The only approach to unity was when they agreed to accuse and destroy.

As for constructive agreement, they had none, and every one's suggestion for improvement was sneered at by all the rest.

They were not even agreed about the Zionists, except hating them; they quarreled about what would be the best way to take advantage of them before wiping them out of existence.
But they all saw exquisite humour in the item of news that Eisernstein had taken so to heart.
"That was Noureddin Ali's idea! He is a genius! To accuse the Zionists of offering two million pounds for the Dome of the Rock--ah! who else could have thought of it! The story has spread all through Jerusalem, and is on its way to the villages.

In two days it will be common gossip from Damascus to Beersheba.

In a week it will be known from end to end of Egypt; then Arabia; then India! Ho! When the Indian Moslems get the news--the Indian troops in Palestine will send it by mail--then what a furor! Then what anger! That was finesse! That was true statesmanship! Never was a shrewder genius than Noureddin Ali!" "Don't shout his name too loud," said somebody.