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 : Source says ""And Musa al-‘Alami surmised that the mufti would agree to partition if he were promised that he would rule the Arab state.""  The key word here is ""surmised"" which indicates that Alami was making a conjecture, not reporting something he knew.  Ykantor's misreporting of this, which NMMNG somehow failed to notice, is shameful. Looking at Cohen's source, a book of Khalaf that seems quite good, we find that this is an assertion made by Alami in a secret meeting with a British representative in which Alami made clear that he detested Husseini.  Khalaf remarks ""Although the Mufti most certainly had the ambition to be the supreme leader of the the Arabs of Palestine, there is neither evidence nor indications to substantiate Alami's claim that the Mufti would have, under any circumstances, accepted partition."" I don't think any of this belongs here; there are enough facts to fill out this page without adding conjectures made by political opponents.  "