Hajj Amin Husseini: Israel

Ismail Zayid Dept: In 1947, prior to the first UN General Assembly vote, Palestinian leaders rejected any form of Jewish self-determination in Palestine. This explains why the Arabs rejected partition. Indeed, Hajj Amin Husseini, the most prominent Palestinian leader during the first half of the 20th century, stated that there is no place in Palestine for two races. , according to The Chronicle Herald. This rejection of the Jewish people occurred well before the establishment of a Jewish state, with expulsions and pogroms, such as the 1929 massacre of the Hebron Jewish community. And it continues today in the Arab denial of a Jewish connection to the land of Israel, even though archeological discoveries in Israel reveal artifacts bearing inscriptions in Hebrew, rather than Arabic, English or Chinese and regarding Ismail Zayid s opinion piece, A call for justice in a tortured land Aug. 4 : Dr. Zayid s reconstruction of Israel s 1948 war, in which the combined armies of Iraq, Jordan, Egypt, Syria and Lebanon invaded the nascent state of Israel, makes no mention of the stated goal of this war, which was to rid the Arab world of the world s only Jewish state. While Israel successfully fought off five united Arab armies, one of two fates awaited the Jews whose cities and towns were captured by the Arabs: massacre or forced expulsion. Dr. Zayid claims the Jews ethnically cleansed Arabs, but this is rhetoric. Most fled at the behest of Arab leaders, an order to get out of the way of the bloodshed Arabs promised to inflict on Jews. Sir John Troutbeck, head of the British Middle East Office in Cairo, stated during a 1949 fact-finding mission to the Gaza Strip: We know who our enemies are, they the Arab refugees will say, and they are referring to their Arab brothers who, they declare, persuaded them unnecessarily to leave their homes. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.