This article explores lingering recollections of a marginalised sphere of participation by Jewish and Arab citizens of Mandatory Palestine in the Allied war effort. During the war, Palestine became a major staging ground for Allied troops in the Middle East. Some 15,000 Jewish and 35,000 Arab workers worked in administrative, construction, catering, and maintenances roles within the newly built army bases. The story of civilian labour in RAF Ein Shemer reveals previously neglected normative and non-normative patterns of inter-communal relations between British soldiers and Jewish and Arab workers on the social, economic, ideological, and romantic levels within the context of a colonial-era military installation.
The article explores the interplay between transnational migration, cultural patrimony and political conflict, tying together the former realms of the Russian and Ottoman Empires. It discusses the role played by Russian Jews in the development of the Zionist-Arab conflict in Palestine until 1948. It focuses on the Northern Sharon, where three distinct immigrant groups -Circassians, Bosnians and Russian Jews -settled in the 1870s-1890s. Methodologically, it adopts a new, twofold, approach to the genesis of the conflict, by tracing its roots within the broader setting of Eurasian transnational migrations to Palestine, and the stricter context of 'locality expressing glocality', that is, of specific colonies and their development under internal pressures and outside interactions. In 1948, prior actions aimed at achieving ethnic homogeneity through coerced population transfers during the disintegration Eurasian imperial polities served as a blueprint for some of the same Zionist immigrants for achieving plurality in their new Jewish State.This article explores the interplay between transnational migrations, cultural patrimony and political conflict, tying together the former realms of the Russian and Ottoman Empires, in the genesis of the Zionist-Arab conflict in Palestine (henceforth the conflict).Most scholars discuss the origins of the conflict from a national-territorial perspective. 1 The post-colonial turn in Middle Eastern Studies and Palestine Studies inspired other scholars to regard the conflict as a colonial dispute between Zionist 'settler-colonists' and Arab-Palestinian 'natives'. 2 In the current article, I suggest that reading the pre-national past in light of national spatial and ideological notions is both constrictive and anachronistic.Transnational and local factors influenced the relations between Jews and their non-Jewish neighbors long before Palestine's borders were charted. Therefore, I argue for the need to look at the evolution of the conflict beyond the national arena. In structuralist terms, I call on scholars to study the conflict from two hierarchical, thematically contradictory, but narrativelyThe Version f Record of this manuscript has been published and is available in Middle Eastern Studies since
The following article summarizes our current knowledge of the history of Tell Mulabbis (in modern Petah Tikva). As a key archaeological site in the Yarkon River basin, it was inhabited during the Roman, Byzantine, Early Islamic, Crusader, Mamluk and Late Ottoman periods. Based on the published results of recent excavations, older scholarship, and hereto-unnoticed written evidence, the article examines and interprets Mulabbis's material culture within the broader contexts of the region's historical geography. Although possessing important advantages like access to water and arable land, the site was inhabited only intermittently due to malaria and changing economic and political circumstances.Within the framework of Ottoman Archaeology, the article suggests the need to pay closer attention to 'recent' archaeological layers. For example, the few Ottoman material remains published so far, testify to continued cultural exchange and economic ties between Mulabbis, the mountainous interior, and the southern parts of Palestine.
Late Ottoman period) of their independent place in Palestinian social, cultural and political history. Although the name of Mulabbis does figure in Palestinian historiography, it is surprising to discover that the history of the village has yet to be studied in any detail. The great Palestinian educator and geographer Mustafa al-Dabbagh, the author of the comprehensive encyclopedia Biladuna Filistin ("Our country of Palestine"), refers to Mulabbis only as a parcel of land (al-buq a al-ma rūfa bi-sm…Mulabbis ʿ ʿ ). 5 Al-Mawsu a al-ʿ Filistiniyya ("The Palestinian Encyclopedia") notes that Mulabbis was an Arab village that preceded the establishment of Petah Tikva, but in contrast to its treatment of most other villages, it does not devote a separate entry to it. 6 Mulabbis is also missing from All That Remains, Walid Khalidi and Sharif al-Musa's book about Palestinian villages depopulated in 1948. 7 As of March 2021, Mulabbis is absent from sites dedicated to the history of depopulated Palestinian villages, such as Palestine Remembered and Zochrot. Nearly nothing is known about the Arab residents of Mulabbis from published Palestinian or Western scholarship, neither is any alternative reading of its past offered. 8 This regretful state of research is illustrative of the rest of the Arab villages fully depopulated during the Ottoman period like al-Mutilla (Metulla), Yamma (Yavniʾel), Masha (Kefar Tavor), Deiran (Rehovot), Karkur, al-Burj and al-Zurghaniyya (Binyamina), al-Marah (Givʿat ʿAda), al-Khudeira (Hadera), Dardara (Gan Shemuʾel), Umm al-Tut (Bat Shelomo), Shfeyya and Zummarin (Zichron Yaʿakov) (see figure 1). As part of Jewish stateenforced regimes of truth, control of knowledge, and public remembrance, the physical remains of many Palestinian villages had been expunged, and archival sources pertaining to them, and to their inhabitants' expulsion, had been closed for access by Israeli authorities. 9
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