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( ;0\KRNMENT OF PALESTINE BETRAYED THE JEWS
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of the sexton, who told me
. t ' t he Arabs had thrashed him
ouri'lly and, incidentally, had stolen
four pounds from him. I saw' that
• h,. table on which the scrolls of the
7 r;i h were placed had not been
broken, but stolen; I saw that all the
am p ,-hairs, wash bowls, lanterns
int j , ven the towels had been stolen
bv the pressure of the crowd;’ and
I saw the heaps of ashes from which
I myself took the remains of the
m rned and torn books of Psalms and
I„-t mentations—although the Acting
Governor asked me not to do so, lest
p.jbln opinion be aroused.
• That I had acted properly trans
pired that very evening, when the
h. ad of the administration denied to
correspondent of the New York
Turn" that anything had been burn-
, d. describing all such stories as news-
>ciper lies. Thereupon I handed the
evidence to the authorities.
The next day was the Sabbath.
Ih. city was tilled with rumors of
Arab intentions to attack the Wailing
Wall again. In the face of the mani-
v«: ill-will of the administration the
.lew- undertook to defend themselves
n the worst days after the war.
ision of the British Trumpeldor
marched to the Wailing Wall and
ockaded the place of worship so
f hat Arab passers-by could not dis
turb the prayers. The police design
ed to co-operate with the Trumpel-
!• !- and guarded the roads leading
•he Wall; in other words, they did
hat they might have done the day
< a* fore if they had wished. The
seemed to be over—the British
it"vet nmerit seemed to he ready to in-
■- r vene at last.
"Hut it was destined otherwise;
‘bat day saw the spilling of blood.
N"t at the Wailing Wall, where the
Jews were prepared for self-defense,
but in a suburb, in the Bukharian
quarter inhabited by the proletariat
of Oriental Jewry. Arabs attacked
some Jewish boys who were playing
football; all of the children were in
jured, one mortally. This was the
beginning of a series of assaults. The
police—almost one hundred per cent.
Arab—did nothing.
“There were cases of Jews captur
ing their Arab assailants and giving
them over to the police—whereupon
the latter would release the Arab and
arrest the Jews on the charge, sworn
to by an Arab policeman, of being the
aggressor. There was the case of a
Jew, the blood flowing from his in
juries, coming in to the police station
only to hear from the Arab police
man: ‘It’s a pity you’re simply wound
ed, and not dead.’
“Still the Jews maintained the
peace,” von Weisl says. Describing the
funeral of the first Jewish boy killed
by the Arabs, he writes: “The British
—who had not dared interfere with
the Arab demonstrators who had burn
ed the sacred books of the Jews at the
Wailing Wall—now had the courage
to advance against the funeral cortege.
With their clubs they attacked the
Jews from three sides; they drove an
army car into the procession.”
In conclusion, the correspondent
writes:
“If the Zionist Executive does not
obtain the removal of the guilty of
ficials of the fury and indignation
which the heads of the Palestine gov
ernment evoked against themselves
will ultimately turn against Britain
herself. And that would be tragic—
exceedingly tragic. For the Jews, who
cannot colonize without Britain, and
for Britain, whose only friends in all
Asia are the Jews of Palestine.”
Goodwill Committee Will Continue Its W ork
N' \v A ork, (.1. T. A.) The Com-
on Good-Will between Jews and
hri-tians intends to continue and al-
" expand its work, according to a
statement made public yesterday by
h |> F raneis J. McConnell, presi-
<nt of the Federal Council of Church-
! * hrist in America. The program
r 1Mn in the field of Jewish-Chris-
" in relations will be more extensive
Han ever before. The statement read:
‘''"me misunderstandings have aris-
n r, 'K ar( ling the policies and the fu-
i the ( ommittee on Goodwill be-
evn Jews and Christians of the Fed-
a. ( ouncil of the Churches of Christ
:n America.
Th.- work of the Committee will
h!> continue, but indeed, our pro-
r.an. foi 11*30 will reach more church
es, schools and colleges throughout the
nation than ever before in the history
of our study and activity in the field
of Jewish Christian relations.
“The Committee on Goodwill Be
tween Jews and Christians is a chan
nel for the communication of ideas
and ideals, ends and aims, techniques
and procedures. In this sense it is an
important social instrument in estab
lishing a community of minds among
two significant American groups—
Protestant Christians and Jews. The
Committee works among the consti
tuent churches of the Council to edu
cate Christians about Judaism; to con
struct more desirable attitudes toward
Jews, and to improve our relationships
with Jews, The Committee has abso
lutely no proselytizing interest, intent,
or effect.”
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