[JohnAziz] He organised clandestine cells that attacked both the British authorities and Jewish communities during the Mandate period, with the goal of opposing both the Mandate itself and Zionism.
These were small, compartmentalised groups built around personal trust, recruited through the social world he moved in as a preacher and community organiser—mosques, workplaces, villages, and local networks. They carried out ambushes and shootings, and also engaged in sabotage, operating on the logic that a disciplined underground could disrupt the conditions enabling Zionist settlement.
| That was when they adamantly defined themselves as part of the Arab nation, not separate Palestinians. They didn’t call themselves jihadis or mujaheddin, but fedayin or raiders. The Palestinian movement was invented in the 1960s when the anti-Israel terrorists got KGB scholarships to study in Moscow. Yasser Arafat head of the Arab national socialist Fatah, the largest group in the PLO, was one of that founding generation, back when most of the Arab terror groups ranged from Socialist to one of-the flavours of Communist. Religion is the opiate of the masses, they thoughtk and look what Islam had done to destroy the Arab soul. |
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