Tuesday, April 22, 2008
This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.
Benny Morris: The Tangled Truth - '...From the first, the nationalism of Palestine's Arabs was blatantly religious. Almost all the "nationalist" statements Cohen quotes were couched in religious or semi- religious terms. We are dealing here with an Islamic nationalism. Indeed, when the Palestinian national struggle turned significantly violent, against the British in 1936-1939 and against the Zionists in 1947-1948, the struggle was defined by the movement's leaders as "a religious holy war," a jihad. And those rejecting Husseini's leadership, in peacetime as in wartime, were deemed heretics as well as traitors...'
i read your article and comments on hillal cohen's book, army of shadows:palestinian collaboration with zionism,1917-1948, and although there are many discrepancies, i am proud to be a husseini as described in you article.
the best is that you would write about the great man, the late hajj amin alhusseini" a nasty piece of work by all arab, jewish, and british accounts". what more praise does a hero want from his enemy???
to add to your "facts", I would like to tell you a story about hajj amin and raghib nashashibi whom you mention in your article.
Once a delegation from the townships, visited the mufti and found him in a meeting with the mayor of jerusalem, the honorable Mr Raghib AlNashashibi. They were sitting talking and acting very pleasantly. Each saying "your honor the mayor" or "your honor the grand mufti."
so later the head of the delegation complained to the mufti saying " we are fighting and killing each other and you are sitting with this traitor and acting very pleasant."
So the mufti answered that this is how the city people try to solve problems, while those in townships resolve things by brutality.
It is great that you would say that we, the husseinis, are not colaborators and we head the palestinian nationalistic movement, while the others mentioned were colaboraters!!!!!