The Arab-Kabyle split was the F.L.N.’s chief nightmare exploited by the French.

Evidence

Nevertheless, in that hard-pressed summer of 1957 the Si Chérif affair opened up to the F.L.N. one of its greatest latent nightmares: the prospect of a sectarian split between Arabs and Kabyles. It was an opportunity for which French intelligence was constantly, and obviously, on the look out. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 697

Categorization

• XREF: Internal ethnic division as leverage fits the reader’s interest in how colonial powers fought back against the independence movement. — connects to: Si Chérif’s Arab-Kabyle feud defected a whole katiba to the French; The F.L.N. feared a sectarian Arab-Kabyle split exploit by the French.; French colonial policy deliberately divided Kabyle against Arab populations — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 150

Related

• The F.L.N. feared a sectarian Arab-Kabyle split exploit by the French. (similarity 0.97)
• Si Chérif’s Arab-Kabyle feud defected a whole katiba to the French (similarity 0.93)
• French colonial policy deliberately divided Kabyle against Arab populations (similarity 0.87)
• Arab-Kabyle rivalry forced collective revolutionary leadership from the start (similarity 0.84)
• Colonial divide-and-rule pitted Kabyles against Arabs in Algeria (similarity 0.83)
• Kabyle-Arab rivalry forced the FLN into a collective leadership without a supreme chief (similarity 0.81)
• The Algiers defeat exposed a fatal interior-exterior rift in F.L.N. leadership (similarity 0.80)
• The F.L.N.’s Algiers urban operations failed almost entirely on the opening night (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• French colonial policy deliberately divided Kabyle against Arab populations #corroborates (0.70) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 150