tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12677825.post8026689754850101022..comments2024-03-14T02:22:26.957+00:00Comments on Point of No Return: Jewish Refugees from Arab and Muslim Countries: How the Farhud led to a mass Jewish exodusUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12677825.post-16723471535434538922011-06-06T21:07:24.136+01:002011-06-06T21:07:24.136+01:00"As early as 1920, he was active in both oppo...<i>"As early as 1920, he was active in both opposing the British in order to secure the independence of Palestine as an Arab State"</i> and in attacking Jews.<br /><br />This is a quote from the JPost at the link under the name amin el-husseini on this blog post. The quote is taken from a wikipedia article which shows the problems with wiki. The wiki article contains a number of inner contradictions because it was composed by different people with different axes to grind. In that way, the quote is vitiated by other material in the wiki article. In 1920, Husseini was still pro-British and believed in the Greater Syria idea. He was loyal then to Faisal the Hashemite, whom the British had made king of Syria, and whom the French then deposed in July 1920, and was later made king of Iraq by the British. So in April 1920, when Husseini instigated a pogrom against Jews in Jerusalem, he was a pan-Arabist [which the PLO still is in principle] and a supporter of a kingdom of Greater Syria [<i>bilad ash-Sham</i>].<br /><br />Moreover, the pogrom that he instigated in April 1920 was proposed to him by Col. Waters-Taylor, who was close to the British commander in the country. This was a pogrom against Jews, not an attack on the British, and was focused on the Old City of Jerusalem. There is more evidence of British complicity in the pogrom, such as preventing Jewish defenders organized by Jabotinsky from getting into the Old City to help protect the Jewish Quarter. <br />[Richard Meinertzhagen, <i>Middle East Diary</i>].Eliyahu m'Tsiyonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07973268399414290195noreply@blogger.com