BETTER UNDERSTANDING

King Country Chronicle, Volume XXXI, Issue 4952, 6 February 1937, Page 8

BETTER UNDERSTANDING

JEW AND ARAB. “It is essential that the Jews get to know that Arabs and the Arabs the Jews. Most of the Jews have come lrom Europe and the entire mentality of the Arabs is strange to them; nor do the Arabs know the Jews. Mutual understanding is a preliminary sine qua non for an agreement. Literature of Arab life, culture and history must be circulated among Jews, greater social contact between the two peoples must be encouraged—and here the Jews of Eastern origin can play an important role as intermediaries. An attempt must be made to inculcate in the Arabs of Palestine and the neighbouring land a conception of modern Hebrew literature. Jewish economic strivings, Jewish ideals in the past and in the present, and, above all, a conception of what Palestine has meant throughout the generations for the Jews. All this must be done over a period of years, unhurriedly, and without desire to pluck fruit from >a tree newly planted. In the course of time a small learned Arab element will arise, understanding that rivalry may be expressed through the medium of cultural pursuits and not by gun sand bombs.”—Joseph Klausner in the Jewish quarter review, the Menorah Journal. ‘