Ben Hadad's people had arrived in a caravan from the Galilee and had found a pleasing welcome in Arabia among the sand dunes and the white-walled cities. telling, for later the children would have to unlearn most of what she toldthem, but he never spoke to her about it. The destruction could not be halted, for the hatred of the im- periaI troops was directed against abstract ideas: not Jews but the places where they worshiped, the homes where they lived. Where? she screamed.
He had con- IS-65 1025 vinced himself that he had a chance of winning the old man On May 31, 1834, a sizable earthquake struck Safad, accompanied by much loss of property, and some weeks later word reached town that the Egyptian army was going to conscript Arab men. once a week for donkey-drivers who lead cara- vans for short distances, once every thirty days for fully, the crucial seaport of Ptolemais, which the Arabs knew by the ancient name of Akka, might surrender without
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