PALESTINE ARABS

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 23, 27 January 1923, Page 12

PALESTINE ARABS

PRO-TURK DEMONSTRATIONS,

There' is no denying that the success - n { of Mustapha Kemal. the Turkish Na- ;'.';;': tionaliat leader, in .Asia Minor'has'had ';;■;.' an effect in Palestine, as it has in „;',:' Syria and in all Moslem countries, writes :'..'.. a Jerusajem correspondent of the "Daily . .'■■■■•■■."■ • *■■;, The outward signs of this were to be ■;' 'eeen ii! pro-Turk demonstrations in cer;;"'tain towns, in" special prayer meetings ; „',in the, mosques, and in the collection .'Ci'.-of subscriptions for the Turkish, cause. ..;":; There ,are extremists v/ho openly preach '!-.■■ that the return of the Turk would be the- .'." best thing Slat could happen, and no ; doubt these extremists have a certain ■ ■ following. • _ It should be realised, ( however, that . i this cry for the return of the Turk is in ■;'.',' reality only, another form of the cry for ■■; the removal of the Jew. -.-. No Arab could seriously believe that vri'he would have greater independence launder the Turk than lie has now under ■-■•[the British, and indeed some of the .;?,!.,leaders! of the Moslem' Christian Asso- ;■;.■"( ciatiou" (which supplies the anti-Gov-.~r« eminent propagandists) themsely.es suf"?»fered very bad treatment' at the. hands 'fligf the ■•Turks • not so very long ago. .- -J It i&'certain_, moreover, that the fellah ,-^v —the peasant fanner—would, be very un- ";;.:;. likeLf to welcome the return of the ;;;■ iTurk, and he is not easily persuaded that "■■■y.khe new Turks are essentially different :;.';.;'from those who ruled—or misruled— ;;;•;. this cquntrv before. *-. The pro-Turk enthusiasm, such as it r*;lt.is, is nothing more than another form ;.':." f of expression of the Arab's antrpathy to • •'the British policy of this establishment „,! 'of a Jewish National Home in Palestine. :j"/ The Palestine correspondent of 'El V ''Ahram (one of the leadin.e^Arabic papers ."'...'.iii Egypt), in summing ip what meas*i% Ji'res the Arabs should take to atttain ■'■'.their goal, recommends: — - ' -;v. (1) The employment of all possible .:;.': efforts in Europe, America; and Moslem "■■■ countries to awaken a general feeling ■'■Vagainst the Jewish National Homo, in " ' Palestine. ;;.'■.,', (2) The stirring up of a general Arab ,;.i rising in Palestine against the Zionist j:2Administration. If' they succeed, then -■'"England will .be compelled ■to recon- • .* v.eid«r 'her policy in Palestine. ,■"■■; (3) The rising' of the peoples of all ■*.; Arabic countries as a solid block against '.^ .foreign influence.