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Hajj Amin al-Husayni meets Hitler.
In this German propaganda newsreel, the former Mufti of Jerusalem, Hajj Amin al-Husayni, an Arab nationalist and prominent Muslim religious leader, meets Hitler for the first time on November 28, 1941 in Berlin, Germany. During the meeting, held in in the Reich chancellery, Hitler declined to grant al-Husayni’s request for a public statement—or a secret but formal treaty—in which Germany would: 1) pledge not to occupy Arab land, 2) recognize Arab striving for independence, and 3) support the “removal” of the proposed Jewish homeland in Palestine. The Führer confirmed that the “struggle against a Jewish homeland in Palestine” would be part of the struggle against the Jews. Hitler stated that: he would “continue the struggle until the complete destruction of Jewish-Communist European empire”; and when the German army was in proximity to the Arab world, Germany would issue “an assurance to the Arab world” that “the hour of liberation was at hand.” It would then be al-Husayni’s “responsibility to unleash the Arab action that he has secretly prepared.” The Führer stated that Germany would not intervene in internal Arab matters and that the only German “goal at that time would be the annihilation of Jewry living in Arab space under the protection of British power.
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Highlights
1.
Began his dangerous incitement since at least the 1920.[13] "His speeches, pamphlets and articles in the newspaper Suria al Jenobia (Southern Syria) were primarily responsible for the outbreak of the 1920 pogrom in Jerusalem."[14] Nabi Musa Nassacre began after the mob was protesting the British, they turned on the Jews. British Court found al-Husseini main culprit.[15]
Historian Joseph Klausner noted that "Among the casualties and wounded were Jews of every ethnic background, of all classes, of all parties, Sephardim and Ashkenazim … devout rabbis and educated freethinkers. The enemy did not differentiate. No use was made of guns. A report by a British committee of inquiry set up to probe the riots described: "All the evidence indicates that these attacks were of a cowardly and traitorous nature. Most of them were against the elderly, women, and children. Most were attacked from the back."[16]
Author S. Honig describes[17] this pivotal event:
Cries of “Itbach el-Yahud” (“Slaughter the Jews”) filled the air. It was the first coordinated mass-murder offensive launched by infamous Jerusalem Mufti Haj-Amin el-Husseini (who would in time become an avid Nazi collaborator, Hitler’s personal guest in Berlin during World War II and a wanted war criminal).
Ever since, this land shook fitfully as rounds of massacres and wars followed each other in breathless succession... Those deadly landmark rampages were kick-started on April 4, 1920, exploiting Muslim celebrations to rally thousands of raiders at Nebi Musa in the Judean Desert. Serially inflamed by Husseini’s vitriolic harangues, they poured into Jerusalem, descended upon the Old City’s Jewish Quarter and began butchering, raping, pillaging and burning – all in the name of their God.
The premeditated atrocity lasted four days. Even passing reflections on its overlooked anniversary (it’s so uncool to recall crimes against Jews), can contribute considerably to our present-day perspectives.
This unprovoked killing-spree was launched before any of the excuses for Arab bloodlust – now so conveniently and commonly cited – existed. There was no Jewish state to fulminate against and no Israeli “occupation” with which to justify any outrage against Jews in the Jewish homeland.
There was no hint of what the Palestinians market so effectively as their nakba – catastrophe. There wasn’t a single Arab refugee. There was no war, no displacement, no reason to rage.
The 1920 victims were largely members of the old-time, traditional, pre-Zionist Jewish community that had long before then constituted Jerusalem’s majority. Yet this ancient community was deemed fair game. The subtext was that Jews have no rights – not even indigenous non-Zionists.
Considering their penchant for distorting history, Israel’s detractors are doubtless tempted to describe 1920’s predators as oppressed Palestinian peasants protesting against usurper Jews. It must, therefore, be a whopping downer to discover that none of this homicidal fury was unleashed on behalf of Palestine. The Arabs loathed the very name introduced to this country by its new British overlords.
It was the Jews who became known throughout the first half of the 20th century as Palestinians and it was the Arabs who scornfully rejected the moniker.
The executioners who swooped down on Jerusalem’s Jewish Quarter championed the cause of Greater Syria. On March 7, 1920, Britain crowned Feisal, a Hashemite princeling from today’s Saudi Arabia, as king in Damascus. By July that year the French would chuck him out. In response, London earmarked its latest invention, Iraq, for Feisal’s next monarchy. So much for the fictitious nature of Arab nationalities.
Feisal, incidentally, conferred with Dr. Chaim Weizmann, president of the World Zionist Organization, in January 1919 and they produced the Faisal-Weizmann Agreement for Arab-Jewish Cooperation.
