
Palestine 1936
The Great Revolt and the Roots of the Middle East Conflict
Failed to add items
Add to Cart failed.
Add to Wish List failed.
Remove from wishlist failed.
Adding to library failed
Follow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
3 months free
Buy for $21.49
No default payment method selected.
We are sorry. We are not allowed to sell this product with the selected payment method
-
Narrated by:
-
Shawn K. Jain
-
By:
-
Oren Kessler
In spring 1936, the Holy Land erupted in a rebellion that targeted both the local Jewish community and the British Mandate authorities. The Great Arab Revolt would last three years, cost thousands of lives, and cast the trajectory for the Middle East conflict. The revolt was the crucible in which Palestinian identity coalesced, uniting all in a single struggle for independence. Yet the rebellion would ultimately turn on itself. British forces' aggressive counterinsurgency took care of the rest, finally quashing the uprising on the eve of World War II.
To the Jews, the insurgency would leave a very different legacy. It was then that Zionist leaders began to abandon illusions over Arab acquiescence, to face the prospect that fulfilling their dream of sovereignty might mean forever clinging to the sword. The revolt saw thousands of Jews trained and armed by Britain. This is the story of two national movements and the first sustained confrontation between them. The rebellion was Arab, but the Zionist counter-rebellion—the Jews' transformation—is a vital element in how Palestine became Israel. Today, the revolt's legacy endures.
Palestine 1936 is the origin story of the world's most intractable conflict, but it is also more than that. It reveals world-changing events through extraordinary individuals on all sides.
©2023 Oren Kessler (P)2024 TantorListeners also enjoyed...




















People who viewed this also viewed...


















Interesting to get a detailed account of those days in Palestine before WWII and to meet several Palestinians and Arabs that are no longer well known today.
Great background to today’s Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
The more things change, the more they stay the same
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Multiple perspectives
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Fascinating and well researched
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Fascinating pre-play of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
there is contant striff
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Good content, abysmal reader
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Connects past and present.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Important history-Horrible narration
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Fascinating story
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.