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...Hussein beat out Ragheb Bey Nashashibi for the mayoralty of Jerusalem which he had held for 14 years. The Hussein had had the votes of Jerusalem Jews. The enraged Nashashibi plotted a great Arab revolt against Jewish immigration to win Arab leadership from the head of Husseini, Haj Amin el Husseini, president of the Moslem Supreme Council and, as Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, spiritual leader of Palestine Moslems. The point was that the Grand Mufti, in the event of an Arab revolt, must either give up his Arab following or lose the high office he holds with British support. Last...
...were promised $15 a day, plus food and loot, for attacks on Palestine Jews. The last payment of which the paper professed knowledge was a lump sum of $25,000. To whom it went the paper did not say, but many British fingers pointed privately to fuzzy-chinned Haj Amin el Husseini, Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and president of the Arab Supreme Council. A sincere Arab patriot, fuzzy Haj Amin has no particular love for Italy but would probably accept help from anyone who would help him keep the Jews from his native land. The Grand Mufti was admittedly responsible...
...Arab leaders, heretofore hopelessly disunited, proceeded to join forces under Mufti Haj Amin el Husseini and declare a general strike...