The Arab Revolt of 1936-1939 in Palestine: A Study Based on Oral Sources (ص 143)

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The Arab Revolt of 1936-1939 in Palestine: A Study Based on Oral Sources (ص 143)

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commander of Um al-Fahm area, one of Abu-Durra’s
regional commanders] was in the village. So they came to
arrest him. There was a cave near our house, and we hid
Yusif and his men in it and covered its entrance with stones
and dirt. They remained there until the cordon was over,
and the British withdrew from the village."*
The network of narrow, complicated mazes of alleys in the old parts
of the towns also provided good shelter for the rebels. For example, it
was almost impossible for the British forces to enter the old part of
Nablus or Jerusalem to make arrests, because the rebels disappeared. If
the British forces did manage to succeed in entering, they more often
than not, left with a number of casualties amongst their forces.
The other decisive factor employed by the rebels in their guerrilla
warfare against the British forces, was the clan-family relations and the
clan’s network of alliances, which was employed to its fullest extent. The
rebel leaders chose their men, especially guards and assistants, mostly
from within the immediate or extended clan. This gave the leaders
protection from within their fasil as well as during the battles, from men
whose loyalty and devotion were largely based on kinship.
Usually the leaders also tried to bring the battles within the
territories of their clans or clan alliances, thus providing them with
unlimited numbers of Faza’h as well as supplies and food. this gave them
better maneuvering ability, since they were fighting in their own
territories, and brought the clan or the clan’s allies to the battle where
they would not only be helping the leader and his fasil, but also
defending their own territories. The ability of a leader to use the
mechanism of the clan network of relations and alliances, also
determined his successes in the battlefield. It also meant that the revolt
was not only a conflict between the rebel fasa’il and the British
authorities, but was between the community as a whole united front and
the British as well. This involvement of the whole of an area at times of
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52 ’A’isha Mahajneh, personal interview, 18/1/85. Um al-Fahm

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The Arab Revolt of 1936-1939 in Palestine: A Study Based on Oral Sources

تاريخ

1990-10

المنشئ

Sonia Nimr

مجموعات العناصر

رسائل ماجستير ودكتوراه (صفحات)

كتب ٢ (صفحات)