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At this rate, every Tom, Dick and Harriet will soon be an anti-Semite
Defining critics as anti-Semites gives the Israeli right wing a blank check to defy the world, which hates us anyway.
By Chemi Shalev
@ http://www.haaretz.com/blogs/west-of-eden/.premium-1.622603
I would post it all but I dont want to give KD any excuse 
...of bullshit.
Of course you think Hamas is less radical and extreme than Likud...
I suppose that's proof of Israel's Nazi genocidal intent in Lebanon from 2006.
And Hamas is less radical than Likud.
Jefferson23 bizzaro world. Gotta love it.
1) The Mufti was never "Palestine's first leader." The Mufti of Jerusalem is, and always has been, a primarily ceremonial title. The British decided to treat the position as some sort of central authority, mostly for their own convenience. Sort of like how they would decide who was 'in charge' in all their other colonies.
2) The position of Mufti is an elected position, decided by the scholars and religious leaders of Jerusalem. Hajj Amin al-Husseini... was never elected. In fact, he lost, when he stood for the election. He lost badly. he came in fifth out of five men, in fact. If this were compared to the US presidential election, then al-Husseini came in behind "Donald Duck" and "Myself, lol."
3) A big, big reason for him coming in dead last was because, as I'm sure you know, amin al-Husseini was an extremly antisemitic asshole. he was apparently instrumental in the Nabi Musa riots of 1920. he was seen by his peers and co-religionists as an extremist whose elevation to Mufti would have only made problems worse. it certainly didn't help that he was exiled in Syri pending a 10-year imprisonment sentence decided in absentia.
4) But you know, pffft, elections, who needs 'em right? Deciding that putting a member of the al-Husayni clan into the position would make things smooth for the British, the High Commissioner completely pardoned al-Husseini, and had him installed as Grand Mufti of Jerusalem.
5) Now unfortunately for the British commissioner, despite the grandiose sound of the title, "Grand Mufti of Jerusalem" basically just meant this guy was a caretaker of Jerusalem's Muslim holy sites. It never conferred any political power to the mufti, beyond what any given people decided to acknowledge in his favor; basically a symbolic figurehead. So, since this wasn't useful, the Comissioner created the "Supreme Muslim Council of Palestine." And, weirdly, he made al-Husseini president of said newly-minted council.
6) The British High commissioner in Palestine at the time, in case you didn't know, was one Herbert Samuel. an ardently Zionist British Jew. One may wonder if he was just very confused. One may also wonder the same of Chaim Weizmann and Richard Meinertzhagen, who had tried to get al-Husseini off the hook by trying to blame Allenby's chief of Staff for the speeches al-Hussieni gave that incited those riots. One may also wonder why zo many zionists seem to be walking in tandem with antisemites so often - or in the case of meinertzhagen, being both at the same time.
7) Anyway. Haj Amin al-Husseini, yes. as Mufti of Jerusalem, and as President of the Supreme Muslim Council of Palestine, he... behaved pretty much like anyone could have expected him to behave. he was an integral figure in the 1929 riots (Samuel, again, tried to erase any blame from "his man" . He worked against the actual Palestinian nationalist movement, since these groups pretty uniformly despised the political hegemony the commissioner granted al-Husseini. he invented the World Islamic congress, and made himself president of it (because why not, I guess) and began recruiting young men for a paramilitary movement against the british, in a sort of unrealized tandem with haganah doing the same thing among young Jewish men. Basically, batshit motherfucker who wanted to be King Amin I of Palestine, right?
8) Which brings us to the 1936 Arab revolt... which Husseini was a key part of. Remember what i just said about recruiting people to act agaisnt the british? well, that's exactly what happened, and Husseini's peopel attacked british officials, Zionists, civilians, the bunch, basically. The comissioner - Arthur Grenfell Wauchope - was apparently not as... confused as his predecessor, and set out an arrest warrant for al-Husseini. having been tipped off, Husseini fled Palestine. His power base, which was entirely centered around his person, basically crumbled to nothing. he lost any resemblance of political power, instead becoming an exile wandering the earth. we'll get back to that.
so. By August 1937, haj Amin al-Husseini was Grand mufti of nothing, was the president of nothing, held leadership over no one and had exactly no political resources. So, in case you're bad at dates, two years prior to World War Two, Amin al-Husseini was a pauper on the run from the British, hopping safehouses in Iraq, Iran, and Russia, eventually managing to get into Germany in 1941. how exactly he managed his is still a mystery, i like to imagine he rode in on a sweeping hurricne of his own hot air, like some sort of demented Mary Poppins.
Now, what does this mean for your argument? well, it means that what this asshole was up to in World War 2 is entirely irrelevant to anything involving Palestine. because you see, he had absolutely nothing going on in Palestine. Palestine remained a British holding. Palestinian grains fed allied forces. Palestinian men - Jewish and Arab - fought in Greece, Italy, and North Africa (though most simply held guard duty in Egypt.) Amin, meanwhile, was a lonely little goblin tapped in berlin.
So what did he do during World War 2? well, he of course urged Hitler to turn his forces towards Palestine to "liberate Palestine from the Jews" - Hitler, not being completely insane, decided that he'd better finish getting his ass kicked by hte Russians before open a - what, fifth, at that point? - front in the war. So instead Hitler patted Amin on the ass, told him to eat lots of broccoli, and sent him to recruit Muslims in southeastern Europe. Which he did... and they turned out to be the most mutinous units in the Wehrmacht, and some of the most prone to "enemy sympathy" towards the Jews and Roma. meanwhile their Serbian neighbors, well, those guys were all gung-ho about the Final solution... Bosniaks, Albanians, and Macedonians... not so much apparently. So, big failure there, which is kind of a defining theme of this guy's life and career.
And what impact did that have on Palestine? Diddle-squat. What meaning does it bear towards the modern issues of palestine? Same thing, diddle-squat.
Amin al-Husseini was a crazy man, appointed by a British Zionist high commissioner in order to try to wring some sort of political goal out of him. He turned out to be too crazy, got chased out, and ended up trapped in Berlin being more useless than Eva Braun's nether regions. Cliff notes version, sure, but... that's pretty much it. He was a nutbar who achieved nothing except when it was handed to him, and fauiled even that much.
Your attempts to cast Palestine in his image is historically ignorant and obviously deceitful.