Egyptian Teachers Urge Palestine Arabs Adopt Conciliatory Policy

(Jewish Telegraphic Agency Mail Service)

The party of Egyptian teachers who visited Palestine are making complaints in the Arab press here of their treatment by the Arabs of the country because they have visited the Jewish schools and the Jewish settlements.

In a statement published in the “Meraat el Sherk”, the teachers write: “We cannot understand why you boycots us. The Jewish teachers visited us and we welcomed them according to the laws of hospitality. They invited us to visit them and we accepted the invitation, believing that science knows no religion and no fatherland. If the Jews are your enemies they are not ours. Do you think the whole world regards the Zionist question as you do?

“In our tour of Palestine we have learned much more of Zionism than you know. In visiting the numerous Jewish settlements we have realized what real colonization is, and the meaning of the Jewish national home. We could not have understood this in reading a thousand of your articles. Thus we shall be able to help you in this regard much more than you imagine. Having followed a negative policy in our country we found it useless, but you persist in this harmful practice. You have wounded us deeply by your attacks. We shall never forget that in certain towns we were refused water. We never expected an Arab country to act in this way.”