COMMON MYTHS VS FACTS #14

The conflict has never been about land but about Arabs rejecting Jewish self-determination in their ancestral homeland. 

Beginning in 1919, Grand Mufti and ally to Adolf Hitler, Haj Amin al Husseini, organized, “fedayeen,” (“one who sacrifices himself”), small groups of terrorists who were willing to die while killing Jews. 

“The conflict” is often alleged to have begun with the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948 or as a result of Israel’s capture in 1967 of territories occupied by Jordan. But systematic violence began in early 1920 with murderous assaults by groups of local Arabs and by Muslim nomads against Jews. 

In 1921, Arab rioters attacked Jews in Jaffa and its environs. The leader behind these attacks was Haj Amin al Husseini, who assembled the violent riots over Jewish immigration.

Between 1918 and 1928, the Jewish population in “Palestine” doubled, to about 150,000. Palestinian-Arabs concern for this were initiated by Haj Amin al Husseini who in 1929 orchestrated violence and murderous acts using the Western Wall as the focal point.

The Six-Day War of 1967, in which Israel, attacked by 13 combatants,  took a significant amount of land. Israel offered to return land for peace, but the Arab world’s response were the “3 No’s”: NO peace, NO negotiations, and NO recognition of Israel.