The Arab Revolt of 1936-1939 in Palestine: A Study Based on Oral Sources (ص 12)

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The Arab Revolt of 1936-1939 in Palestine: A Study Based on Oral Sources (ص 12)

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what is evident is that for both the older and younger generations, the
revolt of 1936-39 is still a vilol memory.
Although abundant research has been done on the history of
Palestine during the British Mandate, including the period of the revolt
of 1936-39, very little has focussed on the role of the Palestinian peasants
in the political struggle and in particular in the revolt itself.
Many of the prevailing accounts on Palestinian history which
discuss the revolt, tend to denigrate and marginalise the peasants as
being traditional, backward and conservative as Budeiri puts it, or too
isolated, ignorant and poor according to Ann Lesch, to play a significant
role in the national movement. Others describe them as a fragmented
and disunited mass, whose various sections had different aims, and
confronted different sets of problems according to Bowden. As for the
rebels themselves - the overwhelming majority of whom were peasants -
these accounts portray them as bands devoid of any ideology which might
have influenced their actions, and who put their personal interests first,
and those of the population at large last as Porath puts it. Even the
accounts of some of the Palestinian historians who witnessed or
participated in the events themselves, such as Akram Zueiter, Izzat
Darwazah and Emil al-Ghoury, tend to portray the rebels as being a
military tool in the hands of the elite leadership.
The Palestinian peasants were portrayed in these accounts as
lacking any common political, national or social objectives to bind them
together in a coherent movement, and unable to formalise an
organisational frame-work through which they could express their own
interests independently of the urban elites. However, what is lacking in
the above, and other accounts of the revolt of 1936-39, are the voices and
views of the rebels themselves.
It is this alternative "grass roots" perspective which this thesis aims
to provide. It attempts to study the mechanisms of the revolt from a
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The Arab Revolt of 1936-1939 in Palestine: A Study Based on Oral Sources

تاريخ

1990-10

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Sonia Nimr

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