The Bêtes Noire - The Men Who Destroyed the Palestinian Arab Future
1. Hajj Amin-al-Husseini
No-one has caused such 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.
2. Mohammed Abdel Rahman Abdel Raouf al-Qudwa al-Husseini - Yasser Arafat
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.
3. Gamal Abdel Nasser Hussein
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.
4. King Hussein of Jordan
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. His Arab Legion attacked Jerusalem and the West Bank and Jerusalem were then unexpectedly 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.
5. Adolf Hitler
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.
For simplicity I will refer to the local Muslim inhabitants as 'Arabs.' A significant minority of the Arab population was Christian but Christian mobs did not leave churches, gather weapons and attack the Jews, or at least, this has not been reported.