewish national home, as laid down in the 
preamble, and the development of self-governing institutions, and 
also for safeguarding the civil and religious rights of all the inhabitants 
of Palestine, irrespective of race and religion. 

Article 3. 

The Mandatory shall, so far as circumstances permit, encourage 
local autonomy. 

Article 4. 

An appropriate Jewish agency shall be recognised as a public body 
for the purpose of advising and cooperating with the Administration 
of Palestine in such economic, social and other matters as may affect 
the establishment of the Jewish national home and the interests of 
the Jewish population in Palestine, and, subject always to the con- 
trol of the Administration, to assist and take part in the development 
of the country. 

The Zionist organisation, so long as its organisation and constitu- 
tion are in the opinion of the Mandatory appropriate, shall be recog- 
nised as such agency. It shall take steps in consultation with His 
Britannic Majesty's Government to secure the cooperation of all 
Jews who are willing to assist in the establishment of the Jewish 
national home. 

Article j. 

The Mandatory shall be responsible for seeing that no Palestine 
territory shall be ceded or leased to, or in any way placed under the 
control of, the Government of any foreign Power. 

Article 6. 

The Administration of Palestine, while ensuring that the rights 
and position of other sections of the population are not prejudiced, 
shall facilitate Jewish immigration under suitable conditions and 
shall encourage, in cooperation with the Jewish agency referred to 
in Article 4, close settlement by Jews on the land, including State 
lands and waste lands not required for public purposes. 



APPENDIX A 



573 



Article 7. 

The Administration of Palestine shall be responsible for enacting 
a nationality law. There shall be included in this law provisions 
framed so as to facilitate the acquisition of Palestinian citizenship by 
Jews who take up their permanent residence in Palestine. 

Article 8. 

The privileges and immunities of foreigners, including the benefits 
of consular jurisdiction and protection as formerly enjoyed by Capit- 
ulation or usage in the Ottoman Empire, shall not be applicable in 
Palestine. 

Unless the Powers whose nationals enjoyed the afore-mentioned 
privileges and immunities on August 1, 19 14, shall have previously 
renounced the right to their reestablishment, or shall have agreed 
to their non-application for a specified period, these privileges and 
immunities shall, at the expiration of the mandate, be immediately re- 
established in their entirety or with such modifications as may have 
been agreed upon between the Power? concerned. 

Article p. 

The Mandatory shall be responsible for seeing that the judicial 
system established in Palestine shall assure to foreigners, as well as 
to natives, a complete guarantee of their rights. 

Respect for the personal status of the various peoples and com- 
munities and for their religious interests shall be fully guaranteed. 
In particular, the control and administration of Wakfs shall be exer- 
cised in accordance with religious law and the dispositions of the 
founders. 

Article 10. 

Pending the making of special extradition agreements relating to 
Palestine, the extradition treaties in force between the Mandatory 
and other foreign Powers shall apply to Palestine. 

Article //. 

The Administration of Palestine shall take all necessary measures 
to safeguard the interests of the community in connection with the 
development of the country, and, subject to any international ob- 
ligations accepted by the Mandatory, shall have full power to provide 



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for public ownership or control of any of the natural resources of 
the country or of the public works, services and utilities established 
or to be established therein. It shall introduce a land system appro- 
priate to the needs of the country, having regard, among other things, 
to the desirability of promoting the close settlement and intensive 
cultivation of the land. 

The Administration may arrange with the Jewish agency men- 
tioned in Article 4 to construct or operate, upon fair and equitable 
terms, any public works, services and utilities, and to develop any 
of the natural resources of the country, in so far as these matters 
are not directly undertaken by the Administration. Any such ar- 
rangements shall provide that no profits distributed by such agency, 
directly or indirectly, shall exceed a reasonable rate of interest on 
the capital, and any further profits shall be utilised by it for the 
benefit of the country in a manner approved by the Administration. 

Article 12. 

The Mandatory shall be entrusted with the control of the foreign 
relations of Palestine and the right to issue exequaturs to consuls ap- 
pointed by foreign Powers. He shall also be entitled to afford diplo- 
matic and consular protection to citizens of Palestine when outside 
its territorial limits. 

Article 13. 

All responsibility in connection with the Holy Places and religious 
buildings or sites in Palestine, including that of preserving existing 
rights and of securing free access to the Holy Places, religious build- 
ings and sites and the free exercise of worship, while ensuring the 
requirements of public order and decorum, is assumed by the Manda- 
tory, who shall be responsible solely to the League of Nations in all 
matters connected herewith, provided that nothing in this article 
shall prevent the Mandatory from entering into such arrangements 
as he may deem reasonable with the Administration for the purpose 
of carrying the provisions of this article into effect ; and provided 
also that nothing in this mandate shall be construed as conferring 
upon the Mandatory authority to interfere with the fabric or the 
management of purely Moslem sacred shrines, the immunities of 
which are guaranteed. 

Article 14. 

A special Commission shall be appointed by the Mandatory to 
study, define and determine the rights and claims in connection 



APPENDIX A 



575 



with the Holy Places and the rights and claims relating to the dif- 
ferent religious communities in Palestine. The method of nomina- 
tion, the composition and the functions of this Commission shall be 
submitted to the Council of the League for its approval, and the 
Commission shall not be appointed or enter upon its functions with- 
out the approval of the Council. 

Article ij. 

The Mandatory shall see that complete freedom of conscience and 
the free exercise of all forms of worship, subject only to the main- 
tenance of public order and morals, are ensured to all. No discrimi- 
nation of any kind shall be made between the inhabitants of Palestine 
on the ground of race, religion or language. No person shall be 
excluded from Palestine on the sole ground of his religious belief. 

The right of each community to maintain its own schools for 
the education of its own members in its own language, while con- 
forming to such educational requirements of a general nature as the 
Administration may impose, shall not be denied or impaired. 

Article 16. 

The Mandatory shall be responsible for exercising such super- 
vision over religious or eleemosynary bodies of all faiths in Palestine 
as may be required for the maintenance of public order and good 
government. Subject to such supervision, no measures shall be taken 
in Palestine to obstruct or interfere with the enterprise of such bodies 
or to discriminate against any representative or member of them on 
the ground of his religion or nationality. 

Article 17. 

The Administration of Palestine may organise on a voluntary basis 
the forces necessary for the preservation of peace and order, and 
also for the defence of the country, subject, however, to the 
supervision of the Mandatory, but shall not use them for purposes 
other than those above spec ified save with the consent of the Manda- 
tory. Except for such purposes, no military, naval or air forces 
shall be raised or maintained by the Administration of Palestine. 

Nothing in this article shall preclude the Administration of Palestine 
from contributing to the cost of the maintenance of the forces of the 
Mandatory in Palestine. 

The Mandatory shall be entitled at all times to use the roads, rail- 
ways and ports of Palestine for the movement of armed forces and 
the carriage of fuel and supplies. 



576 



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Article 28. 

The Mandatory shall see that there is no discrimination in Palestine 
against the nationals of any State Member of the League of Nations 
(including companies incorporated under its laws) as compared with 
those of the Mandatory or of any foreign State in matters concern- 
ing taxation, commerce or navigation, the exercise of industries or 
professions, or in the treatment of merchant vessels or civil aircraft. 
Similarly, there shall be no discrimination in Palestine against goods 
originating in or destined for any of the said States, and there shall 
be freedom of transit under equitable conditions across the mandated 
area. 

Subject as aforesaid and to the other provisions of this mandate, 
the Administration of Palestine may, on the advice of the Mandatory, 
impose such taxes and customs duties as it may consider necessary, 
and take such steps as it may think best to promote the development 
of the natural resources of the country and to safeguard the interests 
of the population. It may also, on the advice of the Mandatory, 
conclude a special customs agreement with any State the territory 
of which in 1914 was wholly included in Asiatic Turkey or Arabia. 

Article 19. 

The Mandatory shall adhere on behalf of the Administration of 
Palestine to any general international conventions already existing, 
or which may be concluded hereafter with the approval of the League 
of Nations, respecting the slave traffic, the traffic in arms and am- 
munition, or the traffic in drugs, or relating to commercial equality, 
freedom of transit and navigation, aerial navigation and postal, tele- 
graphic and wireless communication or literary, artistic or industrial 
property. 

Article 20. 

The Mandatory shall cooperate on behalf of the Administration 
of Palestine, so far as religious, social and other conditions may per- 
mit, in the execution of any common policy adopted by the League 
of Nations for preventing and combating disease, including diseases 
of plants and animals. 

Article 21. 

The Mandatory shall secure the enactment within twelve months 
from this date, and shall ensure the execution of a Law of Antiqui- 
ties based on the following rules. This law shall ensure equality of 



APPENDIX A 577 

treatment in the matter of excavations and archaeological research to 
the nationals of all States Members of the League of Nations. 

(0 

"Antiquity" means any construction or any product of human ac- 
tivity earlier than the year a.d. i 700. 

(2) 

The law for the protection of antiquities shall proceed by encour- 
agement rather than by threat. 

Any person who, having discovered an antiquity without being 
furnished with the authorisation referred to in paragraph 5, reports 
the same to an official of the competent Department, shall be rewarded 
according to the value of the discovery. 

(3) 

No antiquity may be disposed of except to the competent Depart- 
ment, unless this Department renounces the acquisition of any such 
antiquity. 

No antiquity may leave the country without an export licence from 
the said Department. 

(4) 

Any person who maliciously or negligently destroys or damages 
an antiquity shall be liable to a penalty to be fixed. 

(5) 

No clearing of ground or digging with the object of finding 
antiquities shall be permitted, under penalty of fine, except to persons 
authorised, by the competent Department. 

«0 

Equitable terms shall be fixed for expropriation, temporary or 
permanent, of lands which might be of historical or archaeological 
interest. 

(7) 

Authorisation to excavate shall only be granted to persons who 
show sufficient guarantees of archaeological experience. The Ad- 
ministration of Palestine shall not, in granting these authorisations, 



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act in such a way as to exclude scholars of any nation without good 
grounds. 

(8) 

The proceeds of excavations may be divided between the excavator 
and the competent Department in a proportion fixed by that Depart- 
ment. If division seems impossible for scientific reasons, the exca- 
vator shall receive a fair indemnity in lieu of a part of the find. 

Article 22. 

English, Arabic and Hebrew shall be the official languages of 
Palestine. Any statement or inscription in Arabic on stamps or 
money in Palestine shall be repeated in Hebrew and any statement 
or inscription in Hebrew shall be repeated in Arabic. 

Article 23. 

The Administration of Palestine shall recognise the holy days of 
the respective communities in Palestine as legal days of rest for the 
members of such communities. 

Article 24. 

The Mandatory shall make to the Council of the League of Nations 
an annual report to the satisfaction of the Council as to the measures 
taken during the year to carry out the provisions of the mandate. 
Copies of all laws and regulations promulgated or issued during the 
year shall be communicated with the report. 

Article 2$. 

