The Hawera Star. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER, 3, 1933. ARABS AND JEWS.

Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 3 November 1933, Page 4

The Hawera Star.

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER, 3, 1933. ARABS AND JEWS.

Delivered every evening by 5 o’clock in Hawera Maneia. Eaupokonui, Otakeho Oeo. Pihama, Opunake, Normanby, Okaiawa, Eltham, Ngaere. Mangatoki, Kaponga, Awatuna, Te Kiri, Mahce, Lowgarth, Manutahi, Kakaramea, Alton, Hurleyville, Patea, Whenuakura, Waverley, Mokoia, Whakamara, Ohangai, Meremeis. Fraser Road and Ararat a.

Racial rivalry, religious antagouism, and economic disturbance lie behind the Arab discontent in Palestine, which, at .the moment, has reached the stage of violence with portents of serious and widespread disorder. Arab leadership in this trouble doubtless tends to excesses through the national temperament. There is a touch of Bedouin recklessness and fanaticism about it. But it would be wrong to assume that only the impulses of the desert Arab are responsible for the violent demonstrations which are taking place. There are intellectual Arabs, fully abreast of world events and quite capable of following /the actions and reactions of statecraft in Geneva and elsewhere, who, despite the pressure of the untamed elements of the race, consider that their people are being bereft of their land by Jewish immigration and are steadily being pushed into a subordinate position. Britain, as the mandate authority, is bound to control Jewish immigration so that the inflow is «o‘t greater than the country can absorb. But there is the authority of the London * ‘ Times” for the statement that the immigration regulations are systematically being evaded. There has been an astonishing increase in the Jewish population, particularly in the Jaffa region, from which the output of oranges/ has trebled in three years. Tel-Aviv, a settlement outside Jaffa, which in' 1919 had 2000 Jewish inhabitants, now claims 60,000. With the immigrants has come capital and enterprise. It is estimated that £3,250,000 has been invested, muich of it under very high exchange advantages. This money has developed the Haifa harbour, harnessed the Jordan for electric power, established a ehemical industry on the Dead Sea, the only source of .potash and bromide within the British Empire, and multiplied many times the orange grove area. But all' this means little to the Arab, who, naturally hostile, feels that he is being slowly driven into the desert. The Hitler pol7ey may be partly responsible for the present Arab unrest, seeing that very ambitious schemes are being discussed for the settlement" of many of the refugees in Palestine. , Unquestionably the mandate authority has a major problem to solve.