Arabs in Ottoman and British Palestine

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 51. Chapters: Mohammad Amin al-Husayni, Tawfiq Canaan, Izzat Darwaza, Khalil al-Sakakini, Wasif Jawhariyyeh, Rashid al-Haj Ibrahim, Musa Alami, May Ziade, Mu'in al-Madi, Khalil Beidas, Kamal al-Din al-Nabhani, Sami Hadawi, Rafiq al-Tamimi, Taqiuddin al-Nabhani, Fawzi al-Qawuqji, Ibrahim Touqan, Karimeh Abbud, Fahmi al-Husseini, Seif el-Din el-Zoubi, Abd el-Aziz el-Zoubi, Mohammed Miari, Said al-Shawa, Rushdi al-Shawa, Aref al-Aref, Raghib al-Nashashibi, Shafik Assad, Jamal al-Husayni, Husayin al-Khalidi, Elias Nakhleh, Muhammed Wattad, Kamel al-Budeiri, Labib Hussein Abu Rokan, Musa al-Husayni, Diyab Obeid, Hussein al-Husayni, Faras Hamdan, Hussein Faris, Assad Assad, Mohamed Nafa, Haneh Hadad, Halil-Salim Jabara, Amin-Salim Jarjora, Daoud Isa, Kamil al-Husayni, Hanna Safieh, Hanna Mwais, Hamad Khalaily, Mahmud Al-Nashaf, Ahmed A-Dahar, Aref al-Dajani, Faidi al-Alami. Excerpt: Haj Mohammed Effendi Amin el-Husseini (Arabic: ¿, also al-Husayni, Hajj, and Al-Hajj; born 1895 or 1897; died July 4, 1974) was a Palestinian Arab nationalist and Muslim leader in the British Mandate of Palestine. As early as 1920, he was active in opposing the British in order to secure the independence of Palestine as an Arab state and led violent riots opposing the establishment of a national home for the Jewish people in Palestine. From 1921 to 1948, al-Husseini was the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, using the position to continue his promotion of Palestinian nationalism. His opposition to the British peaked during the 1936-1939 Arab revolt in Palestine. In 1937, wanted by the British, he fled Palestine and took refuge in, successively, the French Mandate of Lebanon, the Kingdom of Iraq (where he was involved in the 1941 Rashid Ali coup), Fascist Italy and finally Nazi Germany. A staunch antisemite al-Husseini was widely reported to have encouraged his followers to "kill the Jews wherever you find them". During World War II, he collaborated with Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy, meeting Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini in 1941. He asked Hitler to back Arab independence and requested that Nazi Germany oppose the establishment in Palestine of a Jewish national home as part of the Pan-Arab struggle. According to an American report, al-Husseini helped recruit Muslims for the Waffen-SS, the Nazi Party's elite military command. He was promised the leadership of Palestine after German troops had driven out the British. At the end of the war, he was allowed to flee to Syria as part of an attempt to prevent the alienation of Middle Eastern regimes. During the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, Husseini represented the Arab Higher Committee and opposed both the 1947 UN Partition Plan and King Abdullah's ambitions for expanding Jordan at the expense of Palestine. In September 1948, he participated in establishment of All-Palestine Government. Seated in Egyptian ruled Gaza, this government w