In the territories lying between the Jordan and the eastern bound- 
ary of Palestine as ultimately determined, the Mandatory shall be 
entitled, with the consent of the Council of the League of Nations, 
to postpone or withhold application of such provisions of this mandate 
as he may consider inapplicable to the existing local conditions, and 
to make such provision for the administration of the territories as 
he may consider suitable to those conditions, provided that no action 
shall be taken which is inconsistent with the provisions of Articles 
15, 16 and 18. 

Article 26. 

The Mandatory agrees that, if any dispute whatever should arise 
between the Mandatory and another Member of the League of Na- 



APPENDIX A 



579 



tions relating to the interpretation or the application of the provisions 
of the mandate, such dispute, if it cannot be settled by negotiation, 
shall be submitted to the Permanent Court of International Justice 
provided for by Article 14 of the Covenant of the League of Nations. 

Article 27. 

The consent of the Council of the League of Nations is required 
for any modification of the terms of this mandate. 

Article 28. 

In the event of the termination of the mandate hereby conferred 
upon the Mandatory, the Council of the League of Nations shall 
make such arrangements as may be deemed necessary for safeguard- 
ing in perpetuity, under guarantee of the League, the rights secured 
by Articles 13 and 14, and shall use its influence for securing, under 
the guarantee of the League, that the Government of Palestine will 
fully honour the financial obligations legitimately incurred by the 
Administration of Palestine during the period of the mandate, includ- 
ing the rights of public servants to pensions or gratuities. 

The present instrument shall be deposited in original in the archives 
of the League of Nations and certified copies shall be forwarded by 
the Secretary-General of the League of Nations to all Members of 
die League. 

Done at London the twenty-fourth day of July, one thousand nine 
hundred and twenty-two. 
Certified true copy : 

Secretary-General 



APPENDIX B 



THE McMAHON LETTER 

This letter, over which so much controversy has arisen, was sent 
by McMahon, then British High Commissioner for Egypt, to the 
Sherif Hussein in reply to his request for a clearer definition of the 
terms under which he was willing to start a rebellion against the 
Ottoman Empire: 

"October 24th, 191 5 
"The districts of Mersina and Alexandretta and portions lying to 
the west of the districts of Damascus, Hama, Horns, and Aleppo, 
cannot be said to be purely Arab, and should be excluded from the 
proposed limits and boundaries. With the above modifications, and 
without prejudice to our existing treaties with Arab chiefs, we accept 
those limits and boundaries, and in regard to those portions of the 
territories in which Great Britain is free to act without detriment to 
the interest of her ally France, I am empowered in the name of the 
Government of Great Britain to give the following assurance and 
make the following reply to your letter : 

" 'Subject to the above modifications, Great Britain is prepared to 
recognise and support the independence of the Arabs within the ter- 
ritories included in the limits and boundaries proposed by the Sherif 
of Mecca.' 

"Henry McMahon." 



580 



APPENDIX C 



Projected table of population statistics based on the per capita den- 
sity of population of various selected States. 



Population Palestine west of Jordan 
would hold if it were as thickly pop- 
ulated per square mile as the following : 



Belgium 
England 
Holland 
Massachusetts 
New Jersey 
Puerto Rico 
Rhode Island 
Sicily 



6,987,180 
7416430 
5>99*,330 
5,270,180 
5,148,980 

4*539,950 
5,681,250 

4*499*550 



Population the originally mandated 
Jewish National Home (Cis-Jordan 
plus Trans-Jordan) would hold if it 
were as thickly populated per square 
mile as the following : 



Belgium 
England 
Holland 
Massachusetts 
New Jersey 
Puerto Rico 
Rhode Island 
Sicily 



31,027,230 

3**933,355 
26,609,505 
23,402,730 
22,864,530 
20,160,075 
25,228,125 
19,980,675 



According to the last official figures, the area of Cis-Jordan (Pales- 
tine west of Jordan) is 10,100 square miles, with a population of 
1,325,299. The area of Cis-Jordan plus Trans-Jordan is 44,850 square 
miles, with a combined population of 1,575,299. On the States given 
for comparison the areas and populations are : Belgium, 1 1,780 square 
miles, pop. 8,159,185 ; England, 50,874 square miles, pop. 37,354,917 ; 
Holland, 13,202 square miles, pop. 8,061,571 ; Massachusetts, 8,266 
square miles, pop. 4,313,000; New Jersey, 8,224 square miles, pop. 
4,193,000; Puerto Rico, 3,435 square miles, pop. 1,543,913 ; Rhode 
Island, 1,248 square miles, pop. 702,000 ; Sicily, 9,935 square miles, 
pop. 4,426,113. 



581 



APPENDIX D 



A creative Zionist program which is to meet the present emergency 
should be based on the following minimum demands : 

( 1 ) Proper land frontiers, to include the entire territory as orig- 
inally mandated for Jewish settlement by the League of Nations 
(Western Palestine plus Transjordan), a rectification of the northern 
boundaries to recover the lost territory of the Hauran, and Sinai Pen- 
insula. 

(2) An assisted mass immigration conducted under the control of 
the Great Powers, with a provision for the liquidation of refugee 
properties (patterned after the Refugee Settlements Commission 
which conducted the Graeco-Turkish exchange of population in 
1922). 

(3) The granting, on application, of extra-territorial Palestine citi- 
zenship to stateless or persecuted Jews, for the immediate purpose of 
protecting their lives and properties. 

(4) The withdrawal of the Jewish National Home from the juris- 
diction of the Colonial Office, and the retirement of the entire body of 
anti-Zionist office-holders now quartered in the National Home ; then- 
places to be taken by sympathetic officials whose appointment shall be 
subject to the approval of the recognized Jewish Body. 

(5) The abrogation of the entire fabric of restrictive legislation is- 
sued by the present Mandatory, which now nullifies in detail the ob- 
ligations to which the Mandatory is committed in principle. 

(6) The restoration to the Jewish Agency, or some other recognized 
Jewish Body, of those rights vouchsafed it in the Mandate for Pales- 
tine ; this Body to have the same wide powers usually granted to col- 
onizing bodies. 

(7) Expropriation of all unused lands (at fair prices, to be deter- 
mined by an International Commission) and their resale under reason- 
able terms to incoming settlers. 

(8) A State policy suitable to modern colonization, to include the 
protection of local industry, favored taxation to new enterprises, and 
State subsidies to all undertakings designed to enhance the economic 
prosperity of the National Home. 

(9) The placing of the defense forces of the National Home into 
Jewish hands in cooperation with advisory officers to be supplied by 
the Mandatory. 

(10) The floating of an International Loan, suitable to the needs of 
an enterprise of this size and scope, under control of the Great Powers 
and guaranteed by the resources of the National Home. 

582 



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583 



(n) Treaties of trade and military alliance which will serve the 
proper interests of both the Jewish National Home and the Manda- 
tory. 

(12) A concordat to be signed with the Christian Churches, recog- 
nizing their legitimate interest in the Holy Places. 



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Palestine publications (the daily Palestine Post and the monthly 



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Palestine Review are in English) ; the Minutes of the Permanent 
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weekly), and the Palestine Exploration Fund Quarterly (London). 



GLOSSARY 



aliyah, Heb. Immigration ; lit., "Going up to the Land [Pales- 
tine];' 

Bedouin, Ar. Nomadic Arab (see note 10, p. 530). 

Diaspora, Gr. lit., Countries of the Dispersion. 

dinar, Gr. Ancient Near Eastern coin. In present day Iraq, about 

dunam, Ar. About a quarter of an acre (see note 41, p. 536). 
effendi, Ar. A term of distinction or respect accorded by virtue of 

family, position or wealth, 
emir (or ameer), Ar. A prince or ruler. 
Eretz Yisroel, Heb. The Land of Israel, 
fatwa, Ar. A Moslem ecclesiastical ruling, 
fellah, Ar. Villager or farmer, 
ghaffir, Ar. Supernumerary policeman, 
ghazzu, Ar. Night raid. 

Haj, Ar. lit., Holy. One who has made the pilgrimage to Mecca. 
Histadruth, Heb. lit., Organization. Now applied as brief de- 
scriptive term for the Jewish Federation of Labor in Palestine, 
imam, Ar. Moslem religious leader, 
jihad, Ar. Holy war. 

Judenrein, Ger. Free of Jews (or forbidden to Jews). 

Koran, Ar. Moslem Holy Scriptures. 

The City. The financial district of London. 

Middle East. Block of countries lying directly back of the Asiatic 
Mediterranean Coast, as Iraq, etc., to distinguish them from the 
regions on the Coast itself known as the Near East. 

mil. A Palestine coin (about half a cent). 

mukhtar, Ar. Village headman. 

numerus clausus, L. Measures restricting Jews to a fixed percentage 

in occupations, professions and other activities, 
pogrom, Russ. An organized massacre. 

pound (£). A money unit. As of September 1938 the English 
pound ( £S) is %4 ( q6 x A in American money, the Palestinian pound 
(£P) is %A t q% x A, and the Egyptian pound ( £E) is $4.92. 
Money figures given in these pages are variously based on the 
English and Palestinian pounds, but the difference is so slight that 
for the sake of simplicity the symbol £ alone is used. 

staatenlos, Ger. (lit., without a State.) Men without citizenship 
in any country, hence without passports. 

598 



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599 



sheikh, Ar. Titular head of family, clan, tribe or village; the chief. 

Talmud, Heb. The body of Jewish tradition, civil and canonical 
law, and commentaries relating thereto. 

Torah, Heb. Scrolls of Holy Law (as contained in the Old Testa- 
ment) . 

Vaad Leumi, Heb. Executive committee of the Palestine Jewish 

National Assembly. (See p. 191.) 
Wahabi, Ar. Moslem religious sect of Saudi Arabia. Called after 

the revered holy man, Wahab. 
Wakf (or Waqf), Ar. Organized Moslem religious endowment. 

(See pp. no, 392.) 
Whitehall. The section in London where the permanent officials of 

H. M. Government are quartered. 
White Paper. A Government paper, usually containing a definition 

of policy to be laid before Parliament for discussion. 
Yeshiva, Heb. Talmudical seminary. 
Yishub, Heb. The Palestine Jewish Community. 



