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Article: Druze and Jews in the war of 1948. (Israel-Arab War of 1948-49)
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- Middle Eastern Studies
- Article date:
- April 1, 1995
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The relations between the Palestinian Druze and the Yishuv (the Jewish community in Palestine) commenced after the riots of 1929. They consolidated during the Palestinian rebellion in 1936-39 and the early years of the Second World War. Embracing Jabal Druze, they were part of the Jewish Agency's attempts at cultivating contacts with Middle Eastern minority groups. This policy ventured to balance Arab hostility through a friendly 'minorities block', but these groups were rivals and too weak to meet the Agency's expectations.(1)
The Arab-Jewish tension in Palestine calmed down after 1942. Simultaneously, frictions between the Yishuv and the Palestine Government ...