1. Musa Alami was born in the Musrara neighborhood of Jerusalem into a prominent family.
13 Facts About Musa Alami
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Musa Alami was first taught at the school of the American Colony and at the French Ecole des Freres in Jaffa.
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Musa Alami retained a positive view of the Ottoman empire, recalling that the Arabs regarded the Turks as partners rather than oppressors, and above all, that Palestine was largely ruled by Palestinian officials.
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Musa Alami claimed that "a greater degree of freedom and self-government existed in Palestine than in many Turkish provinces".
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In 1934, Musa Alami participated in talks with the leaders of the Jewish community in Palestine David Ben-Gurion and Moshe Sharett.
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Musa Alami told Ben-Gurion that the most the Jews could expect would be a Jewish enclave around Tel Aviv in a Muslim Palestine.
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Musa Alami was ousted from his government position as legal adviser by the British authorities and went into exile in Beirut, and later Baghdad.
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Musa Alami was a major contributor to the White Paper of 1939.
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Musa Alami founded and headed the Arab Office, which presented to the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry.
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Musa Alami was known for "closeness to the pro-British Iraqi regime", which "provoked the suspicions of many Palestinian figures".
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Musa Alami sold land to Zionists for the establishment of Tirat Zvi in the Beit She'an Valley.
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Musa Alami raised funds in order to build villages for the refugees and launched an agricultural farm whose produce was exported.
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Musa Alami died in Amman on 8 June 1984 as a result of circulatory collapse.