Abbreviations 



Ar., Arabic 
Ger., German 
Gr. f Greek 



Heb., Hebrew 
L. y Latin 
lit., literally 



Russ.y Russian 



INDEX 



Abdul Hamid, 42 

Abdullah, 70, 76, 115-117, 221-222, 340, 
343i 345-350, 394* 4 2 ^ 44*» 45 4 6 ^ 
474 

Abraham, 2 

absorptive capacity, see under popu- 
lation 

Achad Ha'am, 43-44, 60, 171, 196, 227 

Achimeir, Aba, 162, 165 

Acre, 54, 243, 245, 298, 326, 3^7-328, 

442, 463, 474 
Adams, Herbert, 26 
Adams, James Truslow, 36 
Adams, Pres. John, 38 
Ad-Difaa, 338, 425, 461 
Aden, 252, 253, 352 
Admiralty, 193, 199 
Advisory Council, 355 
aeronautics, 211, 299-300, 512, 548 ; air 
bases, 209 ; airports, 212, 464 ; British 
air force, 221; civil, 209-300; Im- 
erial Airways, 299 ; military and ab- 
ase, 445 ; private flying, 209 
Afghanistan, 223, 251, 398, 424 
Africa, 211 ; British Central, 363-364; 
British East, 363-364; Northwest, 
135 

Agha Khan, 109, 217 

agriculture, 3-4, 26, 51, 177, 187, 281 
308, 380, 43 6 -437» 54°; Arab, 151; 
barley, 3, 500 ; beet-sugar producers, 
287 ; Arab cooperatives, 266 ; Arab 
credits, 305 ; imports, 502-504 ; Jew- 
ish farmers, 257 ; literature, 177 ; 
possibilities, 494-409 ; potatoes, 503 ; 
products, 276, 278, 386 ; school, 311 ; 
tomatoes, 503 ; wheat, 3, 503 ; work- 
ers, 150. See also colonies ; fruits. 

Agudath Israel, 158, 159, 456 

Akkadian-Sumerian culture, 2 

Al (or El), Arabic word for 'the.' 
See next word in each case. 

Albright, Dr. W. F. f 5 

Aleppo, 54, 405 

Alexandretta, Sanjak of, 219 

Alexandria, 211 

Aleeria, 399, 402 

Alif Beh, 128 



Al Iqdam, 390 
Alkalai, Jehouda, 39 
Allenby, Sir Edmund, 79, 220 
American-British Mandate Conven- 
tion, 97, 448 
American Christian Conference, 447- 

448,559-560 
American Colony Aid Association, 
362 

American Commission at Peace Con- 
ference, Report of, 534 

American Jewish Congress, 93 

American Joint Distribution Commit- 
tee, 482, 488 

American School of Oriental Re- 
search, 505 

American Zionist Organization, 153, 
160 

Amery, L. S., 143, 214, 247, 285, 304, 
333 

Amman, 115, 313, 369 
Amos, 521 

Andrews, Mrs. F. F., 370 

Andrews, L. Y., 458 

Angell, Sir Norman, 492 

Anglo-Lithuanian Treaty, 294 

Anglo-Polish Treaty, 294 

Ankara, 220 

Ansaldo, Giovanni, 514 

antiquities, 320, 509 

anti-Semitism, 40, 84, 119, 124, 127, 148, 
168, 196, 197, 199-201, 206, 207, 215, 
235. 245, 251-253, 350, 358, 381-382, 
300, 422, 424, 428, 429, 449-450, 478- 
489, 5H-5*4. 55o, 554. 551-55%i 562, 
563 ; Judeo-phobes, 227 

anti-Zionists, 57-58, 60, 63, 76, 79, 91, 
121, 160, 198-200, 216, 250, 252, 445, 
452, 488 

Antonious, George, 200 

Aponte, Salvatore, 219 

Aqaba, 75, 77, 211, 212, 222, 346, 440, 
505, 5i* 

Arab: agriculture, 269, 387 ; arms, 418- 
419 ; in British Africa, 363-364 ; 
commissions, 198 ; Congress, 292, 
315, 406, 462 ; culture, 403 ; dem- 
onstrations (purchased), 412-413 ; 



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Arab (continued) 
education, 305, 310; Executive, 149, 
324, 395, 396, 411, 465; Federation, 
220, 222, 223, 399-400, 402, 443, 473 ; 
High Commission of 1923, 205 ; 
High Committee, 395, 400, 417, 420, 
425, 426, 435, 451, 458; historical 
background, 367-369 ; immigration 
of, 50 ; income, 386 ; industries and 
handicrafts, 277-278, 387 ; kings, 457, 
459> 557 J kbor, 249, 384 ; language, 
95, 247, 310, 317, 318, 326, 370, 372 ; 
Legion, 345 ; nationalism, 68-69, 7<S> 
77, 218, 310, 329, 366, 382, 411, 419, 
442, 462 ; Nazi Youth Organization, 
430 ; North Africa, 444 ; physique, 
373; press, 128, 207, 338, 349, 401, 
404, 407, 413, 415, 416, 418, 422, 
461 ; proposed agency, 437, 460 ; pro- 
posed state, 77, 85, 441, 443, 445, 473, 
561 ; race, 366-371 ; racial back- 
ground, 369 ; revolt of 1834, 404 ; 
Scouts, 413 ; as soldiers, 71-72, 532 ; 
States, 197 ; in Tanganyika, 364 ; 
traits, 370-378 ; urban building, 387 ; 
women, 366-367, 372-373* 375» 377- 
378 ; in World War, 63 ; in Zanzi- 
bar, 364. See also 'landless Arab,' 

Arabah, 505 

Arabia, 68, 70, 76, 135, 198, 219, 220, 
290, 344, 397-399* 4 o6 > 437 ; Saudi, 
221 

Arab rebellion, see riots 
Arab strike, see riots 
Arab-Zionist Agreement, 532-533 
archaeology, 1-7, 47-48, 320, 548, 567 
area, Palestine, 97-98 
Aref-al-Arif, 374 
Aristeas, 3, 6 

Arlosoroff, Chaim, 160-162, 165, 
438 

Arlosoroff, Mrs. Chaim, 161-162 
Armenians, 184, 250, 336, 350, 369, 380, 
464 

Arnold, Lord, 340 
Aronson, Alexander, 67 
artisans, 181; skilled, 234 
Ashbee, C R., 202, 206 
Ashkenazim, 181 
Assyria, 52 
Assyrians, 406-409 
atrocities, see riots 
Auster, Daniel, 358-359, 469 



Austin, Senator Warren R., 253, 391, 

415, 448 
Australia, 210, 213, 487, 490 
Austria, 29, 154, 288, 336, 480, 481, 489, 

5", 5i7 
Austro-Hungarian Empire, 93 
aviation, see aeronautics 
Awny Bey, see Hadi 

Babylonian rule, 13-14 
Backer, George, 483, 519 
Baghdad, 68, 211, 220, 243, 301 
Bahaists, 379 
Baku, 195 

Baldwin, Prof. E. C, 8 

Balfour Declaration, vii, viii, 77, 78, 81- 
82, 85, 96, 104, 108, in, 113, 114, 172, 
194, 199, 206, 226, 233, 243, 340, 356, 
365, 439, 442, 455-456, 521, 531 

Balfour, Lord Arthur James, viii, 43, 
59, 60, 63, 67, 80, 94, 233 

banking, 279-281 ; deposits, 179 

Bar Kochba, 18-20 

Barnes, Hon. G. N., 66 

Bartholomew, Gen., 66 

Basanta Kooinar Roy, 447 

Bashan, 47, 48 

Bath Galim, 330 

Bedouin (Bedu), 48-49, 72, 118, 120, 
125, 150, 184, 219, 242, 259, 260, 262- 

265. 330-332, 334, 344* 350, 370* 375- 
378, 385, 425, 428, 494, 498, 499 

Beersheba, 120, 247, 507 

Beer-Tuvia, 505 

Beirut, 244, 248, 250, 259 

Beisan, 117, 118, 362, 369 

Belgium, 290, 448, 486, 400, 513 

Ben Gershon, Levi, 25 

Ben-Gurion, David, 167, 168, 175, 454 

Benjamina, Colony, 498 

Ben Josef, Shlomo, 470 

Bentwich, Norman, 321 

Berbers, 403 

Berle, Prof. A. A., 7 

Bethlehem, 4, 19, 370, 380, 440 

Beveridge, Sir William, 236, 493 

Bialik, 22, 525 

Bible, The, 1-3, 7, 10-12, 35-36, 96, 175, 
189-190, 200, 401, 446, 505, 515, 521 ; 
Deuteronomic Code, 9 ; Old Testa- 
ment, 2, 11, 12, 35-36, 189, 100, 546 

'Bilu,' 50 

Biro-Bid j an, 488, 489 



INDEX 



603 



Blackstone, Dr. William E., 23, 38 

Blake, G. S., 500 

Blum, Leon, 145 

Bols, Gen. Louis, 86, 88, 99 

Bolsheviki, see Communism 

Border Patrol Force, the, 335 

Brazil, 490 

Bremond, Gen. Edouard, 71 

Brim, Dr. Charles, 10 

Britain, 486, 523-524, 569 ; in the East, 

52, 53 ; Empire, 55, 520-521 ; Secret 

Service, 192, 345 
British colonies, 411 
British-Israel World Federation, 36 
Broadhurst, Joseph F., 163, 182, 206, 

213, 215, 266, 306, 308, 326, 327, 336, 

373-374, 400, 493-494 
Brockway, Archibald Fenner, 199 
Brodetsky, Selig, 174 
Bulgaria, 487 
butchers, Jewish, 360 
Butchko, Dr. Jan, 516 

Cady, Dr. Marion, 8 

Cafferata, 126, 127, 129, 130, 330 

Caird, Edward, 12 

Calcutta, 212 

Cambon, M., 62 

Cameroon, 293 

Canada, 213, 294, 400, 543 

capital investment, 288 ; German- 
Jewish, 291 ; Jewish, 178 

Carmel, 46, 185, 445 

Carmel, El, 362 

Carter, Sir Morris, 433 

Catholics, 380, 515, 516 ; Arab, 383 ; 
Church, 91 ; Greek, 380-382 ; Ro- 
man, 202, 381 

Cavert, Dr. Samuel McCrea, 515 

Cecil, Lord Robert, 62, 213-214, 521 

censorship, 336-339 

Chamberlain, Sir Austen, 143, 230 

Chamberlain, Houston Stewart, 518 

Chancellor, Sir John, 10 1, 121, 130, 
148, 206, 543 

Chaytor, Gen., 66 

Chelouche, Moshe, 359 

chemicals, see Dead Sea ; natural re- 
sources 

China, 52, 62, 210 

Chovevi Zion Society, 39 

Christians, 179, 183, 224, 309, 322, 332, 
346, 357, 380, 383, 384, 390, 520 ; Arab 



animosity, 350; Christianity, 15, 16, 
19, 20, 37, 487, 514-518, 521-522, 568- 
569, 583 ; native, 379~38o, 382, 554 5 
population, 370 ; press, 346 ; Prot- 
estants, 380, 381, 383. See also Vat- 
ican. 

Christie, Rev. Dr. W. M., 256, 370 

Chronicle, London Daily, 43 

Churchill Conference, 115 

Churchill White Paper, 110-113, 195 

Churchill, Winston, 62, 75, no, 112, 
115, 225-226, 446, 467 

Cis- Jordan, 48, 73 

citizenship, 228, 363 

citrus, 269, 282, 285, 297, 302, 425, 495, 
406 ; Arab, 285, 387 ; Exchange, 282, 
284 ; grapefruit, 281, 294 ; growers, 
281-282 ; land, 150 ; oranges, 281- 
282, 284, 289. See also agriculture. 

