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Mr. Swope quotes a recent issue of the London Economist as saying that Israel authorities in Haifa had urged all Arabs to remain in Haifa and guaranteed them protection and security . The author of the article in the London Economist said that so far as he knew, most of the British civilian residents whose advice was asked by Arab friends , told the latter that it would be wise to stay. The author of the article quoted by Mr. Swope said that the most potent factor in the Arab exodus was an announcement made over the air by the Arab Higher Executive, urging all Arabs in Haifa to quit, and that the reason for the order was that Arab leadership boasted that upon the final withdrawal of the British, the combined armies of the Arab states would invade Palestine and drive the Jews into the sea, and it was clearly intimated that those Arabs who remained in Haifa and accepted Israel protection, would be regarded as renegades. As further proof that the Arab exodus was the making of Arab leadership, Mr. Swope notes that [[Jamal Husseini|Jamal Bey Husseini]] told the Security Council on April 23, that the Arabs had begun fighting, that they would not submit to a truce, and that "they rather prefer to leave their homes in the town."</small></blockquote></ref> -- was the first armed conflict fought by the modern state of [[Israel]], with a total population of approximately 600,000, against the invading armies of the [[Arab]] nations of [[Egypt]], [[Syria]], [[Jordan]], [[Lebanon]], [[Saudi Arabia]], [[Iraq]], and other Arab militias,including the [[Haj Amin al-Husseini]] the Ex-Mufti's "holy war" Jihadis. About 6,000 Israelis died in the war, or fully one percent of the population, but the war ended in 1949 with a [[United Nations]]-brokered armistice. As a result of the war, Israel grew by some 50% over the original Partition of British Palestine. Some 800,000 Jews were expelled from neighboring Arab states and allowed to settle in Israel.
Mr. Swope quotes a recent issue of the London Economist as saying that Israel authorities in Haifa had urged all Arabs to remain in Haifa and guaranteed them protection and security . The author of the article in the London Economist said that so far as he knew, most of the British civilian residents whose advice was asked by Arab friends , told the latter that it would be wise to stay. The author of the article quoted by Mr. Swope said that the most potent factor in the Arab exodus was an announcement made over the air by the Arab Higher Executive, urging all Arabs in Haifa to quit, and that the reason for the order was that Arab leadership boasted that upon the final withdrawal of the British, the combined armies of the Arab states would invade Palestine and drive the Jews into the sea, and it was clearly intimated that those Arabs who remained in Haifa and accepted Israel protection, would be regarded as renegades. As further proof that the Arab exodus was the making of Arab leadership, Mr. Swope notes that [[Jamal Husseini|Jamal Bey Husseini]] told the Security Council on April 23, that the Arabs had begun fighting, that they would not submit to a truce, and that "they rather prefer to leave their homes in the town."</small></blockquote></ref> -- was the first armed conflict fought by the modern state of [[Israel]], with a total population of approximately 600,000, against the invading armies of the [[Arab]] nations of [[Egypt]], [[Syria]], [[Jordan]], [[Lebanon]], [[Saudi Arabia]], [[Iraq]], and other Arab militias,including the [[Haj Amin al-Husseini]] the Ex-Mufti's "holy war" Jihadis. About 6,000 Israelis died in the war, or fully one percent of the population, but the war ended in 1949 with a [[United Nations]]-brokered armistice. As a result of the war, Israel grew by some 50% over the original Partition of British Palestine. Some 800,000 Jews were expelled from neighboring Arab states and allowed to settle in Israel.
==Jamal Husseini's racist argument==
Jamal al Husseini (Nazi collaborator, Hitler fan<ref>Teveth, S. (1985). Ben-Gurion and the Palestinian Arabs: From Peace to War. Oxford University Press, [https://books.google.com/books?id=J3aEAAAAIAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=%22Cousin%22 p. 156].<blockquote>...one of the more radical supporters of the Mufti's violent tactics, Like the Mufti, he too saw Nazi Germany as a natural ally in the struggle against the Jews and did not conceal his admiration for Hitler.</blockquote></ref> who had justified the [[Holocaust]] in 1946 with [[Ahmad Shukeiri]]<ref>"Behind the British Conspiracy." B'nai B'rith Messenger. 12 July, 1946, [https://www.nli.org.il/en/newspapers/bbh/1946/07/12/01/article/47 p. 6].</ref>), in 1947 and in 1948 used the same racist arguments fir "racial homogeneity" - against UN's ''Partition''.<ref>Herf, J. (2022). Israel's Moment: International Support for and Opposition to Establishing the Jewish State, 1945–1949. United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press, pp. [https://books.google.com/books?id=8YlZEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA66 66], 236-[https://books.google.com/books?id=8YlZEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA239 9].
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Now, speaking for the Arab Higher Committee to a committee of the United Nations, he repeated word for word the same racist arguments he had delivered the previous January ...
Husseini then repeated, word for word, the implicitly racist argument he had expressed in London and which formed an emotional and political core of his rejection of a Jewish state in Palestine: This brings us to another consideration ...
