The Munich agreement has permitted the British…

The Munich agreement has permitted the British to send sufficient military force to crush the revolt in Palestine, which they do with considerable brutality.

Although the revolt continues well into 1939, high casualty rates and firm British measures have gradually eroded its strength.

According to some estimates, more than five thousand Arabs have been killed, fifteen thousand wounded, and fifty-six hundred imprisoned during the revolt. (Although it signifies the birth of a national identity, the revolt is unsuccessful in many ways. The general strike has encouraged Zionist self-reliance, and the Arabs of Palestine will be unable to recover from their sustained effort of defying the British administration.)

Their traditional leaders have been either killed, arrested, or deported, leaving the dispirited and disarmed population divided along urban and rural, class, clan, and religious lines.