The entire aspect of the country is altered. Hillsides are terraced with vines and olives. Where, as in Sharon, there were formerly sand dunes, now orange groves, almond and eucalyptus trees flourish abun-dautly. The once-marshy and ma-larval plain of Esdraelon has been drained and is now a highway of commerce; every form of transport passes over it—the horse, the camel, the car, the railway and the aeroplane, while, below. its surface, pipelines carry oil from distant Iraq. The Jordan Valley along its length to the Dead Sea is in process of transformation. New industries, large Having somewhat traversed historical, political and economic aspects of the Land of Promise, let us focus attention on the Arab unrest that is now disturbing its tranquility.
Their main grievances, as outlined by the Royal Commission, are as follows: (1) Failure to develop self-governing institutions (ie. Palestine has no parliament, prime minister, or the other paraphernalia of democracy, partly because the Jews fear what would be Arab numerical superiority in the legislature). (2) Acquisition of land by Jews (but the Arabs sold it to them). (3) Jewish immigration. (4) The use of Hebrew and English as official languages. (5) Employment of British and Jewish officers and exclusion of Arabs from the higher posts. (6) Creatior. of a large class of landless Arabs ana he refusal of Jews to employ Arab labourers (Jewish experience was {tm Arab labourers did not turn out exactly trustworthy). (7) Inadequate funds for Arab education.
The Report says that "whilst we believe that these grievances are sincerely felt, we are of the opinion that most of them cannot be regarded as legitimate under the terms of the mandate and we are therefore not called upon to make recommengations upon them."
Above and beyond the specific grievances, according to Mr. John Gunther, (author of "Inside Europe")
the major tenet of the Arabs, that Palestine is their country and that the Jews are "taking it away."
In the words of the Royal Commission:—
"The underlying causes of the disturbances, or (as we regard it) the rebellion of 1986 are, first, the desire of the Arabs for national independence. secondly, their antagonism to the establishment of the Jewish National Home in Palestine quickened by their fear of Jewish immigration. "Among contributory causes were the effect on Arab opinion of the attainment of Rational independence by Iraq, Trans-jordan, Egypt, Syria and the Lebanon, the rush of Jewish immigrants escaping from Central Europe. i the intensive character of the "modernism" of Jewish nationalism; and lastly the general uncertainty, accentuated by the ambiguity of certain phrases the mandate as to the ultimate intentions of the Mandatory Power."
"Great Sea of the Hebrews"
Howsoever that may be, and turn. ing away from petty internal brawl to the larger aspects of outer vealism, Palestine looks out over "the Great fea of the Hebrews"—the Mediterranean—whose deep, blue waters had washed" power to those shores again and again. Situated between the Occident and the Orient, that narrow little coastal strip has borne the Leavy tread, during 60 centuries, of martial and material forces, and yet on that very soil have walked the hallowed feet of blessed men, prophets, kings of the subjective world, Who have ruled mankind from their urns Today, the land, the sea and the air are heavily laden with armaments These can only give protection but no new life. May it not be too much to expect that the Jewish National Home, under the most powerful ægis of Great Britain, will produce, similarly as in the past, a new emphasis of its age-old spiritual and moral leadership, Robert Richards, 38, of Richard Street, Elswick, Newcastle-on-Tyne was killed recently while attempting to force the safe in the Prince of Wales public-house in Romulus-street les head. hard's brother who gave the alarm was taken into custody. The manager of the public-house Mr. Robert Whitlie si part of the money was destroy; the explosion, and that it was believed that Richards was struck by the door of the safe, knocked against a beer barrel with such force that it. was pushed out of place, and then collapsed round the corner, his body being found 10 yards.from the safe itself. ian strategy must be built on the Jewish State, as has been ably said, and the Jewish State must build on the British connection.
Now, what of the people of the Hebraic principles of life and their economy? It is true that they, more than any, have Jaid supreme emphasis on the dictum that man does not live by bread alone, and that the material world is but a speck relative to the infinite subjective kingdom. But equally is it true that without material means there can be no physical existence, So the intangible and tangible have perforce to complement one another.
Of modern Jewish life, on may benefit from the very able exposition of Mr. Paul Goodman. He states that it moves within two poles. On the one hand there is the idea of the world-wide dispersion of the Jewish people and the adaptation of its individual members to their dominant surroundings; on the other, the Zionist ideal of the concentration of
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