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30,000 Wahabis Soon to Invade Palestine Safed Grand Mufti Says

October 24, 1929
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Thirty thousand Wahabis from Nejd will soon invade Palestine, is the statement alleged to have been made by the Grand Mufti of Safed, by way of comfort to the distracted relatives of the three Arabs. Ahmed Jabour and the Raneim brothers, condemned to death for their part in the Safed massacre.

When the relatives of the condemned surrounded the house of the Grand Mufti, accusing him of responsibility for their plight and shouting “You are eating and sleeping normally, unmindful of the fate of the condemned, “the Mufti is alleged to have announced the coming of the Wahabis “to save Palestine, including the condemned.”

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