Word: jamal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Arab leaders flew to Amman, capital of Trans-Jordan, to talk to the one man most Arabs thought could save Palestine for them. King Abdullah said that he would lead his Arab Legion (10,000 men) and Syrian and Lebanese armies into Palestine by May 1. Said Jamal el Husseini, No. 2 man to Abdullah's old rival, the Mufti: "When we have won, the Legion will return across the border. Then we will hold a plebiscite to determine who will govern the new Palestine." Other Arabs were not so sure that, once he had taken...
...When Jamal al Husseini alighted at the Damascus Gate, cheering Arab crowds pelted him with flowers. A firebrand of Arab anti-Zionism had come home from eight years of exile. Whirling dervishes and fierce-looking Arabs on prancing horses escorted him through the city. Jamal looked older, graver, but seemed to have lost none of his flaming nationalism. The British had brought him back on the eve of the Arab-Jewish showdown. Gratefully, the Arabs welcomed Jamal. Within a few hours of his homecoming the chairman of the Palestine Arab Party, cousin of the still-exiled Grand Mufti, was deep...