Cohen sees the Arabs of Mandatory Palestine as split between two positions . There were those who agreed with al-Husayni that all of Palestine must remain Arab and the Zionists must be fought , and there were those who argued that the Zionists were too powerful to be defeated and that , therefore , the path of wisdom lay in some sort of co-existence . According to Cohen , the Husayni clan tried to rid itself of opposition beginning in the 1920s . In 1929 Sheikh Musa Hadeib was murdered near the Jaffa Gate in Jerusalem . In the 1929 Palestine riots Husayni spread the falsehood that the Jews intended to tear down the Al Aqsa mosque and Dome of the Rock shrine on the Temple Mount . Over the course of the next decade , Husayni had a thousand Arabs murdered , 500 in 1938 alone . In 1939 , the Husaynis were paying 100 Palestine pounds to assassins who murdered important " traitors " , 25 pounds for petty " traitors " , and 10 pounds for murdering a Jew
1929 Palestine riots
1929 Palestine riots
Army of Shadows: Palestinian Collaboration with Zionism, 1917–1948