The Crusaders and the Moslems

In the predominantly moslem town of hebron in the west bank, a team of american wild catters had come through surveying the area for oil. The arabs thought that they had been marked for imminent conquest and conversion to christianity. And they nearly rioted over it. A british officer, sterling, writes about this too. He says, i am convinced that but for the baufor declaration, the jews would have obtained all they wanted in the holy land with little or no opposition. So you've got to entry into a conservative arab country of thousands and thousands of conda, belligerent europeans european revolutionaries. This is