The Arab Revolt of 1936-1939 in Palestine: A Study Based on Oral Sources (ص 218)
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- The Arab Revolt of 1936-1939 in Palestine: A Study Based on Oral Sources (ص 218)
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we make them fear the night more than they fear the
ay".
There was also co-operation between the Jews and the British in the
Intelligence Services, where the Haganah and the Jewish Agencies Arab
Bureau supplied the army and the Palestine Police with invaluable
information about the rebels, their hiding places and movements. ®
In 1939, after the London Conference failed to bring the parties into
an agreement and after the British suggested restrictions on Jewish
immigration to Palestine, some of the Zionist organisations started to
attack Arabs to terrorise them. For example the National Military
Organisation (Etsel), started a campaign of assassination against Arabs.
They killed some passers by in Tel Aviv and also threw a grenade in the
Old City of Jerusalem killing three Arabs. In Haifa some of the Etsel
members exploded a mine in the market place in Haifa, killing 26 Arabs
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The armed Haganah and the Moving Squads led by Wingate, did not
stop the revolt. They did however relieve some of the rebels pressure on
the British army and police in some areas, such as the area along the Oil
Pipe-line, allowing the British to move some of their forces to other
areas. It also managed to inflict some casualties among the rebel forces,
as well as to terrorise villages which supported the rebels.
Peace Bands
The idea of creating "peace bands” to counter the revolt, to terrorise the
villagers to give up their weapons and to arrest rebels, came from Raghib
al-Nashashibi the Head of the Opposition which was led by the al-
Nashashibi faction. This was his own small war against the Husseini
48 Ibid. p.345
43 Y. Porath, The Palestinian Arab National Movement. 0.241.
50 Ahmad Khalifa (Tran.), al-Thawra al-Arabiya al-Kubra. 3187 - تاريخ
- 1990-10
- المنشئ
- Sonia Nimr
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