Immediately after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the agents of the FBI being hot on his heels, he commited suicide.<ref name=fodb/><ref name=nyt>[https://www.nytimes.com/1942/01/09/archives/head-of-arab-league-commits-suicide-here-dr-shatara-brooklyn.html Head Of Arab League Commits Suicide Here; Dr. Shatara, Brooklyn Physician, Favored Palestine Round-Table].
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On the eve of Pearl Harbor attack, it was being operated as part and parcel of the political machine headed by the German-American Bund of the Nazi Party. The ''Weckruf und Beobachter'', the Nazi official newspaper in the US at thetime, there appeared month after month the reports of the activities of the ''Arab National League''.<ref name=usc1947>Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the ... Congress. (1947). United States: U.S. Government Printing Office. [https://books.google.com/books?id=58oCq8b6mRMC&pg=SL1-PA4134 p.4134]</ref>
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Immediately after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the agents of the FBI being hot on his heels, he commited suicide.<ref name=fodb/>ref name=usc1947/><ref name=nyt>[https://www.nytimes.com/1942/01/09/archives/head-of-arab-league-commits-suicide-here-dr-shatara-brooklyn.html Head Of Arab League Commits Suicide Here; Dr. Shatara, Brooklyn Physician, Favored Palestine Round-Table].