Jewish Bubba: Palestinian Arabs Have Chosen Their Leaders, Always The Tough Guys

Nadene Goldfoot

Chaim Weizmann and Emir Feisal

Since 1920, Palestinians turned against the educated Emir, Ibn Feisal Hussein (1885-1933) and chose instead their homey, Haj Mohammed Amin al-Husseini ( 1893-1974) to follow. Feisal became king of Iraq farom 1921. He was the eldest son of Hussein, sherif of Mecca (in Saudi Arabia). He had helped the British by leading the Arab "rising" against the Ottoman Empire (Turkey) (1016-1918) and was designated king of Syria. Feisal was sympathetic to Zionism from which he hoped to receive aid in building his future kingdom. He met Dr. Weizmann in Transjordan (1918) and again in Paris (1919) where they reached an agreement on mutual aid, conditional on the implementation of British promises to the Arabs.

Later, Feisal was removed from his position in Syria by the French who held the mandate there (1920) who were influenced by the Palestinian Arab leadership. Feisal's attitude towards Zionism then became hostile.

What's interesting is that the king of Jordan was Abdullah Hussein I, (born 1882, Mecca—died July 20, 1951, Jerusalem), statesman who became the first ruler (1946–51) of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. He was given 80% of the land originally promised to be part of the Jewish Homeland by the British who held the 30 year mandate. His dynasty was his son who then became the king. In 1988, he renounced claims to the West Bank (Judea and Samaria-original land of Israel) in view of Arab decisions that the PLO was the rightful authority. He was the brother of Feisal Hussein.

The Hashemites, or “Bani Hashem,” are descendants of the Arab chieftain Quraysh, a descendant of the Prophet Ismail, himself the son of the Prophet Ibrahim (Abraham). Quraysh first came to the holy city of Mecca during the second century CE. The first generation of Quraysh to rule the city came six generations later, when Qusayy bin Kilab ascended to the leadership of Mecca in the year 480 CE. The name “Hashem” is actually that of Qusayy’s grandson, who was the great-grandfather of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH). The Hashemites are thus the direct descendants of the Prophet through his daughter Fatima and her husband Ali bin Abi Talib, who was also the Prophet’s paternal first cousin and the fourth caliph of Islam.

During the Great Arab Revolt of 1916, King Hussein’s great-grandfather, Al-Hussein bin Ali, Sharif of Mecca and King of the Arabs (later he also became known as King of the Hijaz), led the liberation of Arab lands from their domination by the Ottoman Turks. After freeing the lands of Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Iraq, Syria and the Hijaz, Sharif Hussein’s son Abdullah assumed the throne of Transjordan and his second son Faisal assumed the throne of Syria and later Iraq. The Emirate of Transjordan was founded on April 11, 1921, and became the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan upon formal independence from Britain in 1946.

In 1921, the high commissioner of Great Britain, Sir Herbert Samuel, appointed Amin al-Husseini the mufti of Jerusalem and head of the Supreme Moslem Council. A mufti is Leader; Interpreter of. Law. Actually, Grand Mufti is a title for the highest religious legal figure in a country practicing Sunni Islam. In Egypt, the Grand Mufti is an interpreter of Islamic Law (Sharia) and advises the Egyptian judiciary on matters where secular and overlap. By 1936, as chairman of the Arab Supreme Council, Amin Husseini organized the Palestine disturbances for which he was sentenced to exile in 1937. He fled to Lebanon.

During World War II, Husseini participated in Rashid Ali's pro-Axis coup in Iraq before going to Europe. He went to Germany where he assisted Hitler and was largely responsible for the liquidation of the Jews in the Moslem areas of Bosnia. By 1946, Amin Husseini escaped to Egypt. Then, after 1948, he set up a short-lived "Palestine Government" in Gaza, and later, in Cairo.

The Palestinian Arabs chose their leader. They wanted the warlike Husseini and turned their noses up at Emir Feisal Hussein with his friendship with the Jews. That's the way it has been.

On November 29, 1947, the United Nations General Assembly adopted Resolution 181 (also known as the Partition Resolution) that would divide Great Britain's former into Jewish and Arab states in May 1948. The partition plan was reluctantly accepted by the Jewish Agency for Palestine with misgivings.

