industrial zones belonging and adjacent to Haifa and the opening of the new Haifa Port in 1932.91 However, this improvement was clearly biased towards Zionist interests; even the opening of the port itself stemmed purely from colonial grounds, without accounting for existing local interests in Palestine. This situation generated substantial outrage and escalation of the revolutionary cultural tide among Palestinian communities, which culminated in the Palestinian revolt of 1936-1939. Known as the Great Arab Revolt of 1936-1939, it was a Palestinian-led nationalist uprising against the British administration of the Palestine Mandate and the encroaching Zionist colonial project in Palestine. The Palestinian people demanded independence from British rule, an end to British policies that facilitated open-ended Zionist-Jewish colonization, and a halt to Zionist land purchases with a stated goal of establishing a Jewish national home. As such, this revolution erupted in response to the protection and empowerment that British rule afforded Zionist-Jewish populations at the expense of Palestinian farmers, workers, and intellectuals. 92 However, the severe British response to quell the revolts, only further exacerbated tensions between Palestinians and Zionist-Jews. The Zionist-Jewish upper class were the first to take advantage of the Palestinian revolution, utilizing the increased British suppression of Palestinian communities to complete projects that would not have been accomplished under different circumstances. The Zionist leadership, for instance, reached an agreement with British leaders to recruit approximately 700 Zionist patrols for the “Palestine Police Railway Network” in order to protect and safeguard the railway lines as rails constituted a focal point for revolutionary activities. 93 Through this, Zionist leaders did not only become a direct force in quelling the Palestinian revolution, but they also fortified their military presence through strengthening their very own Zionist military organization, the Haganah, by training recruits. This then laid the foundations for the development of the Haganah in preparation for the Nakba. It is therefore not coincidental that one of the objectives that emerged in Plan Dalet was for the Haganah to help create geographical continuity between various new Zionist-Jewish colonies scattered throughout the Galilee, expel its native people, and 91 Id., 156. 92 Ghassan Kanafani, supra 76. See also al-Sharbeni, supra 76. 93 Mansour, supra 60, 163-176. 31