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WORKING P ALESTlNE 183
WORKING PALESTINE
Mein Weltbild, Amsterdam: Querida Verlag, 1934.
Among Zionist organizations "Working Palestine" is the one
whose work is of most direct benefit to the most valuable class
of people living there, namely, those who are transforming
deserts into flourishing settlements by the labor of their hands.
These workers are a selection, made on the voluntary basis,
from the whole Jewish nation, an elite composed of strong,
confident, and unselfish people. They are not ignorant laborers
who sell the labor of their hands to tl,e highest bidder, but
educated, intellectually vigorous, free men, from whose peace·
ful struggle with a neglected soil the whole Jewish nation are
the gainers, directly and indirectly. By lightening their heavy
lot as far as we can we shall be saving the most valuable sort of
human life; for the first settlers' struggle on ground not yet
made habitable is a difficult and dangerous business involving a
heavy personal sacrifice. How true this is, only they can judge
who have seen it with their own eyes. Anyone who helps to
improve the equipment of these men is helping on the good
work at a crucial point.
It is, moreover, this working class alone that has the power
to establish healthy relations with the Arabs, which is the most
important political task of Zionism. Administrations come and
go; but it is human relations that finally tune the scale in the
'lives of nations. Therefore to support "Working Palestine" is
at tl,e same time to promote a humane and wortlly policy in
Palestine and to oppose an effective resistance to those undercurrents
of narrow nationalism from which the whole political
world, and in a less degree the small political world of Pales·
tine affairs, is suffering.