World War II On 6 August, 1940 Anthony Eden, the Secretary of War, informed Parliament that the Cabinet had decided to recruit Arab and Jewish units as batallions of the Royal Kent Fusiliers (the "Buffs").
Abdullah regarded the attempt to revive the mufti's HolyWarArmy as a challenge to his authority and on 3 October his minister of defence ordered all armed bodies operating in the areas controlled by the Arab Legion to be disbanded.
Meanwhile, from exile in Egypt where he was avoiding trial for war crimes due to his collaboration with the Nazis, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem was involved in much of the high level negotiations between the Arab leaders in the 1948 War.
Micaiah refused to be swayed by the unanimous clamor of the war prophets (1 Kings 22).
Thus the house of Jehu is to be punished for the massacre at Jezreel (Hosea 1:4).
The Old Testament speaks of the "wars of Yahweh" (Num 21:14; 1 Sam 18:17; 25:28), but does not use the term "holywar." This was introduced into the literature by the German scholar Friedrich Schwally in 1901.
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