Claude, Georges, 508 

Clayton, Sir Gilbert, 108 

climate, 45, 404 

Colonial Office, 100, in, 120, 121, 139, 
143, 159, 193, 199, 220, 253, 285-286, 

*93i 335* 353, 3^3, 4M> 455, 582 
colonies, 50, 51, 363-365, 507 ; Jewish, 
126, 128, 138, 151, 177, 256, 264, 268, 
300, 302, 330, 334, 421, 465, 470, 
497 

colonization, 49-51, 59, 176, 254, 255, 

34 1 * 39<5 
Columbia University, 199 
Columbus, Christopher, 26 
commerce, see trade 
commissions, see Royal Commissions 
Commons, House of, 233, 234, 240, 

285, 293, 300, 307, 314, 327, 329, 335, 

342, 356, 430, 434, 446, 449-451* 45<5> 

467, 508 

communications, 317 ; cable service, 
317 ; postal service, 308 ; telephone, 
316-317, 549; wireless, 317. See 
also radio. 

Communism, 105, 124, 195, 197, 199, 
204, 205, 424, 430, 432, 484, 517-520, 
524, 536-537, $6^$66 \ the Chinese 
Revolution, 195 ; Communists, 431 ; 
in Palestine, 431 ; Party of Great 
Britain, 431. See Russia; White 
Russia. 

Conjoint Committee, 57-58 

Conway, Sir Martin, 214 

cooperatives, 187 



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Copeland, Senator Royal S., 415, 421, 

432, 448, 55<5 
copper, see natural resources 
Costa Rica, 487 
cotton, 504 

Coudenhove-Kalergi, Count Heinrich, 

courts, 330, 332, 538 ; jurisprudence, 
325-333 ; jury system, 326 ; Laws of 
Evidence (Amendments), 328-329; 
Magistracy, 228, 326 

Cox, Colonel, British Resident, 222- 

223, 347 

Cox, Sir Percy, 411 

crime : assault, 330-332 ; collective 
fines, 329 ; Criminal Investigation 
Department, 326 ; imprisonment for 
debt, 328 ; of Jews, 334"335 

Crown Colonist, 344 

Crown Colony Code, 100, 10 1, 203 

Cuba, 293, 487 

culture, Jewish, 26, 27, 31, 519 ; art ex- 
hibitions, 188 

Cunliffe-Lister, Sir Phillip, 229, 243, 
244 

currency, 279-281, 285, 289; see also 

banking 
Cust, Archer, 124 
customs, see tariffs 

Cyprus, 250, 253, 284, 286, 295, 364- 
3<55, 538 

Czechoslovakia, 160, 287, 456, 517 

dairying, 4, 177, 312 ; butter, 286 ; cat- 
tle, 4 ; milk inspection, 312; prod- 
ucts, 502 

Damascus, 40, 54, 66, 85, 115, 128, 212, 

220, 248, 259, 389, 396, 405, 463 
Davar, 164, 190 

Dead Sea, 45, 46, 212, 230, 501, 507- 
511 ; concession, 104, 509-510, 567- 
568 

Debir, 5 

debt, public, 441 

Deeds, Sir Wyndham, 103-104, 108 
De Haas, Jacob, 93, 101, 348, 383 
De Hirsch, Baron, 42 
De Martel, Count, 248 
dentists, see health and sanitation 
Der Stuermer, 515 
De Valera, Pres. E., 466 
Diaspora, 16, 18, 19, 22, 49-50, 65, 156, 
166, 313 



Dill, General, 207, 425, 465, 556 

Dio Cassius, 6-7 

Diodorus, 6-7 

Disraeli, 1, 209, 253 

Dizengoff, Mayor, 232, 420, 556 

Doar Hayom, 132, 338 

Dodd, Ambassador William E., 514 

Doumeirah, 209 

Draft Animal Manure Ordinance, 265 
Dreyfus case, 40-41 
Druses, 336, 379, 397, 553 ; uprising, 
464 

Duff, Douglas V., 74, 128, 234, 312, 
3i5, 327, 329> 338, 374, 375, 382, 390- 
391, 397, 401, 404, 419, 432, 495 

Dunant, Henri, 38 

Duncan, Prof. J. Garrow, 2 

Dushaw, Dr. Amos, 106 

duties, see tariffs 

East Africa, 230, 363-364 

Ecuador, 487, 488 

Eden, Anthony, 285 

Eder, Dr., 171, 175 

Edinburgh Review, 103 

education, 7-8, 10, 101, 158, 181, 229, 

305, 308-311, 438, 442, 549; ancient 

Hebrew, 8, 10 ; Department of, 310 ; 

Government schools, 310; literacy, 

322, 353 
Ejfendieb class, 374-375 
Egypt, 50, 52, 55, 65, 70, 98, 100, 112, 

130, 182, 197, 208-210, 213, 216, 223, 

232, 247, 248, 252, 259, 277, 287, 289. 

291, 295, 306, 317, 325, 361, 386, 417, 

424, 437, 45i, 457, 497, 500, 544, 560 ; 

nationalists, 209 ; people, 249, 341, 

369 

Eighteenth World Jewish Congress, 

The, 163 
Ekron, 126 

El (or Al), Arabic word for 'the*' 

See next word in each case, 
electricity, 179, 180, 316; power, 98, 

443, 501 
El Popular, 483 
Emancipation, The, 31-35 
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 345 
Engelke, Dr., 515 
engineers, 322 
Eretz Yisroel, 45, 319 
Erskine, Mrs. Steuart, 375, 445 
Ervine, St. John, 190, 372 



INDEX 



605 



Esdraelon, 46, 388 
Es Salt, 74, 344 
Ethiopia, 209, 223, 363 
Ettingen, S., 300 
Eusebius, 18 

Evian Conference, 471, 490, 514 
exiles, see refugees 
exports, 50, 235, 281-284, 287-289, 291, 
386 

Express, Daily, 216 
Ezion-Geber, 505 

factories, see under industry 
Falastin, 225, 382, 401, 430, 461 
Farago, Ladislas, 206-207, 239, 249, 363, 

404, 413, 419, 432 
Fawzy Bey, see Kaougji 
fellaheen, 377-378, 462 
Feisal, 71, 74, 77, 78, 85, 86, 89, 94, 115, 

217, 218, 222, 352, 402, 440, 448, 532- 

533 

Field, Rev. Henry, 376 

financial structure, 280 

Fish, Hamilton Jr., 142, 448, 468 

Fisher, Sir Warren, 193 

fishing, 6, 296, 503, 510 

flag, Palestine, 318-319 

flora, 46 

Fohs, Julius, 501-502 
Foreign Office, 192, 109, 488 
Foreign Policy Association, 467 
forests, 4, 47 ; afforestation, 499, 504 ; 
areas, 496 ; products, 4, 47, 503 ; re- 
forestation, 308 ; timber and imports, 
4, 504 

Forward View, The, 214 

France, 29, 52-54, 57, 84, 89, 92, 93, 113, 
142, 145, 147, 212, 217, 229, 230, 244, 
286, 290, 347, 402, 448, 468, 486, 510 ; 
Foreign Legion, 333 

Franco-British Convention, 09 

Frankfurter Zeitung, The, 129 

Free Masons, 515 

French, Lewis, see French Report 

French Report, 117, 139, 148-151, 258, 

389, 494 
French-Syrian Treaty, 406 
Frontier Force, the, 323, 335-336 
fruits, 3, 4, see also agriculture 

Gaderah, 511 

Galilee, 3, 4, 7, 49-50, 98, 264, 440, 464, 
473, 474, 5<*>* 5<* 



Galilee, Sea of, 442 
Gallacher, William, 199 
Gambar, Prince, 409 
gasoline, 272 
Gaspari, Cardinal, no 
Gawler, Col. George, 37 
Gaza, 212, 299, 301, 313, 357, 366, 506, 
507 

Gazetta del Popolo, 517 
General Zionists, 157, 165, see also 
Zionism 

Georges-Picot, M. Francois, 79, 92 

German, 336, 341 ; Turkish agents, 
202 ; Zionist Conference, 61 

German Action, 515 

German colonization, 270 

Germany, vii, 10, 29, 35, 52-54, 56, 90, 
92, 142, 154, 166, 184, 195, 196, 209- 
212, 243, 277, 278, 285, 286, 289, 291, 
293, 320, 321, 331, 332, 336-338, 4^8, 
479, 480, 489, 491, 511, 514, 520, 530- 
531, 541-542* 569-570 

Geserd, 489 

Ghazi, King, 221-222 

ghetto, 22, 27-33, 35, 39, 44, 81, 173, 176, 

2 55» 2 57> 4°<5, 437> 482, 49 1 * 5*3 
Ghor, 117, 507 
Gibraltar, 210 
Gilead, 4, 47, 48, 49 
Glenconner, Lord, 510 
Glubb, Major J. B., 345 
Glueck, Dr., 5 

Goering, Gen. Hermann, 35, 517 

gold, see Dead Sea ; natural resources 

Goldman, Rabbi, 153 

Golenisheff, 4 

Gomorrah, 509 

Government service, 321-323 

Graetz, Heinrich, 39 

Graham, W. C. and May, H. G., 8 

Grant, Ulysses S., 36 

grapefruit, see citrus 

grapes, 503, see also agriculture 

Great Britain and the East, 220, 223, 

35L 384, 395, 456 
Greece, 184, 251, 484, 559 
Greeks, 184, 369 
Greenberg, Uri Zvi, 189, 255 



Hd'aretz, 140, 190 
Haboker, 338 

HaCohen, Samuel Adaya, 319 



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Hadassah, 239, 312, 561 ; 1936 Report, 
312 

Hadi, Awny Bey Abdul, 392, 397, 459, 

472 ; family, 389 
Hadramaut, 223-224, 352, 399, 410, 441 
Hadrian, 19 

Haifa, 46, 53, 159, 179, 184-185, 188, 
210-212, 222, 235, 241, 244, 249, 272, 
275, 282, 283, 292, 294, 298-301, 305, 
307, 314, 317, 323, 324, 359, 362, 386, 
417, 423, 440, 442, 445, 471-472, 474, 
511, 512; reclamation scheme, 305. 
See also harbors. 

Hailsham, Lord, 143 

Haining, Major-General R. H., 465 

Haiti, 466 

Haj Amin, see Husseini 
Halevy, 22 

Hall, Hawthorn, 207, 214 

Hamilton, A. M., 407 

handicrafts, 4-5, 27 ; ancient, 4, 5 ; 
medieval, 27 

Hankey, Sir Maurice, 192, 193 

harbors, 294-299, 441, 548 ; facilities, 
295-299; Haifa, 210-211, 264, 272, 
297 ; Jaffa, 296, 297, 298 ; military, 
307 ; Tel Aviv, 361, 437 ; workers, 
249, 324. See also shipping. 

