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On December 2, the University of Al-Azhar religious scholars, the most respected in the Sunni Muslim word, called for holy war against the Zionists. [1]


At the Jericho Conference on 1 December 1948, 2,000 Palestinian delegates called for unification of Palestine & Transjordan as a step toward full Arab unity."[2]

  1. ^ "Partition of Palestine and Declaration of Jihad", cited in Benny Morris, "1948 as Jihad", page 5.
  2. ^ Benvenisti, Meron (1996), City of Stone: The Hidden History of Jerusalem, University of California Press, ISBN 0-520-20521-9. 27