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]\ew 'Vflßr ■v I LET US BUILD IN PEACE AND AMITY j Vaad Haleumi, National Council of Palestine Jews, Appeals to Arab People for Cooperation and Unity. I We print below the full text of mi appeal iuMrewed to the ‘‘Arable nation In Pales i **nd the greater Orient," limnd hy the Vaad Haleumi, the National ('mini’ll of the Jew* of Paleatlna. This appeal has Man sent tu all Arable uewrnapecii in Palestine and ' >" other eoaatrica and calls upon the Arable people to accept the hand of peace proffered ,1, • to it an 4 help the Jewish people to restore Palestine to “Its honor ami xiory as or yore ■ • • ■ for the welfare of ourselves and that of all mankind.” I i To the Arabic Nation in Palestine and the Greater Orient. Brethren: I Hebrew nation, after its years of wandering in diverse lands, has commenced, during this latest epoch, to return in vast numbers, to its ancient motherland, a land held sacred by all nations. It has come back, with whole- I | hearted sincerity and loving friendliness, to this blessed country to toil in it, to cherish it and to revivify it. It : g has invested both strength and energy, made sacrifices, fructified the earth by excessive toil and in many parts ■ even converted the veritable desert into a fount of new life, as your own eyes have witnessed. I We have come with fervid aim to work in consort with you for the upbuilding of the country, dear to us both; j to work with you in perfect cordiality and accord as loving brothers who have been parted and drawn together i; again. We have suffered much in that world, whence we have returned, whilst among nations who failed to i understand us, and the spirit animating our conduct. Here, in the birthplace of the Semites, nearest to us in stock ; and language, we hoped we might find a common tongue and kindred spirit and be enabled to comprehend and I appreciate each other, and thus progress hand in hand towards the future upbuilding of the Holy Land. I >ou have been aware that, for the past forty years, the Jewish nation has introduced into the country a I great wealth, which has served as a source of employment and livelihood to thousands of the Arabic race. The forty colonies and the other settlements we have established in Judaea, Samaria, Lower and Upper Galilee and in the Plain of Israel; the new towns such as Tel-Aviv, and the new suburbs on the outsirts of Haifa and Jerusalem i have added much to the life and movement of the country, and have given means of livelihood to large numbers of its inhabitants. You are cognizant of, see and feel, the fact that, as with a conjurer’s wand the wilderness £ has been transformed into a fruitful garden and the desert into a garden of Eden. £ The strivings of the Jewish people were witnessed by the great European powers, who_deemed it their bounden g duty to restore to the Hebrew nation its honor and its pride, and to give it an opportunity to erect a national home £ s on .its ancient territory. Neither the various powers, nor the British Government, which has accepted the man- | ! date over-Palestine with the professed purpose of creating there a national home for the Jews, ever contemplated | s the overruling by us of anybody; nor was it with the intention of dominating that we have come to the country. | Our aim is solely to live calm and peaceful lives in consort with all other nationalities, in this free land—the cradle K of our earliest days; to live with the Arabic nation a life of unity and mutual appreciation, so as together to con- % vert the joint home into a progressive commonwealth, whose structure will ensure for each component nationality £ I a national development unhindered and unencumbered. (As was expressed at the Zionist Congress at Carlsbad w i in 1921.) * , § Yet behold, after the passing of many blissful years of peace, coincident with joint effort based on a cove- i nant of love and respect, there has arisen in the country a group of men whose objects are the introducing of dis- £ harmony, the promoting of internal strife, and the creating in our country of an atmosphere of hate, suspicion and £ perpetual conflict. They have already launched a campaign amongst you against the Jewish nation. Byway of p the press and by means of verbal addresses they have commenced to circulate fables and fictions such as: that | | many thousands of Jews are about to land in the country in order to take possession of it, that Jews have raised | I! battalions of soldiers, that magazines and arsenals have been secretly established. Of late their lying has at- | > tained such limits that they have dared to issue drawings depicting a Hebrew flag over the Mosquo of Omar, a | . place sacred to the Moslem world and revered likewise by the Hebrew nation. It is a falsehood whose baseness | can be verified by any inhabitant of the Holy City. They seem to have faith in the gullibility of the readers and | | therefore invent fictions which are self-evident lies. ' 1 j All those who have been in Palestine during the past few years, have both seen and remarked the energetic | work of the Jewish immigrants, who have come to the country not with arms but with plough, spade and mallet. | j With the sweat of their brows they till the land, which till their coming was but desolate and void. They have | j encroached on nobody’s preserves, have purchased only land tendered them willingly, have reclaimed rocky V‘ , wastes, and have been ipade to sufTer all manner of diseases. They do all this out of love and affection and are | preparing to breathe new life into the country; while all thoughts of rebellion, or of the obtaining of dominion, or | j putting of Zionist flags over the Mosque of Omar, are very, very far from their minds. | Brethren, do not give any credence to the tissue of falsehoods circulated amongst you by agitators and mis- | chief makers. Remember that only by means of a calm and peaceful life can this sacred land of ours be regen- a : crated. Do not heed those who provoke you to rise against your brethren, who dwell with you in perfect confi- | | dence. Remember that the responsibility for disturbances will devolve only on you, the people, should you chance | to follow their counsel. Disturbances can but cause harm to the whole country and most surely hinder its devel- | y opment. They would bespoil that fair and honorable designation which the Arabic nation has earned for itself— | | the kind-hearted, the meter out of hospitality for generations past. Each new incomer brings fresh life into the | B country, and the Jewish immigation cannot fail to bring blessings on the land, for it is a source of wealth to the | | inhabitants of the country, which stands much in need of additional settlers. 1 Only by peacefulness, tranquility and brotherly love can this joint motherland of ours be made happy and | | prosperous. All those who favor disturbances, and all tiose who agitate, beguile, and provoke troubles are the | | enemies of the mother land. | | Accept the, Brethren, the hand of peace proffered to you. It was with no desire for conflict that we first set | | our faces in this direction; nor is such our desire at this moment, after the opportunity has been given both you > ji and us—under the guardianship of the enlightened British Government —to be in this country, to develop il and • I fo restore its honor and glory as of yore. ;; l Kindred Brethren! | t The Hebrew nation and the Arabic nation had a common destiny in the past; they acknowledge the same ' patriarch: why then should there be strife twixt brethren: rather let us share the common ambition: To build £ 6 the wasted portions of our Holy Land, for the welfare of ourselves and of that of all mankind! THE DENVER JEWISH NEWS gjßgw ?££ W !S- f If^.fSEBBSBBBH 2S SB2BB BX.3iP Bs£ *9*.® SIB2IP; I The leading automobile dealers dn this page wish to extend thanks and best j wishes to the Jewish community on this JSew.“Year's Day . jj I Never has the Jewish New Year dawned on a brighter future! 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