The Palestinian press and the general strike, April–October 1936: Filastin as a case study
2003; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 39; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1080/00263200412331301727
ISSN1743-7881
Autores Tópico(s)Middle East Politics and Society
ResumoDuring the first half of the 1930s, the Palestinian national movement confronted two main dilemmas. The first was that Britain did not intend to grant them what it had granted other Arab nations under its governance (i.e., the Egyptians and the Iraqis); the second was that their traditional leadership - the Executive Committee, led by Musa Kazim al-Husayni - and the mechanisms by which it led the national movement (arranging assemblies, organizing committees and composing memoranda of protest for the British High Commissioner) were transparent, obsolete and ineffective. The leaders of the young generation called for hardening the national movement's stance and for the use of violence in order to obtain political goals. The turning point, seemingly, was the British Mandatory government's condemning to death on 17 June 1930 of three Palestinian youths whom it found guilty of organizing the 1929 riots and arousing passions in the process. Armed underground organizations were formed after the riots, principally in Haifa and Galilee, and during the first half of the 1930s these groups attacked a number of British and Jewish targets. The dominant figure of these organizations was Shaykh 'Izz al-Din al-Qassam, a Syrian exile who arrived in Palestine in the early 1920s and was appointed by Hajj Amin al-Husayni, as preacher of the al-Istiqlal Mosque in Haifa. AlQassam's close connection to these underground organizations became known only after his death in November 1935; he was killed in a battle with
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