Excerpt from Palestine of the Jews: Past, Present, and Future
This little book has been written during the leisure hours of camp life in the Summer of 1917 while waiting at the portals of Palestine to enter the Promised Land. It is based on notes which I had jotted down in the country during several visits in the years before the war. As, between 1916 and 1917, we slowly crossed the Wilderness of Sinai in which the Hebrew tribes had wandered nearly 4000 years ago, I would often meditate at night under the starry sky upon the past and the future of my people who have wandered now over the world for nigh two thousand years. When vision was limited, reflection and reminiscence helped the lingering hours to pass, and when action was checked I would dream of what might be when Israel was restored to his home. Like the camels I was leading over the desert, I would chew the cud of memory when the days work was done, and the gentle evening breathed peace and tranquillity.
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