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Footnotes

1. Himadeh,Said (ed.) Economic Organization of Palestine. American University of Beirut. Beirut 1939, p.32.

2. Menuhin, Moshe. The Decadence of Judaism in our Time. Institute of Palestine Studies, Beirut, 1969.

3. Weinstock. Nathan. Le Sionisme - Contra Israel. Maspero. Paris, 1969.

4. Ibid.

5. Himadeh, op. cit., p.26,27.

6. Weinstock, Op. cit.

7. Himadeb, Op,cft., P,373.

8. Ibid. p.376.

9. Collection of Arab testimonies in Palestine before the British Royal Commission. al-Itidal Press Damascus, 1938, p.54.

10. Ibid.. p.55.

11. Himadeh. Op. cit. (the number of the unemployed increased to 4000 in Jaffa alone after 1936. see footnote 5,p.55).

12. Collection. Op. cit, P.55.

13. Ibid. p.55.

14. Davar No. 3462 (see ft. note 13. p.661.)

15. Collection. Op. Cit., P.15.

16. Ibid., p.66.

17. Ibid., p.59.

18. Yehuda Bauer. "The Arab Revolt of 1936" New Outlook. Vol.9 No. 6 (81). Tel-Aviv, 1966. p. 50.

19. Ibid., p.51.

20. In 1930. the number of Arab construction workers in Jerusalem dropped from 1500 to 500 while that of Jews went up from 550 to 1600.

21. Up to 1931. the Zionists expelled 20,000 Palestinian Arab peasants after they bought the land on which the latter used to work.

22. Haim Hanagbi, Moshe Machover, Akiva Orr. "The Class Nature of Israel" New Left Review (65), Jan-Feb 1971, p.6.

23. Theodor Herzl, Selected Works, Newman Ed.. Vol.7, Book 1. Tel Aviv, p.86.

24. Exco Foundation for Palestine. Inc., Palestine. A Study of Jewish, Arab and British Policies. Vol. 1. Yale University Press.1947. p. 561.

25. Kayyali., Abdulwahhab. Modern History of Palestine. Arab Institute of Studies and Publication. Beirut. 1970. p. 174.

26. Documents of the Palestine Arab Resistance (1918-1939). Beirut, pp. 22. 23. 24, 25.

27. Action among the peasants and the struggle against Zionism, The Palestine Communist Party Theses for 1931. Communist Internationalism and the Arab Revolution, Dar a1-Haqiqa, Beirut, p. 54.

28. Ibid., pp. 122, 121.

29. Ibid., pp. 124.

30. Ibid., p. 162.

31. Himadeh; Ibid., p. 39.

32. Communist Internationalism, pp. 135-145.

33. Weinstock. Ibid.

34. Collection. p.34.

35. The Sublime Porte had granted this land to the Sursuk family of Lebanon In return for services. See also: Hadawi, Palestine Under the Mandate. 1920-1940, Palestine Studues, Kuwaiti Alumni Association., pp.34, 36. In 1934, the Zionists.

36. Collection. P.34.

37. Ibid., P.39.

38. Hadawi., Op. cit., P.29.

39. Collection. p.25.

40. Ibid.. p.56.

41. Ibid., p.58.

42. Himadeh. Op. cit., p.376.

43. Collection, P.60.

44. Ibid., pp.62-63.

45. Ibid., p..62.

46. Ibid., p.44.

47. Ibid., p.63.

48. Rony E. Gubbay, A Political Study of the Arab-Jewish Conflict, Librairie de Droz. Geneve, 1959. p.29. 109. Sifrl, Op. cit., pp.131-132.

49. Communist Internationalism. PP.143-144.

50. Collection, p.52.

51. Himadeh, Op. cit., p.45.

52. "Arab Society" by Dr. Ali Ahmed Issa, quoted in Yusra Arnita, Folkloric Arts in Palestine. Beirut, Palestine Research Center, P.L.O. p.187.

53. Yaghi, Dr. Abdul Rahman. Modern Palestinian Literature. Beirut, p.232.

54. Ibid., p.237.

55. Ibid., P.283.

56. Our Popular Songs. by Nimr Sirhan. Jordan, Ministry of Culture and and Information, P.157.

57. Ibid., pp.299-300.

58. Ibid., p.301.

59. Yehuda Bauer, Op. cit. P.49

60. Sifri. Issa. Arab Palestine Under the Mandate & Zionism. the New Palestine Bookshop. Jaffa, 1937. Vol. II p. 10

61. Palestinian Struggle over half a century, by Saleh Bouyissir. al-Fatah House, Beirut, p. 180.

62. The Great Arab Revolution in Palestine. al-Hana House, Damascus. Subhir Yasine, p.30

63. Bouyissir, Op. cit., P.181.

64. Kayyali, Op. cit., P.302.

65. Collection. p,96.

66. Hadawi. Op. cit., p.38.

67. Yasin, Subhi. Op. cit., pp.22-23

68. Ibid. p.22.

69. Kayyali, Op. cit. p.296.

70. Palestine. No.94. Jan 1,1969. Arab Higher Committee. Beirut.

71. Ibid., No. 94. p.19.

72. Kayyali, Op. cit., p.296.

73. Palestine's Economic Future. Percy, Lund H. London, 1946. p. 61.

74. Sifri, Op. cit., pp,39,40.

75. Kayyali, Op. cit., P.311.

76. Sifri, Op. cit., p.60.

77. Ibid.. P.93.

78. Kayyali, Op. cit. p.319.

79. Documents, p.454.

80. Ibid., P.457.

81. Ibid., p.458.

82. Collection. P.8.

83. Kayyali, Op. cit., p.326.

84. Neville Barbour, Nisi Dominus, London, pp. 183-193.

85. Kayyali, Op. cit., P.338.

86. Jewish Observer, Sept. 20, 1963. London, pp. 13-14.

87. Abdul Qadir Yasin. al Katib, No. 121. April 1971 p. 114

88. Kayyali. Op. cit., P.346.

89. Ibid., p.346.

90. In May 1938. the rebels occupied Hebron after they had already occupied the old port of Jerusalem. On Sept. 9, they occupied Beersheba and released prisoners. On Oct. 5, they occupied Tiberias; in early August parts of Nablus, etc.

91. Bouyissir. Op. cit., p.247.

92. Ibid., p.247.

93. Ibid., p.258.

94. al-Ahram, March 1. 1939, Cairo.

95. Yasin. Op. cit. p.115.

96. Ibid., p.114.

97. Kayyali, Op. cit., p.359.

98. Sayegh, Anis. The Hashemite & the Palestine Question. Beirut, 1966. p. 150.

99. Ibid. See also al-Talia'a, No.4 April 7, 1971. Cairo, p. 98.

100. Kayyali, Op. cit., p.348.

101. A letter from Baghdad to the British Foreign Minister. 31 Oct. 1930. Quoted in Kayyali, Ibid. p. 349

102. Walid Khalidi ed, From Haven to Conquest. IPS, Beirut, 1971. pp. 836-849.

103. Bouyissir, Op. cit., P.21.

104. Barbour. Op. cit. p.193.

105. Himadeh, Op. cit., P.323.

106. Bouyissir, Op. cit., p.323.

107. Ben Gurion. Op. cit., p.372.

108. Ibid., p.373.

109. Sifri, op.cit. pp.131-132.

110. Khalidi. Op. cit., p.375-378.