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I’m an incorrigible Anglophile so probably somewhere in England, sometime in olden times. I’d have to think about it.
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Palestine 1936: The Great Revolt and the Roots of the Middle East Conflict
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Палестина 1936: «Великое восстание» и корни ближневосточного конфликта
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My first post is a two-part exploration of my late grandfather Dr. Arthur Kessler’s concentration-camp diary of the Romanian Holocaust, published just last month by Rochester Studies in East and Central Europe, a series edited by the great Timothy Snyder…
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An unparalleled, beautifully realized portrait of the first years of British rule in Palestine — and so much else. TE Lawrence called Storrs “the most brilliant Englishman in the East.” Read this book to understand why. |
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“On that system and by that faith there has been built out of the wreck of the Roman Empire the whole of our existing civilization.52”
― Palestine 1936: The Great Revolt and the Roots of the Middle East Conflict
― Palestine 1936: The Great Revolt and the Roots of the Middle East Conflict
“But Wauchope also took the Mandate’s “dual obligation” seriously. Soon after arriving in Jerusalem, he concluded that he needed an Arab—astute, discreet, and independent of mind and loyalties—among his advisors. He found one in Musa Alami, whom he named as a personal secretary for Arab affairs on the first day of 1933.67 For Alami, who had begun his civil service career under Bentwich, the appointment was the second time he would report to a senior official wholly committed to the Jewish national home. Wauchope was a rich bachelor with no need for a salary: Alami believed he probably spent far more than he was paid. An aristocrat and a humanist, his passions were music, theater, and books—not least the Bible. Alami could hardly find a single text on Palestine with which Wauchope was not acquainted.”
― Palestine 1936: The Great Revolt and the Roots of the Middle East Conflict
― Palestine 1936: The Great Revolt and the Roots of the Middle East Conflict
“The unfortunate thing for Zionism—and herein lies the tragedy of the Palestine problem—is that Great Britain’s promise lacks real validity,” he wrote”
― Palestine 1936: The Great Revolt and the Roots of the Middle East Conflict
― Palestine 1936: The Great Revolt and the Roots of the Middle East Conflict