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| | most prominent Arab nationalists: 'Awni 'Abd al-Hadi and Muhammad 'Izzat Darwaza, leaders of the Istiqlal Party, and Ahmad Shuqayri, the first chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO, 1964). Cohen also reported about trends in other major towns with large Arab populations (i.e. Haifa).</small></blockquote></ref> educator, historian, author and an extremist, born in Nablus. One of the leaders of the Arab nationalism movement in "Greater Syria",<ref>The Routledge Handbook of the History of the Middle East Mandates. United Kingdom: Taylor & Francis, 2015, [https://books.google.com/books?id=mj3LCQAAQBAJ&pg=PA399 p.399].</ref> one of the leaders of the Arab Higher Committee and its secretary. He was one of the founders of the pan-Arab movements Al-Fatah and the Al-Istiqlal party (he served as a representative to the Supreme Arab Committee and secretary of the committee in 1936). He advocated against the mandate rule and against Zionism. As a close relative of the Husseini family, he served many times as a messenger and spokesman for the mufti of Jerusalem, [[Haj Amin al-Husseini]].<ref>Ya'akov Shimoni, Arabs of the Land of Israel [Heb.], Tel Aviv 2017, p. 289n22, p. 297.</ref> | | most prominent Arab nationalists: 'Awni 'Abd al-Hadi and Muhammad 'Izzat Darwaza, leaders of the Istiqlal Party, and Ahmad Shuqayri, the first chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO, 1964). Cohen also reported about trends in other major towns with large Arab populations (i.e. Haifa).</small></blockquote></ref> educator, historian, author and an extremist, born in Nablus. One of the leaders of the Arab nationalism movement in "Greater Syria",<ref>The Routledge Handbook of the History of the Middle East Mandates. United Kingdom: Taylor & Francis, 2015, [https://books.google.com/books?id=mj3LCQAAQBAJ&pg=PA399 p.399].</ref> one of the leaders of the Arab Higher Committee and its secretary. He was one of the founders of the pan-Arab movements Al-Fatah and the Al-Istiqlal party (he served as a representative to the Supreme Arab Committee and secretary of the committee in 1936). He advocated against the mandate rule and against Zionism. As a close relative of the Husseini family, he served many times as a messenger and spokesman for the mufti of Jerusalem, [[Haj Amin al-Husseini]].<ref>Ya'akov Shimoni, Arabs of the Land of Israel [Heb.], Tel Aviv 2017, p. 289n22, p. 297.</ref> |
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| | + | As secretary of the Syrian Congress, he read in 1920 in Damascus the proclamation of Syrian independence under the Crown of Faisal. |
| | + | After the fall of Faisal he moved to Palestine, where he joined the ex-Mufti Amin al Husayni and became in 1931 secretary of the Muslim Congress in Jerusalem.<ref name=wiener/> |
| | + | In 1937 he represented the ex-Mufti's Arab Committee at the Congress in Bludan. At the beginning of [[World War II]] he was arrested by the French authorities in Syria and after his release in 1941 he moved to Turkey, where he stayed till the end of the war. In 1945 he settled in Egypt to take an active part in preparing for the war against the Jews in E.Y. Palestine.<ref name=wiener/> |
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| | During [[WW2]], Darwaza engaged in pro-[[Nazi]] activities, helping [[Hitler]]'s war machine.<ref>Rolbant, Samuel. The Arabs: Politics and People. United Kingdom: Amal Publications, 1948, [https://books.google.com/books?id=LVsBAAAAMAAJ&q=Darwaza p. 36]. | | During [[WW2]], Darwaza engaged in pro-[[Nazi]] activities, helping [[Hitler]]'s war machine.<ref>Rolbant, Samuel. The Arabs: Politics and People. United Kingdom: Amal Publications, 1948, [https://books.google.com/books?id=LVsBAAAAMAAJ&q=Darwaza p. 36]. |
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| | Among them were: Izzat Darwaza, Akram Zuaytar, Muin al-Madi, Adil Arslan, Adil al-Azma, Nabih al-Azma and some of the Iraqi rebels. One group of Arab leaders did not succeed in reaching Germany, but was arrested by the British authorities in Iran and sent to Rhodesia. This group included Jamal al-Husseini, who was permitted to return to Palestine in 1946.</small></blockquote></ref> | | Among them were: Izzat Darwaza, Akram Zuaytar, Muin al-Madi, Adil Arslan, Adil al-Azma, Nabih al-Azma and some of the Iraqi rebels. One group of Arab leaders did not succeed in reaching Germany, but was arrested by the British authorities in Iran and sent to Rhodesia. This group included Jamal al-Husseini, who was permitted to return to Palestine in 1946.</small></blockquote></ref> |
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| | Darwazeh delved in conspiracy theories and rationalized [[Nazi]] persecution of the [[Jews]].<ref name=wiener/> | | Darwazeh delved in conspiracy theories and rationalized [[Nazi]] persecution of the [[Jews]].<ref name=wiener/> |
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| | He is the author of "The Age of Muhammad," written during his imprisonment in Syria. The book is based exclusively on the Koran.<ref name=wiener/> | | He is the author of "The Age of Muhammad," written during his imprisonment in Syria. The book is based exclusively on the Koran.<ref name=wiener/> |