The New York Times · 20 June 1920
CP-1920-010
Tells of Palestine Visit
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Dr. Pool Says Majority of Arabs Are Friendly to Jews. Dr. David de Sola Pool, who recently returned from Palestine where he had been on behalf of the Joint Distribution spoke on conditions in the Committee, Jewish National Homeland last night at the Shearith Israel Synogogue, Central Park West and Seventieth Street.
He said that the majority of the Arabs there are friendly to the Jews and that it is the rich land-owners who, fearing the increasing economic and Industrial development of the Jews, are hostile to them.
The massacre of 120 Jewish men, no- men and children last Passover, he said, was due to inflammatory speeches de- livered by Moslems at Hebron the same Here Felial ther " lender and king " in splte they acclaimed the Emir of the British occupancy, Dr. Pool de- clared. , After the meeting, mobs at- tacked the Jews with knives and looted their shops. What Is needed in Palestine
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"Tells of Palestine Visit," The New York Times, 20 June 1920. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1920-010. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1920-010
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