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Jamal Husseini was Deputy of AHC (Arab Higher Committee). Stated in 1946: “<font color=red>America is our greatest enemy</font>.”

Jamal Husseini was Deputy of AHC (Arab Higher Committee). Stated in 1946: “<font color=red>America is our greatest enemy</font>.”

Declared a '''suicidal Jihad''' – British weren’t impressed!<ref>Benny Morris, "1948: a history of the first Arab-Israeli war, (Yale University Press,  2008), pp: 34, 59, 82, 89

Declared a '''suicidal Jihad''' – British weren’t impressed!<ref>Benny Morris, "1948: a history of the first Arab-Israeli war", (Yale University Press,  2008), pp: 34, 59, 82, 89

[http://books.google.com/books?id=CC7381HrLqcC&pg=PA34 p. 34]

[http://books.google.com/books?id=CC7381HrLqcC&pg=PA34 p. 34]

One Foreign Office cable, in the wake of the report, spoke of Arab hatred of the Jews as being greater than that of the Nazis. The AHC—in a letter from Jamal Husseini to Attlee—issued an “ultimatum” and threatened “jihad.” In a follow-up interview with British high commissioner Sir Alan Cunningham, Husseini declared his willingness “to die” for the cause. When Cunningham responded that this didn’t really trouble him and that what worried him was the welfare of “the ordinary Arab population,” Husseini rejoined that “they were prepared to die too.”

One Foreign Office cable, in the wake of the report, spoke of Arab hatred of the Jews as being greater than that of the Nazis. The AHC—in a letter from Jamal Husseini to Attlee—issued an “ultimatum” and threatened “jihad.” In a follow-up interview with British high commissioner Sir Alan Cunningham, Husseini declared his willingness “to die” for the cause. When Cunningham responded that this didn’t really trouble him and that what worried him was the welfare of “the ordinary Arab population,” Husseini rejoined that “they were prepared to die too.”