The Arabs should help the Jews to resettle Palestine, for the Jews can promote Arab nationalism in the Mid-East, says Dr. Albert Einstein in a letter to the English edition of the Arab paper “Felestin.” Dr. Einstein’s letter is a reply to the “Felestin’s” rejoinder to Dr. Einstein’s article in the “Manchester Guardian.”
Dr. Einstein says: “You appear to doubt that the Jews want the friendship of the Palestine Arabs, but a man like myself, who believes that the future of mankind is based on mutual good understanding among all the nations and that aggressive nationalism is bound to collapse, is able to visualize the future wherein a peaceful effort will obtain between the two people who consider Palestine their country.
“The powerful Arab people should appreciate the necessity for Israel’s return to his National Home in the ancient Jewish land and by combined efforts to help settle a greater number of Jews. I am convinced that the sparks of life springing up in the Arab countries will be greatly helped by friendship with the Jews. I abhor a discussion of the events of August because they revealed the nature of man in its lowest form and because the reasons underlying the clash made a rapprochement difficult for the present, but it is bound to come sooner or later.”
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