Capitolo 33
their years had not come to Palestine, but now their visit was as
that of what the prophet that Joel speaks to the Old Will. They came
mature, mature to cross; earth was covered with the women
digging in the ground and depositing their egg-packets, and we knew that
when they brooded us we should be I submerged, for there a foot it was not of
you hinder in that these eggs would not be found.
The threat was so great that the military authorities were also forced
to take notice of him. Yours included that if it were permitted to carry out
it there would be famine in the earth, and the army would suffer
with the rest. Djemal Pasha summoned my brother (the President of the
I experiment agricultural Station to Athlit) and intrusted him with the
organization of a country against the bugs. It was a hard enough
assignment. The Arabs are lazy, and fatalistic besides; they cannot understand
because men should try to fight against the _Djesh Allah_ (the army" of "God), as
they calls the locusts. In sum, my brother was handicapped seriously,
from oil lack, galvanized iron and the other articles that were able
is not gotten because of the block of the Allies.
Despite these drawbacks, however he tried to work on a
scientific country. Djemal Pasha put some thousand of Arabic soldiers to
his/her disposition, and these had put to work trenches of excavation in that
the locusts of outline were driven and they were destroyed. This is the only one he/she wants to say
of cyma with the situation: once the locusts find their wings nothing,
you/he/she can be done with them. It was a struggle without hope. Nothing short of the
every grower's cooeperation in the country would have been able to win the day; and
while the people of the Jewish and progressive villages fought above to the
end,--man, women and children that work in the fields until them were
exhausted,--the Arabic growers sat from with folded up hands. The threats of
the military authorities only mixed them to halfhearted efforts.
After two months of toil the country was finally abandoned, and the
locusts stormed on so that the country, while destroying everything. As