Thereupon Faisal issued the following statement, which appears quite fantastic in view of all that ensued: ”We Arabs... look with the deepest sympathy on the Zionist movement… We will wish the Jews a most hearty welcome home... I look forward, and my people with me look forward, to a future in which we will help you and you will help us, so that the countries in which we are mutually interested may once again take their places in the community of the civilized peoples of the world.”
2.
Pushed to the Hebron 1929 massacre where an Arab "mob slaughtered 67 Jews while over 400 were saved by local Arab families."[18][19] "Jews of all ages were attacked at random – men, women and children alike were the targets of the fury of the Arab mob. Women were raped, children were bludgeoned to death, and men stabbed and mutilated.... Photographs from the time show a girl struck on the head by a sword with her brain spilling out, a woman with bandaged hands, people with their eyes gouged out, a man whose hand had been savagely amputated, and other grisly sights. It’s important to note that some Arabs did try to help Jews as the Hebron massacre unfolded. Nineteen Arab families saved dozens, if not hundreds, of Hebron’s Jews."[20]
It is worthwhile to observe that his actions in 1929 were directed mainly against non-Zionist religious communities. Ultra orthodox.[21] Jews of all ages.[22]
3.
1935-9
In 1935 took control on clandestine jihadi gang jihad al-Muqaddas, with Abd al-Qadir (who founded it in 1931) it was behind the 1936-9 violent riots in Palestine.[23][24][25]
In March, 1935 the Vatican linked nazis to Arab drive on Jews, stating: "There is no doubt that Nashashibi, the Mufti and Nazis from Germany are behind this entire agitation". [26]
When in May 1935, delegates returned from an Arab youth conference in Haifa, their train to Afulah bore a Swastika chalked up on one of the coaches with an Arabic inscription beneath "Germany Over All." [27][28][29][30]
On July 1, 1935, it has been reported that Arabs in Haifa formed nazi club "The Red Moon".[31][32][33]
Shortly later, in July 27, 1935 Arab Youth telegram to Nazi Germany: "The Arab youth of Palestine respectfully ask the only Führer of Germany to prevent the sale of the German Schneller School and its land to the Jews, so that this sale does not contribute to the Jewification of the Holy Land." [34] [35]
Weeks later, in August of that year, Haj Mohammed Amin Al-Husseini visited Syria and Lebanon and had met with several local nationalist leaders. This visit was widely covered in the press.[36]
Author in 1948[37]: The Mufti of Jerusalem through his agent in Geneva, Emir Shekib Arslan, was in contact with Mussolini years before the war. Some of their intercepted correspondence was published as early as 1935 in Arab papers opposed to the Mufti.
In the 1930s, Palestinian Arab students educated in Germany returned to Palestine determined to found the Arab Nazi Party of Palestine. The the Mufti al-Husseini with Jamal Husseini used the Palestinian Arab Party to established the al-Futuwwa youth corps, named after an association of Arab knights of the Middle Ages and which was officially designated the Nazi Scouts. By 1936 the Palestinian Arab Party was sponsoring the development of storm troops patterned on the German model. These youths storm troops, outfitted in black trousers and red shirts and were to be divided into three sections per age groups. Recruits took the following oath: “Life—my right; independence — my aspiration; Arabism—my principle; Palestine—my country, and there is no room for any but Arabs. In this I believe and Allah is my witness.” This was merely the prelude to the out- break of the Great Arab Revolt of 1936–1939.
