The “Aliph Ba.” Arab paper of Damascus, reports that wealthy Syrians are being canvassed by the Jerusaem Grand Mufti to aid the Palestine Moslem Supreme Council “to withstand Zionist machinations.”
The Mufti repeats his allegations that the Jews “have designs on the Mosque of Omar and on the Cave of the Machpelah at Hebron, where the Hebrew patriarchs are buried.” This allegation has been formally denied by Musa Kasim Pasha in Jerusalem, who submitted a written declaration to this effect to the Palestine government.
Rumors of Jewish designs on the Mosque of Omar have been so sedulously circulated that it is still necessary for the Zionist Executive to bring the sheiks of Gaza and Hebron regions to Jerusalem to convince them the Mosque of Omar is still standing and in Moslem control.
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