Harding, Pres. Warren G., 95 

Harrison, Pres. Benjamin, 38 

Hart, Liddell, 72, 218 

Harrington, Lord, 214 

Hasolel Company, The, 3 16 

Hastings, Senator Daniel O., 177, 415, 

556 f 
Hatikvah, 155 
Hauran, 90, 98, 99, 247, 370 
Haycraft Commission, 107-108, 438 
health and sanitation, 308, 309, 311-315, 
511; ancient, 2, 10; dentistry, 328, 
339 ; dispensaries, 387 ; Health De- 
partment, 158, 307, 312, 314; infant 
welfare, 312, 313, 362; the insane, 
312; lepers, 312; medical centers, 
387, 511 ; Medical Practitioners Or- 
dinance, 339, 551 ; medicine, 26, 313, 
328, 339 ; Medicine in the Bible, 10 ; 
sewage, 312, 315. See also hospitals. 
Hebrew language, 33-34, 189, 310, 317- 

318,540-541 
Hebrew University, 76, 158, 150, 188- 

189 

Hebron, 126, 127, 129-133, 330 



Hedera, 106, 107, 300, 408 

Heinrichs, Waldo, 337 

Hejaz, 69, 75, 85, 98, 115, 116, 218, 222, 

224, 247, 342, 399 
Henderson, Arthur, 132 
Hermon, Mount, 97-99 
Herodotus, 6 

Herzl, Theodor, 40-44, 55, 60, 80, 90, 

*55, '57. 233, 530 
Herzlia, 331, 498 
Hess, Moses, 39 

High Commissioner's Report, for 1935, 

343 ; for 1936, 341, 343 
highways, 211, 283, 300-301, 309, 415, 

416 ; military, 307 ; transport, 302- 

303 
Hillel, 5, 9 
Hindu, 203, 217 
Histadruth, see labor 
Hitler, Adolf, 35, 160, 196, 202, 243, 

25 1 * 320, 337, 4i7, 447, 448, 514-519, 
541-542, 557, $68-$6() ; Hitler Terror, 

25 1 

holidays, 182, 190; Chanuka, 182; 

Nebi Moussa, 379; Purim, 159, 182 
Holland, 55, 490, 513, 517 
Hollingsworth, Rev. A. G. H., 47 
Holmes, Dr. John Haynes, 206, 208, 

402, 447, 495, 518 
Holy Places, no, 259, 439, 442, 554, 
583 ; the Basilica, 380 ; Calvary, 19 ; 
Christian, 183, 380, 381, 438, 439; 
Church of the Nativity, 380 ; Holy 
Places Commission, 381 ; Holy Sep- 
ulchre, 19, 184, 380 ; Mohammedan, 
78, 438 ; Site of the Annunciation, 
380 

Holy War, 217, 472^473 
Hoofien, S., 307, 316 
Hope-Simpson, Sir John, 136, 137, 538, 

see also Hope-Simpson Report 
Hope-Simpson Report, 136-140, 147- 

149, 177-178, 250, 384, 389, 437, 494- 

496, 503 
Hora, 182, 188 

hospitals, 312-314, 387, see also health 

and sanitation 
Huleh, 150-15 1, 260, 500 
Hume, Col. E. E., 10 
Hungary, 290, 484, 487 
Hussein, Sherif, 69-71, 73-75, 77, 218, 

224, 346, 350, 352, 366, 396, 436; 

house of, 396, 402, 468, 532, 554 



INDEX 



607 



Husseini, 354, 358, 389-394 i Ha j Amin, 
76, 108-110, 125, 126, 134, 200, 392- 

394. 397. 458, 459. 56i 
Hyamson, A. M., 321-322, 549 

Ickes, Harold, 468 
Imbeaux, M., 501 

immigration, 49-51, 83, 108, 140, 181, 
186, 228, 234, 236, 237, 240, 243-244, 
348, 389, 390, 397, 432, 435-437. 45*i 
460, 556, 582 ; Arab, 246, 247 ; capi- 
talist, 234-235, 239 ; certificates, 145, 
234, 236-238, 460, 461 ; Department 
of, 234, 239 ; figures, 238 ; German 
'Aryan,' 250 ; 'illegal,' 237-238, 328, 
545 ; illegal Arab, 244, 249, 435 ; il- 
legal Jewish, 242-246, 435, 464 ; la- 
bor, 250 ; laws, 239 

imports, 180, 287-291, 293, 294, 296, 297, 
502-504 ; Palestine, 296. See also ex- 
ports ; tariffs. 

Independent Labour Party, 109 

India, 52-54, 92, 100, 112, 130, 201, 208, 
210, 211, 217, 225, 232, 306, 410-41 1, 
424, 447, 457, 458 

India Office, 58 

India Report of 1934, 354 

industry, 177-178, 187, 213, 273, 288- 
289, 540, 547, 582 ; Act of December 
191 2, 271 ; ancient, 4, 5 ; brewery, 
274 ; construction, 187, 235-236 ; fac- 
tories, 178 ; iron wire, 274-275 ; ma- 
chinery 287 ; printing, 181 ; school in 
Jerusalem, no ; seaweed, 510 ; shoes, 
278 ; soap, 277-278 

infant mortality, 313 

infant welfare work, see under health 
and sanitation 

Informazione Diplomatica, 516 

Inquisition, 30 

insanity, 189 

Iran, 223, 292 

haq, 73. 85, 94. 9 8 > "4. "5» "8, 212, 
218-224, 247, 251, 252, 272, 289, 290, 
292, 296, 301, 306, 337, 352, 386, 398, 
399. 4°5"4°7. 4 11 . 424. 4 2 °\ 437. 444. 
45i. 457. 503. 544. 547. 559 ; King of, 
224 ; Parliament, 413 

Iraq Petroleum Company, 221, 271-272, 
305, 325, 422, 508 

Iraq Pipeline, 301, 422, 501, 507 

Ireland, 130 

Irish, 170, 231, 333, 447 



iron, see natural resources 

irrigation, 3, 47-48, 135-136, 138, 497, 
500, 501, 539; artesian wells, 501 

Islam, 216, 217, 218, 392, 517, 543-544* 
552, 554 ; Indian, 217. See also Mos- 
lem ; Shi'a ; Sunni ; Wahabis. 

Istaklal, 391-392 

Istanbul, 223, 241 

Italy, 29, 57, 195, 209, 212, 221, 283, 294, 
402, 428, 429, 446, 468, 470, 487, 515- 
516, 557 ; Ala Littoria, 209 ; Foreign 
Office, 381 ; Italians, 341, 350 

Jabniel, 126 
Jabok River, 502 

Jabotinsky, Vladimir, 65, 87, 88, 156, 
166-168, 170-17 1, 173-175, 288, 294, 
413, 417, 483, 534 

J' Accuse, 40 

Jaffa, 50, 81, 94, 105, 180, 183, 185, 228, 

235, 248, 282, 283, 286, 296, 297, 299, 
301, 309, 313, 316, 317, 323, 324, 326, 
360, 369, 374, 386, 412, 421, 437, 440, 

441, 445, 462, see also harbors 
James, Apostle, 521 

Jamia Al lslamia, Al, 248, 344, 422, 462 
Jamiya Arabiyah, El, 404 
Jannaway, Rev. F. G., 61, 372 
Japan, 200, 209, 210, 213, 276, 278, 286, 

293 ; goods, 277 
Jarvis, C. S., 71, 371, 372, 378, 495 
Jebel Ma'rad, 505 
Jebel Udsdum, 506, 507 
Jenin, 326 
Jerash, 5, 48 
Jeremiah, 13 

Jerusalem, 2, 4, 6, 7, 13, 16, 17, 10, 21, 
23, 29, 81, 85, 87, 119, 124, 125, 131, 
139, 161, 183, 184, 188, 100, 206, 222, 
242, 243, 266, 305, 308, 315, 317, 318- 
320, 323, 324, 330, 331, 336, 337, 358- 
360, 370, 386, 393, 397, 404, 416, 440, 

442, 445, 469, 471, 554; Mayor of, 
358 ; sewer pipes, 314 

Jerusalem Electric Company, 325, see 

also electricity 
Jesus, 5, 15,515, 521 

Jewish Agency, 95, 96, 119, 122, 128, 

i33. 139-142. 144. H*. 151. 153. 154. 
159, 160, 164, 166, 174, 178, 201, 205, 

236, 241, 246, 267, 300, 309, 312, 323, 

335. 348, 349. 434. 435. 452, 539. 582, 
see also Zionism 



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Jewish Agricultural Experimental Sta- 
tion, 502 

Jewish Commission of London, 83 
Jewish contributions to civilization, 
569-570 

Jewish Farmers Union, The, 214-215 
Jewish Federation of Labor, 294 
Jewish flag, 318-319 
Jewish Labor Party, see Labor groups 
Jewish Legion, 61, 65-66, 74, 83, 156, 

333* 43 6> see Jewish soldiers ; World 

War 

Jewish National Assembly, 190-191, 
362 

Jewish National Fund, 117, 138, 157- 

158, 175, 205, 264-265 

Jewish Nationalism, 23-24, 83, 155, 156, 

159, 294, 413, 438, 442, 490, 562 
Jewish Palestine Land Development 

Company, 260 
Jewish press, 128, 163, 166, 181, 190, 

337* 33 8 > 349 

Jewish school system, 310 

Jewish soldiers, 64-68, 333, 421, 582 ; 
ex-servicemen, 134. See Jewish Le- 
gion ; World War. 

Jewish State, 21, 22, 43, 56, 57, 91, 94, 
in, 134, 155, 212, 216, 530; of Bar 
Kochba, 18 ; future of, 473, 582-583 

Jewish State Party, 157, 414, 560 

Jewish State, The, 41 

Jewish Technical College, 300 

Jewish Telegraphic Agency, 139, 166, 
472 

Jezreel, 388, 500 ; Valley of, 388 
Johnson-Crosbie Report, 137, 389, 496 
Johnson, Dr. Hewlett, 516 
Jones, Sir William, 1 
Jordan River, 66, 74, 97, 99, 114, 442, 
443, 500 

Jordan Valley, 4, 46, 47, 259, 369, 370, 

500, 501 
Joseph, Dr. Bernard, 452 
Josephus, 5-7, 12, 497, 505, 513 
Judaism, 8-9, 34, 57, 91-92 ; reform, 34, 

44» !55> 548 
Judea, 4, 46 ; hills, 186 
Judeans, see Jewish Legion ; Jewish 

soldiers ; World War 
jurisprudence, see courts 

Kadoorie legacy, 311, see also educa- 
tion 



Kahn, Alexander, 520 
Kalirroe, 511 
Kantara, 212 

Kaougji, Fawzy Bey, el, 417, 418, 426, 

427, 465, 470 
Karpf, Dr. Maurice, 452 
Kassab, Farid, 76 
Keith-Roach, 123 
Kemal Pasha, 68 

Kenworthy, Lieutenant-Commander, 
214 

Kenya, 364, 41 1 

Kerachi, Princess, 127 

Keren Hayesod, 157-158 ; see Jewish 

National Fund 
Keren Kayemeth, 157-158 ; see Jewish 

National Fund 
Keren Tel Chai, 157, 167 
Kfar Saba, 4, 106 
Kfar Yehezkiel, 268 
Khaldi, Hussein Fakri El, 354, 358-359 
Khalil, YousufT, 422-423 
Kiev, 484 

King David Hotel, 307, 325 

King, William H., 448 

Kipching, T. C, 149 

Kishineff, 338 

Kishon Valley, 500 

Klausner, Prof. Joseph, 6, 159 

Knesseth Israel, 191 

Knickerbocker, H. R., 473-474, 522 

Komarnicki, Mr., 466 

Koran, 68, 217 

Kowiet, 218 

Kubeibeh, 497 

Kuhan, 262 

Kurds, 336, 366 

Kvutzoth, 205 



labor, 178, 180, 323, 432, 539-540 ; agri- 
cultural, 235 ; ancient Hebrew, ii ; 
domestic employees, 187 ; The Fed- 
eration of Jewish, 138, 139, 141, 174 ; 
Jews in Government employ, 323 ; 
laborers, 181 ; medieval, 27 ; short- 
age of, 235-236. See wages. 

labor groups, 145, 146, 154-155, 163- 
166, 171, 172, 175, 205, 453, 538-540; 
First Workers World Congress, 1 54- 
155; Poale Zion, 154, 159; Poale- 
Zion-Zeire-Zion, 163. See also Zion- 
ism. 



