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164 Annals Am. Acad. Pol. & Soc. Sci. i (1932)

handle is hein.cow/anamacp0164 and id is 1 raw text is: FOREWORD
A WEEK without some printed message about or from The Land of Three
Faiths is exceptional. During a recent month there appeared a book on
England in Palestine, a statistical work on economic resources of and develop-
ments in Palestine, an economic monograph on the Arab peasant, and a pam-
phlet on Arab-Jewish relations. Besides the regular and special Government
reports and the annual reports submitted to the Mandates Commission, there
have been a number of special reports of investigations made by His Majesty's
Government, such as the Shaw report on the August 1929 riots, the much crit-
icized Hope-Simpson report on economic conditions, and the special White
Papers on the British statement of its policy in Palestine, the Dead Sea con-
cessions, and the pipe-line concession granted the Iraq Petroleum Company.
Why then a special issue of THE ANNALS on Palestine?
Thus far, the so-called open forum method of treating the problems of
Palestine has not been used. Practically all books, pamphlets, and articles,
with the possible exception of a number of agricultural economic monographs
of the Palestine Economic Society, have been written from some special point
of view. This volume of THE ANNALS attempts to present different views on
the same questions. The topics, the selection of contributors, and other ques-
tions raised in the preparation of the volume have been jointly decided by us as
special editors, one an Arab and the other a Jew. The inclusion of a number of
topics on which there exists a difference of opinion between the two communities
has made the treatment of these topics necessary from an Arab as well as
from a Jewish point of view, a procedure which may with some justification
be open to criticism. Some topics which are not of a controversial nature, such
as health, agricultural potentialities in Palestine, and so forth, have been dealt
with by a single writer, either Arab, Jew, or Gentile, and from a strictly Pales-
tinian standpoint.
We are especially glad to be able to present articles on a number of problems
which, because they lack the dramatic features of real or imaginary racial con-
flicts, have hitherto received little attention, such as educational questions, the
machinery of the Government, and the principles of the Arab Federation. We
have also tried to bring to the attention of the readers of THE ANNALS questions,
such as the interpretation of the Mandate and the commercial and industrial
developments of Palestine, which hitherto have been treated largely in books or
articles intended for the specialist instead of for the intelligent general reader
who is interested in foreign cultures and relations. On two questions there are
no contributions. The religious problem has for obvious reasons not been dealt
with, and on the topic of the place of Palestine in the imperialistic scheme, no
specialist invited was willing to write. Certain problems have rightly or
wrongly been given no consideration, either because of the lack of reliable data,
the space limitations imposed, or our own difficulties in arriving at editorial
agreements on certain topics to be included or manuscripts to be accepted.
The contributors to this volume either reside in Palestine or have been there.
They possess specialized and first-hand knowledge and direct contact with the
problems they discuss. It is, of course, understood that the opinions expressed
by the contributors to this volume are their own, and that they do not represent
our opinions nor those of the organizations with which we are connected.
HARRY VITELES
KHALIL TOTAH

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