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No Muslim can be fully settled in the contemporary world as long as he/she believes that the problem of Palestine remains unsettled and that no ‘just’ solution has been achieved. This chapter looks at some of these reactions, and also at how Palestine has divided world opinion. In the future, Muslim renewal must be achieved alongside an equitable solution of the Arab/Israeli problem.
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H. Beeley, ‘Ernest Bevin and Palestine’, in D. Hopwood ed., Studies in Arab History (London 1990), p. 124.
- 2.
Arab Awakening, p. 411.
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Ibid.
- 4.
A. Hourani , Great Britain and Arab Nationalism (unpublished report), p. 60.
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T. Hodgkin , ‘George Antonius , Palestine and the 1930s’, in Studies in Arab History, pp. 89, 98.
- 6.
H. Beeley, ‘Ernest Bevin and Palestine’, in ibid., p. 117.
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Hodgkin , op.cit., p. 89.
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In 2016, quite incredibly, the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed that the Mufti had inspired Hitler with his policy of Endlosung.
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Hourani , Report, p. 60.
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Toynbee , Study of History, Xll, pp. 138–139.
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International Affairs, Jan., 1931, p. 44.
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Ibid., p. 58.
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Study Vlll, p. 290.
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A.D. Breck, ‘A.J. Toynbee , The Jews and the Middle East’, in A.J. Toynbee , Presentation Volume (Baghdad, 1979), pp. 7–8.
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International Affairs, Oct. 1964, p. 641.
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Hodgkin , op.cit., p. 102.
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Ibid., p. 83.
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The Middle East Centre, 1951–2001, p. 56.
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M.J. Gonzalez, Raymond Carr , the Curiosity of the Fox (Brighton, 2013), p. 341.
- 20.
Ibid.
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The Middle East Centre, p. 56. Carr could also be rather foolish at times. He once introduced me to a visitor to College as ‘the local representative of the Palestine Liberation Organization’ . In 1973 the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies was founded at a meeting convened by several leading British academics interested in the Middle East at the premises of the British Academy. Hourani was elected president and I secretary. Immediately, Bernard Lewis, a Fellow of the BA, persuaded its secretary to write to Hourani insisting that BRISMES was an illegal body as ‘British Society’ was a term of art to be used only by associate bodies of the Academy. Hourani forthwith resigned and I was invited to tea in his Oxford home by Professor Edward Ullendorff of the School of Oriental and African Studies (and Fellow of the BA). I went and he did his best to try (unsuccessfully) to persuade me to abandon BRISMES. The Academy soon saw the folly of its ways and Hourani was re-elected.
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Ibid., p. 51.
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Raymond Carr , p. 345. I was once invited to lunch with the Berlins —a very pleasant occasion but one clearly aimed at winning me over.
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History of the Arab Peoples, pp. 413–414.
- 25.
Ibid., pp. 413–414.
- 26.
A waqf in Islamic law is a donation for charitable purposes; once given the gift is inalienable and cannot be recovered. The Mufti of Jerusalem regarded his country in the same manner.
- 27.
H. Beeley, in Studies in Arab History, p. 117.
- 28.
R.L. Nettler, Past Trials, Present Tribulations (Oxford, 1987), p. 81.
- 29.
Ibid., p. 85.
- 30.
Ibid., p. 87.
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Hopwood, D. (2018). Palestine: The Root Cause of Muslim Despair. In: Islam's Renewal. St Antony's Series. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-75202-0_14
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