In a provocative essay published in the Jewish monthly ha-Schiloah in 1907 under the title ‘The Hidden Question’, Yitzhak Epstein opened the public debate among the Jewish community in Palestine regarding the Arab question in the country. 1 While focusing mainly on the methods by which Jews acquired lands in Palestine, Epstein strongly criticized the Zionist leaders’ neglect of the Arabs, who are ‘the residents of the country, its workers and true owners’. 2 He blamed the leaders for disregarding the fact that there is another national group in Palestine, which is linked to the country not only due to its long residence in it, but because of its profound emotional attachments to it. 3 Epstein was the first to argue that the Zionists need to realize the national and civil rights and aspirations of the Arab inhabitants of Palestine, as well as to co-operate and live in coexistence with them. Only by creating such a co-operation would the two peoples be able to live in Palestine and develop the country. 4 Following Epstein’s essay, the debate regarding the Arab question became a central one in the Hebrew press in Palestine. The debate amplified following the Young Turk revolution in 1908, and the further development of the Zionist movement, as well as the emergence of an Arab national movement. This article focuses on the years 1912 to 1914, and uses two types of Jewish-Zionist newspapers to examine this debate, and the attitudes of the Jews in Palestine towards what is known as ‘the Arab Question’, the relations between Jews and Arabs in the country. The first type includes two workers’ papers, ha-Po’el ha-Tza’ir and ha-Ahdut, which were affiliated to two Zionist political parties, ha-Po’el ha-Tza’ir and Poaley-Tzion, respectively. The second type consists of one newspaper, ha-Herut, a Sephardi paper published in Jerusalem. The newspapers represented two different groups among the Jews in Palestine. The worker’s papers represented the Ashkenazi Zionists, who immigrated to Palestine in the second wave of Jewish immigration. Ha-Herut represented the Sephardi