The worst is the general impression of a business pressure from the more brutal and businesslike type of Jew, which arouses very violent and very just indignation.
When I was in Jerusalem it was openly said that Jewish financiers had complained of the low rate of interest at which loans were made by the government to the peasantry, and even that the government had yielded to them.

If this were true it was a heavier reproach to the government even than to the Jews.

But the general truth is that such a state of feeling seems to make the simple and solid patriotism of a Palestinian Jewish nation practically impossible, and forces us to consider some alternative or some compromise.
The most sensible statement of a compromise I heard among the Zionists was suggested to me by Dr.Weizmann, who is a man not only highly intelligent but ardent and sympathetic.

And the phrase he used gives the key to my own rough conception of a possible solution, though he himself would probably, not accept that solution.
Dr.Weizmann suggested, if I understood him rightly, that he did not think Palestine could be a single and simple national territory quite in the sense of France; but he did not see why it should not be a commonwealth of cantons after the manner of Switzerland.
Some of these could be Jewish cantons, others Arab cantons, and so on according to the type of population.

This is in itself more reasonable than much that is suggested on the same side; but the point of it for my own purpose is more particular.
This idea, whether it correctly represents Dr.Weizmann's meaning or no, clearly involves the abandonment of the solidarity of Palestine, and tolerates the idea of groups of Jews being separated from each other by populations of a different type.
Now if once this notion be considered admissible, it seems to me capable of considerable extension.