1936--1939 Arab Revolt in Palestine - 1930 Al-Qassam Jihad - 1939 MacDonald White Paper

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See the full videos 00:00 @The Zionist Story. http://youtu.be/ufLAitMq3zI 01:43 @The Promised Land Conflict 12 May 08 Part 1 http://youtu.be/jgEisAxjV6Y 04:09 @The Middle East Crisis 1914-39 (Overview) http://youtu.be/zZZ15nF0jp8 09:10 @[وثائقي: صراع الحضارات - Clash of the World (الجزء الثالث)] http://youtu.be/1DJgVdaojes [select a following time index to skip to that time in the video] 03:43 & 07:10 23 May 1939 - The White Paper of 1939 was in favour of creating an independent Palestine governed by Palestinian Arabs and Jews in proportion to their numbers in the population and a limit of 75,000 Jewish immigrants was set for the five-year period 1940-1944. 11:15 ~1930 - Izz ad-Din al-Qassam was a Muslim preacher who was a leader in the fight against British, French, and Zionist organizations. Born in Syria, he later immigrated to British Mandate Palestine. In 1930 al-Qassam's preaching was instrumental in laying the foundations for the formation of the Black Hand (al kaff al-aswad), an anti-Zionist, anti-British militant organization. By 1935 he had organized military training for peasants and recruited several hundred men,-the figures differ, from 200 to 800,- organized in cells of 5 men. The cells were equipped with bombs and firearms, which they used to raid Jewish settlements and to sabotage British-constructed rail lines. Though striking a responsive chord among the rural poor and urban underclass, his movement deeply perturbed the Muslim urban elite as it threatened their political and patronage connections with the British Mandatory authorities. A British police manhunt eventually surrounded al-Qassam in a cave near Ya'bad, in the village of Sheikh Zeid and in the ensuing firefight al-Qassam was killed on 20 November 1935. 02:46 & 03:30 & 17:10 19 April 1936 - Haj Amin al-Husseini, Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, after a wave of protest strikes and attacks against both the British authorities and Jews was unleashed in Palestine. and with the initial riots being led by Farhan al-Sa'di, and after his arrest and execution, upon al-Husseini's initiative, the leaders of Palestinian Arab clans formed the Arab Higher Committee under the Mufti's chairmanship. The Committee called for nonpayment of taxes after 15 May 1936 and for a general strike of Arab workers and businesses, demanding an end to the Jewish immigration. In 1937, evading an arrest warrant, he fled Palestine. 13:27 21 October 1937 - Sir Charles Tegart,was a colonial police officer in Mandatory Palestine sent to advise the Inspector General on matters of security. In due course he advised the construction of a large number of reinforced concrete police stations and posts which could be defended against attack, and of a frontier fence along the northern border of Palestine to control the movement of insurgents, goods and weapons. His recommendations were accepted and some 50 new "Tegart forts", as they came to be known, were built throughout Palestine, some of them are still in use by Israeli forces. It is recorded that his interrogation suspects underwent brutal questioning, involving humiliation and the practice of falaka (beating prisoners on the soles of their feet). 14:30 ~1936 - Orde Wingate was sent to Palestine as a Captain in military intelligence. Wingate was a Christian Zionists and saw the creation of a Jewish State in Palestine as a religious duty towards the literal fulfillment of Christian prophecy and he immediately put himself into an absolute alliance with Jewish political leaders. Wingate initiated a plan to create small mobile units of elite volunteers. A report he submitted , on June 5th, 1938, entitled : "Appreciation of the possibilities of night movements by armed forces of the Crown with the object of putting an end to terrorism in Northern Palestine" detailed his plan. The 1936--1939 Arab revolt in Palestine was a nationalist uprising by Palestinian Arabs in Mandatory Palestine against British colonial rule, motivated by opposition to mass Jewish immigration.The revolt consisted of two distinct phases. The first phase was directed primarily by the urban and elitist Higher Arab Committee (HAC) and was focused mainly on strikes and other forms of political protest. By October 1936, this phase had been defeated by the British civil administration using a combination of political concessions, international diplomacy (involving the rulers of Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Transjordan and Yemen) and the threat of martial law. The second phase, which began late in 1937, was a violent and peasant-led resistance movement that increasingly targeted British forces. During this phase, the rebellion was brutally suppressed by the British Army and the Palestine Police Force using repressive measures that were intended to intimidate the Arab population and undermine popular support for the revolt.