The editors of Falastin were on the Husseini side, but as newspaper men they were too 'liberal' to endorse the Terror. They insisted that the Mufti was a direct and straightforward character, that he had all Arabs behind him save those of the Defense party. They denied that all the Mufti's supporters were Terrorists; there were four Arab parties in Palestine, but they all had one thing in common: their hatred of the Arab Defense Party and especially of Fakhri Bey Nashashibi, whom they dismissed as a traitor to the Arab cause and unimportant save for that.</blockquote></ref> | The editors of Falastin were on the Husseini side, but as newspaper men they were too 'liberal' to endorse the Terror. They insisted that the Mufti was a direct and straightforward character, that he had all Arabs behind him save those of the Defense party. They denied that all the Mufti's supporters were Terrorists; there were four Arab parties in Palestine, but they all had one thing in common: their hatred of the Arab Defense Party and especially of Fakhri Bey Nashashibi, whom they dismissed as a traitor to the Arab cause and unimportant save for that.</blockquote></ref> |