“The central issue” my grandfather referred to was that Palestinians were fighting against British colonialism, and they perceived European Jewish nationalism as part and parcel of that colonialism. Palestinians viewed Jewish nationalism as precluding their independence, equality, and freedom in their own homeland. Tragically, they were prophetic. Almost one hundred years after the Buraq Uprising, “the central issue” remains the same today, although the players have different names. The British have left, the Zionists have become Israelis, but the tensions which persist today are based on the
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