Jaffa, 1948: The fall of a city
2011; Routledge; Volume: 30; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1080/13531042.2011.553064
ISSN1744-0548
Autores Tópico(s)Middle East Politics and Society
ResumoAbstract This article deals with the fall of Palestinian-Arab Jaffa in the 1948 war. As the largest Arab city in Palestine, its accelerated social and military collapse came as a surprise to many, despite Jewish dominance in the Jaffa region. While previous research has mostly neglected this question, the present study aims at revealing the underlying causes, besides Jewish military pressure, for Jaffa's collapse and the resulting exodus of its Arab population. The article describes the precarious social and military Palestinian-Arab situation in Jaffa as a case study for Palestine as a whole during the December 1947–May 1948 inter-communal war. Keywords: JaffaPalestinePalestinian Arabs1948 warinter-communal war Acknowledgments I would like to thank the Cherrick Center and the Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace, both at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and the Taub Center for Israel Studies at New York University, for their generous support. 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As far as we know, nobody "put the blame" on 'Isa himself, who arrived in town in the midst of social collapse, and whose troops took part in the successful counter-attack on Tal al-Rish. See, for example, testimony of Ahmad 'Abd al-Rahim, in Diyab, Yafa, 126, who maintains that the reinforcement of 'Isa and his troops "while the Iraqis were still there" was useless, since Jaffa was already "a deserted city." A similar description was given by Haykal, who returned to the city at about the same time. See testimony of Haykal, ibid., 49. 70 Radai, "Mi-Nabi Samu'il le-mivtza 'kilshon,'" For Haifa, see Goren Goren, Tamir. 2006. Heifah ha-aravit be-tashah, Sde Boker: Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Press. (Arab Haifa in 1948) [Google Scholar], Heifah ha-'Aravit, 48–58, 187–88. 71 Huntington Huntington, Samuel P. 1968. Political Order in Changing Societies, New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. 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