Shaukat Ali, the Indian Moslem leader, who has just left for Syria, after staying for sometime in Palestine after the interment of his brother, Mohamed Ali, in the Mosque of Omar, has sent a letter to Lord Passfield, the Colonial Secretary, the Arab organ “Felestin” reports, in which he deals at great length with the conditions in Palestine, and the effects of the new Government letter on Moslem opinion.
Like Mohamed Ali, his late brother, Shaukat Ali said at a meeting of the Moslem-Christian Association which he addressed last week at Jaffa (reported in the J.T.A. Bulletin at the time), he had no interest in politics, but was devoted entirely to the cause of the Moslem religion. He believed that the union in Palestine of Christians and Moslems was most important since Palestine was sacred to the three great religions of the world, and until the advent of Zionism there had been peace among their followers in the country. When he was in London recently, he said, he had met Dr. Weizmann and some of his colleagues, but he had not then understood the true situation in Palestine nor had he realised until his arrival in Palestine how strong was the antipathy of the Arabs to the Jews. The Jews would have to change their policy if this antipathy was to be overcome, he urged.
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