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Most of the decade of the 1920s in Palestine was calm. After the disturbances of 1920 and 1921, inter-communal tensions declined, and British authority was exercised with remarkably little reliance on force. But in the last year of the decade, the tranquil surface was abruptly shattered, and the Administration was caught by surprise as a new era of tension and conflict began.
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AIR 5/1234, copy of despatch no. 107, 15 May 1921, from the High Commissioner to the Colonial Secretary, Winston Churchill; Christopher Sykes, Crossroads to Israel (Bloomington/London: Indiana University Press, 1973), originally published 1965, p. 51; Palestine: Disturbances in May 1921. Reports of the Commission of Inquiry (Haycraft), 1921, Cmd 1540. The Commission found no evidence of organization behind the riots, which were characterized as spontaneous. But Porath, op.cit., Vol. I, pp. 129–131, has some evidence concerning leadership and the deliberate spreading of false rumours which places, this view in question.
Harry Charles Luke and Edward Keith-Roach (eds), The Handbook of Palestine and Trans-Jordan (London: Macmillan, 1930), p. 424. The Assembly consisted of 16 elected members and four officials. The 16 elected members included 9 Muslims, 3 Christians, 2 Caucasians, and 2 Beduin.
See also Uriel Dann, Studies in the History of Transjordan, 1920–1949 (Boulder and London: Westview Press, 1984), pp. 8–9.
Yehuda Taggar, The Mufti of Jerusalem and Palestine Arab Politics, 1930–1937 (New York and London: Garland, 1986), pp. 69–70.
Mattar, Philip, The Mufti of Jerusalem: Al-Hajj Amin al-Husayni and the Palestinian National Movement (New York: Columbia University Press, 1988), pp. 37, 40–1.
Yehuda Slutsky, et al., History of the Haganah (Hebrew), Summary Volume, Israel Ministry of Defence, 1984, pp. 139–40; Kisch, Palestine Diary, pp. 276–7.
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Kolinsky, M. (1993). The Issue of the Western Wall. In: Law, Order and Riots in Mandatory Palestine, 1928–35. Macmillan’s Studies in Military and Strategic History. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230375659_3
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