The Arab Revolt of 1936-1939 in Palestine: A Study Based on Oral Sources (ص 144)

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The Arab Revolt of 1936-1939 in Palestine: A Study Based on Oral Sources (ص 144)

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battle or a clash meant, in fact, that the leader in that area was able to
drive the whole of a community into becoming outlaws.
Elias Sanbar gives two examples from the accounts of ex-rebels of the
employment of clan relations and network of alliances. The first
concerns the movement of a horse which was lent to a rebel wanted by
the authorities to escape from a certain village, and who was told to leave
the horse in a particular place in another area. Later the horse was
returned to its owner after passing from one person to another through
the village networks. The other example concerns the movement of the
arms used in the assassination of Andrews the District Commissioner of
Nazareth. After the assassination, the arms were left near a certain rock
at the outskirts of Nazareth. The rebels took the bus to Haifa as ordinary
passengers, and meanwhile the arms were removed by another group in
the area to be used in another operation.** Sanbar describes these
networks of relations.
"It was a giant Ant Colony of men and equipment, in which
the relations were invested, and no time was lost or dead,
in using the arms. When a group of men relaxed, the arms
were used by another group in another area."*
The rebels depended on the villages for food and supplies. When any
village heard of the presence of a rebel fasil nearby, even if it was not its
own fasil, all the inhabitants would collect food and water. Sometimes
coffee and tea - and take it to the fasil. They would be responsible for
feeding the fasil for the duration of its stay near that village
"There was not a rebel who would enter a village hungry
and stay that way; nor one who did not find shelter or a
hiding place. Every village I went to during the revolt
53 Elias Sanbar, Filastin 1948, Kazim Jihad, Beirut, 1987,
D.
34 Ibid. p.54
55 Personal interviews with Bahjat Abu-Gharbiya, 5/5/1985
Amman; Hussein Badawi 8/4/1985, Aqqaba,denin; Salih
Baransi May 1985 London; Hussein Baytam, 21/2/1985, Abu-
Snan, Galilee and Bulus Hanna Bulus, 20/3/1985 al-Be’neh
Galilee.
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The Arab Revolt of 1936-1939 in Palestine: A Study Based on Oral Sources

تاريخ

1990-10

المنشئ

Sonia Nimr

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رسائل ماجستير ودكتوراه (صفحات)

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