Sioux City News · Sioux City, Iowa · 7 July 1933

CP-1933-002

Citrus Is Possible Basis For Jewish, Arab Co-operation

Transcribed from the clipping

“The ‘Near East and India,’ a publication considered as close to the Colonial Office, which has just reached this country, carries a full page editorial entitled, ‘Development in Palestine,’ where it cites the development of the citrus and other industries, due to Jewish initiative, as a growing basis for co-operation between Jew and Arab… The ‘Near East and India’ states that where co-operation is hampered or prevented, the responsibility rests on the actions of the politically-minded of the two sections of the Palestine population. On the Arab side, the paper asserts, there can be no question but that those who are most vocal in their hostility to the Jews are the spokesmen of those who are the worst enemies of the fellaheen… ‘Not the least satisfactory feature of the citrus industry is the opportunities it provides for co-operation between the Arabs and Jews,’ says the editorial, in part, ‘and there can be no question of the advantages that the Arab orange growers have derived from the example set by the Jews in all that concerns the improvements introduced into the industry-improved methods of cultivation, of packing and of marketing. The dependence of the Arabs in this respect on Jewish initiative would seem to be taken so much for granted by them that they are usually content to see the whole duty of investigation and research shouldered by the Jews in the hope, no doubt, that the bulk of the expense, if not all of it, will be borne by the latter.’”

Context added by this archive

Three weeks before this ran, a Palestinian citrus grower’s son named Taji Farouki told a California Kiwanis club that he had come to study cooperative marketing and that the Palestinian industry was extensive rather than intensive, which he called bad. That clipping is CP-1933-001, 15 June 1933. This one, quoting a journal close to the Colonial Office, says Arab growers are content to let the Jews do the research and pay for it. Both are in the archive; neither is corrected by the other.

Cite this item

"Citrus Is Possible Basis For Jewish, Arab Co-operation," Sioux City News, 7 July 1933. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1933-002. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1933-002

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• Palestine Protected By 361 Jewish CopsSioux City News · 7 July 1933 · the same newspaper
• Palestine Citrus Industry Theme of Address Given at Kiwanis ClubRiverside Daily Press · 15 June 1933 · the same year