The al-Futuwwa youth groups connected Palestinian Aeab youth to fascist youth movements elsewhere in the Middle East. As the Mufti was establishing youth groups in Palestine, al-Futuwwa groups were established in Iraq.[38][39]
The 1936-9 "revolt" was aided by Hitler.[40]
Dr. Said Abd al-Fattah al-Imam
Founded al-Nadi al-Arabi (The Arab Club). It was a vehicle for advancing Nazi goals in Syria. He was a young Syrian educated in Berlin during the inter-war years, who was close to both Quwatli and Barudi. In 1936, Imam travelled twice to Germany, once even meeting personally with Hitler to try to talk him in to shipping arms to the Palestinians and Syrians. [41]
In November and December 1937 Dr. Said Abd el-Fattah Imam, again visited Berlin. He represented the Mufti of Jerusalem and several Syrian nationalist organizations. [42]
There were a number of strong pre - war Arab - Nazi organizations — the Iron Shirts (led by Fakhri al-Barudi of the National Bloc, member of the Syrian Parliament to this day); the League for National Action (headed by Abu al-Huda al-Yafi, Dr. Zaki al-Jabi and others); the An - Nadi al-Arabi Club of Damascus (headed by Dr. Said Abd al-Fattah al-Imam); the “Councils for the Defence of Arab Palestine” (headed by well - known pro - Nazi leaders, such as Nabih al-Azma, Adil Arslan and others); the “Syrian National Party” (led by the Fascist Anton Saada, who escaped during the war to the Germans and was sent by them to the Argentine). The National Bloc, the principal party in Syria, and more particularly the Istiqlal group (headed by Shukri al - Kuwatli, now President of the Syrian Republic) had for many years been openly pro-Nazi. Before the war, Baldur von Schirach , leader of the Hitlerjugend, visited Syria on a special mission and established close contact with these circles and with the Arab youth organisation. [43][44][45][46]
On July 16th 1937 the Mufti of Jerusalem, visited the Reich Consul-General Bohle, marking probably the Mufti's first official contact with a Third Reich official. Later this personage was to play the top role in realising the Nazi plans. The Mufti stressed his sympathy suppprt for the 'new Germany' and expressed the hope that it would support the Arabs. "He pictured such support as taking a position in the press or manifesting in some other manner public opposition to the Zionist aspirations in Palestine." In addition, he requested the nazi Germans to maintain contact with his confidential agent, who was to proceed to Berlin.[47][48][49]
On that same day that the Mufti met Döhle in Jerusalem, two members of the HAC, Awni Abd el-Hadi and Muin el-Mahdi, met in Baghdad with Fritz Grobba, the German envoy.[50]
In the fall of 1937, Eichmann, accompanied by his SS superior Herbert Hagen, visited Palestine to secure information on Zionist issues and meet with the Mufti. Finally it didn't take place due to British restrictions on the visit, yet Eichmann met with a journalist that belonged to Mufti's circle.[51]
4.
Mass terror, assasination of moderates.[52][53]
Author P. Mann[54]:
... So the Mufti hired terrorist gangs from Syria, headed by the notorious and highly paid Fawzi el Kawkji. In order to encourage the Palestinian Arabs to cooperate, the Syrian gangs first concentrated chiefly on them . One hundred and thirty - six of the most highly respected Palestinian - Arab leaders were assassinated by the Mufti's gunmen.
Among them were the ex - Mayor of Jerusalem and the Mayor of Hebron .
In addition , an unrecorded but admittedly high number of Arab workers in the cities and Arab felaheen in the countryside were slaughtered — those who had “cooperated” with the Jews and those who had refused to house and hide the Syrian henchmen. Often mutilated bodies were strung up in Arab villages - as warning . This form of persuasion proved effective.
5.
April 1, 1941. Pro-nazi Coup in Iraq. Mufti's involvement in the coup began at least in August 26, 1940.[55][56]
6.
Helped in Nazi inspired Arab massacre of Jews in Iraq, June 1-2 1941. The Farhud, where between 180 - 780 Jews died, 1,000 injured, and more than 12,000 people were pillaged,[57] at the hands of Arab-Nazi Futuwwa under Rashid 'Ali.[58][59] [60] [61][62][63] Aided in bloody incitement by, Jamal al-Husayni, head of the Arab Party; Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni, a Nazi supporter who studied in Germany; Musa al-'Alami (1897–1984) who because of his involvement with the Arab rebellion, was dismissed from his position of the Palestine Government Advocate; and the Palestinian nationalist activist and poet Buhan al Din Al-Abbushi, who called for the people and the government of Iraq to expel or massacre the Iraqi Jews. As well as with nazi expert in the middle East Fritz Grobba's assistance.
Resulting in: Jews' houses and shops were looted, women and children were raped, and others were kidnapped and brutally killed. [64]
7.
In May 9, 1941, the Mufti issued a fatwa in a radio speech from Baghdad, calling Muslims to engage in a holy war against Great Britain.[65] A fatwa, announcing a Jihad (holy war) against Britain "and urged every Moslem to join in the struggle against the greatest foe of Islam." [66]
8.
October 27, 1941, Mufti meets Mussolini. Mussolini agrees to a joint Axis statement along the lines of al-Husayni's proposal to Hitler.[67]
From a report at the time [68]:
The ex-Mufti of Jerusalem, who recently flew from Rome to Berlin to confer with Nazi leaders on anti-British and anti-Jewish activities in the Near East has returned to the Italian capital, where he met with Premier Mussolini, it was announced today by Radio Rome. “In the course of a long and cordial conversation, problems concerning the future of the Arab countries in the Middle East were examined in detail,” Rome Radio said.
