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Wahed’s experience was nearly universal among Arab Jews. The rise of Arab nationalism in the mid-20th century was accompanied by virulent anti-Semitism in the Arab world. Many Arab leaders openly supported the genocide carried out by the Nazis. Hajj Amin al-Husayni, a Palestinian nationalist leader and the Mufti of Jerusalem, went to Berlin in 1941 and asked Hitler to “resolve the problem of the Jewish elements in Palestine and the other Arab countries in the same way as the problem was resolved in the Axis Countries...
This denial, unfortunately, permeates the rhetoric of the Palestinian leadership, both of the official Palestinian National Authority, and of the unofficial leaders in Hamas and Fatah. As Faysal Husayni, the leader of al-Fatah, says, the Palestinians’ advantage over the Israelis is that they are more dedicated to their cause: “We are willing to die, but for them every death is a tragedy.” This declaration is often repeated, and it would be a brave statement coming from a suicide bomber—since it shows a greater devotion to the Palestinian cause...
Arafat opens with the 1929 Wailing Wall riots in Jerusalem which began an era of escalating violence and established the reign of terror of Hajj Amin al-Husayni, Grand Mufti (Muslim religious leader) of Jerusalem, the extremist leader who created "the Palestinian problem" by rejecting moderation and sowing intra-Arab dissension prior to the founding of Israel. The turbulent childhood of Rahman al-Qudwa (in later life Yasir Arafat) is shadowed by Palestinian fear and hostility to a growing influx of foreign Jews; it is the conflict between opposing reactions to this threat which marks young Rahman's coming...
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