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Palestine disturbances 1936. Members of the Arab Higher Committee. Front row from left to right: Ragheb Bey Nashashibi, chairman of the Defence Party, Haj Amin eff. el-Husseini, Grand Mufti & president of the Committee, Ahmed Hilmi Pasha, Gen. Manager of the Jerusalem Arab Bank, Abdul Latif Bey Es-Salah, chairman of the Arab National Party, Mr. Alfred Roke, influential land-owner... Back row, left to right: Jamal eff. el-Husseini, chairman of the Arab Party and leader of the unofficial Arab Commission to London. Dr. Hsein Khaldhi, Mayor of Jerusalem. Ya'cub Bey el-Ghussein, President of the Arab Youths Committee. Mr. Fuad Saba, Secretary of the Arab Higher Committee

The Arab Higher Committee (Arabic: كميري على العربية العربية) was the supreme political body that led the Arab community in Mandatory Palestine Eretz Yisrael from 1936 until the 1948 Israeli War for Independence (including during the war).

It was established on 25 April 1936, on the initiative of Haj Amin al-Husayni, [al-Husseini] the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, and comprised the leaders of Palestinian Arab clans and political parties under the mufti's chairmanship.


Fuad Saba was the Arab Higher Committee's secretary.[1]


Arab Terror "disturbances" (against Britain, Jews and moderate Arabs) 1936-1939 known as the "Great Revolt," began in April 1936 with the murder of two Jews, passengers.[2]

On September 26, 1937, Lewis Yelland Andrews (1896-1937), the British District Commissioner for the Galilee during the British Mandate for Palestine, was assassinated by Arab gunmen. Thus, "Terrorism in the Holy Land reached a climax." On Oct 1 "British crushed Arab terror in Jerusalem." Silently they surrounded houses of Arab leaders, searching one after the other. Dr. Hussein Khalidl, mayor of Jerusalem, and Fuad Saba, secretary of the Higher Committee, were reported arrested and taken aboard H.M.S. "Sussex" at Haifa. The manager of an Arabian bank was taken into custody. Leaders caught in the police dragnet may be deported to Perim Island in the Red Sea.[3]

The AHC was dissolved, its members as well as Hussein Khalidl, mayor of Jerusalem and other agitators were seized,[3][4] [5] while the Grand Mufti al-Husseini was hiding (at Temple Mount) in Mosque.


The Nufti escaped[6] later on to Lebanon, as chased out, he went to Iraq, instigated Arab Nazi alliance, helped in Arab Nazi coup which failed, yet his and other Palestine Arabs with Nazis' incited atrocious Farhud pogrom did take place. From there he headed to fascist Italy to get agreement, then to Berlin to work for Hitler since Nov 28, 1941 meeting/pact, ("The Jews are yours" Hitler told him), to stay there till the end of the war. He had broadcast on hate radio for jihad against the Allies and genocide against any Jews; had helped in SS Muslim units, wrote in Barid a Sharq; plotted a crematorium in Dotan Valley for Jews of the Middle East; intervened against Eastern European kids who were about be saved into the Holy Land; urged the Nazis, when they were already losing, to bomb Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. After the war, this Hitler's nufti was Arab Palestine's hero, as well as Muslim Brotherhood.


The AHC became very active in 1946 till after the 1948 war. The Mufti pulled the strings. It has forcefully rejected the Partition Plan.[7] Its then spokesperson, Jamal Husseini explained in 1947/8 the racist Arabs' objection, that a Jewish State will interrupt the "Arab race" homogeneity.[8]


It was finally dissolved in 1964 with Ahmad Shukairy becoming head of the Nasser initiative creating PLO continuing the Fedayeen and more elaborate terror activities.

