The end of Arab Tiberias
The Arabs of Tiberias and the Battle for the City in 1948
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12016352 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mustafa Abbasi (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 6-29 |
| Publication date | 2008-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Palestine Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0377-919X • E-ISSN: 1533-8614 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1525/jps.2008.37.3.6 |
| OpenAlex | W2009219681 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
Tiberias was unique among Palestinian mixed cities for its unusually harmonious Arab-Jewish relations, even during periods of extreme tension like the 1936--39 Arab Revolt. Yet within hours of a brief battle in mid-April 1948, the town's entire Arab population was removed, mostly across the Transjordanian border, making Tiberias a wholly Jewish town overnight. In exploring how this took place, this article focuses on the Arab community's rigid social structure; the leadership's policy of safeguarding intercommunal relations at all costs, heightening local unpreparedness and isolating the town from the rest of Arab Palestine; the growing involvement of the local Jewish community with the Haganah's plans; and the British authorities' virtual abdication of responsibility as they began withdrawing their troops in the last month of the Mandate and as Plan Dalet was launched, engulfing the country in all-out war
Abdication · Ancient history · Archaeology · Battle · Chechen · Geography · Judaism · Mandate · Political science · Politics · Population · Safeguarding · Sociology · Demography · History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Medicine · Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts · Public Administration
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,27 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2017 (7) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |