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4.

or to join in the normal business of the country. And
that they have, therefore, always fallen back on money
dealings & have naturally become expert in such
lines. And we always look upon them as (pale faced, urban
hook nosed, undersized, fat, & rather overdressed) people.
Here in Palestine, one gets quite a different set up.
As I have described to you before, they are to be found
farming the land & working very heard - & in factories,
making all manner or things, from their own
electricity to the jam & honey which I send to you.
And they are healthy, good looking people (- some
are sallow & dark & have schnozzles, but may have
brown hair & fair hair, & blue eyes, & sun burned
healthy complexions, & in fact, none of the usual
characteristics at all.) The Jews have proved beyond doubt
in Palestine, what they are capable of doing, by way of
real creative work. their achievements on the land,
& in the towns of Tel-Aviv, Haifa & others, are
almost unbelieveable, considering the shortness of the
time & the difficulties which lay, & were placed, in
their path.

Thursday - June 4.th A rather extraordinary interruption prevented
me going on yesterday, which I will tell you about later.

Now, about the Arabs - I think that our popular idea of
them is as a romantic, picturesque people, (& everyone an
aristocrat in his own way; surely that is the conception
which Lawrence has given to us.) But the truth is
that they are a filthy, dirty, [illegible] crowd, very dishonest
& completely unreliable - There is practically no Arab
who you cannot buy for a few shillings - & then
he will still be unreliable. And they are so lazy
& workshy - & it cannot be said that they produce