Emil Ghoury

Emil Ghuri (Ghoury) (1907–1984) was Secretary of the Arab Higher Committee (AHC), the official leadership of the Arabs in the British Mandate of Palestine. He was also the general secretary of the Palestine Arab Party.

• I do not want to impugn anybody but only to help the refugees. The fact that there are these refugees is the direct consequence of the action of the Arab States in opposing partition and the Jewish State. The Arab States agreed upon this policy unanimously and they must share in the solution of the problem.
  • Israel did not cause the Arabs to leave, Beirut Telegraph (September 6, 1948).