As early as 1941 the Muffi of Jerusalem Haj Amin Al-Husseini -- who (per Edward Said in his 1983 book p. 7, about his status [still] in 1946) represented the consensus of Palestine Arabs and had major backing of parties there -- requested the Axis powers to acknowledge the Arab right "to settle the question of Jewish elements in Palestine and other Arab countries in accordance with the national and racial interests of the Arabs and along lines similar to those used to solve the Jewish question in Germany and Italy." [Fritz Grobba, Manner und Machte im Orient (Zurich, Berlin,...