No-one has caused as much terrible damage to the Palestinians than Hajj Amin-al-Husseini, the so-called Grand Mufti of Jerusalem. He was a scion of the grandest and most powerful of the notable Effendi families, the Husseinis and had more Palestinians murdered on his direct orders than any British soldier or Israeli. His unwavering treachery to his Palestinian rivals possibly matched that of his murderous hatred of Jews.

In 1929 there were 174,610 Jews living in Palestine. Had world events continued along as expected there would never be enough Jews in Palestine to be able to compete militarily with the Arabs and the British would have been powerful enough to remain in Palestine. Jewish immigration from Germany skyrocketed in the early 1930s, infuriating the Arabs to the point of revolting against the British in 1936. The British army put the revolt down with great severity by 1939 leaving the Arabs unable, for whatever reason, to put up a real fight against the Jews in 1948.

An ascetic activist, preacher, imam, and teacher known for his piety, simple lifestyle, and rejection of material comforts. He served as a prominent Muslim preacher in the Al-Istiqlal mosque in the slums of Haifa. He preached militant jihad against British "infidels" to landless Arab workers. He formed the "Black Hand" (al-Kaff al-Aswad) nad took to the hills with some acolytes. They killed a Jewish policeman and were quickly found and killed by police. He inspired the 1936 Arab Revolt which weakened Palestinian society so much that they were defeated by the Jews in the 1948 war.

A distant relative of the Mufti and number two in the destruction of the possibilities for peaceful and prosperous Palestinian lives. He was an archetype of the Oriental despot, plotting and planning against the Israelis and his rivals. He was kept busy distributing money, donated for the Palestinian people, to his henchmen, buying off dangerous rivals and spending billions to keep himself as the undisputed Sultan of the PLO. He rivalled the Mufti in the number of Palestinians he had murdered. He still had a billion dollars left when he died.

His unrealistic pan-Arabism and policies damaged the whole of the Middle East, most severely Egypt, Syria, Jordan and the Palestinians. He personally and treacherously told King Hussein and Bashar al-Assad that the Egyptian Air Force had destroyed the Israeli Airforce on June 7th 1967 thereby inspiring them to commit their armies to attacking Israel. This was disastrous for both of them, the Syrians lost the Golan Heights and the Jordanians lost the West Bank and Jerusalem.

The Israelis had informed King Hussein that if he didn't attack in 1967, neither would they. He couldn't resist the chance to make a mark amongst his Arab ruling peers, though he knew they despised him. Nasser's golden tongue could somehow hypnotise Arabs into believing anything they wanted to believe and Hussein was not immune. On his orders the Jordanian army attacked Jerusalem. The West Bank and Jerusalem were then surprisingly conquered by the Jews and Jordan gained the PLO. The PLO nearly destroyed Jordan and nearly killed Hussein 20 years later in Black September after which they went on to destroy Lebanon.

The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem who led the Palestinians for 30 years straight to the Nakba. He controlled his Palestinian rivals with duplicity, fear and assassination while he completely failed against the Jews. In 1939 when the British surrendered to fear of the upcoming war he refused their offer in the White Paper that would have given the Palestinians what they been demanding for decades because he decided an alliance with Hitler was a more attractive option.

A martyr or failed terrorist who in the early 1930s created a secret society of peasants and day labourers to fight the Jews and the British army. He began a small scale guerilla war against the British and Jews and was killed within 2 weeks. Accepted as the inspiration for the 1936 Arab Revolt against the British government which damaged Palestinian society so deeply that their war on the Jews in 1948 was a disastrous failure. He is the paradigmatic Palestinian leader and hero, rhetorically boastful, unrealistic, unorganised, incompetent and a failure.

The leader of the Army of the Holy War in 1948. He had some early successes during the first weeks of the war attacking Jewish supply convoys and blockading the Jewish-held section of Jerusalem. They were responsible for major sabotage attacks against Jewish infrastructure in February and March and fighting within the Jerusalem region. Their greatest successes were the destruction of the convoy carrying 78 Jewish doctors, nurses and patients and the taking of Kastel in which he was killed. Kastel was then abandoned when the fighters left to join the thousands in his funeral procession from the Dome of the Rock to his burial in the al-Aqsa Mosque compound. Massive amounts of the otherwise scarce live ammunition were fired into the air as a tribute to the fallen commander of the Army of the Holy War.

A distant relative of the Mufti and number two in the destruction of the possibilities for peaceful and prosperous Palestinian lives. He was an archetype of the Oriental despot, plotting and planning against the Israelis and his rivals. He was kept busy distributing money, donated for the Palestinian people, to his henchmen, buying off dangerous rivals and spending billions to keep himself as the undisputed Sultan of the PLO. He rivalled the Mufti in the number of Palestinians he had murdered. He still had a billion dollars left when he died.

His unrealistic pan-Arabism and policies damaged the whole of the Middle East, most severely Egypt, Syria, Jordan and the Palestinians. He personally and treacherously told King Hussein and Bashar al-Assad that the Egyptian Air Force had destroyed the Israeli Airforce on June 7th 1967 thereby inspiring them to commit their armies to attacking Israel. This was disastrous for both of them, the Syrians lost the Golan Heights and the Jordanians lost the West Bank and Jerusalem.

In 1929 ther were ???? Jews in Palestine. Had world events continued along as expected there would never be enough Jews in Palestine to be able to compete militarily with the Arabs and the British would have been powerful enough to remain in Palestine. Jewish immigration from Germany skyrocketed in the early 1930s, infuriating the Arabs to the point of revolting against the British in 1936. The British army put the revolt down with great severity by 1939 leaving the Arabs unable, for whatever reason, to put up a real fight against the Jews in 1948.