Independence Party (Mandatory Palestine)
Independence Party | |
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| Slogan | "England is the root of the illness and the basis of all disaster" (rhyming in Arabic: Inkilitira asl al-da’ w-asas kul bila’)[1] |
The Independence Party of Palestine (Hizb al-Istiqlal) was an
Its origins lay in the Istiqlal movement associated with the short-lived Sharifian government in Damascus.[6]
The party's creation was spurred by the
The party reached its maximum influence, especially among the young and the educated, in the first half of 1933, and then declined very rapidly. Among the factors responsible for its decline were the active hostility of the Husayni camp, the lack of financial resources. A distinctive mark of the party was its espousal of the idea that British imperialism was the principal enemy of the Palestinians; thus the party urged them to focus their struggle not simply on Zionism, but on British colonialism as well.[9]
Istiqlal was represented on the first
See also
Notes
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- ^ Choueiri, 2000, p. 93.
- ^ Kedourie, 1974, p. 52.
- ^ Hassassian, 1990, p. 129.
- ^ Survey. p.949
- ^ Pappé, 1999, p. 147.
- ^ Bashir Abu-Manneh, In Palestine, a Dream Deferred Archived 2009-05-27 at the Wayback Machine, The Nation, December 18, 2006.
- ^ Khalidi, 2001, p. 25.
- ^ Porath, Yehoshua. The Emergence of the Palestinian-Arab National Movement, 1918 - 1929. London: Cass, 1974.
- ^ Khalidi, 1997, p. 220.
- ^ Text of decree in Haim Levenberg, Military Preparations of the Arab Community in Palestine 1945-1948, Frank Cass London, 1993, p. 7.
References
- Choueiri, Youssef M. (2000). Arab Nationalism: Nation and State in the Arab World. Oxford: Blackwell. ISBN 0-631-21729-0
- Hassassian, Manuel Sarkis (1990). Palestine: Factionalism in the National Movement, 1919-1939. Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs.
- Kedourie, Elie (1974). Arabic Political Memoirs and Other Studies. London: Routledge. ISBN 0-7146-3041-1
- Khalidi, Rashid (1997). Palestinian Identity: The Construction of Modern National Consciousness. Columbia University Press. ISBN 0-231-10514-2
- Khalidi, Rashid (2001). The Palestinians and 1948: the underlying causes of failure. In Eugene L. Rogan and Avi Shlaim (Eds.). The War for Palestine: Rewriting the History of 1948(pp. 12–36). Cambridge. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-79476-5
- Pappé, Ilan (1999). The Israel/Palestine Question. London: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-16947-X
- A Survey of Palestine - prepared in December 1945 and January 1946 for the information of the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry. Reprinted 1991 by the Institute of Palestine Studies, Washington. Volume II. ISBN 0-88728-214-8.
