Intercommunal conflict in Mandatory Palestine
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 Arab insurgents during the 1936-39 Arab Revolt in Mandatory Palestine |
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Central Committee of National Jihad in Palestine (1937-39)
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 United Kingdom British ArmyPalestine Police Force Jewish Settlement Police Jewish Supernumerary Police Special Night Squads |
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Jewish National Council (Yishuv)
Arab Higher Committee (Palestinian Arabs):
Central Committee of National Jihad in Palestine (1937-39)
Jihadist groups:
The intercommunal conflict in Mandatory Palestine refers to the civil, political and armed struggle between Palestinian Arabs and Jewish Yishuv during the British rule in Mandatory Palestine, beginning from the violent spillover of the Franco-Syrian War in 1920 and until the onset of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.
Zionist leaders and advocates followed conditions in the land of Israel closely and travelled there regularly. Their concern, however, was entirely with the future of Jewish settlement. The future of the land's Arab inhabitants concerned them as little as the welfare of the Jews concerned Arab leaders. During the movement's formative stages, Zionist negotiators with stronger political powers (such as the British) corresponded enthusiastically while remaining silent about the inhabitants of Palestine, who numbered just under half a million during the late nineteenth century.
According to Anita Shapira, among nineteenth and early twentieth century Zionists, "The Arabs in Palestine were viewed as one more of the many misfortunes present in Palestine, like the Ottoman authorities, the climate, difficulties of adjustment, [...] [T]he Zionist organization did not discuss this issue during that period and did not formulate a political line on it. Yet at that particular juncture in the movement such deliberations [...] had about the same importance as the learned disputations customarily held in the courtyards of Hassidic rebbes regarding what would happen after the coming of the messiah."
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