Farraj once more declined to signal, besides the Muslim president of the Jerusalem MCA, ʿArif al-Dajani. instantly after the solution was once handed, Farraj and al-Dajani wrote to the army governor of Jerusalem protesting the answer and mentioning invalid the votes of 2 individuals of the Jerusalem delegates (ʿAbd al-Hamid Abu Ghosh and the Latin Catholic consultant Shukhri al-Karmi, either one of whom had pro-French sympathies) due to the fact that they had “agreed to a department that's opposite to the aim for which they have been delegated,” including that “it was once accordingly determined within the relevant Society to refuse them from the Society. ”99 Iskandar Manassa, a Greek Orthodox delegate from Haifa, likewise renounced his help for the Syrian solidarity plan and declared that his signatures have been basically meant to help the anti-French points of the resolutions. the opposite Christians who had signed the resolution—Yusef al-ʿIsa of Jaffa, Ilyas Kaʿwar of Tiberias, and Jubran Iskandar Kazma of Nazareth—all maintained their pro-Syrian votes,100 and the Jerusalem Catholics Society published a public detect pointing out that “considering the particular political situations . . . [we have made up our minds] to invite for the annexation of Palestine to Syria. ”101 Opinion at the resolutions, basically, didn't fall alongside sectarian traces. those Christian defections from the Southern Syria solution led the British to think that the Christian groups normally have been against the unification suggestion, even whereas a political file from Haifa famous that there has been “a tendency between a few Christians in Haifa to entertain and speak about the belief of the fusion of Palestine with Syria. ”102 in truth there has been quite a lot of reviews and concepts crossing spiritual traces. This scenario persisted into 1919 because the MCAs, al-Muntada al-Adabi, and al-Nadi al-ʿArabi pressed their diverse positions at the representatives of the yank KingCrane fee, an respectable govt delegation despatched to the quarter to figure out neighborhood personal tastes for postwar rule, in the course of its individuals’ stopover at to Palestine. Even one of the MCAs there has been massive war of words; the Nablus MCA, not like the Jerusalem and Jaffa agencies, was once pasPalestinian Christian elites forty-one sionately pro-Syrian and endured to press for the inclusion of Palestine in a Southern Syrian nation for your time after the opposite MCAs had moved in a extra in particular Palestinian nationalist course. throughout the first years of the mandate, Christian leaders participated enthusiastically within the Muslim-Christian institutions and the opposite rising political societies. yet they observed themselves essentially as representatives of the recent heart category, devoted to a few kind of Arab independence and to anti-Zionism, no longer as representatives of a minority non secular staff. there has been no identifiably Christian trend of political opinion or participation within the early actions of the MCA or its rival institutions. d e P l oy i n g C h r i s t i a n i t y i n i n t e r n at i o n a l P o l i t i C s The French deposed Faysal in a violent invasion of Damascus in 1920, finishing Arab hopes for an self sustaining larger Syria after quite a few months of presidency.