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Considered the money-dispensing leader of Arab terrorists, Haj Amin el Husseini, Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, remained in exile in nearby French-mandated Lebanon. But in London the much respected Times blared forth against him: "It is impossible to expect an early termination of this tragic state while the Mufti is using French-mandated territory for his operations. . . . Meanwhile, young Jews, with their patience exhausted and with the obvious inability of the British to protect them, are having a fling at their Arab enemies! cost them what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PALESTINE: Two to One | 7/18/1938 | See Source »

Nearly hidden beneath last week's shootings was the deeper issue of an Arab family feud. Between the great Arab families, the Husseini and Nashashibi, bitter rivals for leadership in Palestine, the last insult fell last year when a 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PALESTINE: Head & Rear | 7/6/1936 | See Source »

...Palestine the Husseini family, last week, bobbed up with a Hussein among the extremists. Interviewed by the New York Times he said: "Between Arabs and Jews a life-&-death struggle is raging, which will not cease before one of the parties has been completely crushed. . . . There is no 'antiSemitism' in Palestine. We ourselves belong to the Semitic race. We turn against the Jews not because they are Jews but because they threaten our existence. Our resistance would be just as strong if the invaders were French, German or Scandinavian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PALESTINE: Head & Rear | 7/6/1936 | See Source »

...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 for the bloody riots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Beyond an Incident | 6/8/1936 | See Source »

...Arab leaders, heretofore hopelessly disunited, proceeded to join forces under Mufti Haj Amin el Husseini and declare a general strike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PALESTINE: Bad for Business | 5/4/1936 | See Source »

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