The Arab Revolt of 1936-1939 in Palestine: A Study Based on Oral Sources (ص 17)

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The Arab Revolt of 1936-1939 in Palestine: A Study Based on Oral Sources (ص 17)

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the preparation and launching of the operations by some of the peace
bands, detailed information on the acquisition and smuggling of arms,
and information about some of the rebels leaders.
In addition to that, twelve British ex-Palestine Police Officers were
interviewed in the spring and summer of 1983. Although not adding new
information to the written accounts of the period, they did however
provide some interesting details, and more importantly their own
personal views as well.
During the collection of the oral data I was confronted with some
difficulties. One was to find witnesses of that period who were still a live.
Another problem was to convince some of the informants to give
interviews, especially those who live under Israeli occupation in the West
Bank and Gaza Strip, who were hesitant to talk about military
operations, especially those against Jewish settlements. A third problem
was to convince women to talk about their own experience during the
revolt. Out of seventy one interviews only four where of women were
willing to talk. In Silat al-Zahir village near Nablus, a woman who had
actually fought in the revolt and was a member of the rebels group,
refused to be interviewed, saying that what she did during the revolt was
nothing compared to what the men did. (Therefore, she advised to
interview men). In another incident a man from Qabatiya near Jenin
refused to be interviewed by me because I was from the same area, and
he feared that if I told the information he would give me, this would
open old wounds between the different factions which were rivals during
the revolt.
The importance of the oral data does not only come from the fact
that it added a wealth of detail to the documented accounts, or included
new information, but that it also represents the point of view of the
rebels themselves, and how they at the present day remember the past.
This helps to shed new light on the period of the revolt.
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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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