{"id":277704,"date":"2026-09-04T07:14:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T07:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/277704\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T07:14:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T07:14:14","slug":"every-time-faisal-al-husseini-spoke-of-peace-israel-jailed-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/277704\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Every Time Faisal al-Husseini Spoke of Peace, Israel Jailed Him&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh x103ahzr x6ikm8r x10wlt62\">Among the Palestinian exiles who visited the home of the Al-Husseini family in Cairo in the early 1950s was a 19-year-old youth named Mohammed Abdel-Raouf Arafat As Qudwa al-Husseini, who had been born in that city. The young man, who would later change his name to Yasser Arafat, often played with 8-year-old Faisal. The boy&#8217;s father, commander of the Holy Jihad Army, had been killed in the battle for the Qastel, a village outside Jerusalem, during the war of 1948. Arafat would sit the boy on his lap and read him verses from the Quran.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Among the Palestinian exiles who visited the home of the Al-Husseini family in Cairo in the early 1950s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277705,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[33],"tags":[17914,41032,1411,37,1685,17077,17667,47012],"class_list":["post-277704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-east-jerusalem","tag-fatah","tag-hamas","tag-israel","tag-israel-palestine","tag-palestinian-authority","tag-plo","tag-yasser-arafat"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/117211539812254824","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}