The Arab Revolt of 1936-1939 in Palestine: A Study Based on Oral Sources (ص 203)

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The Arab Revolt of 1936-1939 in Palestine: A Study Based on Oral Sources (ص 203)

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This acceptance was expressed in rebel communiques as well as in their
military operations. This acceptance however, does not reflect the rebels
inability to articulate a political position of their own, as Y. Porath
suggests.” It rather reflects the fact that both the rebels and the notable
national leadership shared the same political and national goals.
The notable urban class, and the emerging commercial bourgeoisie,
perceived the Jewish urban economic advances as a threat to their own
interests, economic as well as political. It was therefore in their interest
to join the peasants and urban workers, who were also threatened by the
Jewish national home, in a broad alliance against their mutual enemy.
This alliance provided the rebels with most of their finances, supplies,
arms and ammunition, as the national leadership embodied in the
Central Committee for the Jihad in Lebanon and Damascus supplied the
rebels with their needs. On the other hand, this alliance gave the national
leadership strong armed allies who were, in many cases, used by the
leadership against the rival alliances of the opposing factions. For
example, it is a widely known fact that during the revolt, the Husseini
faction used some of the rebel leaders and other rebels of lower ranks to
execute assassinations against their traditional rivals. Shakir Milhim who
was a personal assistant to "Abd al-Rahim Haj Mohammad, recalls an
incident, when a letter was brought to Abd al-Rahim by a member of the
Husseini faction. The letter contained a list of names whom the writer of
the letter wished to be assassinated by ’Abd al-Rahim. All the names in
the list were rivals of the al-Husseini faction. 3* When ’Abd al-Rahim
read the list he told the messenger to tell them in Damascus that he did
not carry out assassinations, and that he was fighting for Palestine and
not for the Husseinis.2
37 Y. Porath, The Palestinian Arab National Movement. p. 265. :
38 The letter contained only the list, and did not have any
Signature. Shakir Milhim, personal interview, 6/4/1985.
39 phinnabah, Tulkarm.
1a.
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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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