Prince Carol, who had served as an…

...Jaffa are the largest and economically most important Arab towns.

Gustav Bauernfeind, a native of Germany and lifelong (as it turns out) Orientalist genre painter, met his future wife in Jaffa in 1884 and later painted this scene from the city’s market:

...the Palestinian journal Al-Karmil is founded in Haifa to oppose Zionist colonization.

The first Palestinian newspapers appear in 1908: al-Asma'i in Jaffa, and ...

...Al-Quds in Jerusalem.

In 1908 also, ...

The Arab Women's organization is founded in Jaffa in 1910.

Palestinian journalist Najib Nassar publishes the first book in Arabic on Zionism, entitled Zionism: Its History, Objectives and Importance, in January 1911.

The following month, the Palestinian newspaper Filastin begins addressing its readers as "Palestinians" and warns them about the consequences of Zionist colonization.

The pages of the several Arabic newspapers that had appeared in Palestine before 1914 pages reveal that Arab nationalism and opposition to Zionism are strong among some sections of the intelligentsia even before the Great War.

The Arabs seek an end to Jewish immigration and to land purchases by Zionists.

The population of Palestine, predominantly agricultural, is about six hundred and ninety thousand in 1914 (five hundred and thirty-five thousand Muslims; seventy thousand Christians, most of whom are Arabs; and eighty-five thousand Jews).

The anticipated break-up of the enfeebled Ottoman Empire on the eve of the Great War raises hopes among both Zionists and Arab nationalists.

The Zionists hope to attain support from one of the Great Powers for increased Jewish immigration and eventual sovereignty in Palestine, whereas the Arab nationalists want an independent Arab state covering all the Ottoman Arab domains.

From a purely demographic standpoint, the Zionist argument is not very strong—in 1914, they comprise only twelve percent of the total population of Palestine.

The nationalist ideal, however, is weak among the Arabs, and even among articulate Arabs competing visions of Arab nationalism—Islamic, pan-Arab, and statism—inhibit coordinated efforts to achieve independence.

The Turkish forces are split in two divergent groups by November 14, the port of Jaffa is taken, and Allenby wheels his main force to the right for an advance inland on Jerusalem.

The first Islamic-Christian Association is established in Jaffa, headed by Haj Ragheb Abu Suud Al-Dajani, in May 1918.