Ironically, the media did not write about or dwell on how the Americans and other Western Nations refused to ease immigration restrictions on Jews, forcing them to remain in Europe and certain harm under Nazi persecutions. That description followed very positive profiles of Key Jewish leaders in Palestine. Most of the Palestinian Arabs who lived in Palestine did not read the reports of Freda or had read her scathing attacks against the Mufti in past issues of The National magazine. To their faces, Freda solicited special treatment and privileges as a woman, and lied about her dedication to fairness. And most Arabs went out of their way to accommodate in her reporting, unaware of the tenor of the reporting as it made its way into the pages of The National Magazine.
Mufti is as fine a scoundrel as the Middle East has ever produced.
He is unscrupulous, cruel, treacherous, crafty, capable and attractive. Documents unearthed In Germany indicate Hajj Amin al-Husseini may have actually invented the idea of mass extermination of Jews. And as it became imminent and unavoidable, the media attacks increased and became more frequent. The effort to counter sympathy for the Palestinian Arabs by comparing their leaders to the Nazis of World War II continued. Freda and other Western correspondents had reported extensively on the battle at the Etzion Bloc in January, building it into mini-holocaust proportions with blazing headlines and graphic details of the 35 Jewish fighters who had been killed trying to bring supplies to four Jewish settlements south of Jerusalem.