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4.
buildings are built of an almost white stone, which
is very largely used in Palestine, & it looks very
clean & handsome & effective, & of course, remains
white. but of course, in Jerusalem, there is obviously
any amount of interesting things to be seen, & by
one means or another I must get there & see them
before I leave. I'm only afraid that when the war
ends, I shall have too much time for sightseeing.
Tel Aviv is a completely modern city, much bigger than
Jerusalem & slightly industrial. But, though it is very
well planned & laid out, & very clean & new, it seems to
have such masses of concrete & to be rather ferry built,
unlike Jerusalem, Haifa. Tel Alviv is 100% Jewish - the
Arab population living in Jaffa, the two towns run
into one another. I must look at Jaffa properly the
next time I am there with Ben Ami - up to now
there never seems to have been time.

Altogether my connections with the Arabs have so far not
been very great. For which, on the whole, I am truly
grateful. Had I had an Arab Coy I don't really know
how I should have gone on, they are such a handful
Deserting & going absent is common practice, & they are the
devil to train - & of course, the language difficulty is
chronic, as very few of them speak English, 90% are
probably, coy orders, as I do in English, Hebrew,
because they just could not read them & every
mortal instruction has to be given to them
usefully.
I hadmy very first Arab lunch last week, & very good
it was too, an entirely new experience, which I