October 3, 1944 The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Haj Amin al Hasanji (Husseini), Yasser Arafat, Mahmud Abbas Berlin, October, 3 1944 “To the Reichsfuehrer and Reichsminister H.Himmler Headquarters of the Fuehrer Reichsfuehrer! I permit myself to call to your attention the renewal of the dangerous demands of the Jews, with the support of the […]
Source: Schectman, Joseph B., The Mufti and the Fuehrer. New York: Thomas Yoseloff, 1965
1947 The Mufti of Jerusalem Haj Amin Husseni, Yasser Arafat, Mahmud Abbas “My letters [to the European countries, requesting them not to allow Jews to leave] had positive and useful results for the Palestinian problem… That is the reason why a complaint was made against me to the UN in 1947, according to which my […]
November 10, 1947 The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Haj Amin al Hasanji (Husseini), Yasser Arafat, Mahmud Abbas “ Mufti Welcomes Parley The Exiled Mufti of Jerusalem, the most powerful figure in the Arab world, said today he was ‘pleased’ that Great Britain had abandoned her proposal to partition Palestine. The Mufti, Haj Amin el Husseini, […]
The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Haj Amin al Hasanji (Husseini): “The Arabs oppose partition for the same reasons Americans would oppose creation of a separate independent state by an alien community imposed on America by force of arms. THE ARABS THEREFORE ARE DETERMINED TO FIGHT THE CREATION OF A JEWISH STATE IN PART OF PALESTINE […]
December 5, 1947 “Haj Amin al Husseini, the Mufti of Jerusalem backed up the Arab Higher Committee with an order sent from his exile in the Lebanon that the Arabs had accomplished their purpose with their three-day strike and that no further demonstration should be mad… The police report of the incident said that soon […]
“When World War II broke out in 1939, and I felt the increased British pressure on the French authorities in Lebanon to hand me over, I tried to take refuge in Iraq and then in Persia. The British military authorities tried to capture me there and I found myself compelled to seek refuge in Turkey; […]
The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Haj Amin al Hasanji (Husseini): “To the Reichsfuehrer SS and Minister of the interior H. Himmler Reichsfuehrer: In my letter to you of June 5, 1944, I referred back to our conversation in which I reported to you on the inclusion of Jews in the exchange plan of some Egyptians […]
The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem: “To the Reichsfuehrer and Reichsminister H.Himmler Headquarters of the Fuehrer Reichsfuehrer! I permit myself to call to your attention the renewal of the dangerous demands of the Jews, with the support of the Allies, for the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine, as well as the approval given by […]
“Toward the end of January a delegation representing all classes of Arabs form Haifa, headed by Archbishop Hakim, visited the Mufi in Cairo with the intention, it was rumored, of obtaining support for a plan to declare Haifa an ‘open city.’ It was unsuccessful. However, it is learned that all sections of the Arab national […]