The Arab Higher Committee, the Arab League and other Arab leaders and governments rejected it on the basis that in addition to the Arabs forming a two-thirds majority, they owned a majority of the lands. They also indicated an unwillingness to accept any form of territorial division, arguing that it violated the principles of national self-determination in the UN Charter which granted people the right to decide their own destiny.

That owning the land business is not the truth. Jews had been busy buying land ever since the Aliyote starting in 1880 began and Jews were returning from Eastern Europe. Most all landowners had sold their land happily for very high prices. The Arabs wanted to leave because they couldn't afford the taxes they had to pay to the Ottoman Empire. They took their money and headed out for Paris, Lebanon, places they could enjoy living. The Jews wanted the land because it was holy to them. Those that were wealthy helped out in the buying.

In 2006, Hamas won the 2006 Palestinian legislative elections and assumed administrative control of Gaza Strip and West Bank. In 2007, Hamas led a military victory over , the secular Palestinian nationalist party, which had dominated the .

After Hamas won the Palestinian legislative elections on 25 January 2006, Ismail Haniyeh was nominated Prime Minister of the Palestinian National Authority, establishing a Palestinian national unity government with Fatah. Ismail Haniyeh is a Palestinian politician who is a senior political leader of Hamas, the current chairman of Hamas’s political bureau, and resides in Qatar. Haniyeh was born in the Al-Shati refugee camp in the Gaza Strip in 1962. He's 61.

After the 1967 War when all the Arab states ganged up on Israel and expected they couldn't help but win, they got fooled, and fooled good. Israel won-even surprising themselves, but they were determined. As Golda Meir said, they had no place to run to.

Yassir Arafat (b: 1929-d: November 11, 2004) of the PLO (Palestine Liberation organization) organized the terrorist Fatah group in 1959. Yes, they were terrorists. Yasser Arafat was elected president of the Palestinian National Council with 88.1 percent of the popular vote, becoming the first democratically elected leader of the Palestinian people in history.

Hillary Clinton saw nothing wrong with Arafat

Arafat had a worldwide program of terror activities aimed at Israel, Zionist and Jewish targets. He was so bad that the king of Jordan, King Hussein in 1970, kicked him out. By 1982 he was ousted from Lebanon by the IDF of Israel. Arafat supported Saddam Hussein during the 1991 Gulf War. In 1988 the PLO proclaimed a Palestinian state with Arafat as president.

On 6 May 2017, Haniyeh was elected chairman of Hamas's Political Bureau, replacing Khaled Mashaal; at the time, Haniyeh relocated from Gaza to Qatar. On 26 July 2023, Haniyeh met with Erdoğan and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. Behind the meeting was Turkey's effort to reconcile Fatah with Hamas. Israel says it has destroyed the home of senior Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, which is being used by other Hamas leaders being he's in Qatar.

This government effectively collapsed with the outbreak of the violent conflict between Hamas and Fatah. After the takeover of the Gaza Strip by Hamas on 14 June 2007, Palestinian Authority Chairman Abbas dismissed the Hamas-led government and appointed Salam Fayyad Prime Minister.

When Barack Hussein Obama became president in the USA January 20, 2009, one of the first things he did was go to Cairo on June 4th in an attempt to improve U.S. relations with the Muslim world., Elections were scheduled to be held in 2009, but was postponed because of the Fatah–Hamas conflict. The PNA has a multi-party system, with numerous parties. In this system, Fatah is the dominant party.

According to Human Rights Watch, at least 32 people were killed by these attacks in 2009: 18 during the conflict and 14 afterward, and several dozen more were maimed, many by shots to the legs. On 31 May 2009, six people were killed as Palestinian Authority and Hamas forces clashed in Qalqilya, Judea/Samaria.

Elections for the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) were held in Palestinian Autonomous areas from 1994 until their transition into the State of Palestine in 2013. Elections were scheduled to be held in 2009, but was postponed because of the Fatah–Hamas conflict. President Mahmoud Abbas agreed to stay on until the next election, but he is recognized as president only in the West Bank and not by Hamas in Gaza. The Palestinian National Authority has held several elections in the Palestinian territories, including elections for president, the legislature and local councils.