Palestine: A Modern History (ص 73)

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Palestine: A Modern History (ص 73)

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154 The Lull: 1923-1929
55. See ‘Report on the Administration of Palestine and Trans-Jordan for the year
1929’ (Colonial No.47 of 1930), p.7. All the death sentences were commuted
with the exception of three sentences on Arabs who were hdnged on 17 Juhe
1930.
56. The Communist manifesto referred to earlier, quoted one of the Jewish dailies
as saying ‘The Jewish Yishuv is a part of the British Empire. The Jewish
Community is a British position in the country, and must be protected as such.
The spilt (Jewish) blood is the price which is paid to England for her assistance
in building the INH’.
57. See Chancellor to Passfield, 21 September 1929, CO 733/175, p.3.
58. See ibid., Enclosure IV to XII.
59. See Memorandum by the Executive Committee to the H.Cr.1 October 1929,
CO 733/175.
60. Chancellor to Passfield, 5 October 1929, CO 733/175.
61. Ibid.
62. Ibid. Two weeks later the Executive requested that Jewish immigration be
suspended until the Commission of Enquiry had subrfitted their recommenda-
tions. See ‘Meeting of interview of the Arab Executive with the High
Coyimissioner’, 17 October 1929, CO 733/163, p.10.
63. Ibid., Enclosure If, p.1. .
* 64. Cabinet, ‘Situation in Palestine’, 28 November 1929, CO 733/17 p.4.
65. Ibid.,-p.3. .
66. Chanc#llor to Passfield, 12 October 1929, CO 733/163, Enclosure II, p.3.
67. Passfieldto Shaw, 19 September 1929, CO 733/176 .
68: H.Cr. to Colonial Secretary, 12 October 1929, CO 733/175.
69. Ibid.
70. Chancellor to Passfield, 19 October 1929, CO 733/163, Enclosure I, p.4.
71. Ibid., p.5.
72. ‘Situation in Palestine’, 28.November 1929, op.cit.
73. H.Cr. to Colonial Secretary, 19 October, CO 733/163.
74. Ibid., p.S.
75. ibid., p.6.
16. Same to Same, 23 October 1929, CO 733/163.
77. Mogannam, The Arab Woman, op.cit., p.70:
78. ‘Situation in Palestine’, 28 November 1929, op.cit., p.6.
79. Ibid. ’
80. Ibid., p.?.
81. Ibid., p.8.
82. Departmental! Note, 23 September 1929, CO 733/175, p.2.
83. See Lettets from Philby to Passfield, 1 November 1929, CO 733/175.
84. See Extract from The Jewish Guardian, 29 November 1929, CO 733/175, p.1.
6 PRELUDE TO REVOLUTION: 1930-1935
In January 1930, Chancellor reported to Lord Passfield, the Colonial
Secretary, that as a consequence of the recent outbreaks ‘a wave of Pan
Arab nationalist sentiment has swept over Palestine and the neighbour-
ing Arab .countries, and it is certain that the political situation will
never again be as it was, or appeared tq be, before last August’.!
The reference to Pan Arab nationalist sentiment was indicative of
Chancellor’s awareness of the impendjng radical change in the
Palestinians’ political outlook. The Palestinians’ political strategy would
no longer be confined to resjsting Jewish colonisation but would also
aim at attaining national independerice and getting rid of British rule.
Prior to the 1929 disturbances the Palestinians were alarmed at the
revival of the Zionist threat in the, wake,of the World Jewish Congress of
July 1929, when the agreement between Zionist and non-Zionist Jews
committed the latter to contribute funds to promote the establishment
of a JNH in Palestine. Far from protecting the Arabs from the renewed
Zionist threat the Government were committed to help Zionist
immigration and land settlement. The attitude of the Palestine Adminis-
tration and the Arab clashes with the Police during the summer of 1929
strengthened the hand of the Palestipian Arab radicals who advocated
violent opposition to thg British, Mandate, as an effective means of
preventing Zionist hegemony in Palestine. .
Indicative of the New Palestinian, mood and the profound effect of
the events of 1929, was the growth of an armed band of guerrillas
operating in the Safad-Acre-Samakh region.. The idea of organising
armed bands to fight against Ziqgnism,and the Mandate was entertained
during the hot summer of .1929, The band itself was composed,
initially, of twenty-seven persons who participated conspicuously in the
August outbreaks and, had, as a result, to take sefuge in the hills near
the Syrian frontier.
The existence of an armed band waging guerrilla operations against
British troops and police as well as Zionist settlers was both novel and
significant. Although largely ignored and overlooked by most of the
published books on-the modern history of Palestine, including these of
Darwaza and Sifri, a good account of that movement was provided by
Chancellor. In his ‘Survey’*Professor Arnold Toynbee maintained that
these armed, bands.were ‘quickly broken up with the assistance of the
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1978

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Abdul-Wahhab Kayyali

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