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Chapter 4
The Revolt and the Iron Fist
For three years Palestinians rose up against British rule, and Britain crushed them with a thoroughness that is hard to read about. By 1939 the revolt was over, and Palestine had been left leaderless, disarmed and exhausted, exactly nine years before it would need to defend itself.
Chapter 3
Twenty Years of Warnings Nobody Wanted
America sent a commission to ask Palestinians what they wanted. They answered clearly, the report was filed away, and nothing changed. From the British Mandate to the three young men hanged at Acre prison in 1930, this is the story of a country being warned and ignored.