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“…I did not discover any aversion on the part of the Moslem fellahin to the proprietorship by Israelites of their land, on religious grounds. The only difficulty lay in the division of labor and of profit, where the owners of the land were entirely ignorant of agriculture, and therefore dependent on the cooperation of the peasants, on terms to be decided between them.”

Letters to the New York Sun 1884-1886.