IaZ ZIONISM AND THE nI O B laN ARABS 1936–1939 c kI S M A N Ian Black D T H E A R A B S 1 9 3 6 – 1 9 3 9 ROUTLEDGE LIBRARY EDITIONS: ISRAEL AND PALESTINE ISBN 978-1-138-90635-8 ,!7IB1D8-jagdfi! www.routledge.com(cid:15)aninformabusiness ROUTLEDGE LIBRARY EDITIONS: ISRAEL AND PALESTINE Volume 15 ZIONISM AND THE ARABS 1936–1939 Page Intentionally Left Blank ZIONISM AND THE ARABS 1936–1939 IAN BLACK Firstpublishedin1986 Thiseditionfirstpublishedin2015 byRoutledge 2ParkSquare,MiltonPark,Abingdon,Oxon,OX144RN andbyRoutledge 711ThirdAvenue,NewYork,NY10017 RoutledgeisanimprintoftheTaylor&FrancisGroup,aninformabusiness ©1986IanBlack Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthisbookmaybereprintedorreproducedor utilisedinanyformorbyanyelectronic,mechanical,orothermeans,now knownorhereafterinvented,includingphotocopyingandrecording,orinany informationstorageorretrievalsystem,withoutpermissioninwritingfromthe publishers. Trademarknotice:Productorcorporatenamesmaybetrademarksorregistered trademarks,andareusedonlyforidentificationandexplanationwithoutintent toinfringe. BritishLibraryCataloguinginPublicationData AcataloguerecordforthisbookisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary ISBN:978-1-138-89267-5(Set) eISBN:978-1-315-69513-6(Set) ISBN:978-1-138-90635-8(Volume15) eISBN:978-1-315-69535-8(Volume15) Publisher’sNote Thepublisherhasgonetogreatlengthstoensurethequalityofthisreprintbut pointsoutthatsomeimperfectionsintheoriginalcopiesmaybeapparent. Disclaimer Thepublisherhasmadeeveryefforttotracecopyrightholdersandwould welcomecorrespondencefromthosetheyhavebeenunabletotrace. ZIONISM ARABS AND THE 1936-1939 Ian Black • GarlanPudb lishing, NIewn cY.o,r k L&o ndon 1986 Copyrig©h t1 986b y IanB lack Allr ightsr eserved Libraryo fC ongresCsa taloging-in-PubliDcaatat ion BlackI,a n1,9 53- Zionisamn dt heA rabs1,9 36-1939. (Outstandintgh esefsr omt heL ondonS chooolf Economicasn dP olitiSccaile nce) Thesi(sP h.D.)-UniveorfsL iotnyd on1,9 78. Bibliograpp.h y: 1.J ewish-Arraebl ations-1917-21.9Z 4i9o.n ism Palestine-Hist3o.rP y.a lestine-History-Arab rebelli1o9n3,6 -193I9..T itleI.I S.e ries. DS119.7.B517968 6 956.94'0018 6-12138 ISBN0 -8240-1911-3 Allv olumeisn t hisse riearse printed on acid-fr2e5e0,- yeafre-p laipre. Printeidn t heU nitedS tateosfA merica ZIOIHSM AND J.RABTHSE, 1936-1939 Ian Black Thesissu bmittfeodr t he degroefe Doctoorf P hilosophy UniversiotfyL ondon 1978 Page Intentionally Left Blank PREFACE Another forayi nto fileds as well-plougheda s Zionism and the Palestine conflict requires some explana tion and definition. Tbis work is not a history of the alPestine disturbanceofs 1936-1939 nor of the Zionistmo vement in those years, noorf the Palestinian Arabsan d the Arabn ational movecent. What I have attemptedt o do, by the descriptioonf several related issuesa nd events duringt he period,a nd sometimes back trackings lightlyf or the sake of continuityi,s to showh ow the Zionistrse latetdo t he Arabso f Palestine and of the neighbour ing coun tries; to what extent theype rceived the existenceo f an HArab quesito n• " how they defined1 t and how they dealt with it. The fact that it wasi n these yearst hat the Palestine con flict moved fatefully and irrevocablyb eyo nd the borders of the country led me to believet hat it was importantt o examine the questiono f Zionista ttitudest o the Arab worldi n generalan d to the pan-Arabmo veme nt in pe.rticulnanrd not to looks olely at relations with the Arabso f Palestine, as several previouswo rks have done. The "Arabwo rld" iss ol:lething of a misnom er, as I devote two chapters to Zionist interesti n and relations with four non Arab peoples in theM iddleE ast,a rguing that thiso rientatni o (which to the best of mykn owledge has neverb eforeb een seriously studied) throwsc onsideralbilgeh t,b y contrasta nd default as it were, on an understanding of Zionistr elationwsi tht heAr abs. It is extrecely difficult to definew hat kindo f history I
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