Annt Hu DeShalit

In 1948, while Hadassah and the Hebrew University were assisting the British, Palestinian Arabs led by the Mufti of Jerusalem, Hajj Amin el-Husseini, were fighting a guerrilla war against the British and Jews. In late 1941, as a refugee in Berlin, the Mufti used radio broadcasts to urge Arabs to become fifth columns in the lands where they lived and to commit sabotage and to murder Allied troops and Jews. The Jewish people base their claim to the Land of Israel on at least four premises: 1) The Jewish people settled and developed the land. 2) The international community granted political sovereignty in Palestine to the Jewish people. 3) The territory was captured in defensive wars. 4) God promised the land to the patriarch Abraham.