Hillel Cohen refers to 1929 as Year Zero of the Arab-Israeli Conflict. He goes so far as to state that ‘it is impossible to understand Jewish-Arab relations in the Land of Israel–Palestine without understanding the events of 1929.’

Notes:

Palestinians: Do you know about the 1929 Hebron massacre?, Ask and Israeli/Asl a Palestinian Project:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x30iRfVku1M

One Palestine, Complete: Jews and Arabs Under the British Mandate, by Tom Segev: http://tinyurl.com/527xn4sf

Year Zero of the Arab-Israeli Conflict 1929, by Hillel Cohen: https://www.jewishbookcouncil.org/book/year-zero-of-the-arab-israeli-conflict-1929

Seeing the Light: Holy Land, August 1929, by Vincent Sheean:

https://www.wrmea.org/from-our-archives/seeing-the-light-holy-land-august-1929.html