Status Updates From The Revolution of 1936-1939...

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“Ghassan Kanafani paid great attention to the great Revolution of 1936-1939… because he recognized that it was the defeat of that revolution that paved the way for the occurrence of the Palestinian Nakba in 1948.”

“the trinity of enemies - Zionist colonization, the British Mandate, and Arab reactionary forces locally [feudal landowners] and regionally [Arab regimes]“

“a colonizer who cannot accept the humanity of the colonized, because, like the clarity of a polished mirror, it forces him to confront his own inhumanity.” - foreword

“[the 1967 war] also created a new mechanism for imperialist invasion and aggression in the region, marking the first time a United Nations (UN) member state would justify initiating military conflict using the threat of anticipated attack; a tactic indispensable to the imperialist playbook in the region still today.”