The Arab Revolt of 1936-1939 in Palestine: A Study Based on Oral Sources (ص 71)

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The Arab Revolt of 1936-1939 in Palestine: A Study Based on Oral Sources (ص 71)

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during the first two months of 1930 led to the arrest of sixteen members
of the group including its leader ‘ and was one of the main reasons for
the dissolution of Isabat al-Kaff al-Akhdar.
Although the Green Hand gang had dispersed and ceased to exist,®
it won the sympathy of the people of that area, whose nationalist feelings
were at their highest after the uprising of 1929. It inspired many of the
young men who later joined the revolt and its leader Ahmad Tafish
became a sort of legend in that area. Mustafa al-Bakri was one of those
inspired by Ahmad Tafish, he became a Fasil leader during the revolt:
"I knew Tafish, he was from Safad. This was before the
revolt. He was with some others, fighting against the
Government and clashing with the troops. He was a
wanted man. I saw him in 1929 when I was working in Deir
Hannah. He came there and we all went to see him... They
call me Abu-Ahmad because when my first son was born,
called him Ahmad, so my sister said, ’that’s Ahmad
Tafish’."7
In spite of the sympathy of the people in the northern region towards
them Green Hand gang, and the reinforcement it received from the
Druze, it was not able to continue operating in that region; nor was it
able to spread its influence across the country to other areas. On the one
hand, the Green Hand gang, in spite of its genuinely patriotic aims,
lacked the ideological and political framework which would have
enabled it to mobilize people into the armed struggle. They were a small
group of fighters who believed in the armed struggle without developing
any ideological or political framework, and thus were unsuccessful in
mobilising people to join their ranks. On the other hand, in spite of the
feelings that the people had towards the Jewish national home which
were heightened during the 1929 uprising, still the people of Palestine
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5.Ahmad Tafish was arrested in Trans-Jordan and handed over to
the British authorities in Palestine. Ibid, p156.
6.Some members later joined the different Fasail of the
revolt, but not as a group, and the name Green Hand Group
Was not used again in that area.
7.Mustafa al-Bakri, Personal interview 20/2/85 a1-Be’neh,
Galillee.
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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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