9.
Met Adolf Hitler in November-28-1941, whose agents had to convince themselves he is not "pure arab" in blood[69] yet, the nazi leader still refused to shake his hand[70] or drink coffee with him[71] for considering Arabs inferior. They agreed on cooperation against Jews.[72]
Hitler, from his racist perspective, the Arabs were alien and inferior, like the Jews. [73]
Mufti to Hitler:
The Arabs could be more useful to Germany as allies than might be apparent at first glance, both for geographical reasons and because of the suffering inflicted upon them by the English and the Jews.
Hitler's reply:
Germany was resolved, step by step, to ask one European nation after the other to solve its Jewish problem, and at the proper time to direct a similar appeal to non-European nations as well.[74]
Later he would write in his memoirs, "Our fundamental position for cooperating with Germany was a free hand to eradicate every last Jew from Palestine and the Arab world. I asked Hitler for an explicit undertaking to allow us to solve the Jewish problem in a befitting our national and racial aspirations, and according to the scientific methods innovated by Germany in the handling of its Jews. The answer I got was: 'The Jews are yours'." [75][76]
10.
1942, attempts, activities including military, while Hitler remarked that he "wanted nothing from the Arabs."
From The Holocaust Encyclopedia [77]:
On July 17, al-Husayni proposed to the Ciano and the chiefs of German and Italian military intelligence that he establish a center in Egypt for the coordination of all facets of collaboration between the Axis and the "Arab Nation." The center would conduct propaganda through radio broadcasts, publications, and brochures. It would also establish Arab partisan units to conduct sabotage and incite uprisings behind British lines, and regular Arab military units that would fight "shoulder to shoulder" with Axis troops. Al-Husayni insisted that military units wear Arab uniforms, be commanded by Arab officers, and speak Arabic as the language of command. Again, the Germans refused: Hitler remarked that he "wanted nothing from the Arabs." In late September 1942, al-Husayni proposed to found another pan-Arab center in Tunisia that would:
-"strengthen ties with Arabs in French North Africa
-ship weapons, agents, equipment, and money to stiffen Muslim resistance in the event of an Allied landing
-recruit and train Arab soldiers, who would stand prepared to defend North Africa "against any threat from the Allies, Bolshevism, and Judaism".
On December 18, 1942, Arab émigrés opened an "Islamic Central Institute" (Islamische Zentral-Institut) in Berlin, with al-Husayni as a senior sponsor and keynote speaker. In his speech, al-Husayni lashed out at the Jews, stating that the Koran judged the Jews "to be the most irreconcilable enemies of the Muslims." He predicted that the Jews would "always be a subversive element on the earth [and] are inclined to craft intrigues, provoke wars, and play the nations off against one another." Al-Husayni insisted that the Jews influenced and controlled the leadership of Great Britain, the United States, and the "godless communists." With their help and support, "world Jewry" had, he asserted, unleashed World War II. He called on Muslims to make the sacrifices necessary to liberate themselves from the persecution and suppression of their enemies. Nazi propagandists provided major coverage of the opening of the “Islamic Central Institute” and al-Husayni's remarks. The German news filmed his introductory remarks and the press published his anti-Jewish attacks. On December 23, 1942, the German Foreign Office broadcast his speech during a daily Arab-language newscast to the Middle East.
Letter from Amin al-Husayni and Raschid Ali al-Gailani to the German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, 28 April 1942:
(Note the repetition of "oppression" under British, in complaining to the authoritarian Nazi dictatorship).
To the Reichminister of Foreign Affirs.
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Rome, 28 April 1942
In our conversations with you we have conveyed the trust of the Arab people in the Axis powers and in their high goals, and we have expressed the national goals of the Arab lands currently suffering under British oppression. We have declared the readiness of the Arab people to join in the struggle against our common enemies until final victory. We ask now the German government to declare its readiness to guarantee to the Arab lands currently suffering under British oppression all possible support in their struggle for liberation, to recognize the sovereignty and independence of the Arab lands of the Near East currently suffering under English oppression and their unity if the participating states so desire, as well as to agree to the elimination of the Jewish National Home in Palestine.
We are in agreement that the text and the content of this letter must be kept secret, until this can he changed by mutual agreement. Please accept, herr Reichsminister, the assurance of our highest regards. Amin al-Husayni
Raschid Ali al-Gailani [78]
From a July 7, 1942 report[79]: The Axis radio broadcast, “Voice of Free Arabs,” which is supervised by the ex-Mufti of Jerusalem, today urged the Arabs in Egypt and Palestine to launch pogroms against the Jews and to take away their property. The broadcaster stated: “Take your revenge on them. Break them before they break you. Kill them. Set their houses on fire. Close their stores.”
