We the inhabitants of Palestine, 700,000, representing and acting for 800 million Christians and Moslems in this Holy Land, shall [raise] our voice and say: ‘After the blood we have shed and after that which was shed for us, is it permissible for the existing conscience of the world to give our land to a mixture of emigrants, called the Zionists, coming from the five continents of the world and wanting to appropriate our land …? They hardly amount to one eighth of us, we the inhabitants of the land.’

Serious difficulty [for British rule] arises from the political division of the community into three sections, based upon religion. If the municipal electoral law paid no regard to these divisions, they would, nevertheless, be found to operate in practice.

Never in all its later history have Palestine and ancient Jerusalem witnessed so great a day as last Friday. On that day the national feeling swayed Arabs, Christians and Moslems – on that day an end was put to religious strife. These two religions will henceforth live in peace. Until this historic day Europe has not inclined an attentive ear to the words of the Palestinians because they were not united, and did not have the means of making their pleadings known to the European nations and the democratic public.