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The assault achieved initial surprise on the colony which normally has about 700 inhabitants, mostly young men and women students...</small></blockquote></ref>
The assault achieved initial surprise on the colony which normally has about 700 inhabitants, mostly young men and women students...</small></blockquote></ref>
==1937==
When the 1936 Arab riots (revolt) began, the ''Falastin'' was on the Nashashibi side.
Kabaha writes:<ref>Kabaha, Mustafa. The Palestinian Press as Shaper of Public Opinion 1929-39: Writing Up a Storm. United Kingdom: Vallentine Mitchell, 2007, [https://books.google.com/books?id=QSgmAQAAMAAJ&q=%22Sole%20leader%22 p. 209].</ref><blockquote>If we perceive the
press as a means of expressing contemporary Palestinian sentiments, we find that the traditional opponents of the mufti in the press, headed by the newspaper Filastin, which was long considered the journal of the mufti's opponents, displayed their support of him, stating that he was their sole leader and that his acts embodied the wishes of the Palestinian people. 'Issa al- 'Issa wrote in an editorial: All Palestinian Arabs are united in their hearts, with no political or ethnic differences. If an individual or a group suffer for the good of the homeland, the entire homeland suffers with them. Some of our leaders have been taken from us. They have been distanced from us but this brought them closer to our hearts...</blockquote>
In late 1937, ''the editor of Filastin announced his resignation from the Nashashibi's Defence Party.''<ref>Cohen, Michael J. Britain's Moment in Palestine: Retrospect and Perspectives, 1917-1948. United Kingdom: Taylor & Francis, 2014, p. 385.</ref>
==1938: Falastin proclaims Arab Boycott of U.S.==
==1938: Falastin proclaims Arab Boycott of U.S.==
[[File:Falastin proclaims boycott against US - 1938.jpg|thumb|Falastin proclaims boycott against US (Oct. 1938)]]
[[File:Falastin proclaims boycott against US - 1938.jpg|thumb|Falastin proclaims boycott against US (Oct. 1938)]]