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 ::: I'll repeat: ""You won't find this [quotation] in a contemporary account, even as a second-hand report."" and none has been given.  I just looked at every reference to the Mufti in the Palestine Post from Nov 1947 to Aug 1948.  Nada. This whole episode is a disgraceful attempt at portraying the 1948 war as one between Jews and Nazis.  This makes a mockery of both historical fact and Wikipedia standards.  If Ian and I wanted to play by such rules it would be easy:  ""Where did they come by such a measure of cruelty, like Nazis? ...Is there no more humane way of expelling the inhabitants than by such methods?"" (Written by the leader of the Jewish National Fund in the Galilee in 1948 after being briefed by a government official on the behavior of Jewish soldiers. Full citation available.)  Finding a dozen things like that, all of them sourced to primary documents that still exist (not claims about radio broadcasts that someone later claimed to have heard) would be easy.  The reason we are not adding things like that to the article is that we have standards.   "