Reply #3: Several Reasons, Sir

[The Magistrate]

One of the most important, or most recent, anyway, is that Palestinians received some favored treatments from Hussein, as an emblem of his status as an anti-Israel champion, and this was resented locally, not only by people who feared Hussein, but also by people who saw this as poaching on their prerogatives as local leaders.

By no means all the Palestinian residents are of recent, or post Israeli arrival. In the period of the Mandate, the English exiled a great many Palestinian rebels to Iraq, where they formed a volatile element in the politics of day, and pursued their own internal feuds, as well as clashed with established local politicians over the issue of collaboration with the English.