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http://www.oslo-war.com/arafat_eng5.htmDebunking the Arafat Myth
(Middle East News Service)
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Arafat's Husseini-relation Myth:
This myth asserts that Yasser Arafat is the nephew of Hajj Amin Al-Husseini, the late Mufti of Jerusalem and leader of the Palestinian nationalist movement during the first half of the 20th century.
Firstly, some adherents to this claim cite the Al-Husseini name in Mohammed Abd el-Rahman's name as evidence. The position could be reasonable, if, like Western-oriented names, it referred to his biological family. However, as pointed out above, the "Al-Husseini refers to Arafat's familial tribal affiliation, known in the West as an extended family.
Secondly, there existed at the time eleven Al-Husseini clans in Judea, Samaria and Gaza, none of whom were related to the Jerusalem Husseini clan, of which the Mufti was a member.
Arafat's family history is grounded in Egypt and Gaza. There is an "Al-Qudwa Street" in Gaza where Yasser Arafat's ancestors lived. The Al-Husseinis of Gaza are not related to the Hajj Amin Al-Husseini's family. Arafat's family is the Al-Qudwas.
However, Yasser Arafat DOES have a connection to the Mufti, and this connection leads us to another Arafat-orchestrated myth - That he was deputy commander under Abd el-Kader Al-Husseini and fought in the battle for Jerusalem. To present the truth, we must see the Al-Husseini connection and Arafat's actual participation in the 1947-1948 Palestinian-Israeli war.
The Mufti had fled Palestine, after Britain ordered his arrest for his participation in the 1936-39 anti-British intifadha. He fled to Nazi Germany, and proceeded to recruit 30,000 Balkan Moslems for the SS. He would later agree to recruit Arabs in the Middle East to aid the Nazis in the North African campaign. This, in exchange for a pledge from Hitler that Germany would implement the extermination of the Jews in Palestine, should they successfully occupy it from Britain.
In 1946, Hajj-Amin returned to Palestine as the result of receiving amnesty from the British Mandatory administration. At this time, a 17-year-old Yasser Arafat began a personal relationship with the Mufti. This was the result of the close relationship of Sheikh Hassan Abu-Sa`oud, the patriarch of his late mother's family and a distant relative to Arafat, who was an advisor and confidant of the Mufti.
Arafat first served the Mufti and his Higher Arab Committee as a courier to the surrounding Arab countries and the Arab League. His responsibilities included the collection of donations for the Arab cause. Moreover, he was Al-Husseini's observer of pro-Palestinian activities on Egyptian campuses.
In 1947, Arafat was placed in charge of arms procurement and shipment for the Mufti's Irregular forces - The Holy Strugglers.
Arafat has claimed to have had a "close relationship" to the commander of the Mufti's Holy Strugglers, Abd el-Kader Al-Husseini (father of Feisal Husseini), and cousin to Hajj Amin.
While the two of them often met in the Mufti's Cairo office, that was the extent of their relationship.
Arafat's Cairo-based political career ended in 1948. At that point, Yasser Arafat and his fellow students from Cairo University went to Gaza as part of a contingent of Al-Ikwan Al-Muslimin (Moslem Brotherhood) a virtually all-Egyptian group, with few, if any, Palestinians. This would indicate that he viewed himself as others did - as an Egyptian Moslem. It would further indicate that he was, at least at that time, a member of the Moslem Brotherhood.
As for his claim to have served as "special military assistant" to the Arab legendary fighter for Jerusalem, Abd el-Kader al-Husseini, the actual deputy commander was Kamel Irekat. This, in addition to the fact that the Moslem Brotherhood fighters were never near the Jerusalem theatre of combat. They remained in Gaza and fought with the Egyptians.
In his book, Arafat: From Defender to Dictator (London: Bloomsbury Publishing, Plc. 1999), Palestinian-American journalist-author Sa`id K. Abu-Rish writes: "Traumatic as his military experience in Gaza must have been, his family did not suffer from the Arab defeat in the way most Palestinians did - he was not a child of Al-Nakba or the disaster, as Palestinians call the 1948 defeat, nor did his father loose the source of his livelihood." (p. 19).
(Middle East News Service 11/23/00)
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