The Arab Revolt of 1936-1939 in Palestine: A Study Based on Oral Sources (ص 89)

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The Arab Revolt of 1936-1939 in Palestine: A Study Based on Oral Sources (ص 89)

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the Jewish convoy, * while Faisal ’Arif ’Abd al-Raziq, son of another
prominent leader, said his father had led the attack. ‘ However, from the
recollection of one of ’Abd al-Rahim’s followers, and the location and
date of the incident, it is more likely that ’Abd al-Rahim was indeed the
leader of the attack, as he was already operating in that area (which was
close to his village) and at that period of time.
In reprisal, two Arab workers were murdered in their huts the
following night on the main road to the Petah Tekva settlement. The
funeral of the Jew killed near Nablus led to angry Jewish demonstrations
in Tel-Aviv, in which the demonstrators threatened to penetrate into
Jaffa. These were followed by a series of assaults on Arabs in Tel-Aviv.
Rumours began to circulate that more Arabs had been killed by Jews
between Jaffa and Tel-Aviv. * As a result, the Arabs declared a general
strike which went on for six-months. During this period the armed revolt
began which lasted for three years.
The April attack was not the first to be carried out by Palestinian
Arabs against the Jews, nor were the clashes which followed as a result
of the attack. In the 1929 uprising, for example, many Arabs and Jews
had been killed and injured. However this and similar incidents did not
develop into a fully fledged armed revolt. So the incident on the Nablus-
Tulkarm road would not have been a strong enough reason on its own to
Start a three-year revolt resulting in thousands of casualties without the
accumulation of many other and more important reasons. The incident
near Nablus was merely the spark which started it.
3 Kamal Abd al-Rahim Haj Mohammad, personal interview 9/4/85
in Tulkarm.
4 Faisal Arif Abd al-Raziq, personal interviews 2/2/85 and
20/4/85, al-Taybah, Triangle.
5 Shakir Milhim, personal assistant of Abd al-Rahim, personal
interview 6/4/85. Dhinnabah, Tulkarm, and Kamal Yassin,
personal interview 23/7/84, Tulkarm.
6 A.W. Kayyali, Palestine, A Modern History. p.189; Bayan al-
Hout, al-Qiyadat Wa al-Mu’assasat. pp.331-2; Subhi Yassin,
al-Thawra al-Arabiya. p.30. and Report of the Royal
Commission. p.96.
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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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