A popular uprising by Palestinian Arabs in Mandatory Palestine against the British administration, known as the Great Revolt, and later the Great Palestinian Revolt or the Palestinian Revolution, lasted from 1936 until 1939. The movement sought independence from British colonial rule and the end of British support for Zionism, including Jewish immigration and land sales to Jews.

The uprising occurred during a peak in the influx of European Jewish immigrants, and with the growing plight of the rural fellahin rendered landless, who as they moved to metropolitan centres to escape their abject poverty found themselves socially marginalized. Since the Battle of Tel Hai in 1920, Jews and Arabs had been involved in a cycle of attacks and counter-attacks, and the immediate spark for the uprising was the murder of two Jews by a Qassamite band, and the retaliatory killing by Jewish gunmen of two Arab labourers, incidents which triggered a flare-up of violence across Palestine. A month into the disturbances, Amin al-Husseini, president of the Arab Higher Committee and Mufti of Jerusalem, declared 16 May 1936 as “Palestine Day” and called for a general strike. David Ben-Gurion, leader of the Yishuv, described Arab causes as fear of growing Jewish economic power, opposition to mass Jewish immigration and fear of the British identification with Zionism.

The general strike lasted from April to October 1936. The revolt is often analysed in terms of two distinct phases. The first phase began as spontaneous popular resistance, which was seized on by the urban bourgeois Arab Higher Committee, giving the movement an organized shape that was focused mainly on strikes and other forms of political protest, in order to secure a political result. By October 1936, this phase had been defeated by the British civil administration using a combination of political concessions, international diplomacy (involving the rulers of Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Transjordan and Yemen) and the threat of martial law. The second phase, which began late in 1937, was a peasant-led resistance movement provoked by British repression in 1936 in which increasingly British forces were targeted as the army itself increasingly targeted the villages it thought supportive of the revolt. During this phase, the rebellion was brutally suppressed by the British Army and the Palestine Police Force using repressive measures that were intended to intimidate the whole population and undermine popular support for the revolt. A more dominant role on the Arab side was taken by the Nashashibi clan, whose NDP party quickly withdrew from the rebel Arab Higher Committee, led by the radical faction of Amin al-Husseini, and instead sided with the British – dispatching “Fasail al-Salam” (the “Peace Bands”) in coordination with the British Army against nationalist and Jihadist Arab “Fasail” units (literally “bands”).

According to official British figures covering the whole revolt, the army and police killed more than 2,000 Arabs in combat, 108 were hanged, and 961 died because of what they described as “gang and terrorist activities”. In an analysis of the British statistics, Walid Khalidi estimates 19,792 casualties for the Arabs, with 5,032 dead: 3,832 killed by the British and 1,200 dead due to intracommunal terrorism, and 14,760 wounded. By one estimate, ten percent of the adult male Palestinian Arab population between 20 and 60 was killed, wounded, imprisoned or exiled. Estimates of the number of Palestinian Jews killed are up to several hundred.

The road to the 1936 revolt https://palmuseum.org/en/museum-from-home/stories-from-palestine/road-1936-revolt

THE 1936-39 REVOLT IN PALESTINE, GHASSAN KANAFANI https://pflp-documents.org/documents/PFLP-Kanafani3639.pdf

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  • BigBoyKarlLiebknecht [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    This Guardian article interviewing a surviving family member of two of the OceanGate passengers really highlights the bizarre world of the super wealthy. From not questioning spending $500k on a submarine ride, to:

    Initially, Dawood suggested they try a shallow dive, to get used to the feeling of being locked inside the 6.7-metre-long submersible. But Shahzada was adamant: he wanted to go straight to the Titanic. “If I’m doing a dive, I want to do it properly,” he told her. “That was what made him successful in business,” she says. “You have a clear goal, and you go for it. But he wasn’t an adrenaline-seeker. If I’d have suggested going bungee jumping, it would have been, ‘No way!’ He wouldn’t do like [Jeff] Bezos did, and go up in a rocket, because you need to be physically fit, to train. He wouldn’t have done that. On paper, this dive looked comfortable. You just sit there, right? He didn’t have to be physically fit. It was possible, convenient. We always were the glampers of the explorers.”

    …to their remains being returned in shoebox sized containers.

    Not to be unkind, but I simply cannot fathom a life of such unfettered consumption and lack of consequences that you ask a concierge service to book you a mini-submarine ride after seeing it in an advert, and not ponder if it’s going to be safe.

  • DragonBallZinn [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    1 hour ago

    Said “fuck it” and started a Python course on FreeCodeCamp. I probably would like to finish either a coding degree (despite the absurdity going on), and a few other career paths. If I can’t finish that simple course, I have no business even thinking about a degree in CS.

  • KuroXppi [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    3 hours ago

    POVZ: you make the mistake of looking in your side mirrors before attempting to merge during heavy nightime traffic

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    Rip to ur retinas – thanks for olayings, kid

  • WokePalpatine [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    4 hours ago

    My mom has an Oculus Quest and I would download games for her. Tried telling her not to update it. Somehow it got updated. Facebook seems keen to kill it now, so I had to spend like 3-4 hours doing various things to re-pair the controllers to it (had to find an old Android tablet and factory reset the headset because the up-to-date iOS app demanded connecting Oculus Go controllers for some reason). The main app it comes with is jank as fuck with it. The store finally actually says which Quest model it supports explicitly, I remember before you had to go into the headset on the Quest1 to doublecheck if a game was supported on it. You still can’t sort by Quest1 games, you need a separate website database to do that. They also borked a lot of the games by forcing an Android/firmware update on it that games need to manually patch to support it again. Also removed the ability to do custom VR spaces for the home menu for some reason, that just seems malicious. At least they removed the need to make an FB account, now it’s possible to make a generic Meta account with an email address. Some cool homebrew for it though, like an Virtualboy emulator. Some FPS VR fan ports of Quake 1-4, Doom 1-3, Half-Life 1, etc.

  • Goblinmancer [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    7 hours ago

    Modern day dnd monk be like “i understand bad people can make good art and good people can make bad art” and become enlightenrd and be invicible

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    8 hours ago

    the great discussion of the day is Furries being hired to work for Palantir. I know fur suits are expensive, but have a little dignity and make the self-sacrifice not to work on the damn torment nexus.

  • GalaxyBrain [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    11 hours ago

    A guy who was literally Don Corleone was eating at my work today. It’s an italian place. Homie was super impressed and came up to the kitchen (its semi open) and started speaking to us in italian. None of us speak italian. He then asked which of us had italian parents. I was working with two Phillipinos and a Cuban guy, I am German/English if you had to pick something but either side of my family hasn’t lived in either country since like…the 1800s on the German side and fucking Jamestown times for the English. He seemed desperately confused as to how we could produce good italian slop, I mentioned, I said as a joke that I mostly got taught how to cook by Lebanese people and that is probably the closest to Italy geographically any of us have a background in before this place and that we just do our research and are great cooks. His eyes lit up when I mentioned I was taught to cook by Lebanese people and said that explains it then because I understand flavor. I didnt know there was a Lebanese to Italian American culinary pipeline, maybe legit italian cause relative proximity and the Roman Empire etc. But we make pizzas mostly. He was also really willing to slap all the credit onto a meal I didnt even touch, I was having a smoke when they made his order. I will agree that I understand flavor along with the hand gesture he made, the others understand flavor but maybe not with a hand gesture. He then shook my hand and said ‘Belisimo’ and left. Im pretty sure I could have someone killed if I want now