The Crusades of the Middle East

The arab notables, who had been palestine's nominal leadership class for quite a while now, seemed happy to let it all happen. By end of the 19 twenties, thousands and thousands of formerly independent arab farmers are living in filthy shanty towns on the outskirts of cities like hifa. The older shiks were among these notables who increasingly seemed to be either impotent at best or collaborators at worst. And so when right winged zionis began marching on the temple mount declaring the area to be the rightful property of the jews, that was all ta spark that the powder kag needed to blow up.