The Movement of Sheikh Izz Ad-Din Al-Qassam and Its Impact on the National Palestinian Movement

Abstract

The paper sheds light on the British control overPalestine and its role in supporting the establishment ofthe Zionist state.The National Palestinian Movement's situation ofthe British support to the establishment of the Zioniststate in Palestine had been divided into two parts. Thefirst part believed in the necessity of encountering theZionist Movement solely, and to trying to win Britain tothe side of the Arab right or eliminate it at least.The second part believed that Britain and theZionist Movement were two sides of one coin therefore,they should be faced together, and to focus on Britainparticularly. The most prominent leader of this part wasSheikh Izz Al-Din Al-Qassam who worked out amilitary organisation for that task. He declared anarmed revolution against the British control overPalestine in 1935. That revolution convinced the othernationalists in the necessity of the military actionagainst Britain and the Zionist Movement hence, SheikhIzz Al-Din Al-Qassam Movement was the real initiatorof the great Palestinian revolution