The Arab Revolt of 1936-1939 in Palestine: A Study Based on Oral Sources (ص 230)

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The Arab Revolt of 1936-1939 in Palestine: A Study Based on Oral Sources (ص 230)

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During the revolt, there were no statements issued by the political
leadership in exile against political assassinations of anti-Husseini
personalities. This indicates that this leadership in general and the Mufti
in particular was in fact in favour of such a method of dealing with their
political rivals. * In her book, al-Hout quotes a comment by Kamil al-
Dajani, a close associate of the Mufti, regarding a visit from Dr. Omar
Khalil, a delegate from Haifa, to ask the Mufti to issue a statement
saying that the killing of an Arab was a crime. This meeting took place in
September 1938, but he did not succeed in convincing the Mufti to order
such a statement al-Dajani commented on that:
"There was no request to the Mufti to prohibit
assassinations as far as I know. However, in my view if he
was asked to do so, he would refuse."”
The other motive of political assassinations was the killing of
collaborators and land sellers and land brokers. Many groups and
individuals were involved in this kind of assassination during the revolt
and the political leadership in Damascus approved of this kind of
assassination. In an interview Jamal al-Husseini, the head of the Arab
Party, admits the responsibility of this kind of assassination:
"We admit our responsibility, and we made these
assassinations in the first place to stop land sales after all
the peaceful means had failed. We are responsible for
thirty or forty deaths. Among those killed was a cousin of
mine whom we had advised but he refused to take our
advice, We had to send someone to kill him at his front
oor". ®
The Qassamits were also involved in killing collaborators in Haifa and
lower Galilee areas, such as the of Halim Basta and Ahmad Naif who
were working with the Police and were involved in following the
Qassamits.*' All of these assassinations helped to create confusion among
the Arab population which in turn led some people to mistrust the revolt
78 Maurice Peariman, Mufti of Jerusalem, London, 1947, pp.25-
79.Bayan al-Hout, al-Qiyadat Wa al-Mu’assasat. p.403.
80 Ibid. p403 f P.403
81 Samih Hamoudeh, al-Wa’i Wa al Thawra. pp.117-9,

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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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رسائل ماجستير ودكتوراه (صفحات)

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