Capitolo 2
_Photograph of Underwood & Underwood_
INTRODUCTION
While Belgium is bleeding and hoping, while Poland suffers and dreams of
liberation, while Serbia is waiting for redemption, there is a little
country the soul of what you/he/she is lacerated asunder--a small country that is this way
remote, so remote that its ardent sighs cannot be felt.
It is the country of perpetual sacrifice the country that you/he/she has seen Abraham,
builds the altar on which he was ready to immolate his only child, the
country that Moses has seen from a distance, while extending in beauty and
loveliness,--one earth of promise never to be attained,--the country that
gives his/her symbols of soul and spirit to the world. Palestine!
None correspondent of war, any Red Cross or relief committees have gone
Palestine, because any actual fight has taken there place, and still
in hundreds of thousand you/he/she is suffering there that worse from the agonies, the
the agony of the spirit.
Those that have devoted their lives to show the world that Palestine is able
is made again a country that flows with milk and honey those that have,
dreamed to revive the spirit of the prophets and the great teachers,
it is hanged and it persecuted and it exiled, their dreams smashed, them saint
places profaned, their job ruined. Cuts from the world, without
you bread to sustain the hungry body the heavy boot of a barbarian,
soldiery that stamps on theirs a lot of soul, the dreamers of discard of Palestine to
surrender, and between the clash of guns and their swords you/they are fighting for
the spirit with it arms her some spirit.
The time has not come to write the record of these battles yet, neither also
to try to make the justice to the sublime heroes of Palestine. This
book is only the history of some of the personal experiences of one that
you/he/she has done less and you/he/she has suffered less that his/her comrades' thousand.
ALEXANDER AARONSOHN
WITH THE TURKS IN PALESTINIAN.
CHAPTER ME
ZICRON-JACOB
Thirty-five years ago, the impulse as which the has been organized since then