A sentence of exile: The Palestine / Israel conflict 1897-1977

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A Sentence of Exile
The Palestine/Israel Conflict
1897-1977
David Waines
THE MEDINA PRESS
Wilmette, Illinois
1977
©
Copyright 1977 by David Waines
A Publication of Medina Press
P.O. Box 125, Wilmette, Illinois 60091.
LCC: 77-73083
ISBN 0-914456-14-8 (clothbound edition)
ISBN 0-914456-15-6 (paperback edition)
All rights reserved.
David Waines is Lecturer on the History of the
Middle East, University of Lancaster,
England.
TO NAHED
WHO HAS SHARED THE
STRUGGLE

Table of Contents
PAGE
PREFACE. ix
INTRODUCTION. 3
CHAPTER 1 Imperial Friendships. 11
CHAPTER 2 Palestine: The Waste Land?. 29
CHAPTER 3 A Game of Nations. 39
CHAPTER 4 Confrontation . 46
CHAPTER 5 The Horns of a Dilemma . 53
CHAPTER 6 The Palestine Rebellion 1936-1939 . 71
CHAPTER 7 Zionist Countermoves. 85
CHAPTER 8 End of the Mandate. 95
CHAPTER 9 The Palestinian Diaspora . 105
CHAPTER 10 The Palestinians Within . 120
CHAPTER 11 Pax Israelica . 139
CHAPTER 12 Whither Palestine?. 171
THE END IS PROLOGUE. 195
BIBLIOGRAPHY AND NOTES . 213
INDEX 223

Preface
Six years ago the original version of this book appeared entitled
The Unholy War. The present volume is a revised, enlarged
and updated account of that earlier work. New material has
been added to some chapters (especially Five and Ten) while
the last third of the original book has been entirely rewritten.
I have called it A Sentence of Exile. The phrase, appropriately
Biblical, seemed to me to describe best the judgement that others,
from politicians to propagandists, have imposed upon the Pales¬
tinian people. The Palestine problem is entering its eighth decade.
Although there are now some positive signs that the Palestinians
have, through their own unremitting sacrifices, succeeded to
a degree in having that sentence repealed, there is hardly a
single observer today who can look dispassionately at the conflict
and say, “The end is in sight.”
Cairo, Egypt
1976

A Sentence of Exile
The Palestine/Israel Conflict
1897-1977