The Arab Revolt of 1936-1939 in Palestine: A Study Based on Oral Sources (ص 239)

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The Arab Revolt of 1936-1939 in Palestine: A Study Based on Oral Sources (ص 239)

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result the character of the revolt reflected their influence and their
modes of mobilisation. The oral accounts gave more details on some of
the events and the inside story about some of the revolt’s internal affairs,
such as their organisation, administration, rebel courts as well as some
insight into some of the internal problems and conflicts. The oral
accounts of the rebels provided an important addition to the documented
accounts of the period by giving the peasant’s points of view, often
neglected in the official histories written either by their colonisers (the
British and the Israelis) or by their Palestinian elites (memoirs and
accounts).
For this thesis, these oral accounts helped to draw a few important
conclusions. Firstly, the role of the Palestinian Arab peasants in the
revolt was bigger and much more important than portrayed in most of
the documented accounts. Secondly, the relations between the members
of the rebel forces and their relations with their clans on the one hand
and their relations with the notable families and the elite leadership on
the other, were much more complicated and entangled than the simplistic
descriptions suggested in prevailing accounts. Rebel alliances for
example were not only governed by clan interests but in some instances
they implied class and social interests, for example, the alliances between
peasants and workers. In other cases not all members of a given clan
necessarily supported the same political faction, for example, Fakhri
*Abd al-Hadi towards the end of the revolt became anti-Husseini and
formed a Peace Band in the Jenin area to counter the revolt, while "Awni
*Abd al-Hadi was a pro-Husseini faction throughout the revolt.
The relations between the rebels and the notable families give yet
another example of the complicated relations during the revolt. Although
the rebels in their communiques adopted the same political stand as the
political elite leadership, they: maintained a relationship of mutual
interests which enabled the rebels to get financial support and supplies,
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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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