"Zionists" vs their neighbors from W.B. Seabrooks's 1927 book: "Adventures in Arabia" http://books.google.com/books?id=b8dbVCE8lwwC&dq=adventures+in+arabia&hl=en&sa=X&ei=2IiMUNGQEOrryAHY04GIDA "there was talk of the Zionists in Haditha's tent, and I was amazed at the bitterness of the words. I have life-long friends among Jews, and I relate now simply as a part of my attempt at a true record that the Bedouins whom I knew held all Jews in hatred and contempt. I had asked the gentle, saintly sheik Haditha what he thought of the actual Zionist movement. He had replied, with the mildness of a lamb, and no intention of irony, the he considered it a most admirable arrangement; when the British had brought them all in, and then withdrew armed protection, it would be easy and convenient to massacre them all and take their flocks and crops!...

Only three months before, a tribe less than a hundred miles in the South had raided, burned, and massacred a Jewish "fenced farm" of some thirty persons. There was no survivor. The women and children were found outside the charred ruins, with their throats cut like sheep. Nor was this regarded as a "shame" to the tribe which had done it, for between the men of the desert and the Yahoud colonists, there is a declared blood feud. This death proscription is not against Jews in general, but against all colonists who have been allotted lands which the Arabs regard as their own. 'This land was ours,' they say,'before Moses and his thieving horde of run-away slaves ever came ravaging it out of Egypt. It returned to us under caliph and sultan, and it shall yet be ours again.' So, naturally, the Jew on the edge of Palestine regards the Bedouin as a cruel and ruthless savage who gives no quarter. The only good they will grudgingly admit of him is that he does not torture and hoes not rape."

I suppose the last is the only thing that's changed for the worst in the last hundred years....

Reply · Report Post