INDEX 



609 



Labour Party, 132, 141, 143, 204 ; Gov- 
ernment, 140, 142, 144, 145, 540 

Lachish, 2 

Lamb, Dr. F. T., 8 

Lamington, Lord, 198 

land, 254-260, 350-351 ; Arab, 497- 
498 ; arable areas, 496 ; area, 496 ; 
Commission, 259; Courts, 323 ; cul- 
tivable, 137, 269, 495-497 ; cultivated, 
150 ; development policy, 140, 150 ; 
fertility, 3, 4 ; given to Bedouins, 
118; irrigated, 269; large owners, 
389 ; legislation, 149, 261, 262, 263, 
280, 351 ; mortgages, 279-280 ; owned 
by Jews, 256, 263 ; ownership, 388 ; 
prices, 257, 267; sales, 83, 137-138, 
140, 263, 265-267, 349, 397, 432 ; set- 
tlements, 177, 226, 231 ; soil, 3-4, 495, 
497 ; speculation, 269 ; squatters, 
263-264 ; State, 259 ; tenants, defini- 
tion of, 261-262 ; title, 262. See also 
swamps ; 'landless Arabs.' 

Landa, M. J., 186 

landless Arab,' 133, 134, 138, 146, 150, 
258, 259, 261, 267, 305, 351, 388, 406, 
538-539, see also land 

land reclamation, see swamps 

Landsbury, George, 133, 145 

Lange, Dr. Christian, 466 

languages, official, 442 ; see under 
Arab ; Hebrew ; Yiddish 

Latvia, 466 

Lausanne, Treaty of, 95, 306 

Lawrence, T. E., 68, 71-74, 77, 78, 128, 
216, 218, 224, 322, 371, 535-536 

Laws of Palestine, 228 ; see agricul- 
ture ; trade ; see under courts ; im- 
migration ; land 

Leach, Inspector Charles, 164 

"League of British Jews," 91 

League of Nations, 89, 93-97, 153, 166, 
230, 286, 321, 342, 398, 445, 460, 466, 
523 ; Council, 306 ; Permanent Man- 
dates Commission, 96, 104, 129, 147, 
148, 151, 176, 226, 230, 231, 243, 258, 
*93> 3i7-3i8, 341, 343, 354, 355, 398, 
450, 456, 465-466, 558-559 

Lebanon, 5, 47, 90, 185, 242, 389, 406 

Lecky, 36 

Left Poale Zion, 154, 155, see also labor 
groups 

Legislative Assembly, 141, 352, 356, 
393 ; ancient, 12 



Legislative Council, 352 
lentils, 503, see also agriculture 
Le Temps, 463 

Levantines, 371, see also Arabs 
Levy, Joseph M., 473 
Leygues-Harding Agreement, 114 
limestone, bituminous, 505-506, see also 

natural resources ; petroleum 
Lindsay, Lord, 49 
Lipsky, Louis, 157, 160, 172 
Litany, River, 98, 99 
Lithuania, 155, 338, 466 
Lloyd George, 55, 60, 62, 68, 91, 92, 

135-136, 142, 144, 177, 403, 446, 467, 

495 

Lloyd, Lord, 197 

Locker-Lampson, Commander Oliver, 

318, 467 
Loder, J. de V., 218 
London Daily Herald, 428 
London Daily Mail, 424 
London Daily Telegraph, 195, 336, 516 
London Jewish Chronicle, 489 
London Morning Post, 419, 446 
London Power Security Company, 316 
London Spectator, 489 
London Sunday Times, 144 
London Times, 37, 114, 144, 346, 401, 

427, 467, 480 
Lords, House of, 347, 356, 450, 467 
Lothian, Lord, 213-214 
Ludd, 303 

Ludendorff, Gen. Eric von, 515 
Lufti, 161 

Luke, Harry, 107, 124-126, 130, 134, 

537 

Lunde, Dr. G., 510 
Lybia, 309 
Lydda, 299-300 

Lynch, Lt. W. F., 369, 371, 372 
Lytton, Earl of, 510 



Maan, 75 

Mabeirig, Hussein, 73 
Macaulay, Lord, 36 
Maccabees, 14 

MacDonald, Duncan Black, 8 
MacDonald, J. Ramsay, 132, 133, 145- 
147, 200 

MacDonald Letter, The, 141 -147, 175, 
226, 246 

MacDonald, Malcolm, 225, 240 



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THE RAPE OF PALESTINE 



MacMichael, Sir Harold, 469 
Madagascar, 488 
Magnus, Sir Philip, 60 
Mahmoud Chawkat, 68 
Maimonides, 27, 318, 549 
Main, Ernest, 224, 347, 353, 412 
Malek, Yusuf, 405, 409 
Malta, 130, 211 
Manasseh, 98 

Manchester Guardian, The, 55, 114, 

J 44 

Mandate for Palestine, vii, viii, 95, 96, 
100, no, 116, 122, 146, 153, 165, 173, 
215, 226, 228, 231, 233, 234, 290, 317- 
318, 320-322, 340, 342, 434, 439, 455- 
456, 466, 531, 544-545* 571-579 

Mandates Commission, see League of 
Nations 

Mangles, James, 49 

Marcu, Valeriu, 26 

Marston, Sir Charles, 2 

Marx, Karl, 82-83, 20 4 

Marxism, 154, 155, 205, 315 

Masada, 505 

Massachusetts, 512 

Mavromatis, 316 

May, Sir Thomas Erskine, 8 

Mayers, M., 521 

Mazar, 251 

McDonnell, M. F. J., 101 
McGovern, John, 319, 471 
McMahon, Sir Henry, 70, 74-75, 197, 

396, 439-44° 
McMahon Letter, 554, 580 
Mead, Dr. Elwood, 495, 511 
Me ah Shearim, 190 
meat, 361, 502 
Mecca, 69, 73, 75, 218 
medicine, see health and sanitation 
Medina, 69, 218 
Mehemet Ali, 37 
Meinertzhagen, Colonel, 200 
Mein Kampf> 251, 357 
Melchett, Lord, 142, 495 
Memorial of the Jews of Hebron, The, 

129 

Merj-Ayun, 370 

Merrill, Selah, 48, 49, 372, 376, 499, 
505 

Mesopotamia, 2 
messianism, 31, 32, 159 
Mexico, 448, 484, 487 
Meyer, George, 463-464 



Michaelis, Dr. Alfred, 279 
Mikweh Israel, 274 

Military, 303, 306, 307, 334-336, 445; 

administration, 78-81, 83-89, 93-99 
Miller, Francis Trevelyan, 26 
Miller, Madeleine S., 376 
minerals, see natural resources 
Mintz, Yehuda, 161, 162 
Mirabeau, 33 
Mithkal Pasha, 348 
Mizrachi, 146, 157, 165 
Moab, 4, 5, 48 
Mohammed, 217-218 
Mohammedanism, see Islam ; Moslem 
Mokattam, 248, 252 
Monash, Sir John, 64, 79 
Money, Sir Arthur, 80, 81, 83 
Mongols, 369 
Montague, Sir Samuel, 38 
Montefiore, Claude G., 60, 91 
Montesquieu, 33 
Montreux Conference, 210 
Morocco, 220, 367, 399, 405 ; exiles 

from, 350 
Morris, Hopkin, 134 
Morrison, Herbert, 177, 345 
Morrison, Isadore D., 158 
Morton, Rev. H. V., 372, 378 
Moslem, 104-105, 109, 122-124, *3 2 > *79» 

183, 184, 202, 214, 217, 225, 232, 252- 

253, 309. 3"* 33i> 33 2 > 357. 3^ 378, 
379, 381, 382, 390, 397, 439, 457, 458 ; 
Christian Assn., 84; Council, no, 
129 ; Courts, 332, 393 ; Eastern, 109 ; 
Federation, 394-395 ; of India, 458- 
459 ; Moghrabiyeh, 369 ; types of, 
367 ; Youth Association, 248. See 
also Islam and Wakf. 

Mosque of Omar, 122, 123 

Mosul, 54, 2ii, 224, 247, 301, 398 ; oil, 
211, 398,407 

motor traffic, 303 

motor vehicles, 275 

Mufti, see Husseini 

Mukhtar, 357 

Mukkattam, 430 

Municipal Councils, 361 

Murison, Sir William, 246 

music, 11, 155, 187-188, 540 ; ancient, 
10, n; Hebrew Opera Company, 
101 

Mussolini, 170, 221, 301, 428, 429, 446, 
447,451,470,515 



INDEX 



6n 



Naaneh, 126 

Nablus, 278, 357, 362, 364, 386, 417-418 

Nablus, Council of, 367 

Nachshon, Ltd., 294 

Nahlat Zion, 358 

Naphthali, 98 

Napoleon, 33, 38, 52 

Nashishibi, 354, 358, 390-394 ; Ragheb 

Bey, 393* 394 
Natal, 305 
Nathania, 325 

National Catholic Welfare Council, 
330-331 

natural resources, 5, 212, 443, 504-506, 
508-509. See also Iraq Petroleum 
Co. ; Mosul ; oil. 

Nazareth, 370, 380, 390, 397 

Nazi, 163, 166, 227, 270, 321, 336, 337, 
404, 411, 417, 430, 479, 480, 541, 542, 
55°* 557, 559. 5 66 * mission, 197 j pa- 
per, 336 ; propaganda, 430. See also 
Germany. 

