Now, on the subject of the Mufti, he was released from jail and appointed to that post by the British, and against the will of the majority of Arabs in the region who thought he was a thug. The British did this as a part of their tactic of playing one side against the other. I'd say their tactic worked quite well.

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I almost forgot. It was Britian's first Palestine High Commissioner, Sir Herbert Samuel, who appointed Haj Muhammed Amin al-Husseini to the position of Mufti. Sir Herbert Samuel was Jewish.

SInce there was no polling or elections done among the Arabs of Palestine at the time, CarolC is no position to explain "the will of the majority of Arabs." It is not unreasonable to expect in that region, given its violent history of assassination, that he would not have survived for any length of time had he been as unpopular as CarolC decalres.

BTW, Sir Herbert Samuel may have started out with good intentions, but ultimately, he was just a token who took all of his marching orders from London. In addition to appointing the Mufti, he also helped prevent signifigant immigration of Jews to Palestine.

Quite obviously, London appointed Samuel because he was Jewish and completely under the thumb of his political masters at Downing Street.