The Arab Revolt of 1936-1939 in Palestine: A Study Based on Oral Sources (ص 48)

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The Arab Revolt of 1936-1939 in Palestine: A Study Based on Oral Sources (ص 48)

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Arab State, according to the understanding reached between the Sharif
Hussein of Mecca and the British High Commissioner in Egypt, Sir
Henry MacMahon. In the correspondence between the two from 1915 to
1916, the British pledged to recognise and support the independence of
the Arabs within specific frontiers in the Syrian province of the Ottoman
Empire, in return for Hussein’s declaration of war on Turkey. * The
Palestinian elites supported the Sharif of Mecca in his war against the
Ottoman Empire in the hope of gaining the promised independence for
their country within an independent Arab State. However these hopes
were shattered by the series of agreements and pledges by the British to
the other allies and to the Zionist movement, which contradicted those
promises given to the Arabs, and especially when the British made the
Balfour Declaration in which the British government promised to
facilitate the establishment of a Jewish national home in Palestine.
he Palestinian ional Movement, The Fir ape 1918-2
The Palestinian elites began to realise the colonial character of the
Zionist movement before the First World War, and tried to persuade the
Ottoman government to prohibit land sales to the Jews. They, however
were shocked by and apprehensive over the Balfour Declaration,
especially as their hopes were beginning to rise in view of the British
promise to the Sharif of Mecca. They began to realise that the Zionist
project not only posed a danger to Palestine’s independence as an Arab
country but also endangered their status as the political and economic
leaders of the country. It also undermined their position as potential
leaders for the future independent Palestine within the independent
Arab State.
4 Sir Henry MacMahon, letter dated 24th October 1915, to
Sharif Hussein. In George Antonious, The Arab Awakening.
London, 1938, p.414-427
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The Arab Revolt of 1936-1939 in Palestine: A Study Based on Oral Sources

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1990-10

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Sonia Nimr

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