The Arab Revolt of 1936-1939 in Palestine: A Study Based on Oral Sources (ص 92)

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The Arab Revolt of 1936-1939 in Palestine: A Study Based on Oral Sources (ص 92)

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to 26% in 1935. For example, the custom tax on sugar had reached 100%,
on tobacco 149%, on gasoline 208%, on matches 400%, and on coffee
26% /
All the above reasons had led the Palestinian Arabs to believe that the
Mandate Administration was the main cause of the deterioration in the
economic conditions of the Arab sector- by their assistance in the
development of the Jewish national home, and by their deliberate
imposition of economic policies which would inevitably lead to the
decline of the Arab economy and the eventual domination of the Jewish
economy. Bashir Ibrahim, a farmer who joined the revolt to become a
judge in the rebel courts, firmly believes that British policy was
deliberately aimed at driving the Arab peasants to sell their lands to the
Jews, and that it was these policies that provoked the Arabs to revolt:
"The British government did not treat the Arabs and Jews
on an equal basis. There were differences in the
government’s services, in giving economic concessions, in
giving jobs, and in applying the law. They made roads to
the Jewish settlements, supplied them wit electricity and
water, while our villages were neglected. Economically the
government would buy from abroad the same crops which
we produce in any season and sell it cheaply, so that we
would become bankrupt and be forced to sell our lands,
and who would have the money and be ready to buy our
lands? The Jews, of course. That’s why we hate the British
and believe that they were the main cause of our misery.
They wanted to give our country to the Jews, to make their
national home here, and bring over more immigrants, and
push us out. That’s why we started to prepare for the
revolt"
The Palestinian Arab distrust of the British ability to carry out their
promises, and their uncertainty concerning the real intentions of the
Mandate Power in the country, were some of the ’subsidiary’ causes of
the revolt, as suggested by the Royal Commission of Inquiry:
“The growth of Arab distrust in His Majesty’s
Government’s ability and will to carry out promises; the
general uncertainty, accentuated by the ambiguity of
10 Ibid. p53.
11 Bashir Ahmad Ibrahim, personal interview 15/7/84,
Zeita, Tulkarm.
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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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