Ottoman Brothers: Muslims, Christians, and Jews in Early Twentieth-Century Palestine (82 page)

^79.
Ha-
erut
, December 7 and December 21, 1910.

^80.
“The Turkish Press and Zionism,”
Ha-
erut
, January 21, 1910. The paper cited articles against Zionism that had appeared in the past week in the Turkish language papers
ikdam, itilaf
, and
Sabah.

^81.
From Fresco to Jacobsohn, January 5, 1911. CZA Z2/10.

^82.
Ha-
erut
, December 7 and December 30, 1910. Similar calls in 1909 by
La Nacion
for an Ottoman Jewish congress were never realized.
Ha-
erut
, September 28, 1909.

^83.
See
Ha-
erut
, especially in February 1911.

^84.
Antébi to Franck, November 17, 1908, AAIU, Israel-VIII.E.25.

^85.
Antébi to Henri Franck, August 4, 1908. AAIU, Israel-VIII.E.25.

^86.
A. S. Yahuda to Wolffsohn, June 16, 1909, CZA Li/29, based on
Ha-
vi
, nos. 183–88. See
Ha-
vi
May 24, 1909,
Ha-
vi
, November 6, 1908.

^87.
June 1909, AAIU, Israel-IX.E26. Antébi referred to Beit ha-'Am as a “Russian Zionist-anarchist club.” Antébi to AIU, March 11, 1909. AAIU, Israel-IX.E.26.

^88.
Antébi to Dizengoff, June 11, 1909. CZA, CM434/13.

^89.
See for example letters from the Hartuf colony
(Ha-
erut
, May 28, 1909), and from Yitzhak Malchiel Mani
(Ha-
erut
, June 8, 1909), defending Antébi from his detractors. See also the interview with Avraham Elmaliach, no. 2, February 23, 1964, Oral History Program at Hebrew University. Antébi later intervened with the governor to secure the release of his main detractor, Itamar Ben-Avi, from prison. Ben-Avi,
‘Im shafrar a
ma'utenu
, 202. For the Palestine Office's deliberations
on Antébi as a difficult but indispensable partner, see: letter from July 15, 1912, in CZA, L2/26II; and P.O. to Jacobsohn, June 2, 1914, in CZA, L51/96.

^90.
Antébi to AIU president, June 24, 1909. CZA CM434/13.
Al-Munādī
, July 16, 1912.

^91.
Glass and Kark,
Sephardi Entrepreneurs in Eretz Israel
, 126; Efrati,
Ha-'edah ha-Sfaradit bi-Yerushalayim
; Rokeach,
Vetikim Mesaprim
; and Y. Levi, “Dr Yitzhak Levy.”

^92.
Mandel,
Arabs and Zionism Before World War I
, 62–63; and Antébi to AIU, March 12, 1909. AAIU, Israel-IX.E.26.

^93.
Mandel,
Arabs and Zionism Before World War I
, 104 and 107. However the following month
Ha-
erut
published a notice saying that those reports were baseless, and Ottomans could bring their birth certificates with them to register their land purchases.
Ha-
erut
, July 6, 1910. Albert Antébi complained that the years 1910–11 took their toll on the support of the local population for the local Jews. “In all eyes the Jew is becoming an antipatriot, the traitor prepared to plunder his neighbor to take possession of his goods. The Christian excels in these accusations, but the Muslim follows on his heels.” Quoted in Mandel,
Arabs and Zionism Before World War I
, 121.