1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine

But also, on the other hand, it is a framing that has been developed through the history of Palestinian and global anti-colonial struggles.

I think, uh, Palestinian revolutionary Ghassan Kanafani, in his analysis of the Great Arab Revolt, published in the seventies, highlighted this famously, uh, pinpointing the ene-enemy trinity the-- of which Palestinians face, um, being the local reactionary leadership, the Arab regimes surrounding Palestine, and the imperialist Zionist enemy, which was true, as true then as it is today.

Um, therefore, this framing shows clearly that the Palestinian liberation struggle is not a quote-unquote, single-issue struggle, nor only a national liberation struggle.

It's a struggle against global capitalism and imperialism.

They've been historically dominant in Lebanese politics and in all colonial era alliances.

Between 1936 and 1939, the Great Palestinian Revolt occurs and it's eventually crushed by Britain and by Zionist militias, including the Haganah.

In 1943, in the chaos of the Second World War, Lebanon gains a degree of independence after the pro-Vichy French administration in Lebanon is defeated by free French and British forces.

However, Lebanon's post-colonial elite maintains close and cooperative ties with France even after gaining a measure of sovereignty.

He found it very alarming, and he said he was really worried about what was going to happen when Zionism took even harder route than it was, because it was already a very serious problem.

leading up to the troubles in, well, the War of Independence in 1936, which we all know about.

So he was there for the revolt in 1936?

Now, that I haven't seen letters him writing about.

is going to lead to this thing called the Hebron Massacre, where Arab rioters are going to kill dozens of Jews in Hebron.

And so things are starting to intensify, and they're going to kind of culminate, as Jews are steadily moving in, with the Great Arab Revolt in 1936.

Okay? 239.

So there's this Great Arab Revolt in the late 30s, and the British are kind of getting fed up.

They're kind of getting fed up with empire in general.

The guy says, it's costing us a lot of money.