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Active in organizing SS Nazi Muslim division (1943)[80] in Yugoslavia especially detriment to Hungarian Jews.[81] And to Christians in the Balkan.[82]
When the SS decided in February 1943 to recruit among Bosnian Muslims for a new division of the Waffen-SS, SS Main Office Chief Berger enlisted al-Husayni in a recruiting drive in Bosnia from March 30 and April 11. On April 29, Berger reported that 24,000–27,000 recruits had signed up and noted that the "visit of the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem had had an extraordinarily successful impact." Both al-Husayni and the SS repeatedly referred to the success of the 13th Waffen-SS Mountain Division (also known as "Handschar"). Al-Husayni spoke to the military Imams of the division...[83]
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From early 1943, for at least six months, he, repeatedly, kept uging, the Nazis to bomb Jerusalem, Tel-Aviv, Haifa port.[84] [85] [86][87][88]
13.
Broadcasted over the airways to the Muslim world anti Jewish incitement to kill Jews wherever they "find them."[89][90] That this "pleases Allah".[91][92][93][94] Most notable in 1944.[95][96][97][98] Worth mentioning, that 1944 was after he was convinced, nazi Germany isn't and wouldn't help him in anything and that he couldn't even prevent the very little Jewish immigration from the Germans in exchange for Germans held in British custody.[99]
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Prevented rescue of children of Bialystok, 1943.[100][101] As well as interrupting saving other thousands of children which were to be swapped by Germans.[102]
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November 2, 1943. It was already after the defeat of the Axis in North Africa in El-Alamain, and the prospect of “liberation” for the Arab countries was clearly nil, yet, el-Husseini did not end his anti-Jewish diatribes. To mark the anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, he organized a protest rally in Berlin on. His speech on this occasion was again full of anti-Semitic stereotypes and agitation against the Yishuv...[103]
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December 17, 1944.
It was the final phase of the war, el- Husseini gave a radio address on the occasion of the Islamic New Year's celebration, which was broadcast to the entire Arab world, he declared: "We will not be satisfied with less than what the free nations have fought for—genuine independence that does not allow entry to foreigners and that leaves no room for Jews, in which the entire Arab fatherland is available to the Arab people alone." [104]
17.
Under his leadership, the 1944 Atlas-Operation, with the intention of poisoning Tel Aviv's wells[105] failed, where (some estimate) "a quarter of million people would have died if the plot had succeeded".[106]
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Post WW2:
On May 7, 1945, the day of the German surrender, al-Husayni flew to Bern, Switzerland. The Swiss authorities denied his appeal for asylum, detained him, and turned him over to French border authorities. French authorities placed al-Husayni under house arrest at a villa near Paris. Though the British initially wanted custody of al-Husayni, there were significant obstacles to obtaining a conviction against him before an international tribunal. Moreover, both Britain and France, seeking to reestablish their influence in the Arab world, saw serious liabilities in holding al-Husayni in custody. In late 1945, the Yugoslav government withdrew its extradition request for al-Husayni.
On May 29, 1946, carrying a passport issued to Ma'ruf al-Dawalibi, al-Husayni escaped from French custody and flew to Cairo, Egypt.[107]
9 May, 1945. In days of anti-French unrest in Lebanon, on May 9, 1945, clashes between Palestinians and the French had erupted when Palestinian soldiers paraded under a portrait of Palestinian Mufti Amīn al-Husaynī and a flag bearing a swastika.[108]
On May 7, 1946, the Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi League - NSANL submitted a petition to President Truman, which was presented to Congress by representative Emmanuel Celler from New York. The memorandum urged the president to launch an investigation into the activities of the Arab Office, alleging that its anti-Zionist campaign was inciting religious and racial hatred in order to advance foreign political goals. The memorandum accused Arab Office director Khulusi Khairy and Anwar Bekir Nashashibi of having cooperated with the far-right activist Gerald L.K. Smith and the anti-Semitic Blue Star Mothers group. Through its institution of an anti-Jewish boycott in November 1945 and in appointing the Mufti as the rightful representative of the Arabs in Palestine, the Arab League had revealed itself as an “anti-democratic and authoritarian body,” the petition continued.[109][110][111]
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Hajj Amin al-Husayni meets Hitler.