Nebo, 114 

Nebuchadnezzar, 13, 14 

Negeb, 440, 501 

Nesher Cement Works, 235 

Nevinson, Henry W., 495 

New Way, The, 160 

New York Evening Journal, 456 

New York Herald-Tribune, 489 

New York Jewish Forward, 139, 326 

New York Times, 338, 461, 473 

New Zionist Organization, 168 

Nichols, Beverley, 206, 256, 380 

Nili Society, 66-67 

Nineteenth Century, 103 

Nordau, Max, 41, 82 

North Africa, 30, 333, 399, 404-405, 

457, see also Algiers ; Egypt ; Tunis ; 

Morocco 
Novomeysky, 509 
numerus clausus, 338-339, 511, 551 
Nuri Pasha Said, 426 

occupations, distribution of, 187 

O'Connor, 'Tay Pay,' 102 

O'Dwyer, Michael, 201 

oil, 211, 272, 297, 301, 306, 506, 507-508, 
542, 543, 567, see also Iraq Petroleum 
Co. j limestone, bituminous ; Mosul ; 
natural resources 

oil, olive, 3-4 

Oliphant, Laurence, 37, 50 



Oman, 399 

Opium Conference, 194 
oranges, see citrus 

Ormsby-Gore, Major W. G. A., 67, 
78, 80, 226, 227, 233, 243, 258-259, 
354, 401, 433, 444, 449, 450 

Orts, M., 466 

Osher, see taxation 

Osservatore Romano, 516 

Ottoman code, 326 

Oxford students, 125-126, see also riots 

Paganism, 197, 202, 514-518, 568-569 
Page-Croft, Sir Henry, 198 
Palestine and Transjordan, 207 
Palestine Corporation Ordinance, 361 
Palestine Economic Corporation, 501 
Palestine Exploration Fund, viii 
Palestine and Middle East Economic 

Magazine, 360 
Palestine Post, 421 
Palestine Review, 361, 464 
Pall Mall Gazette, 43 
pan-Arabism, 220 
pan-Islamism, 216 
partition, first, 97-99 
Partition plan, see Peel Commission 
Passfield, Lord, 132, 139, 144, 321 
Passfield White Paper, 139-143, 145, 

146, 148, 149, 494, 539 
Patterson, Col., 65-67, 86, 99, 333, 338 
Paul, Jean, 36-37 

Peace Handbook No. 162 on Zionism, 
43, 51, 80 

Peace Handbook No. 60, 66, 74, 98, 
342, 366, 396 

Peace Handbook on Syria and Pales- 
tine, 254 

Peake Pasha, 222, 345 

Peel Commission, 189, 190, 232, 239, 
246, 247, 257, 268, 302, 312, 323, 324, 
33<5, 338, 347, 354, 35<>-357> 3<5i, 386, 
396, 414, 419, 433-458, 4 6 °* 473, 474, 
497* 5io* 549* 558, 561 

Pekiin, 49 

Percy, Lord Eustace, 198 

Perowne, S. H., 264 

Persia, 210, 224, 243, 252 

Petach Tikvah, 50, 105-106, 190, 249, 

330* 359* 498 
Petrie, Prof. Flinders, 371, 497 
petroleum, see Iraq Petroleum Co.; 

natural resources ; oil 



612 



THE RAPE OF PALESTINE 



Philby, H. St. John, 222-223 
Philippson, Ludwig, 34 
Philistia, 495 

Picot, M. Georges, 53, 58 

Pierotti, Ermete, 372, 374 

Pinsker, Leon, 39 

Pinta Brothers, 26 

pipe line, oil, see Iraq pipe line 

Pisgah, 114 

Pliny, 4, 5, 185 

Plumer, Lord, 119-121 

Poale Zion, see labor groups 

pogroms, 333, 336, 383, 395, 405, 482, 
542 ; Algiers of 1934, 405 ; cold, 479 ; 
medieval, 29, 30 ; 1920, 108, 438 ; of 
1921, 104-108, 171 ; of 1929, 121-132, 
335, 396 ; Russian, 39. See also riots. 

Poland, vii, 29, 90, 93, 102, 142, 156, 167, 
184, 189, 241, 243, 247, 277, 289, 200, 

294. 33 J > 33 2 , 449> 4 8l "4 8 4» 4°i> 5*9. 

520, 530-53 1, 570 
police, 204, 327, 334-335^ 4*9. 4 22 
Polybius, 3 
Pompey, 15 
Pope, Generoso, 429 
Popolo D'ltalia, 429 
population, 6, 7, 48, 51, 179, 182, 370, 

385 ; absorptive capacity, 350-351, 

492"495» 5I2-5I3. 542, 5<57, 581-583; 
exchange of, 443, 444 
Port Fuad, 211 

forts, see harbors 
ortugal, 29 
postal service, see under communica- 
tions 

potash, see natural resources 

poultry and eggs, 4, 177, 276, 288, 502 

Pravda, 431 

Preuss, Dr. Hugo, 35 

prisons, 244-245, 327-328 

produce, see agriculture 

professions, liberal, 181, see also health 

and sanitation 
Pro-Palestine Committee, 448 
Protocols of the Elders of Zion, 124, 

i34» i95-i9<5, 395. 5i5. 5i8, 542 
public expenditures, 308-309 
public services, 310, 315-320, 323 

Quaker Committee, 229 

Quinlan, Major Cecil, 176, 258, 495 

radio, 192, 221, 317, 319, 320 



Raglan, Lord, 347 

railways, 211, 282, 301-303, 316, 548; 
Baghdad, 53; Cape to Cairo, 211- 
212 ; cost of construction of, 303 ; 
Hejaz, 225, 302 ; military, 422 

rainfall, 501 

Ramleh, 462 

Rappard, Prof. William, 343, 456 
Rashid, Ibn, 70 
Rawlinson, 6 
Raymist, Malkah, 328 
rebellion, see riots 
Red Sea, 209, 301 

refugees, 485-491, 521-522, 538, 563, 
582-583, see also immigration, illegal 

Refugee Settlements Commission, 136, 
559 

Regime Fascista, 516 

Rehovoth, 106, 188, 360, 502 

Revisionists, 146, 156, 157, 159-163, 165- 
168, 414, 421, 438, 456, 465, 470, 561, 
see also Zionism ; Jewish national- 
ism 

Rice, Captain Harry, 161, 162, 164 

Richmond, E. T., 103 

Rihani, Ameen, 219, 221, 367 

Rikabi Pasha, Premier, 348 

riots, 133, 148, 174, 182, 183, 199, 201, 
206-207, 214, 221, 259, 298, 309, 330, 
336, 383, 392, 397. 4 12 , 413. 447» 449* 
458 ; of 1920, 86-89, 93 i of 1929, 107, 
121-132, 537-538 ; 1936-38, 4 I 5"427» 
460-473. See also pogrom. 

Risk on UZion, 190, 274 

Riza Khan, 252 

Riza-Tewfik, Dr., 367 

roads, see highways 

Robinson, Dr. Victor, 10 

Rokeach, Isaac, 284 

Rokeach, Dr. Israel, 359 

Roman wars, 7, 14-20 

Roosevelt, Pres. Franklin D., 468, 471, 
488-489 

Rosen, Baron, 55 

Rosenberg, Alfred, 197, 515, 518 

Rosenblatt, Zvi, 161-165 

Rothschild (s), Baron Edmund de, 50, 
59, 341 ; English, 209 ; of Vienna, 42- 
43 

Rottenstreich, Dr. F., 292 
Royal Central Asian Society, 232 
Royal Commissions, 130, 135, 144, 201, 
326, 353, 427, 455. See also French ; 



INDEX 



613 



Haycraft ; Hope-Simpson ; Peel ; 
Shaw ; and Woodhead Commis- 
sions. 

Rumania, vii, 277, 289, 429, 449, 484, 

487, 491, 570 
Rumbold, Sir Horace, 433, 434 
Runciman, Sir Walter, 193, 548 
Russell, Charles Edward, 453 
Russia, 10, 50, 52, 53, 55, 56, 82, 151, 

183, 195, 210, 251, 290, 430, 431, 484, 

487-489, 542, 564-565 ; Jews, 243 ; 

Pale, 82, 168, 254 ; Revolution, 195. 

See also Communism ; White Russia. 

Sacher, Mr., 107 

Sachetti, Father Alfred, 256 

Sachs, silk manufacturer, 275-276 

Safed, 49, 126, 127, 131, 133, 369, 370, 

386, 413, 420, 442, 506 
Said, Nuri Pasha, 426 
Sakia, 507 
Saladin, 366 
Salvador, Joseph, 38 
Samaria, 2 
Samaritans, 49, 398 

Samuel, Sir Herbert, 78, 90, 99, 102- 
119, 141, 321, 354, 436, 535-53* 

Samuel, Horace B., 81, 88, 103, 106, 
107, 203, 242, 425, 536 

Samuel, Dr. Ludwig, 502 

sanitation, see health and sanitation 

San Remo Conference, 93-94, 96, 98, 
109 

Santo Domingo, 488 
Sarona, 270 

Saud, Ibn, 69, 70, 75, 217, 221-222, 346, 

426, 451, 468 
Saudi, 98, 352, 399, 437 
Saul, King, 3 

Schacht, Dr. Hjalmar, 285 
Schleiden, Dr. M. I., 26 
science, 188 
Scott, Col., 84 
Sechem, 49 

Second Internationale, 145 

Seditious Offenses Ordinance, 413-414 

Segel, Benjamin W., 196 

Sennacherib, 6 

Sephardic Jews, 181, 490 

Seventh Dominion League, The, 214 

Sevres, Treaty of, 94 

Sforza, Count Carlo, 370, 389 

Shaftsbury, Lord, 37 



Sharia, no, see also courts 

Sharon, 4, 185, 473, 495 

Shaw Report, 133, 135, 261, 306, 494 

shekel, 152, 167 

Shertok, Moshe, 174 

Shi'a, 218; Shi'ahs, 69, 218, 378, 379, 

472-473. See also Islam ; Moslem. 
Shiels, Dr. Drummond, 147, 148, 151, 

34 1 : 34 2 

shipping and navigation, 294-299, 512 ; 

ancient, 6 ; medieval, 26. See also 

harbors. 
Shomrim, 334 
Sicily, 512-513 

Sidebotham, Herbert, 60, 75, 210, 214, 

224, 400, 410 
Sidon, 85 

Sieff Institute, Daniel, 188 
Simel, 408 

Simon, Sir John, 143, 548 

Sinai, 216, 248, 302, 306, 522, 582 

Singapore, 210, 211 

Sinuhe, 3 

Siris, 463 

Sklover, Dr., 296 

slavery, 353, 362-363, 366-367 

Slobodin, Roman, 472 

Smith, George Adam, 373, 409, 502 

Smith, Sir Sidney, 382 

Smolenskin, Perez, 39 

Smuts, General J. C, 61-62, 120, 142 

Snell, Lord, 134-135, 213-214 

Snow den, Philip, 106 

socialist, 133, 145, 316, 484, 538-540 

Sodom, 509 

Sokolow, Mr. Nahum, 57, 58 
Solomon, Chaim, 358 
Solomon, King, 4-6, 11 
Solomon, Solomon J., 64 
Solomon's Temple, 122 
Sombart, Werner, 26 
South Africa, British, 364 
'Southern Syria,' 400 
Soviets, see Russia 

Spain, 29, 30, 155, 283, 484; Interna- 
tional Brigade, 334 
spas, 511 

Spicer, R. B. G., 101, 204 
sports, 187 

Sprinzak, Joseph, 155 

Stafford, Lieut.-Col. A. S., 224, 352, 

407-408 
Stanhope, Lord, 496 



THE RAPE OF PALESTINE 



Stavsky, 1 61-165 

Stein, Leonard, 434 

Stern, Sir Alfred, 64 

Stoker, Maj. W. H., 465 

Storrs, Sir Ronald, 70, 107, 124, 175, 

203, 218, 253, 379, 537 
Strabo, 6-7, 498 
Strabolgi, Lord, 305, 446 
Strickland, Captain, 314 
Sudanese, 336, 369 

Suez Canal, 54, 70, 208, 209, 212, 214 
sugar, 4, 287, 502, 504 
Suleiman, Seyvid Hikmat, 451 
Sulzberger, 12 

Sunni, 69, 218, 378, 473, see also Islam ; 
Moslem 

Supreme Moslem Council, 109, no, 
459 

swamps, 260, 308, 313 ; reclamation of, 
1 50-151, 260, 305, 308, 309, 315. See 
also land. 

