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enjoyed immensely. This was with Moscovitz & a friend of
his - a very interesting man maned Zaharaff, who has
seen Dr Wigmans private secretary, & is now doing
some other job in the Jewish Agency. He had been in
England when war started - then went to America
& was there for 1 year & saw how American opinion
& sentiment changed & charged in our favor - & then
came back to Palestine, by air, by way of New
Zealand, Australia, Singapore, & India. I enjoyed
listening to him so much. We sat over lunch until 3.30.
The place we had lunch was in an Arab restaurant,
so the surroundings were reasonably civilised.
The proceedings began with a glass of "Arag" (I do not
know how to spell it) which is clear as water but
blows your head off. You put water into it, it
then rains cloudy, like Quinine - & it tastes like
Coal or some disinfectant. Then comes the food,
which consists of various parts of the sheep, all very
nicely roasted or fried - special little sausages,
liver - brains - kidneys - & various other strange parts, &
all very tasty. Also some excellent salads, & one
very piquant tasting salad mixed in with cream.
And some special bread. All these are an
seperate dishes on the table, & the system is to
dip the meat into the creamy salad - take
off a piece of bread & scoop up this or that
all else regardless of anybody else dipping in too.