“…and [the Mufti] had no issue with the local Jewry.”
Nonsense. Of course he did. And I noted the issue for you LONG AGO, but it didn’t fit your superficial, ideologically-based template — so, characteristically, you ignored it. (Quelle surprise.)
Hajj Amin al-Husseini came from substantial wealth: going back hundreds of years
— and based on great landownership in a ‘tradition’ which saw nothing wrong w/ squeezing their fellahin workers & tenant farmers for everything they could get out of them, and without regard to their well-being as they struggled to stay afloat.
The position of Mayor of Jerusalem was virtually a family sinecure for the Husseini clan, more than a dozen of whose members had held the position over the past couple of centuries. Amin’s father & older half-brother had both been muftis.
Then there were those family members who collected taxes on behalf of the Ottoman regime: which made a practice of auctioning-off its tax-collection rights to the HIGHEST BIDDER, who was then permitted to keep part of what he collected.
Hajj Amin was vitally concerned to MAINTAIN this status quo in Palestine, to ensure that NOBODY DISTURB “the sweets of privilege” (both economic & political) that his family & clan had, for centuries, COUNTED ON and benefited hugely from. That was his bottom line.
The notion that the formerly dhimmi Jew should now expect to be treated as equal to any Arab was bad enough.
But that this utterly ‘detestable’ al-Yahud should shrug off his erstwhile dhimmitude by ALSO treating his new Arab fellahin EMPLOYEES w/ the basic dignity, courtesy & decency to which ALL human beings are entitled — while paying them the best wages he could afford to give them for their work, and providing them w/ wholesome living & working conditions, to boot — was absolutely OUTRAGEOUS in Hajj Amin’s view.
Understand that until now, this state of affairs was virtually UNHEARD OF throughout most (if not all) of the Arab world: and if other employers should, at this juncture, begin competing w/ these Zionist Jewish employers for downtrodden fellahin workers — by offering them comparable wages and similarly decent living/working conditions — then the aforesaid SWEETS OF PRIVILEGE would most certainly become a thing of the past.
What’s more, fewer independent (and tenant) farmers would then, in turn, be forced off their lands (and into the long-familiar, nomadic Bedouin existence) by skyrocketing interest rates & hopeless indebtedness: which distresses invariably accrued to the advantage of effendi families (like the Husseinis), who then would typically grab up their lands for a song — and add them to their own, already massive holdings.
Yes, these disturbingly uppity Jews — and their ‘foreign’ IDEAS — would most assuredly have to go; permanently. And by any means necessary.
In the end, THAT was the Mufti’s core ‘issue’: around which all the other ones (religious, political, cultural, economic, nationalist) would ultimately be constructed.
“You, as per usual, have NOTHING but lies, hate and blame. NaziScum!”
YOU, as per usual, have most masterfully just provided an astonishingly accurate portrait of yourself: indeed, nothing but lies, hate and blame — and, yes, NaziScum.