In this German propaganda newsreel, the former Mufti of Jerusalem, Hajj Amin al-Husayni, an Arab nationalist and prominent Muslim religious leader, meets Hitler for the first time on November 28, 1941 in Berlin, Germany. During the meeting, held in in the Reich chancellery, Hitler declined to grant al-Husayni’s request for a public statement—or a secret but formal treaty—in which Germany would: 1) pledge not to occupy Arab land, 2) recognize Arab striving for independence, and 3) support the “removal” of the proposed Jewish homeland in Palestine. The Führer confirmed that the “struggle against a Jewish homeland in Palestine” would be part of the struggle against the Jews. Hitler stated that: he would “continue the struggle until the complete destruction of Jewish-Communist European empire”; and when the German army was in proximity to the Arab world, Germany would issue “an assurance to the Arab world” that “the hour of liberation was at hand.” It would then be al-Husayni’s “responsibility to unleash the Arab action that he has secretly prepared.” The Führer stated that Germany would not intervene in internal Arab matters and that the only German “goal at that time would be the annihilation of Jewry living in Arab space under the protection of British power.
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1.Highlights
1.
Began his dangerous incitement since at least the 1920.[13] "His speeches, pamphlets and articles in the newspaper Suria al Jenobia (Southern Syria) were primarily responsible for the outbreak of the 1920 pogrom in Jerusalem."[14] Nabi Musa Nassacre began after the mob was protesting the British, they turned on the Jews. British Court found al-Husseini main culprit.[15]
Historian Joseph Klausner noted that "Among the casualties and wounded were Jews of every ethnic background, of all classes, of all parties, Sephardim and Ashkenazim … devout rabbis and educated freethinkers. The enemy did not differentiate. No use was made of guns. A report by a British committee of inquiry set up to probe the riots described: "All the evidence indicates that these attacks were of a cowardly and traitorous nature. Most of them were against the elderly, women, and children. Most were attacked from the back."[16]
Author S. Honig describes[17] this pivotal event:
Cries of “Itbach el-Yahud” (“Slaughter the Jews”) filled the air. It was the first coordinated mass-murder offensive launched by infamous Jerusalem Mufti Haj-Amin el-Husseini (who would in time become an avid Nazi collaborator, Hitler’s personal guest in Berlin during World War II and a wanted war criminal).
Ever since, this land shook fitfully as rounds of massacres and wars followed each other in breathless succession... Those deadly landmark rampages were kick-started on April 4, 1920, exploiting Muslim celebrations to rally thousands of raiders at Nebi Musa in the Judean Desert. Serially inflamed by Husseini’s vitriolic harangues, they poured into Jerusalem, descended upon the Old City’s Jewish Quarter and began butchering, raping, pillaging and burning – all in the name of their God.
The premeditated atrocity lasted four days. Even passing reflections on its overlooked anniversary (it’s so uncool to recall crimes against Jews), can contribute considerably to our present-day perspectives.
This unprovoked killing-spree was launched before any of the excuses for Arab bloodlust – now so conveniently and commonly cited – existed. There was no Jewish state to fulminate against and no Israeli “occupation” with which to justify any outrage against Jews in the Jewish homeland.
There was no hint of what the Palestinians market so effectively as their nakba – catastrophe. There wasn’t a single Arab refugee. There was no war, no displacement, no reason to rage.
The 1920 victims were largely members of the old-time, traditional, pre-Zionist Jewish community that had long before then constituted Jerusalem’s majority. Yet this ancient community was deemed fair game. The subtext was that Jews have no rights – not even indigenous non-Zionists.
Considering their penchant for distorting history, Israel’s detractors are doubtless tempted to describe 1920’s predators as oppressed Palestinian peasants protesting against usurper Jews. It must, therefore, be a whopping downer to discover that none of this homicidal fury was unleashed on behalf of Palestine. The Arabs loathed the very name introduced to this country by its new British overlords.
It was the Jews who became known throughout the first half of the 20th century as Palestinians and it was the Arabs who scornfully rejected the moniker.
The executioners who swooped down on Jerusalem’s Jewish Quarter championed the cause of Greater Syria. On March 7, 1920, Britain crowned Feisal, a Hashemite princeling from today’s Saudi Arabia, as king in Damascus. By July that year the French would chuck him out. In response, London earmarked its latest invention, Iraq, for Feisal’s next monarchy. So much for the fictitious nature of Arab nationalities.
Feisal, incidentally, conferred with Dr. Chaim Weizmann, president of the World Zionist Organization, in January 1919 and they produced the Faisal-Weizmann Agreement for Arab-Jewish Cooperation.
