The Arab Revolt of 1936-1939 in Palestine: A Study Based on Oral Sources (ص 206)

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The Arab Revolt of 1936-1939 in Palestine: A Study Based on Oral Sources (ص 206)

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control over the countryside and most of the towns. The peasant
hegemony manifested itself in some of the orders issued during that
period, as well as by the rebels’ occupation of some towns as a display of
their strength and control. Although some of the orders were issued for
practical purposes, such as ordering the townspeople to wear the peasant
Kufiyyah and Iqal instead of the Turkish Tarbush (Fez), so as not to
allow the British to distinguish between the peasants and the townsfolk.“
This order also had social implications, and displayed peasant hegemony.
Other orders which deal with economic issues such as preventing the
creditors from collecting their debts (see earlier in this chapter), also
have social implications, and class connotations.
The social character of the revolt is described by the rebels themselves
in simple terms such as rich and poor:
"Those rich people were not going straight, and we never
considered them or took their opinions. They were
collaborators, and did not want the revolt. No one from
"Abd al-Hadi family gave money to the revolt. The
peasants were the ones who made the revolt." “
"Those big families hated the rebels, because they say this
rebel was working as a shepherd or as a ploughman for us,
and now he comes to our house and sits on our furniture.
They used to work for us and now they became
important."
However, the situation was best described by Sir Harold MacMichael,
the High Commissioner in Palestine, in a letter to the Colonial Office on
2/1/1939:
"Something like a social revolution on a small scale is
beginning. The influence of the landlord-politician is on
the wane. He has nothing but talk (and pay), others have
taken risks, and those others are disposed to take a line of
their own."””
a Re rn
44 Subhi Yassin, al-Thawra al-Arabiya. pp.47-48.
45 Ahmad Nazal, personal interview, 1/4/1984 Qabatiyah, Jenin.
46 Ibrahim Qasim. personal interview. 21/1/1985, Musmus, Um
al-Fahm.
47 As quoted in Y. Porath, The Palestinian.Arab National
Movement. p.269. -
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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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