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Mufti of Jerusalem: Al-Hajj Amin Al-Husayni and the Palestinian National Movement

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Writen by Phillip Mattar, exec director of the Institute for Palestine Studies and was editor of the Journal of Palestine Studies, taught at Yale and widely published in scholarly journals for many years...I lead with that least anyone be off put by the obscene obfuscations and manipulations by hasbaRats who denigrate all things Palestinian. This is an important book because of the air has been tainted for many years with lies and propaganda denigrating the Mufti of Jerusalem during the period of the Mandate and after. It is a serious and well written political biography, that offers a balanced picture of Haj Amin's dilemmas and strategies. One day may cooler heads prevail but until then we do our best to avoid the obvious propagandists in search of a clear historical depiction of a complicated time and complex man. A great read.

This book is not a serious work of history but an attempted whitewash of a man who more than any other was responsible for the deaths of many jews, arabs, British soldiers and civilians before the establishment of Israel.

Indeed the first casualties of the revolt the Mufti instigated in October 1933 were 26 arabs killed and 187 injured and a british civilian killed. (Christopher Sykes-Crossroads to Israel p142)

There is ample evidence of the Mufti's involvement in setting up two SS divisions that murdered thousands of jews, gypsies and partisans in Bosnia and Croatia. It was not for nothing that that Himmler much admired the mufti.

Himmler even took the Mufti to visit Auschwitz. How much more evidence of his involvement in the Holocaust do you need than pictures of the Mufti and Himmler in Auschwitz?


Well there is more evidence, the Mufti's own biography:

'The mufti himself delivered the most compelling evidence in his Damascus memoirs when he explains that Himmler told him in mid-1943 of "having liquidated about three million Jews so far."

If you want to learn about the Mufti, there is a lot of information on the internet. Or read Moshe Perlman's book about him.