Perhaps because the discourse about homogeneity and heterogeneity, uniformity and diversity, racism and antiracism was not ubiquitous then, as it would become in subsequent decades, this remarkable statement did not receive the attention it warranted. It made clear, however, that, as the journalists at The Nation and PM and liberal politicians such as Robert Wagner and Emanuel Celler had claimed, the rejection of the Zionist project by the Arab Higher Committee, the ex-Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, and Jamal Husseini rested on the rejection of religious and racial diversity.
Husseini made no secret of his support for racial homogeneity. Perhaps he was unaware of the racist nature of the arguments he was making. In any case, he presented his beliefs as principles to defend, not hatreds that were a source of shame or scorn. Despite his denials, the antisemitic nature of his argument was equally obvious. His speech revealed a wish for an Arab world that was self-enclosed, xenophobic, and intolerant of difference and thus, in a fundamental sense, antimodern and illiberal. His was a reactionary form of nationalism, one that, like its European predecessors, was inseparable from racism..
Jamal Husseini's views on race were not only a form of hatred. As his explanation of the causes of war in Europe made apparent, it was also part of the ideological framework with which he interpreted events. The ideas about the causes of World War II that Jamal Husseini repeated in New York in September 1947 had been commonplace in government offices in Nazi Berlin.</small></blockquote></ref>
==Arab threats pre 1948 war==
==Arab threats pre 1948 war==
At the time, Head of [[Muslim Brotherhood]] [[Hassan al-Banna]] declared: "If the Jewish state becomes a fact, and this is realized by the Arab peoples, they will drive the Jews who live in their midst into the sea"<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1948/08/02/archives/aim-to-oust-jews-pledged-by-sheikh-head-of-moslem-brotherhood-says.html Aim To Oust Jews Pledged By Sheikh; Head of Moslem Brotherhood Says U.S., British 'Politics' Has Hurt Palestine Solution. Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES By Dana Adams Schmidt, Aug. 2, 1948, page 4] ''CAIRO, Egypt, Aug. 1 -- Sheikh Hassan el-Bana, head of the Moslem Brotherhood, largest of the extremist Arab nationalist organizations, declared in an interview today: "If the Jewish state becomes a fact, and this is realized by the Arab peoples, they will drive the Jews who live in their midst into the sea ...''</ref>
At the time, Head of [[Muslim Brotherhood]] [[Hassan al-Banna]] declared: "If the Jewish state becomes a fact, and this is realized by the Arab peoples, they will drive the Jews who live in their midst into the sea"<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1948/08/02/archives/aim-to-oust-jews-pledged-by-sheikh-head-of-moslem-brotherhood-says.html Aim To Oust Jews Pledged By Sheikh; Head of Moslem Brotherhood Says U.S., British 'Politics' Has Hurt Palestine Solution. Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES By Dana Adams Schmidt, Aug. 2, 1948, page 4] ''CAIRO, Egypt, Aug. 1 -- Sheikh Hassan el-Bana, head of the Moslem Brotherhood, largest of the extremist Arab nationalist organizations, declared in an interview today: "If the Jewish state becomes a fact, and this is realized by the Arab peoples, they will drive the Jews who live in their midst into the sea ...''</ref>
The assault achieved initial surprise on the colony which normally has about 700 inhabitants, mostly young men and women students...</small></blockquote></ref>
The assault achieved initial surprise on the colony which normally has about 700 inhabitants, mostly young men and women students...</small></blockquote></ref>
On September 29, 1947, the Mufti's ''Arab Higher Committee'', Jamal el-Husseini
Threatened to Dmdrench Holy Land with blood (rejecting the UN).<ref>Thomas J. Hamilton, [https://www.nytimes.com/1947/09/30/archives/palestinian-arabs-reject-un-plans-warn-of-a-battle-jamal-elhusseini.html PALESTINIAN ARABS REJECT U.N. PLANS; WARN OF A BATTLE; Jamal el-Husseini Threatens to Drench Holy Land With Blood 'in Lawful Defense'], ''The New York Times'', Sept. 30, 1947.<blockquote><small>
LAKE SUCCESS, N.Y., Sept. 29 -- Declaring that Palestinian Arabs would accept neither partition nor a federal Palestine, Jamal el-Husseini, spokesman for the Arab Higher Committee, served notice today that they would drench the soil of the Holy Land "with the last drop of our blood in the lawful defense of all and every inch of it."</small></blockquote></ref>
In Feb 1948, Issa Nakhleh had threatened that they meant it when the AHC stated on: "drenching the soil .. with the last drop of our blood in the lawful defense of all and every inch of it." explaining that as "already over 1000 persons have been killed and over 2000 injured."<ref>Statement of 6 February 1948, communicated to Secretary General by Mr. Isa Nakhleh representative of the Arab Higher Committee, UNA, S-624.</ref>
(Nakhleh is infamous for denying the Holocaust and working with neo Nazis for decades).
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