Sweden, 294 

Sydenham, Lord, 198 

Sykes, Sir Mark, 57, 58, 92, 366, 395- 
396 

Sykes-Picot Agreement, 53-54, 92, 93 
Syria, 14, 40, 50, 53, 74, 80, 84-86, 92, 
97, 98, 109, 114, 115, 182, 212, 217, 
219, 230, 239, 242, 244, 246-248, 250, 
259, 266, 276, 277, 286, 289-291, 295, 
336, 341, 347, 383, 386, 389, 399, 405, 
406, 436, 437, 448, 463, 504, 508 ; fac- 
tories, 277 ; Jews, 247 

Tacitus, 3, 6, 12, 403 

Tagore, Rabindranath, 129 

Tajji family, 389 

Tallyrand, 33 

Talmud, 1, n, 21, 28, 49 

Talpioth, 190 

Tanganyika, 293, 364 

tariffs, 273-279, 284, 286, 582 ; Customs 
Department, 273, 323 ; custom du- 
ties, 44 I >442, 547 

Tartars, 369 

taxation, 267-270, 282, 304-307, 309, 438, 
441, 442, 462, 463, 548, 582 ; animal, 
270 ; automobile, 275 ; excise, 277 ; 
industrial, 269 ; inspection, 270 ; land, 
268-270 ; poultry feed, 276 ; reve- 
nues, 299 ; urban, 269 ; Werko, 267 

Taylor, Col. Waters, 86 

Taylor, Myron C, 514 



Tekoa, 49 

Tel Aviv, 51, 105, 159, 160, 165, 170- 
182, 185, 188, 190, 228, 232, 235, 270, 
275, 280, 283, 297-303, 306, 308, 309, 
313, 3*4* 3 ! 7> 324i 32<5, 335» 33*. 33^ 
343. 359-3 6l > 374> 3&6, 3 8 8, 4 l6 > 4 21 " 
424, 437, 441, 462, 470, 548 

Tel Aviv-Jaffa Chamber of Com- 
merce, 273 

telegraph, see communications 

telephones, see under communications 

Tel-Es-Shock, 260 

Tel Hai, 88, 264 

Tell Beit Mirsim, 5 

Tell Sbustujeh, 2 

textiles, 213, 276, 278 

theater, 187, 188 ; Habimah, 188 ; The- 
ation Layelodem, 188 

Third Arab Palestine Congress, 84 

Thomas, Bertram, 73, 353, 403 

Thomas, J. H., 226 

Thomas, Lowell, 376, 399 

Tiberias, 422, 442, 511 

timber, see forests 

Tireh, 423 

tithe, see taxation 

Titus, 17, 18 

Togo, 293 

Tolkowsky, S., 282 

topography, 45-49, 494, 495 

Torah, 9, 25 

Toscanini, Arturo, 188 

tourists, 240-242, 245, 297, 442, 510-511 

Tozareth Haaretz, 2yS-2jg 

trade, 50-51, 187, 285, 291, 462, 511- 
512, 582 ; ancient Jewish, 5, 6; bal- 
ance, 200 ; deficit, 287 ; foreign, 442 ; 
free zones, 292 ; medieval Jewish, 26, 
27 ; retail, 180 ; trade agreements, 
285-286, 290 

Trans- Jordan, 47-49, 74, 113, 156, 340, 
341, 502, 504, 505, 522, 535-536, 582 ; 
Transjordan, 48, 75, n 5- 118, 218, 
219, 221, 222, 246-248, 252, 266, 271, 
301, 302, 313, 340-351, 370, 394, 399, 
426-428, 437, 441, 451, 463, 468, 473, 

474' 50*> 505 

transportation, 187, 282-283, 388, see 
also aeronautics ; highways ; rail- 
ways ; shipping 

Tristram, 4, 47, 500 

Trumpledor, Capt., 65, 88 

Tulkarm, 107, 265, 326, 362, 462 



INDEX 



615 



Tunis, 293, 399, 402, 405 
Turkestan, 245 

Turkey, 42, 53-56, 61, 66, 68, 72, 94, 95, 
123, 200, 210, 211, 217, 219, 223, 224, 
230, 242, 256, 271, 289, 290, 326, 334, 
341, 342, 344, 363, 364, 369, 398, 400, 
436, 484, 487, 504, 547 ; land and tax 
laws, 262 

Turner, Dr. Edouard, 480 

Twain, Mark, 47 

Tweedsmuir, Lord, 213-214 

Twelfth Zionist Congress, 208 

Uganda, 43, 305 

Ukraine, 30, 90, 484 

United Palestine Appeal, 158 

United States, 56, 62, 91, 96-07, 130, 

142, 143, 172, 199, 467, 484, 487, 490 
Ur, 2 

Uruguay, 466 

Ussishkin, Menachem, 142, 157, 171, 

175, 208, 261, 264, 452, 453 
utilities, see public services 

Vaad Leumi, 191, 201, 259, 310, 311, 

3i3. 321, 537-538 
Valero, Moshe, 164 
Van Paassen, Pierre, 505 
Van Rees, Mr., 398 
Vansittart, Sir Robert, 192, 193, 430 
Vatican, The, 381, 428, 516, 545, 568 
Versailles, Peace Conference, 84, 90-93, 

114 

Vespasian, 17 
Victoria, Queen, 36 
Voelkischer Beobachter, 337 
Voltaire, 33 

Von Lebenfels, Lans, 197 

Wade, Arthur, 507 
Wadi Hawareth, 264, 494 
wages, 178, 324, 335, 361, 386; Arab, 
386 

Wagner, Senator Robert, 514 
Wahabis, 75, 217-219, 253, 343 
Wailing Wall, 122-124, 132, 369, 528- 
5 2 9 

Wakf, no, 225, 302, 361, 392, 424 
Walpole, 47 

Warourg, Felix, 122, 144, 453 
water, 3, 49, 266, 305, 314, 315, 320, 
499-502, 511 ; consumption, 181 ; Je- 



rusalem's, 314; power, 98, 443, 
501 ; Resources Survey, 305. See 
also health and sanitation ; irriga- 
tion. 

Wauchope, Sir Arthur, 147-149, 160, 
175, 276, 356, 359, 425 

Wavell, Gen. A. P., 465 

Webb, Sidney, see Passfield, Lord 

Wedgwood, Col. Josiah C, opposite 
copyright page, ix, 98, 202, 207, 214, 
2 34> 2 39, 3oo, 308, 311, 329, 335, 359, 

39o> 395> 4°°> 4 6 7 

Weizmann, Dr. Chaim, 43, 58, 64, 77, 
80, 81, 83, 86, 87, 91, 93, 103, 112, 113, 
117, 122, 143, 145-147, 149, 153, 157, 
160, 163, 171-173, i9 6 > 2o8 > 22 5* 2 3 2 , 
236, 241, 275-276, 335, 355, 447, 450, 
453-456, 461, 468, 53 2 -533. 535-536, 
539-540 

Wells, H. G., 403 

Werber, Dr., 501 

werko, see under taxation 

Westminster, 200 

wheat, see under agriculture 

White, Bishop Alma, 446 

White Russia, 484 ; anti-Semitism, 199 ; 
British commitments to, 195 

Wilcox, E. H., 195 

Williams, Kenneth, 347 

Williams, Mr. T., 176 

Williams, Wythe, 447 

Wilson, Sir Arnold, 198 

Wilson, President Woodrow, 56, 58, 
62, 91, 92, 98 

Winterton, Earl of, 450, 489 

wireless service, 317, see also commu- 
nication ; radio 

Wise, Dr. Stephen S., 10 1, 157, 166, 
172, 174, 453, 540 

women, 237, 433 ; medieval Jewish, 27 ; 
offenses against, 330-331 ; position 
of, 401 ; position of, ancient He- 
brews, 1 1 ; position of, Arab, 362- 
363. See also slavery. 

Woodhead Commission, 427, 470, 472, 
563 

Woolley, Sir Leonard, 2 

World War, 51-56, 59, 61, 64-66, 72- 
73> 7 8 » 95i 21 2I2 > 333 » Arabs in, 
63 ; Jews in, 64 (see also Jewish Le- 
gion, Jewish soldiers) ; Palestine in- 
vasion, 61, 66, 67, 83 

WyclirTe, 35 



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Yarkon River, 297 
Yarmonk, El, 383 
Yarmuk River, 502 ; Valley, 506 
Yegia Kapayim, 190 
Yemen, 181, 219, 247, 252, 352, 399, 406, 
491 

Yevin, 162, 165 
Yezidis, 408 

Yiddische Tageblatt, 167 
Yiddish language, 189, 488, 541 
Y.M.C.A., 337, 381 
Yorkshire Observer, 489 
Young Commission, Hilton, 354 
Young, M. A., 10 1 



Zafrullah Khan, Sir, 457 
Zaidi, 219 
Zanzibar, 364 
Xebulun Society, 294 
Zevi, Zabettai, 32 



Zichron Jacob, 50 

Zionism, 37, 43, 44, 82 ; Arab view of, 
76-78 ; early, 38, 41 ; Russian, 50 ; 
Zionist, 56, 59, 63, 76-78, 89, 92-94, 
110, 112, 119, 130, 133, 139, 140, 143, 
151, 152, 165-167, 170-173, 197, 202, 
213, 229, 232, 236, 238, 304, 455, 483- 
484, 521, 533, 560 ; Actions Com- 
mittee, 145, 146 ; British, 58, 170, 529- 
530 ; Christian, 439 ; Commission, 
107 ; Congress, 42, 124, 143-144, 172, 
451-453, 455; European, 321; Ex- 
ecutive, 112, 113, 122, 160, 167, 174, 
335, 452, 455, 456 ; factions, 133, 154 ; 
finances, 157 ; leaders, 168-175 ; Prac- 
tical, 43 ; Russian, 43, 102. See also 
General Zionists ; Jewish Agency ; 
labor groups ; Revisionists. 

Zionist Program, proposed, 582-583 

Zion Mule Corps, 65, 66 

Zola, 40