Apr 1948: Fawzi el Quakji, Nazi Wermacht Colonel loses Mishmar Ha'emek

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He was another non palestine-born who became a "palestinian" hero.




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On this day, April 15, 1948, the Battle of Mishmar Ha'emek was won.

This armored vehicle of the Palestinian Arab Liberation Army has on it their logo of a knife stabbing a Star of David, and it says on it "Mishmar Ha'emek," the name of a Kibbutz they wanted to destroy.

The leader of the Palestinian battle on Mishmar Ha'emek was Fawzi el Quakji, a Nazi Wermacht Colonel who recieved the German Iron Cross.

They can call it the Nakba, we call it preventing a second Holocaust.
Apr 15, 2026



Fawzi al-Qawukji also lived in Berlin during WW2, and served as a Colonel in the Nazi Wehrmacht. “The battle between the Arabs and the Jews is a total battle and the only possibility is the annihilation of every Jew in Palestine and all Arab countries, ” he declared. After commanding Arab troops in the 1948 war, al-Qawukji moved to Syria and Lebanon.

https://www.jewishrefugees.org.uk/2024/10/arab-nazi-collaborators-planned-to-kill-jews-in-arab-lands-as-well-as-palestine.html

 

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Bloom, Jack Brian. Out of Step: Life-story of a Politician : Politics and Religion in a World at War. South Africa: Jack Bloom, 2005, p.111, pp.332-333



…Who was actually ethnically cleansed in the Middle East and threatened with genocide by people allied with the Nazis? In 1940, there were about 1 million Jews in the Arab-ruled countries and in Iran. Today, there are only about 25,000 Jews in these countries.

The Arab-Nazi link is well-established, extending well beyond the Mufti of Jerusalem and Adolf Hitler. Most Arabs aligned themselves with the Nazis, who inspired political movements such as the Ba'ath parties of Syria and Iraq . Sami al-Joundi, one of the founders of the ruling Syrian Ba'ath Party, recalled:
"We were racists. We admired the Nazis. We were immersed in reading Nazi literature and books".
Gamal Abdul Nasser was a member of Young Egypt, a party that imitated the Nazis with its own version of storm troopers, torch processions and slogans.

Former Nazis served in Nasser's army and secret police, and his personal bodyguard was SS General Oskar Dirlewanger.

Nasser said on 1 May 1964: "During the Second World War, our sympathies were with the Germans ... the lie[sic] of the six million murdered Jews is not taken seriously by anybody."

[...]

Even today, Hitler's Mein Kampf ranks high on the best-seller list amongst Palestinian Arabs. The preface to the Arabic edition claims that his "theories of nationalism, dictatorship and race... are advancing especially within our Arabic states".

When Palestinian police first greeted Yasser Arafat in the self-rule areas, they offered the infamous Nazi salute.

In April this year, a columnist in the Egyptian government daily Al-Akbar defiantly repeated his "thanks to Hi_tler, of blessed[sic] memory[sic], who on behalf of the Palestinians, revenged in advanced against the most vile criminals on the face of the earth. Although we do have a complaint attains him for his revenge[sic] on them was not enough".