The Maccabaean
souls. Under the loose, “bakshish”-ridden Turkish rule, such excesses were unheard of. The Bedouins, be they Methoulites or members of Trans-Jordanian tribes, will return and wreak destruction on another settlement or settlements. Moreover, they or their kind may find their way— there is at present little to prevent them finding their way— to a village or villages in the English Zone. Nothing short of a punitive expedition will prevent their excursions. It need not be a very formidable expedition. A few aeroplanes will succeed, as they succeeded during the concerted Bedouin attack around Semakh at about this time last month. Until that happens our colonies in southern Galilee (our colonies in northern Galilee have been nearly all evacuated ever since the Tel-Hai tragedy) are in constant danger and their work, their productivity and their peace constantly menaced. Our co-operators and colonists up in Galilee have been doing wonders. They have been plowing and watching, and even voting—with the shadows of lurking marauders falling across their path. But they cannot be reasonably expected to be doing wonders forever, if that is the limit to the time set by the Powers for the adjustment of the frontiers of the Jewish Palestine.
While one reads and hears plans discussed for future work in our country to embrace the hundreds of thousands who are about to cross the threshold of our land, unemployment and want—its inseparable companion—are holding sway. Unemployment has thus far led to two minor outbreaks, one in Jaffa and the other in Jerusalem, directed against the Zionist representatives. These outbursts were comparatively small because not all of the unemployed joined the processions, which they seemed to recognize was not so much to obtain work as to over-emphasize the greatly recognized economic crisis and to make what capital can be made out of it. But it is significant that unemployed Jews in Palestine look to the Zionist authorities to provide them with work. The Zionist authorities will not, must not, do less than show that it recognizes fully and clearly the meaning of the unrest and provide for the immediate present—a thing which can be done without prejudicing the future work.
If it is true that the joy of Palestine Jewry has not, for the reasons sketchily traced above, been unbounded, it is certainly true that it looks with calm confidence to the near future. The evils of the present military administration will pass when the administration is replaced. An elementary demand of the Yishub will thus be satisfied. Broadly conceived, the incoming administration should allow revision or itself revise, the vindictive sentences passed on Jews who, for lack of defense, attempted to defend themselves; it will reconsider the hasty judgment regarding the Assembly, giving Palestine Jewry scope for expressing in recognized form its will and its eagerness to help in the Jewish reconstruction; it should put forward fearlessly the need of a Jewish Palestine for natural frontiers; it should recognize the need of an armed Jewish force; it will re-establish decent relations with the Arabs by proving the obvious truth that Jews are not despoilers.
The elections, while revealing on the one hand the keen interest of Palestine Jewry—more than seventy per cent of the voting population went to the polls—also gave ample expression to the oppositional spirit created during the time of military occupation. The 112 delegates for "Achdut Avodah" and "Poel Hazair" out of a total of 253 is nothing if not symptomatic of the spirit of dissatisfaction. No less
significant is the victory of the Sepharic bloc, which on the eve of our people's regeneration rose to its full height and claimed its share in the pride and responsibilities. While the universal interest in the Geulah fund, to which all sections are making notable sacrifices, marks the beginning of the new era: Palestine Jewry is beginning to give and is doing it most wholeheartedly and self-sacrificingly.
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