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There is Perry Anderson's piece from NLR August 2001 at http://www.newleftreview.org/A2330 which has something on the 35-9 revolt. There is also a good blog on Orde Wingate's role in putting down the revolt and in training the Zionist death squads, called Special Night Squads, (of special interest is his relationship with Moshe Dayan) at http://ellissharp.blogspot.com/2006/05/orde-wingate-war-criminal.html. An interesting Wiki is at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Night_Squads I found this paragraph below to be especially interesting: It shows that to put down the Palestinian uprising the British had to form an alliance with the Haganah, and in so doing they helped prepare the way for the Zionist victories of 47-8. comradely Gary [The Defence of Palestine: Insurrection and Public Security, 1936-1939 Charles Townshend The English Historical Review<http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.library.uq.edu.au/action/showPublication?journalCode=englhistrevi>, Vol. 103, No. 409 (Oct., 1988), pp. 917-949] * The political dangers of this [a military alliance with the Zionists] were too obvious for it to be seriously contemplated, and the nearest the authorities came to mobilizing the Jews (apart from the bucolic home-guard activities of the Jewish Settle- ment and Supernumary Police) was through the - distinctly subter- ranean - Special Night Squads. The authorities joined the Jews underground, as it were, with strikingly successful results; but they thereby signed the death warrant of the Mandate. By simultaneously breaking up the unstable Palestinian national movement, and fostering mainstream military Zionism (as distinct from the terrorist extremism of the Irgun, Lehi and 'Stern gang'), they not only skewed the symmetry of interests which gave British rule its claim to legitimacy, but went far to create the very force that finally undermined British rule in Pales- tine after I945. (p. 937) * ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: [email protected] Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
