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The Muslim National Associations (MNA)Among them was ''al-Jam'iyya al-Islamiyya al-Wataniyya'' (), founded in 1921, and was active until 1923. was a
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-inspired and funded organization founded in
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in the 1920s. It had branch offices in a number of Palestinian towns, and was led by the mayor of Haifa,
Hassan Bey Shukri Hassan Bey Shukri (; 1876–1940) was a mayor of Haifa and president of the Muslim National Associations. Biography Hassan Shukri was born in Jerusalem and moved to Haifa as a child. The Turks appointed him mayor of the city in 1914. In 1914, as ...
and Sheikh Musa Hadeib, head of the farmers' party of
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. According to the Israeli historian
Benny Morris Benny Morris (; born 8 December 1948) is an Israeli historian. He was a professor of history in the Middle East Studies department of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in the city of Beersheba, Israel. Morris was initially associated with the ...
, the organization was Zionist-supported and formed as a counterweight to the nationalistic and
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which had been formed in opposition to the
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and the creation of a Jewish National Home in
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.The Tangled Truth
by Benny Morris, ''The New Republic''; 7/5/08


Members

The organisation consisted of Arabs who were employed by the
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and was organised by (1868–1947)He was a Jewish representative on a three-member Land Commission appointed in August 1920 by Herbert Samuel, the first British High Commissioner of Palestine, to assess state land in Palestine. Kalvarisky was a senior, European-born
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(PJCA) official who settled in the Galilee in the mid-1890s
Chaim Margalioth Kalvarisky (Kalvaryski)
/ref> who headed its Arab Department. According to Huneidi, Kalvarisky had sought elements among the Arab political elite who opposed the
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based on running personal and family feuds.
Hassan Bey Shukri Hassan Bey Shukri (; 1876–1940) was a mayor of Haifa and president of the Muslim National Associations. Biography Hassan Shukri was born in Jerusalem and moved to Haifa as a child. The Turks appointed him mayor of the city in 1914. In 1914, as ...
was the mayor of
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and became the president of the Muslim National Associations. Musa Hadeib, from the village of
Dawaymeh Al-Dawayima, Dawaymeh or Dawayma () was a Palestinian town, located in the former Hebron Subdistrict of Mandatory Palestine, and in what is now the Lakhish region, some 15 kilometres south-east of Kiryat Gat.Zafrir Rinat'Bulldozing Palestinian H ...
near
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, was also head of the
Mount Hebron The Hebron Hills, also known as Mount Hebron (, ), are a mountain ridge, geographic region, and geologic formation, constituting the southern part of the Judean Mountains. The Hebron Hills are located in the southern West Bank. During the Iro ...
farmers' party. Cohen, Hillel '' Army of Shadows: Palestinian collaboration with Zionism, 1917–1948''. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009. p. 15–17


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