Each man tried to outvie the other.

The first man said they were anxious regarding the Zionists and keen for a solution of the problem.

The second said they hated the Zionists, and could see no way out of their predicament but by rebellion.

The third said that no Arab in Palestine could eat for thinking of the Zionist outrage, and that the heart of every man in El-Kerak should bleed for his distressed brethren.
To judge by what the fourth and fifth and sixth said, Palestine was in a state of scarcely suppressed rebellion, and every living Arab in the country was sharpening his sword in secret for the butchering of Zionists at the first opportunity.

The seventh man said that the Palestine Arabs had never under Turkish rule suffered and groaned as they did under the British, and that their cry was going up to heaven for relief from the ignominious tyranny of Zionist pretensions.
Ali Shah al Khassib chose that ringing appeal as the cue for his next move in the game.