What Happened in Palestine: The Events of August, 1929, Their Background and Their Significance (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from What Happened in Palestine: The Events of August, 1929, Their Background and Their Significance

I came to Palestine in early July, 1929, not in the mood of the visitor. I would not rush the country. I would wait and fit my mind to it. I would be quiet and receptive where, five years before, I had been restless and acquisitive of emotions and ideas. It was impossible now to question Palestine, for actually I had to wait for the country to question me.

So for the first Six weeks I did not Stir out of Tel Aviv. Jerusalem is less than two hours away by ma chine, and from there you can reach the Valley of Jezreel and Upper Galilee in half a day. But there was no point in travelling. True to my expectation, the contact with Palestine under these new, intimate conditions, had given a different form to all my ques tions; but the answers had to come slowly and organically. These were questions I could not press. For even while I answered them they unfolded and changed form, and began to envelope. Me closer. I paid only indirect attention to them, for fear of be ing importunate. I occupied myself with other ques tions. I wrote on themes which had carried over from that Western World which I would henceforth regard with the eyes of a stranger. And I thought of my personal problems in a haphazard, disconnected way.

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