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Name: Beatriz Guevara
Date: 18th, October 2012
Grade: 1st “C”
Palestine Arab Revolt 1936-1939
What happened during the Arab Revolt of 1936-39?
In more than a century, the world saw PalestinianArabs carrying out a violent uprising which was named in the history as ‘the Great Arab Revolt of 1936-39’. The uprising mobilized thousands of Palestinians belonging to all classes to take part in therevolt and patriotism was fanned among the masses through the mediums of press, media, schools and literary circles. British were taken aback by the intensity of the uprising and the extent to whichit reached. They shipped over 20,000 troops in Palestine while the Zionists also had some 15,000 Jews prepared for their own nationalist faction by 1939.
The revolt initiated in the form ofunprompted acts of violence after Sheikh ‘Izz al-Din al-Qassam was killed in 1935 by the British troops. The violence was escalated after two Jews were killed in April 1936 and a general strike was initiatedin Nablus and Jaffa. It was at this time that the Arab political groups established an Arab Higher Committee and the presidency was given to Amin al-Husayni, the mufti of Jerusalem.
The committeedeclared a general strike, forbade Arabs to pay taxes and called for the closing of municipal governments. Moreover, it demanded that a ban should be put on Jewish immigration and the sale of land toJews. One of the purposes of the strike was to ask for national independence. Along with the strike, Palestinian Arabs were joined by Arabs from neighboring countries who then targeted the British troopsand Jewish settlements installed in the northern parts. By the end of the year, this movement had taken the form of a national revolt where its main strength was the Arab peasantry.
A royalcommission was sent over to Palestine, presided by Lord Robert Peel who scrutinized the ongoing situation of the revolt and prepared a report stating the root cause of the uprising as Arab desire for...