Thereupon Faisal issued the following statement, which appears quite fantastic in view of all that ensued: ”We Arabs... look with the deepest sympathy on the Zionist movement… We will wish the Jews a most hearty welcome home... I look forward, and my people with me look forward, to a future in which we will help you and you will help us, so that the countries in which we are mutually interested may once again take their places in the community of the civilized peoples of the world.”
2.
Pushed to the Hebron 1929 massacre where an Arab "mob slaughtered 67 Jews while over 400 were saved by local Arab families."[18][19] "Jews of all ages were attacked at random – men, women and children alike were the targets of the fury of the Arab mob. Women were raped, children were bludgeoned to death, and men stabbed and mutilated.... Photographs from the time show a girl struck on the head by a sword with her brain spilling out, a woman with bandaged hands, people with their eyes gouged out, a man whose hand had been savagely amputated, and other grisly sights. It’s important to note that some Arabs did try to help Jews as the Hebron massacre unfolded. Nineteen Arab families saved dozens, if not hundreds, of Hebron’s Jews."[20]
It is worthwhile to observe that his actions in 1929 were directed mainly against non-Zionist religious communities. Ultra orthodox.[21] Jews of all ages.[22]
3.
1935-9
In 1935 took control on clandestine jihadi gang jihad al-Muqaddas, with Abd al-Qadir (who founded it in 1931) it was behind the 1936-9 violent riots in Palestine.[23][24][25]
In March, 1935 the Vatican linked nazis to Arab drive on Jews, stating: "There is no doubt that Nashashibi, the Mufti and Nazis from Germany are behind this entire agitation". [26]
When in May 1935, delegates returned from an Arab youth conference in Haifa, their train to Afulah bore a Swastika chalked up on one of the coaches with an Arabic inscription beneath "Germany Over All." [27][28][29][30]
On July 1, 1935, it has been reported that Arabs in Haifa formed nazi club "The Red Moon".[31][32][33]
Shortly later, in July 27, 1935 Arab Youth telegram to Nazi Germany: "The Arab youth of Palestine respectfully ask the only Führer of Germany to prevent the sale of the German Schneller School and its land to the Jews, so that this sale does not contribute to the Jewification of the Holy Land." [34] [35]
Weeks later, in August of that year, Haj Mohammed Amin Al-Husseini visited Syria and Lebanon and had met with several local nationalist leaders. This visit was widely covered in the press.[36]
Author in 1948[37]: The Mufti of Jerusalem through his agent in Geneva, Emir Shekib Arslan, was in contact with Mussolini years before the war. Some of their intercepted correspondence was published as early as 1935 in Arab papers opposed to the Mufti.
In the 1930s, Palestinian Arab students educated in Germany returned to Palestine determined to found the Arab Nazi Party of Palestine. The the Mufti al-Husseini with Jamal Husseini used the Palestinian Arab Party to established the al-Futuwwa youth corps, named after an association of Arab knights of the Middle Ages and which was officially designated the Nazi Scouts. By 1936 the Palestinian Arab Party was sponsoring the development of storm troops patterned on the German model. These youths storm troops, outfitted in black trousers and red shirts and were to be divided into three sections per age groups. Recruits took the following oath: “Life—my right; independence — my aspiration; Arabism—my principle; Palestine—my country, and there is no room for any but Arabs. In this I believe and Allah is my witness.” This was merely the prelude to the out- break of the Great Arab Revolt of 1936–1939.
