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Palestine 1936 : the great revolt and the roots of the Middle East conflict / Oren Kessler.

by Kessler, Oren, author.

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Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2023]

Jewish-Arab relations -- History -- 1917-1948.

Palestine -- History -- Arab rebellion, 1936-1939.

Palestine -- History -- 1917-1948.

9781538148808 hardcover :

1538148803 hardcover

xiv, 317 pages : illustrations, portraits, maps ; 24 cm

Introduction : The forgotten uprising -- Flash floods in the desert -- The Bloody Day in Jaffa -- The Two-State Solution -- Black Sunday -- Pray for the peace of Jerusalem -- Lawrence of Judea -- The burning ground -- Epilogue : The revolt rages on.

Spring 1936. The Holy Land erupted in a rebellion that targeted both the local Jewish community and the British Mandate authorities that for two decades had midwifed the Zionist project. The Great Arab Revolt would last three years, cost thousands of lives, and cast the trajectory for the Middle East conflict ever since. The revolt to end Zionism had instead crushed the Arabs themselves, leaving them crippled in facing the Jews' own drive for statehood a decade later. Zionist leaders began to abandon illusions over Arab acquiescence, and faced the prospect that fulfilling their dream of sovereignty might mean forever clinging to the sword. Kessler shows that today, eight decades on, the revolt's legacy endures. When Washington promotes a "two-state solution," it is invoking a plan with roots in this same pivotal period. -- adapted from jacket

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