Chancellor suggested to the Mufti that the Muslims sell the Maghribi district, which would be replaced by an open courtyard for Jewish worshipers and visitors. Haj Amin responded that it may appear inhuman but the Muslims rejected surrendering any rights at the Wall which might endanger their exclusive title to the Haram. Source: CO733/163/67013/I, Chancellor […]
The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem (Haj Amin al Hasanji Husseini): “The Haram el-Sharif has been Moslem property for thirteen and a half centuries, but in the remote past it was the site of three successive Jewish temples. The structures of the holy area, including the walls, are Moslem; but it is believed that three of […]
He was born in 1929 in Cairo, Egypt. He served in the Egyptian army, studied in the University of Cairo, and lived in Cairo until 1956. He then moved to Saudi-Arabia and founded the Al-Fatah terror organization, the precursor to the PLO, in Kuwait in 1958, together with his Saudi-Arabian friends. Source: http://hm-holyland.blogspot.com/2011/12/arabs-in-holy-land-natives-or-aliens.html
Mufti of Jerusalem, Al-Hajj Amin al-Husseini, the head of the Supreme Muslim Council, “goaded the Jews by suggesting that it might use the stones of the Western Wall to construct a highway.” Source: 2, p. 235
President Herbert Hoover: 1929-1933 “I have watched with genuine admiration the steady and unmistakable progress made in the rehabilitation of Palestine which, desolate for centuries, is now renewing its youth and vitality through the enthusiasm, hard work, and self-sacrifice of the Jewish pioneers who toil there in a spirit of peace and social justice.” Source: […]
The Arab Higher Committee: Submission to the Permanent Mandates Commission of the League of Nations: The Arab Higher Committee therefore urges that the only solution compatible with justice and a true desire for peace in the land must be based on the following principles: -One, the recognition of the right of the Arabs to complete […]
The Minutes of the Ninth Session of the League of Nations’ Permanent Mandate Commission: “Colonel Symes explained that the country was described as “Palestine” by Europeans and as “Falestin” by the Arabs. The Hebrew name for the country was the designation “Land of Israel”, and the Government, to meet Jewish wishes, had agreed that the […]
“A Special Edition in English issued (e.g. La Palestine) on the occasion of the visit to Palestine of Lord Balfour, the statesman with whose name is associated the declaration which to the Arabs signifies the death knell of all the hopes they cherished when the victorious British Armies entered their country in 1918. J’Accuse! The […]
By 1920 subdued his Rashidi enemies in the north of the Arabian Peninsula. In 1920 sent his 15 year old son Faisal to the south – western Arab highlands of ASIR to secure allegiance of its people. He did the same with Jawf region on the borders of the newly created emirate of TransJordan. But […]
President Calvin Coolidge 1923—1929 “I have so many times reiterated my interest in this great movement that anything which I might add would be a repetition of former statements, but I am nevertheless glad to have this opportunity to express again my sympathy with the deep and intense longing which finds such fine expression in […]