Palestinian Arabs and Zionism in the Late Nineteenth Century

The rich urban arab notables, they actually didn't mind jewish imigration for the most part. The vast majority of palestinian arabs had lives that were just as difficult and oppressive as anything the jews faced in the russian empire. These were the people on whom zionism landed the hardest. They were universally thought to be agents of european colonial powers. So during the first world war britain comes to the arabs encourages sherif husain and hashamites to rise up against the ottoman empire. And it was clear that they were gunning for that too. Morocco, algeria, tunesia, libya, egypt