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led the Jewish Agency, representing all the Jews of the world and recognized by the British state in that representative capacity, to send a Jewish scientific and technical mission to Sinai between 1935 and 1938. It consisted of scholars from the Hebrew University who specialized in minerals, chemistry, geology, and meteorological phenomena. The mission spent a long time searching for buried treasures in its deserts. After returning, it submitted additional reports to the Jewish Agency confirming the presence of petroleum, uranium, and many other minerals. Perhaps this was one of the most important reasons that drove the Jews to insist on seizing the Negev and southern Palestine, so that they could reach Sinai from there and extend their authority over it.

When the Jews leapt in the Palestine war from the Mediterranean shore to Aqaba on the two seas mentioned above, they separated the Arab and Islamic countries in Asia and Africa, effectively tore apart the Arab League, and cut overland communication between Egypt and most of the Arab countries. If Israel’s naval and air fleets grow strong, they will control the severing of every sea and air connection between the League states, thereby destroying the Arabs’ hopes and aims, for which they strive. They will begin striking these faltering states one after another until each falls prostrate at their feet.

The danger to Sinai and Egypt is real, not imaginary, and perhaps much nearer than some heedless or deliberately heedless people think. There is no doubt that this grave matter is receiving the attention of His Excellency Mustafa al-Nahhas Pasha, prime minister of the people’s government, and of all the members of this esteemed government. Since the Jewish forces stormed the Negev and reached Aqaba by way of Wadi Araba, the Jewish leadership has begun establishing a fortified Jewish defense line, which it called the “Weizmann Line.”

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