Hillel Cohen, “Army of Shadows,” Showing Regular Palestinian Arab Collaboration With Zionists Before Israel

By Hillel Cohen

Army of Shadows, University of California Press, 2009. The concluding chapter, pages 259 to 267, is presented with the permission of the author, given in June 2024.

Irrefutable evidence shows Palestinian Arab collaboration with Zionists during the British Mandate greatly assisted Jewish state building. Cohen further asserts a general absence among Palestinians of a sense of national feeling, with loyalties instead tied to families, villages and other localities. These are Cohen’s conclusions.