While a large part of his fortune was now in other hands. he was still a wealthy man. He could have moved to Beirut or Cairo and lived in ease. He chose to share the lot of his dispersed kinsmen. And almost alone among those in a position to do so. he began to turn his face toward the future. While the politicians promised quick solutions and assured the refugees they would shortly return home. Musa bey remembered that the last incursion among the many Palestine has known in history. the Latin kingdom of Jerusalem in Crusader times. had lasted a hundred years. He left to the politicians the sofar fruitless negotiations that have followed.
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