Palestine: A Modern History (ص 20)

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Palestine: A Modern History (ص 20)

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42 Crystallisation 1908-1914
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25. Falastin, 5 June 1913. 1 ; se
26. Very, little is known about this society beyond the fact that it included
Christians as well as Muslim. . ; ;
217, For names of participahts and texts of telegrams see ‘al-Mu ‘tamara al-Arabi F
al-Awwal (The First Arab Congress) published! byzthe Supreme Committee o
the Decentralisation, Party-in Egypt (Cairo, 19 13). . bo
28. Neville Mandel, ‘Attempts at an Arab-Zionist Entente, 1913-1914’, Middle
Eastern Studies, vol.J, no.3, April 1965 p.241. ho ’
29. Ibid., p.251. «
30. Ibid., p.258. . .
31, Antebs to President of JCA, 31 August 1913, JCA 268/no.218, quoted in
Mandel, op.cit., p.390. 416
. ted in Mandel, op.cit. p.476. .
33 Rneducated Arab, Husni Khayyal, advocated the establishment of a college
‘with Arabic as'the language of: instruction (d/-/gdam, Cairo, 14 June 19 14).
An unsigned manifesto distributed in Jerusalem in July 1914 called for the
establishment of industtial and agricultural schools (al-Karmal;.7 July 1914).
34. In June 1914 Nablus’s Administrative Council prohibited all sales of land to
the Zionists irrespective of their nationality (Falastin, 27 June 1914).
35. Al-Karmal, 7 July 1914. e
36. Felastin, 26 March 1914.
37. Falastin,’29 March, 1914. ‘
38. Ibid., 29 April 1914.
39. McGregor to Mallet, 30 April 1914, FO 371/2134/2236, no.31.
40. Jewish Social Studies, p.125.
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ROLARISATION: THE MILITARY
ADMINISTRATION 1917-1920
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Between the ‘summer of 1944 and the autumn of 1917, Palestine’s.
internal political scene was overtaken by the First World War.
Politically active elements in Palestine — Southern Syria as it was
known then — were plotting against the Ottoman Empire in the
‘interests pf the Arab. Revolt and Arab independence. The Palestinians,
neverthéless,-were not unmindful of the dangers posed by the Zionists.
In a yeport prepared by, the Arab Bureau (a British military
institution based in, Cairo) during the early months of 1917, British
officials were informed that ‘(here has already been formed in
Jerusalem a society of the better class.and better educated young
Moslems for resisting Jewish colonisation’.!
A more revealing report on the -poljtical situation in Palestine was
filed during: the first weeks of January 19]7 by Captain William
Ormsby-Gore of the Arab Bureau.” The report described certain aspects
of the political power structure in Jerusalem, and the attitude of the
Palestinian Arabs towards,the Turks, the British and the Zionists. ‘In
Palestine nobody + except the; German Colonists —,likes the Turks,
least: of all do-the oppressed peasantry’? The notable Muslim families
— the Hussainis, the Khalidis, the Nashashibis and the Dawudis — were
pro-British and sent their sons to English schools to be educated;
The Moslems of Jerusalem and neighbourhood are well disposed
toward the Christians, but very anti-Jewish, or to be more precise —
Anti-Zionist. They strongly object to the growth in number and
influence of the Jewish colonies in town and country and particular-
ly to the purchase of land by the, Zionists and consequently
dispossession of the Moslem population..
The writer further added that the opposition of the old Turks and Arab
Tepresentatives in the Ottoman Parliament to Zionist acquisition of land
Was quite ineffectual. « ‘ ”
The ineffectiveness of the anti-Zionist Arab effort in the Ottoman
Parliament encouraged ,-the Palestinian Arabs to join secret Arab
Societies which were dedicated to Arab autonomy and later worked for
Arab independence. The Palestinians conspicuous role in these secret
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Palestine: A Modern History

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1978

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Abdul-Wahhab Kayyali

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