The Rise and Fall of a Palestinian Dynasty (73 page)

88
.   Laval,
Al-Hajj
, pp. 40–1.

89
.   Kedourie,
The Chatham
.

CHAPTER 10

1
.     Mardini,
Palestine
, p. 102.

2
.     J. and D. Kimche,
Both Sides of the Hill: Britain and the Palestine War
, London 1960, pp. 86–9, 98–9, 107. This source argued that the school was closed in 1936.

3
.     The Shaw Commission, session 46, p. 109.

4
.     J. Nevo, ‘Al-Hajj Amin and the British in World War II’,
Middle Eastern Studies
, 20/1 (January 1984), p. 4, note 6.

5
.   Zuaytar,
Diaries
, p. 336.

6
.     I want to thank Nadim Shadeh, the director of Lebanese Studies, Oxford, for this information. M. Fargeallah,
Visages d’une époque
, Paris, no date, p. 77.

7
.     Y. R. al-Radayi,
The 1936 Revolt: A Military Study
, Acre 1986, p. 50 (Arabic).

8
.     Laval,
Al-Hajj
, p. 34.

9
.     Honig Report, 19 October 1938, in PRO, CO 733/379, document 75528/74/38, 24 August 1938.

10
.   Qasmiyyah,
The First
, p. 327.

11
.   Ibid., p.185.

12
.   From an undated British Intelligence document in the Ben-Gurion Archives, Sdeh Boker, file 7-S-2. On the Azma brothers, see Qasmiyya,
The First
, p. 38; on the debates, see pp. 53–4.

13
.   Arslan,
Memoirs
, 24 April 1935.

14
.   Laval,
Al-Hajj
, pp. 44–5.

15
.   Zuaytar,
Diaries
, p. 552.

16
.   Ibid., pp. 398–487.

17
.   An interview with Salma al-Husayni (conducted by Dr Qatatu).

18
.   E. Danin,
The Arab Gangs
, Jerusalem 1981, p. 13 (Hebrew).

19
.   J. Nevo, ‘The High Commissioner and the Mufti: Harold MacMichael and Hajj Amin Al-Husayni’,
Cathedra
64 (Apirl 1992), pp. 127–39 (Hebrew).

20
.   City of Jerusalem Archive, session no. 20 of the Committee for Planning and Urbanization, 19 April 1937, and session 50, 29 March, 1939.

21
.   Arslan,
Memoirs
, pp. 215–6, January 1939.

22
.   Porath,
Riots
, p. 161.

23
.   Ibid., p. 89.

24
.   M. Abd al-Hadi,
The Palestine Question and Its Political Solutions
, Beirut 1975, p. 62 (Arabic).

25
.   Porath,
Riots
, ibid.

26
.   Ben-Gurion Archives, file 7-S-2, ibid.

27
.   Arslan,
Memoirs
, vol. 1, 22 March 1939, p. 240.

28
.   Al-Hut,
The Political
, pp. 746–66; I. M. al-Husayni,
Akhbar al-Yawm
, 19 October 1957.

29
.   Kimmerling and Migdal,
The Palestinians
, p. 128, note 58.

30
.   Schama,
Rothschilds
, p. 292.

31
.   Mattar,
The Mufti
, p. 89.

32
.   A. Zuaytar,
Diaries
, pp. 608–9.

33
.   Nevo,
The High
, pp. 93–114.

CHAPTER 11

1
.     PRO, FO 371/23240, Baghdad to London, 2 November 1939.

2
.     Darwaza,
Memoirs
, vol. 1, p. 226.

3
.     Laval,
Al-Hajj
, p. 50.

4
.     Ibid., pp. 52–3.

5
.     Ibid., pp. 56 –7.

6
.     W. Churchill,
The Second World War
, vol. 3, Boston 1952, p. 658.

7
.     Mardini,
Palestine
, p. 138.

8
.     The description here is taken from a program on TV5 (French television) on Françoise Ganeau, 20 July 1996.

9
.     Schechtman,
The Mufti
, pp. 96–8.

10
.   Kedourie,
Chatham
, pp. 165–6.

