WRONG HORSE IN PALESTINE.

Dunstan Times, Issue 3149, 25 December 1922, Page 8

WRONG HORSE IN PALESTINE.

Palestine W imtiu'W. Iho Arabs are dissati tied; the Zionist policy of the British Groverr.ment has disheartened 'ho Aran nation. Not only in Palestine, but throughout the whole ot Jsl'am. resentment is growing. Th these grave word, the Emir Abdultu. seeord son of the King of the Hediaz'and rudter of Trans-Jord'ama. 'grrikinclv confirmed the many warnings 'n the thiitv Express of the perils ol thrttsiiiig Jewish immigration on LaiAbdulla is u handsome man of uifedium height, bearded as many „ British naval officer is—the nilf-toi-pedo beardf-and; bear's himself witn the Arab attitude to fcio'Ksm was still unchanged, Ins Hign.less said thai, if the Zionists were not m Palestine there woiilil he no need to Ueen a s:rong garrison there. "1 tell vcu frankly," he continued, ••that tho'\rahs. from the highest to the lowest object most strongly to Zionist immigration. , "f am a friend ot Britain; we were comrades in* arms during the war igainst the Turk, and I was present ,n an orVia" capacity at S:r Hgbeit Sarniels declaration ot the British mandate, which made my own people nnarv with me, tor they thought I was supporting the Zionist movement. "It, is nc' that we object to the Jew. Jews and Arabs have lived bappilv together for years m the Holy Land but the Arab nation is alarmed: at the steadily rising tide of lmnutfranta in its own small country. "The Ar*)b mind is unchanged on the >ubj-rt The delegation. of protest against the Balfour declaration has returned to '.ho Holy Laud dissatisfied and disheartened. I think T can speak not only ffer Isam but lor the Christian community in Palestine when 1 say iuv they most stiongly object to /ionism.; The whole Moslem world objects to fcn« Zionist policy in Palestine "We love the British, their liberal kindness, and their sympathy for Arab aspirations, but this Zionist policy lias puzzled and hurt us." "What is the solution, then, ot the complicated situation in Palestine?" The Emir smiled enigmatically. "Union," he said. "The British people and the Arabs are friends. I think that with food will on both sides the future in Palestine will be bright. We do not wan- 1 , disorder, but-1 think the Arabs want a, change " The Emir is on his first visit to Europc, but London quite failed to stag ger him. "1 found London to be what 1 had expected it to ho," ho said. "It is v.ell described in the hooks I have lead."