References

  1. ↑ Marlowe, J. (1946). Rebellion in Palestine. United Kingdom: Cresset Press, p.212
  2. ↑ Palestine - The Arab Revolt | Britannica.
    The revolt began with spontaneous acts of violence committed by the religiously and nationalistically motivated followers of Sheikh Izz al-Din al-Qassam, who had been killed by the British in 1935. In April 1936 the murder of two Jews led to escalating violence, and Qassamite groups initiated a general strike in Jaffa and Nablus. At that point the Arab political parties formed an Arab Higher Committee presided over by the mufti of Jerusalem, Amin al-Husseini. It called for a general strike, nonpayment of taxes, and the closing of municipal governments (although government employees were allowed to stay at work) and demanded an end to Jewish immigration, a ban on land sales to Jews, and national independence. Simultaneously with the strike, Arab rebels, joined by volunteers from neighboring Arab countries, took to the hills, attacking Jewish settlements and British installations in the northern part of the country. By the end of the year, the movement had assumed the dimensions of a national revolt, the mainstay of which was the Arab peasantry. Even though the arrival of British troops restored some semblance of order, the armed rebellion, arson, bombings, and assassinations continued.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 The Day Oct 1, 1937. "British Crush Arab Terror In Jerusalem." The Vancouver Sun Oct 1, 1937, p. 7. "Britain Hits At Terrorism In Holy Land." By Associated Press.

    Jerusalem. Oct 1. -- Great Britain struck with mailed fist today to crush a new wave of terrorism in the Holy Land.

    On sweeping measures the authorities outlawed the Arab Higher Committee and started rounding up Its influential members. With telephone communication from the city suspended, and roads heavily guarded, police carried out their large-scale operations before dawn.

    Silently they surrounded houses of Arab leaders, searching one after the other. Dr. Hussein Khalidl, mayor of Jerusalem, and Fuad Saba, secretary of the Higher Committee, were reported arrested and taken aboard H.M.S. "Sussex" at Haifa.

    The manager of an Arabian bank was taken into custody.

    Leaders caught in the police dragnet may be deported to Perim Island in the Red Sea.

    Terrorism in the Holy Land reached a climax on Sunday, when the British Commissioner for Galilee and his bodyguard were assassinated ao they left the Anglican Church at Nazareth.

    All of Palestine's land frontiers are guarded, and troops are on duty at Allenby bridge and other crossings over the River Jordan.

    The swift action to suppress the disorders climaxed four months of terrorism and assassinations, in which the British proposal to partition the Holy Land into separate Jewish and Arab states injected new strife.

    It followed quickly on British rejection of Arab demands for release of 200 prisoners seized in connection with the slaylngs at Nazareth.

    The action taken against the Mufti deprived him of the president of the Supreme Moslem Council, the Higher Committee which administers Moslem religious affairs.

    There was a report in Cairo, Egypt that the Mufti had taken refuse at the nosque of Omar and defied police to take him.
  4. ↑ British Strike at Palestine Terror; Depose Mufti, Outlaw Arab Body, Seize 4 Leaders, 'JTA, October 3, 1937
  5. ↑ Newsweek. (1937). United States: Newsweek, Incorporated, [1].

    "Palestine. Arab Terrorists Finally Draw Full British Wrath."

    ...British-controlled neutral zone.

    The soldiers seized Dr. Hussein Khalidi, Jerusalem's Mayor; Jamal Husseini, president of the Palestine Arab party;

    Fuad Saba, Higher Committee secretary; and Yacoub Hussein, Arab Youth Federation president. Within 48 hours the trouble- makers looked on their native land for the last time; prisoners on the cruiser Sussex, they sailed from Haifa...
  6. ↑ Rubin, B., Schwanitz, W. G. (2014). Nazis, Islamists, and the Making of the Modern Middle East. United Kingdom: Yale University Press. [2].
  7. ↑ Arab Committee Rejects U.N. Partition Plan. Israeled. September 29, 2023
  8. ↑ Herf, J. (2022). Israel's Moment: International Support for and Opposition to Establishing the Jewish State, 1945–1949. United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press, p. 249
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