The Arab Revolt of 1936-1939 in Palestine: A Study Based on Oral Sources (ص 238)

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The Arab Revolt of 1936-1939 in Palestine: A Study Based on Oral Sources (ص 238)

المحتوى

The Arabs of Palestine became increasingly afraid of the alarming
increase in the number of Jewish immigrants in the 1930's, and in the
discovery of a shipment of arms to the Jews. This, combined with the
accumulation of Arab grievances, made the Arab population of Palestine
ready for a general strike which would last for six months and an armed
revolt which would last for three years.
The overwhelming majority of the rebel forces were peasants who
suffered from the Jewish national home, and their livelihood was
threatened. The revolt lasted for three years and fell into three phases,
the first lasting from April 1936 with the general strike to the arrival of
the Royal Commission of Inquiry. During this stage the rebels attacked
Jewish settlements and sabotaged government installations. The Arab
rulers interfered to end the strike and to stop rebel operations.
The second stage started after the publication of the report of the
Royal Commission in July 1937, and lasted to the autumn of 1938.
During this period the operations of the rebels escalated, and the rebels
in the summer of 1938 gained control over most of the countryside as
well as some towns including Jerusalem.
The third stage lasted from the autumn of 1938 to the summer of
1939 when the revolt stopped. During this period the British sought crush
the revolt both by force and by political and diplomatic manovours.
There were also internal problems, attacks by the Peace Bands, formed
by the Opposition to counter the revolt, and the killing or arrest of some
of the most important leaders of the revolt. All these reasons and the
approaching Second World War helped combine to bring the revolt to an
end.
The oral data used in this thesis helped to shed more light on the
period of the revolt. The accounts of the rebels came to confirm some of
the findings of other documented accounts of the period, for example,
the peasants were the overwhelming majority of the rebels and as a
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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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