its plan for restricting the sale of land, and even in their opposition to what was set forward as a benevolent measure for the settlement of what were presumed to be hundreds of “landless” Arabs.
“Despite this lesson the Administration is now talking of reviving its plan for a Legislative Council. Here again I believe the Jews and Arabs will come together, this time only elbow distance apart, in their opposition to a benevolently intended but wholly misdirected plan. Very slowly the two peoples are finding their common ground, and it is in their common relationship to the country, in which they live, and which only they maintain.”
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