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Summary

The Zionist executive body that appears in Kanafani’s military chapters in two supporting roles: appointing the second in command of each Quasi-Police Force group, and raising the numbers of the Zionist railway defence.

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  • Each of the ten well-armed Colony Police groups organised at the beginning of 1939, totalling 14,411 men, was commanded by a British officer assisted by a second in command appointed by the Jewish Agency (The 1936-39 Revolt in Palestine, PDF p.29 / printed p.56-57).

  • The Zionist defence of the Haifa-Ludd railway numbered 434 men in spring 1938; only six months later the Jewish Agency had succeeded in raising their numbers to 800 (The 1936-39 Revolt in Palestine, PDF p.30 / printed p.58-59).

  • In Sayegh’s account, Britain recognised the World Zionist Organization as a representative Jewish Agency, among the first conditions it created for Zionist colonisation (Zionist Colonialism in Palestine, PDF p.7 / printed p.212).

  • Sayegh names the Jewish Agency among the bodies that vigilantly ensured only Jewish labor was employed in Zionist colonies (Zionist Colonialism in Palestine, PDF p.11 / printed p.216).

  • In Pappe the Agency was the Zionist governing body in Palestine whose military arm the Haganah became, and which in the end developed and then implemented the plans for the military takeover of Palestine and the ethnic cleansing of its native population (The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, PDF p.40).

  • It was to the Jewish Agency Executive that David Ben-Gurion said in June 1938, “I am for compulsory transfer; I do not see anything immoral in it.” (The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, PDF p.14)

  • A few months after the August 1946 Paris meeting the Agency translated Ben-Gurion’s ‘large chunk of Palestine’ into a map distributed to everyone relevant to the future of Palestine, envisaging a Jewish state that anticipated almost to the last dot pre-1967 Israel (The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, PDF p.50).

The 1936-39 Revolt in Palestine, Quasi-Police Force, Haifa, Zionism, Haganah

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