The Palestinian Marxist Ghassan Kanafani, in his famous study of the Great Arab Revolt of 1936–9, and its defeat, theorised the regional and international character of the Palestinian struggle through the alliance of enemies it faced. Reflecting on the Palestinian uprising under the British Mandate, he wrote ‘between 1936 and 1939, the Palestinian revolutionary movement suffered a severe setback at the hands of three separate enemies’. This tripartite enemy constituted and remained ‘t...
