British collective punishment, increasing British military deployments to Palestine, especially after the British did the disgraceful Munich deal with Hitler in 1938 which freed up considerable military forces, and the impact of combined British and Jewish intelligence, made fighting and beating the Arab Revolt so much easier.

As I have demonstrated over many programmes, the Muslim population in Palestine, were overwhelmingly citizens of other countries and not people who were born in the land area comprising the British Mandate of Palestine.

That naturally lent itself to gaining considerable intelligence from the Muslims. Instead of fighting the British, the Muslims in the British Mandate were more naturally inclined to fight each other. Disciplined guerrilla organisations avoid that pitfall, but the Muslim revolt was not remotely a disciplined organisation.

This one story tells just how outclassed the Muslims were in this fight with the British, with the aid of Jewish intelligence. The Jews were bugging conversations in the Grand Mufti’s ultra secure, impregnable, residence that the British Army was reluctant to attack because of the strength of the position.

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