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October 25, 1941 The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem

October 25, 1941 The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Haj Amin al Hasanji (Husseini), Yasser Arafat, Mahmud Abbas

“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; but Turkey, through diplomatic arrangement with Great Britain, refused my demand. Therefore, finding no Moslem or Arab country in which to take refuge, I had to go to Europe (e.g. Germany), AND FURTHERE MORE AS THERE EXIST NO ENMITY BETWEEN US [ARABS] AND GERMANY, I COULD SEE NO REASON TO PREVENT MY TAKING REFUGE THERE.”

Source: The Struggle for Palestine by J. C. Hurewitz, WW Norton and Company Inc. NY 1950, p. 147

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