Subject: 1908, When We Last Had Intelligent US Consular Leadership in Historical Palestine
A century ago, former US Consul to historical Palestine (1893-1898), Edwin Sherman Wallace (Jerusalem the Holy, New York, 1908, p. 344) provided this seemingly timeless insight regarding Palestinian Muslims, written in 1908, almost a decade prior to the Balfour Declaration:
Their religion [Islam] is intolerant. It has little sympathy for the adherents of other faiths. It once advocated an extermination of the infidels. Perhaps it would continue in that advocacy did its leaders dare.
Topic: We Knew in 1908 But Don't Know Now (Read 1970 times)