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Politics : Middle East Politics
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To: maceng2 who wrote (633)1/23/2002 3:51:19 PM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (2) of 6945
 
Well, all sorts of problems there. Some nutball Zionists probably didn't help matters either.

At the time of partition, the Arab proposal for Palestine was that the Jews remain a subject people in a united Palestine run by the Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al Husseini.

Husseini was a leader who had risen to power in the 20s and 30s by fomenting such extremism against the Jews that the British ambassador in Transjordan compared him to the Red Queen in Alice in Wonderland, who had to keep running faster and faster just to keep up; the Mufti had to keep getting more and more extreme to satisfy the emotions he had stirred up. The Mufti had consolidated his rise to power by assassinating about 2000 of his opponents. Prominent Palestinian Arabs who favored compromise were assassinated and the others learned to shut up for their own good. The Mufti was behind the Arab riots of '20, the Hebron massacre of '29, the Arab Revolt of '36. The British finally kicked the Mufti out in '36. The Mufti put his trust in Hitler, raised a couple of battalions of Muslims for the Waffen SS, and spent WWII in Germany, where he made it his personal business to ensure that no Jew escaped the Final Solution to go to Palestine.

This was the leader the Arabs proposed for Palestine. I submit that nutcase Zionists were not really the cause of the problem. The Arab leadership utterly rejected the idea of partition, and they were not looking for mutually acceptable solutions.
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