About Uncles and Arabs (Essay‪)‬

When the pioneers entered the Land, what did they know about it? Well, there were ancestral graves, it was the land of our hopes, it was very hot, it was a backward Asiatic land, there were gnats in it, there was desolation, and there were Arabs too. Now the Arabs were part of the ancient scene, part of the eastern reality, part of the native culture, and part of the depraved Turkish empire. Nothing that had to be considered seriously, nothing that could be helpful or harmful, just part of an ancient and backward scene.