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Notes
1. A Senseless Squalid War follows several new Israeli titles on the 1948 war. They include Benny Morris, 1948: A History of the First Arab–Israeli War (2008) and Efraim Karsh, The Arab–Israeli Conflict: The Palestine 1948 War (2002). Interestingly, while ‘New Historian’ Benny Morris and ‘Zionist Revisionist’ Efraim Karsh are highly critical of each other's work on the subject, neither has attacked A Senseless Squalid War.
2. Al Sakakini petitioned Constantinople in 1891 for an end to immigration and land sales to Jews. The Jewish population rose from 15,000–34,000 circa 1888 to 85,000 circa 1914.
3. In 1901, Zangwill wrote that ‘Palestine is a country without a people; the Jews are a people without a country.’
4. The Weizmann–Faysal accord of 1918 set out grounds for political and economic cooperation to put into effect the 1917 Balfour Declaration. Rose notes the role that T. E. Lawrence (‘Lawrence of Arabia’) played in the peace initiative. Lawrence translated Faysal's condition: no changes to the deal or it may be off.
5. In 1946, members of an Anglo-American Committee of Enquiry on Palestine (AAC) visited the DP camps. After hearing accounts of survivors, the ACC was amenable to the ultimately successful Zionists arguments that Palestine offered to impoverished Jews, living ‘without a country, without homes’ in DP camps, the ‘hope of a better life’. Meanwhile, the Mufti's cousin, Jamal al-Husayni, offered self-defeating testimony defending the Mufti's well-documented collaboration with the Nazis. The AAC recommended the immediate admission of 100,000 Jews to Palestine and that land sale restrictions should be lifted.