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The neighbouring Arab state whose regime, led by Amir Abdullah, Kanafani singles out among the Surrounding Arab Regimes: it mediated the revolt’s end, was represented inside the Palestinian movement by the National Defence Party, suppressed its own support movement, and in 1939 handed a revolt leader over to the British.

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  • An editor’s note in the text identifies Transjordan as the East Bank of the River Jordan, while the West Bank is part of Palestine (footnote 20, The 1936-39 Revolt in Palestine, PDF p.23 / printed p.44).
  • Amir Abdullah of Transjordan and Nuri al-Said began mediating with the Arab Higher Committee in the summer of 1936, an initiative that failed at first and succeeded completely in October 1936 (The 1936-39 Revolt in Palestine, PDF p.23 / printed p.44-45).
  • The Arab regimes, especially that of Transjordan, strongly supported the right wing of the Palestinian leadership led by the Defence Party (The 1936-39 Revolt in Palestine, PDF p.24 / printed p.46-47).
  • The Transjordan Frontier Force is counted among the forces Britain used against the revolt, alongside two divisions of troops, air squadrons, the police and the 6,000-strong quasi-Zionist force (The 1936-39 Revolt in Palestine, PDF p.26 / printed p.50-51).
  • Kanafani names the attitude of Transjordan, as embodied in the subservient regime led by the Amir Abdullah, as one of two interconnected factors that played a prominent role in frustrating the revolt, and calls the National Defence Party that regime’s legal representative in the Palestinian movement (The 1936-39 Revolt in Palestine, PDF p.27 / printed p.52-53).
  • Transjordan suppressed its own popular support movement for the revolt, closed the roads to Iraq, and in 1939 handed over Yusuf Abu Durrar (also spelled Abu Daur) to the British, who executed him (The 1936-39 Revolt in Palestine, PDF p.27-28 / printed p.52-55).
  • The Kirkuk-Haifa oil pipeline was guarded in Jordanian territory by Shaikh Turki ibn Zain of the Bani Sakhr (The 1936-39 Revolt in Palestine, PDF p.30 / printed p.58-59).

The 1936-39 Revolt in Palestine, Amir Abdullah, Surrounding Arab Regimes, National Defence Party, 1936-39 Revolt in Palestine

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