It was the autumn of 1938 and UK forces were facing a rebellion in Palestine, under British control after the defeat two decades earlier of the Ottoman Empire. Britain's raid on al-Bassa was part ...

Mahdi Azouz notes how the resistance has disrupted Israel's once formidable military force and shattered the myth of its ...

With Russia no longer officially Christian, and not even a member of the League, Roman Catholic influence would be predominant and Greek privileges would almost certainly be curtailed. . . The British ...

With hostilities growing between Jews and Arabs and between the Zionist militias and the British army, Britain decided it was time to relinquish its mandate and get out of Palestine. It handed the ...