Most literature of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is written within the paradigm of the wider conflict that stretches to the present-day, but they often don't really focus on how Jews and Palestinians lived together in the Land of Israel/Land of Palestine before the major troubles of 1936-1948 (Palestinian Intifada to the Arab-Israeli War).
So I was wondering if any of you know any first-hand accounts by Jews or Palestinians, chronicling the events as they were unfolding themselves. Because I'm sure those would describe daily interactions between Jews and Palestinians. Biographies published before 1948 would also be interesting. Do these exist? I don't speak Arabic or Hebrew so that's a bit of a language barrier there, but English, French or Dutch would be okay. Thank you!
Below is a link to a memoir from someone who served as a British Officer in Palestine from 1945 to 1948. He kept a diary, was a witness to key events and had extensive contacts with both Jews and Arabs. Not easy to find a book of this kind. It is called "A ONCE AND PAST LOVE: PALESTINE 1947, ISRAEL 1948 A MEMOIR"
According to its author, the book's purpose was:
"to place on record the main tasks and achievements of 6th Airborne Division between September, 1945, and April, 1948, in Palestine, where, in an atmosphere of hatred and violence, the Division was faced with a responsibility in many respects more unpleasant and difficult to carry out than any it had to fulfill in war."
http://www.northwestern.edu/african-studies/docs/special-publications/WILKS%20PAPER-8-9-11.pdf