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Grand Mufti Haj Amin Husseini addressed the Non-Cooperation Congress held in Jaffa.
I am no stranger in this nationalist movement… I became immersed in the nationalist movement before the war, and I have been active in it ever since. Were I a clerk, as some think, I would not be among you now. Were I a clerk, I would not have taken upon myself the burden of the nationalist movement from start to finish, nor would I now be judged and sentenced because of the national predicament… Were the country to benefit from my resignation, then the issue of resignation would be a simple matter. And if the day comes when my resignation will be of benefit, I will have no difficulty in submitting it. At such a time I will not only resign from the office, but from life as well… since man’s fate is decreed, whereas principles and the land are eternal.