l founded
interest in view of future and very promising trade relations, will, it
is very much to be hoped, be preserved from destruction so far as purely
military requirements do not make it necessary. Pan-Turkish ideals have
no sort of meaning in Palestine where practically no Turks dwell.'

[Footnote 1: This view seems to be borne out by subsequent events, for
the Jews evacuated from Jaffa have been permitted to return owing to the
intervention of the Spanish Government. It is not hard to guess who
prompted that.]

We may take it, then, that with regard to the projected Jewish
massacres, quite clearly foreshadowed by the schemes of deportation from
Jaffa and Gaza, Germany has made strong representations to the Ottoman
Government. She did not do so (indeed she officially refused to do so)
when the Armenian massacres began, for she could not interfere in
Turkey's internal affairs. But now she has discovered that Pan-Turkish
ideals have no sort of meaning in Palestine, and thus, with amazing
astuteness, has provided herself with a reason for interfering, while
still not giving up the policy of non-interference in Turkish affairs,
for Turkey, she has discovered, _has_ no affairs in Palestine. At the
same time she guards herself from diplomatic defeat by the hope that
Zionist cultural work will be saved from destruction so _far as purely
military requirements do not make it necessary_. In other words,
supposing Jemal the Great got completely out of hand, and proceeded to
indiscriminate massacre of the Jews, Germany would doubtless accept his
plea that military requirements had made it necessary.... And we were
once so ignorant as to assure ourselves that Germany had no notions of
diplomacy!

The full significance of her intervention on behalf of the Jews, when
neither the extermination of the Armenians, the persecution of the
Arabs, nor the deportation of the Greeks moved Germany to any decided
action or energetic protest, must be left, in so far as it concerns the
future, to another chapter. But as regards the present and the past it
will be useful to consider here what has prompted her to make a protest
(which we may regard, so long as her foot is on the neck of the Turks,
as having been successful) against these projected massacres. Certainly
it was not humanity; it was not the faintest desire to save innocent
people in general from being murdered wholesale, for in the similar
case of the Armenians, her bowels of co