Posted on 07/31/2005 4:21:13 AM PDT by eakole
can guess who might have written this? JK, 25 April 2003
Folks, here is part of an official dispatch; see if you can guess who might have written it:
"There is one point about the present situation in Palestine where I think there's been some confusion of thought at home as well as in neighboring Arabic-speaking countries. There are two aspects to it and they should, for the clearer understanding, be rigidly separated. The first, with which we can allow ourselves to sympathize, is the purely Pan Arab one. And, Palestine has centered itself on an unrelenting hostility to the Zionist movement.
The second aspect, which is the one I have dealt with in my recent dispatches, is the thuggery which many Palestinian political leaders have deliberately encouraged and developed as a means of gaining their...political aims.
It should not be thought that the Arab nationalists, either in Palestine or Syria, offer themselves as heroes in a noble cause. Far from it. During the past two months they have been scouring the slums of Syrian towns for known criminals (many of whom already served long terms of punishment for savage assaults.) I have myself compiled in the course of my efforts to prevent them from going to Palestine a list of about 150 Syrians in Palestinians residence in Syria who have this way been canvassed; many have been hired and gone to Palestine with a sordid and purely mercenary mission to create what havoc they can.
So far, though I write subject to correction, not a singly honorably known Syrian or Palestinian from Syria has crossed the frontier to join any of the groups of bandits in Palestine who pass their time blowing up passenger trains, menacing and murdering officials, defenseless soldiers, policemen and civilians, extorting money at the point of a revolver from Arab, Christian and Jew alike.....and performing a hundred anti-social acts.....
The situation in Palestine is not at present a political revolt, although it may yet grow into one if it does not soon mend, but a state of terrorism started by the Mufti and his party and now continuing of its own momentum, one with a background, not of Arab nationalism, but of Islamic fanaticism."
Perhaps this was written by Gen. Sharon to Menachem Begin sometime in the 1980's? Maybe Shimon Peres, explaining away the "fanaticists" as opposed to Arab nationalists? Yitzhak Rabin, former Israeli PM? Casper Weinberger, former US Sec. of State?
Keep guessing.
This was an official dispatch from Gilbert MacKereth, British Consul to Danascus, to George Rendel, Head of the Eastern Dept. of the Foreign Office of Britain.
It is dated November 15, 1937.
Am Y'israel Chai! -JK
Lawrence of Arabia.
>>a state of terrorism started by the Mufti and his party
Note that the the Mufti was Arafat's uncle.
Mufti is a title. There're a lot of Muftis.
Bottom line, borders matter, and if you can't protect yours you in a heap-o-trouble, hence today as we know it. Gee, was it out of selfishness or necessity that countries have borders. It appears borders and their security are becoming more and more important as time marches on. Not less so, as the globalists would have us believe.
When people write "the Mufti" they mean the Mufti of Jerusalem, a Nazi sympathizer (he spent much of the war in Berlin and toured Auschwitz while it was in operation). He is supposed to have been Arafat's uncle, but Arafat's bio is so full of lies that I don't know if this claim ever has been verified.
So, any time the word Mufti shows up I'm supposed to understand that it refers to one, and only one, historical figure and if it refers to any of the other thosands of people with that title, whoever wrote it would be well versed enough to point out that they weren't referring to the one and only Mufti but some pretender? OK, I think I got it now.
Given the context, I made the not-unreasonable assumption that the reference was to the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem.
Agree on the question on lineage, but even if he wasn't a biological uncle, he was certainly an ideological one.
Sorry, I assumed it was the Average Mufti of Silicon Valley. I guess I'm just not as well versed in the Arcana of Arab history as some here.
And further, there aren't "a lot of Muftis" about whom this:
"a state of terrorism started by the Mufti and his party"
can be said.
This isn't arcana, it's college-of-the-real-world Modern History of Islamic Terrorism 201 stuff for those who wish to understand what's happening in the world today.
Those who do not know their history, are doomed to repeat it, to use a cliched phrase.
Fine. Whatever you say.
I still want to know who wrote the original dispatch. After all, that was the reason for this discussion and I've got a guess posted right up there at the top. I've got a lot of money riding on the answer. Someone please post the results before this thread falls off the face of the earth.
This was an official dispatch from Gilbert MacKereth, British Consul to Danascus, to George Rendel, Head of the Eastern Dept. of the Foreign Office of Britain.
It is dated November 15, 1937.
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There's only one Mufti of Jerusalem. It's reasonable to assume that the Brits are referring to al Husseini. Since the Brit's dismissed him in 1936 because of his role in formenting terror, it's reasonable to assume ...but a state of terrorism started by the Mufti and his party and now continuing of its own momentum refers to al Husseini.
The Mufti the article is referring to was, in fact, Haj Amin al-Husseini, Grand Mufti of Jerusalem. This was written as a result of the Arab Riots (a/k/a Arab Revolt) of 1936-37 when 6,000 Jews were killed.
Haj Amin al-Husseini's nephew was, in fact, Mohammed Yasser Abdel-Raouf Arafat al-Qudwa al-Husseini, better known as Yasser Arafat.
The Grand Mufti was also convicted as a Nazi war criminal after spending most of the war in Berlin and advocating Hitler's final solution be carried out in Palestine. He hand picked his nephew to replace him as Palestinian leader and taught him ant-Semitism and Nazism well.
Was he convicted? I thought the Brits and French fought for awhile over who would try him, then didn't bother when he escaped prison in France and made his way to Egypt, as safe a place for Arab Nazis as Syria.
The Mufti was one of the initiators of the systematic extermination of European Jewry and had been a collaborator and adviser of Eichmann and Himmler in the execution of this plan... He was one of Eichmann's best friends and had constantly incited him to accelerate the extermination measures.
- Adolf Eichmann's deputy Dieter Wisliceny
So... even if he was not convicted his complicity in the Holocaust is clear. His legacy lives on as his nephew's right hand man, Mahmoud Abbas, now rules.
Richard the Lion-heart to Duke Conrad?
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