11
.   K. Hadad,
The Rashid Ali al-Galyani Movement of 1941
, Sydon 1950, pp. 9–10 (Arabic); G. Muhafazza,
The German-Palestinian Relationship, 1841– 1945
, Beirut 1981, p. 234 (Arabic).

12
.   Al-Peleg,
The Mufti
, p. 63.

13
.   Ibid., p. 65.

14
.   Laval,
Al-Hajj
, p. 64.

15
.   Ibid., p. 65.

16
.   Qasmiyyeh,
The First
, pp. 99, 103.

17
.   Mardini,
Palestine
, p. 107.

18
.   Laval,
Al-Hajj
, pp. 68–9.

19
.   G. Carpi, ‘The Germans’ Plan to Occupy the Middle East through the Caucasus’,
Et-Mol
, 9/2 (1982), p. 14 (Hebrew).

20
.   Mardini,
Palestine
, p. 171.

21
.   Laval,
Al-Hajj
, pp. 69–70.

22
.   Muhafazza,
The German
, p. 244; M. al-Ris,
The Golden Book of the Arab Revolutions: The Iraq War 1941
, Damascus 1977, pp. 72–4 (Arabic).

23
.   Laval,
Al-Hajj
, p. 76.

24
.   Al-Nashashibi,
The Last
, p. 167; Kimmerling and Migdal,
The Palestinians
, p. 133.

25
.   Mardini,
Palestine
, p. 183.

26
.   Al-Ris,
The Golden
, p. 225.

27
.   Ibid., pp. 258–60.

28
.   Qasmiyyeh,
The First
, p. 100.

29
.   Ibid., p. 104.

30
.   Laval,
Al-Hajj
, p. 89.

31
.   Nevo,
The High
, p. 106.

32
.   Al-Peleg,
From the Mufti’s
, p. 79.

33
.   Nevo,
The High
.

34
.   PRO, CO 733/439, Jerusalem to London, 26 December 1941.

35
.   Al-Asali,
Nabi Musa
, p. 137.

36
.   Al-Dabagh,
The History
, part 2, vol. 10, p. 378.

37
.   City of Jerusalem Archives, session 144, 14 December 1943.

38
.   Salwadi,
Dr Ishaq
, p. 25, note 10; Kimmerling and Migdal,
The Palestinians
, p. 55.

39
.   I. Pappé,
Britain and the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1948–1951
, London and New York 1988.

40
.   A. Sela, ‘The Palestinian Arabs in the 1948 War’ in M. Maoz and B. Z. Kedar (eds),
The Palestinians
, p. 130.

41
.   A. al-Shuqayri,
Forty Years in the Arab and International Life
, Beirut 1969, p. 268 (Arabic).

42
.   Z. Lockman,
Comrades and Enemies
, Berkeley 1996, p. 324.

43
.   Ibid., p. 340.

44
.   J. Beinin,
Was the Red Flag Flying There?
, Berkeley 1990, p. 48.

45
.   D. Ben-Gurion,
At War
, vol. 4, part 1, Tel Aviv 1949, pp. 102–5 (Hebrew).

46
.   
Hadashot Ha-Erev
, 27 March, 1946.

47
.   PRO, FO 371/39990, E6328, Nahas Pasha to King Abd al-Aziz ibn Saud, 9 August 1944.

48
.   
Filastin
, 26 November 1946.

49
.   Sela, ‘The Palestinian’, p. 131.

50
.   Jamal’s correspondence with the government’s secretary: The Israel State Archives, CS, section 770.4, file 6, June 1947.

51
.   
Be’ayot
, third year, vol. 5, issue 1–2, pp. 31–4.

52
.   Gabriel Bear,
Be’ayot
, vol. 15, issue 3–4, p. 188.

53
.   I thank the late Professor P. J. Vatikiotis for this information.

54
.   I. M. al-Husayni,
The Muslim Brotherhood
, Beirut 1953, pp. 80–1 (Arabic).

55
.   Arslan,
Memoirs
, vol. 2, p. 723, 18 October 1947.

56
.   Al-Peleg,
From the Mufti’s
, pp. 83–5.

57
.   Sela, ‘The Palestinians’, p. 155.

58
.   I. Pappé,
The Making of the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1947–1951
, London and New York 1992, pp. 7–86.

59
.   Kimmerling and Migdal,
The Palestinians
, p. 144.