The commentator Scrutator, examining the pros and cons of the Palestine situation in the Sunday Times, declares that “what the Jews have done for the Arab is to discover Palestine for him, much as we have discovered India for the Indians.”
Paying tribute to Jewish settlement work, Scrutator states that “It is through the Jew that Arab nationalism has its best chance of success.”
Palestine, the commentator declares, “is not Balfour’s (the late Lord Balfour, author of the Jewish homeland declaration) fad, but a great joint essay in what might be a beneficent work of British imperialism.”
He denies the existence of any incompatability of temperament between the Jews and the Arabs. He terms Jewish settlement work the only real colonizing work done in the twentieth century.”
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