"We are used to thinking of the Arabs……" — Ahad Ha'am
"We are used to thinking of the Arabs as primitive men of the desert, as a donkey-like nation that neither sees nor understands what is going around it. But this is a GREAT ERROR. The Arab, like all sons of Sham, has sharp and crafty mind . . . Should time come when life of our people in Palestine imposes to a smaller or greater extent on the natives, they WILL NOT easily step aside."
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More than the Jews have kept Shabbat, Shabbat has kept the Jews.
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