Arab-Jewish ‘neighbourly relations’ in rural Mandatory Palestine: the case of Khirbat ʿAzzun – Raʿanana
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This article explores Arab-Jewish intercommunal interactions in Rural Mandatory Palestine. The relations between Zionist settlers and Arab inhabitants in Palestine is an oft-told story of mostly-tense encounters that peaked in the War of 1948 and the Nakba. Starting with the settlement of the Arab villagers of Khirbat ʿAzzun and the Zionist colonists of Raʿanana in Palestine’s coastal plain, this article offers close, mutually contradictory yet complementary perspectives on these neighborly interactions. Such micro-historic inspection casts a focused light on the fine threads that made up the fabric of Arab-Zionist relations in Palestine’s extensive rural areas during the decades before the Nakba and the foundation of the State of Israel. It shows how common interests encouraged dynamic instability and delicate coexistence, while considerable gaps triggered confrontations. These confrontations, however, were a local matter, not a national one, unpleasant but bearable in the context of rural intercommunal interactions in Palestine’s changing countryside.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.022 | 0.010 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".