Evening Capital News · Boise, Idaho · 23 November 1917
CP-1917-006
IN PALESTINE.
Transcribed from the clipping
“Palestine has always been renowned for its vines and grapes, the climate, soils and other conditions being much the same as ours. Numbers xiii, 23, refers to bunches of grapes which required two men to carry them, and in Psalm 80 David speaks of a vine figuratively that covered the hill and had boughs like the goodly cedars.”
Context added by this archive
Sixty-four words, three weeks after the Balfour Declaration. No people, no politics, no mention that the country had just been promised to somebody. The climate is compared to Idaho’s. A country turned into a growing region and a Bible reference, in the month its future was being decided, for readers who grew fruit.
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"IN PALESTINE.," Evening Capital News, 23 November 1917. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1917-006. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1917-006
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