There was no Mufti treaty with Hitler; the limits on Jewish immigration were Britain's 1939 White Paper

The land was not empty whatsoever and rather so full of orange trees that it was a major Palestinian export.

Historically, Palestinian opposition to Zionism was overwhelmingly national and territorial based rather than religious based. The early Palestinian national movement, which occurred in the early 20th century as a response to Zionism and British colonial rule under the British Mandate, included Palestinian Christians prominently, which disproves his whole “it’s Muslim religious fanaticism” based argument.

And “Muslims have never been willing to give back land” is just a bigoted generalization, not a historical fact.

When Saladin retook Jerusalem from the Crusaders in 1187, he did not massacre the population, in explicit, deliberate contrast to the Crusaders’ slaughter of Muslims and Jews when they took the city in 1099.

The Ottoman Empire gave up enormous amounts of land: the Balkans, Greece, North Africa, the Levant.

Since 1967 Israel has occupied the West Bank, East Jerusalem, Gaza, and the Golan Heights. The Golan was annexed in 1981 and yet to be returned. UN Security Council Resolution 242 (1967) called for withdrawal from territories occupied in the war and that withdrawal from the Palestinian territories never happened.

Amin al-Husseini did collaborate with Nazis but he did not “convince fanatical Muslims to flood into the area”. He didn’t import Muslims, the Arab population was already the long-settled majority. There was never a “treaty with Hitler.” Al-Husseini met with Hitler and sought Axis support for Arab independence and against Zionism, but there was no formal treaty.

The immigration restrictions were British policy, not a Mufti-Hitler deal. The White Paper, issued by the Chamberlain government in May 1939 (after the 1936-39 Arab Revolt), limited Jewish immigration to Palestine to 75,000 over the following five years, after which further Jewish immigration would require Arab consent.

First published on Quora: my original debunk.