The Arab Revolt of 1936-1939 in Palestine: A Study Based on Oral Sources (ص 240)

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The Arab Revolt of 1936-1939 in Palestine: A Study Based on Oral Sources (ص 240)

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but at the same time in some of their legislation and actions a class
connotation could be traced. The rebels charged a very high taxation on
some of the rich families, especially those which were known to support
the Opposition .In some of their economic legislation the rebels clearly
took the side of the peasants, for example, the ban on lenders collecting
peasant’s debts, or the legislation which banned landlords from collecting
the rents on flats rented by workers and poorer towns folks. Thirdly,
although the rebels did not have an articulated ideology or strategy on
which to base their actions, operations or forms of mobilisations, they
nonetheless had common national, political and economic objectives
which bound them together albeit, not in an ideologically coherent
movement. They did have interests of their own but at the same time
they did share common ground with the political elites, namely the
struggle against the common threat embodied in Zionist colonisation.
However, it is revealed through the oral accounts that the rebels were
more clear and explicit in identifying their main enemies. The elite
political leadership did not have any articulated policy towards the
British. They were generally friendly towards them but in more radical
situations, made protests and sent delegations to London, they hoped to
dissuade the British from supporting the Jewish national home. The
rebels, on the other hand, were very clear about where they stood
towards the British and directed the majority of their operations against
them.
Fourth, despite the lack of a coherent ideology, the lack of a unified
leadership, and the existence of a very rudimentary hierarchical order of
rebel ranks, the revolt nonetheless, was much more organised than
suggested by most of the prevailing accounts of the revolt. This was born
out by the fact that the rebel had their own administrative system, courts
system, laws and legislations, an intelligence network and even their own
stamps. At one point during the revolt they were able to gain control over
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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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