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'Military Lessons of the Arab Rebellion in Palestine 1936' [22v] (49/294)
The record is made up of 1 volume (142 folios). It was created in Feb 1938. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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CHAPTER 4
CONDITIONS IE PALESTINE AS
AFFECTim OPERATIONS
THE SIECIAL CIRCUMSTANCES OP PA^STIPE
In Palestine religious and political issues are so closely inter
woven as to become weJlnigh inseparable and it will be convenient to
treat them as one. Their influence was felt from two directions:
from outside as a consequence of world interest in a historic country
specially sacred to three great religions; and from inside where two
widely dissimilar sections of the population were in violent opposition,
EXTERNAL POLITICAL INELbENC ES
There are reasons other than history and religion why universal
attention is invariably focussed upon events in Palestine. In the firs!
place the United States of America and each member of the League of
Nations has a direct responsibility in regard to the Mandate. Further
more most of the Christian nations own property in the Holy Land and
have numbers of their citizens domiciled there (there are 10,000
Americans alone); every Arab nation feels impelled to evince a special
interest in matters affecting the 900,000 Arab inhabitants; while with
World Jewry and every nation with a large Jewish community there is a
very intimate and practical connection.
The existence of the Mandate has an important influence upon the
handling of any form of revolt, and methods which might be suitable and
effective in a colonial possession are frequently held to be incom
patible with the nature of the Mandate • The Mandate is exercised by
Great Britain only on behalf of the League of Nations and in conformity
with certain detailed provisions, and the Mandatory is answerable to
the Council of the League for every measure talcen to carry out these
provisions. Moreover there is a special duty towards the inhabitants
themselves: the 1 encouragement of local autonomy * is one of the
particular provisions and has been interpreted as an obligation to
give the people of the country as great a hand as possible in its
government. This accounts for the large proportion of Palestinian
officials in every branch of the Government service, which in a colony
under similar circumstances would be unnecessary and perhaps unwise.
It accounts also for the reluctance to use one section of the population
in armed opposition to the other - even in support of law and order.
With a brief outline of these external influences it is not
difficult to see why both His Majesty* s Government and the Palestine
Government have always shrunk from the use of force - even to meet
orce ^ in a country where the sound of every blow struck may echo throng!
the civilized world. It remains to be seen what was the effect of
similar influences from within.
INTERNAL POLITICAL INPTJlENHT^.q
The Arab Attitud e
The rebellion was purely an Arab rebellion. The aims of the Arab
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Report detailing the military lessons of the Arab rebellion in Palestine in 1936 that was compiled by General Staff, Headquarters, The British Forces, Palestine & Trans-Jordan.
The report is divided up into chapters as follows:
- Introduction
- A Short History of the Rebellion I - to the end of June, 1936
- A Short History of the Rebellion II - from the 1st July, 1936 to the end of the year
- Conditions in Palestine as Affecting Operations
- Commanders and Staffs
- Intelligence
- Intercommunication
- Administration
- Transport
- Weapons and Equipment
- The Employment of Various Arms
- The Employment of Aircraft in Co-operation with Troops
- Defensive Action
- Protection of Communications
- Offensive Action
- Conclusion - Summary of Main Lessons
The report contains 46 photographs and a number of diagrams which are located throughout the volume. It also contains four maps, found at folios 140-143.
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- 1 volume (142 folios)
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The volume contains a contents page on folio 3.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 144; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. Pagination: the volume also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:110v, 111ar:111av, 111r:139v, back-i
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