The Arab Revolt of 1936-1939 in Palestine: A Study Based on Oral Sources (ص 226)

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The Arab Revolt of 1936-1939 in Palestine: A Study Based on Oral Sources (ص 226)

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arrest they order them to leave the country. Yesterday the
Maidan area was searched, and fifteen men were arrested,
among them was Sheikh Ahmad al-Tubah... Maybe the
basis For this new French policy was laid down in the
meeting between the French army commander and the
British General commander in Palestine when the former
visited the latter.” ”
This campaign by the French authorities made it very difficult for the
supplies of arms and ammunition to reach Palestine, which subsequently
made the rebels in shortage of arms and ammunition.
Internal Problems
Added to the many outside pressures which the revolt had to stand
against, internally there were some weaknesses also. These included
organisational problems, lack of co-ordination with the political
leadership outside Palestine, excesses in the behaviour of some of the
rebels, and internal assassinations. But it is important also to note that
these internal problems on their own would not have ended the revolt.
On the organisational level, the lack of a control body which could co-
ordinate the different leaders in the different areas was the most
apparent weakness. Although the Bureau of the Arab Revolt in Palestine
was formed in the Summer of 1938 as an attempt to unite the different
rebel groups together under one united leadership, the rebel leaders
themselves who were members of the Bureau remained independent in
their areas and operated independently. Besides.the only rebel leaders
who joined the Bureau were those in the central areas of Palestine. Abd
al-Qadir al-Husseini in the South for example did not join the Bureau,
nor did Khalil Mohammad Issa (Abu-Ibrahim al-Kabir) of the northern
area. Both of these leaders preferred to maintain their contact with the
Central Committee in Damascus independently and also to operate
Se ee
73 As quoted in Akram Zueiter, al-Haraka al-Wataniya. pp.600-
218

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

تاريخ

1990-10

المنشئ

Sonia Nimr

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