The al-Futuwwa youth groups connected Palestinian Aeab youth to fascist youth movements elsewhere in the Middle East. As the Mufti was establishing youth groups in Palestine, al-Futuwwa groups were established in Iraq.[38][39]
The 1936-9 "revolt" was aided by Hitler.[40]
Dr. Said Abd al-Fattah al-Imam
Founded al-Nadi al-Arabi (The Arab Club). It was a vehicle for advancing Nazi goals in Syria. He was a young Syrian educated in Berlin during the inter-war years, who was close to both Quwatli and Barudi. In 1936, Imam travelled twice to Germany, once even meeting personally with Hitler to try to talk him in to shipping arms to the Palestinians and Syrians. [41]
In November and December 1937 Dr. Said Abd el-Fattah Imam, again visited Berlin. He represented the Mufti of Jerusalem and several Syrian nationalist organizations. [42]
There were a number of strong pre - war Arab - Nazi organizations — the Iron Shirts (led by Fakhri al-Barudi of the National Bloc, member of the Syrian Parliament to this day); the League for National Action (headed by Abu al-Huda al-Yafi, Dr. Zaki al-Jabi and others); the An - Nadi al-Arabi Club of Damascus (headed by Dr. Said Abd al-Fattah al-Imam); the “Councils for the Defence of Arab Palestine” (headed by well - known pro - Nazi leaders, such as Nabih al-Azma, Adil Arslan and others); the “Syrian National Party” (led by the Fascist Anton Saada, who escaped during the war to the Germans and was sent by them to the Argentine). The National Bloc, the principal party in Syria, and more particularly the Istiqlal group (headed by Shukri al - Kuwatli, now President of the Syrian Republic) had for many years been openly pro-Nazi. Before the war, Baldur von Schirach , leader of the Hitlerjugend, visited Syria on a special mission and established close contact with these circles and with the Arab youth organisation. [43][44][45][46]
On July 16th 1937 the Mufti of Jerusalem, visited the Reich Consul-General Bohle, marking probably the Mufti's first official contact with a Third Reich official. Later this personage was to play the top role in realising the Nazi plans. The Mufti stressed his sympathy suppprt for the 'new Germany' and expressed the hope that it would support the Arabs. "He pictured such support as taking a position in the press or manifesting in some other manner public opposition to the Zionist aspirations in Palestine." In addition, he requested the nazi Germans to maintain contact with his confidential agent, who was to proceed to Berlin.[47][48][49]
On that same day that the Mufti met Döhle in Jerusalem, two members of the HAC, Awni Abd el-Hadi and Muin el-Mahdi, met in Baghdad with Fritz Grobba, the German envoy.[50]
In the fall of 1937, Eichmann, accompanied by his SS superior Herbert Hagen, visited Palestine to secure information on Zionist issues and meet with the Mufti. Finally it didn't take place due to British restrictions on the visit, yet Eichmann met with a journalist that belonged to Mufti's circle.[51]
4.
Mass terror, assasination of moderates.[52][53]
Author P. Mann[54]:
... So the Mufti hired terrorist gangs from Syria, headed by the notorious and highly paid Fawzi el Kawkji. In order to encourage the Palestinian Arabs to cooperate, the Syrian gangs first concentrated chiefly on them . One hundred and thirty - six of the most highly respected Palestinian - Arab leaders were assassinated by the Mufti's gunmen.
Among them were the ex - Mayor of Jerusalem and the Mayor of Hebron .
In addition , an unrecorded but admittedly high number of Arab workers in the cities and Arab felaheen in the countryside were slaughtered — those who had “cooperated” with the Jews and those who had refused to house and hide the Syrian henchmen. Often mutilated bodies were strung up in Arab villages - as warning . This form of persuasion proved effective.
5.
April 1, 1941. Pro-nazi Coup in Iraq. Mufti's involvement in the coup began at least in August 26, 1940.[55][56]
6.
Helped in Nazi inspired Arab massacre of Jews in Iraq, June 1-2 1941. The Farhud, where between 180 - 780 Jews died, 1,000 injured, and more than 12,000 people were pillaged,[57] at the hands of Arab-Nazi Futuwwa under Rashid 'Ali.[58][59] [60] [61][62][63] Aided in bloody incitement by, Jamal al-Husayni, head of the Arab Party; Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni, a Nazi supporter who studied in Germany; Musa al-'Alami (1897–1984) who because of his involvement with the Arab rebellion, was dismissed from his position of the Palestine Government Advocate; and the Palestinian nationalist activist and poet Buhan al Din Al-Abbushi, who called for the people and the government of Iraq to expel or massacre the Iraqi Jews. As well as with nazi expert in the middle East Fritz Grobba's assistance.
Resulting in: Jews' houses and shops were looted, women and children were raped, and others were kidnapped and brutally killed. [64]
7.
In May 9, 1941, the Mufti issued a fatwa in a radio speech from Baghdad, calling Muslims to engage in a holy war against Great Britain.[65] A fatwa, announcing a Jihad (holy war) against Britain "and urged every Moslem to join in the struggle against the greatest foe of Islam." [66]
8.
October 27, 1941, Mufti meets Mussolini. Mussolini agrees to a joint Axis statement along the lines of al-Husayni's proposal to Hitler.[67]
From a report at the time [68]:
The ex-Mufti of Jerusalem, who recently flew from Rome to Berlin to confer with Nazi leaders on anti-British and anti-Jewish activities in the Near East has returned to the Italian capital, where he met with Premier Mussolini, it was announced today by Radio Rome. “In the course of a long and cordial conversation, problems concerning the future of the Arab countries in the Middle East were examined in detail,” Rome Radio said.
9.
Met Adolf Hitler in November-28-1941, whose agents had to convince themselves he is not "pure arab" in blood[69] yet, the nazi leader still refused to shake his hand[70] or drink coffee with him[71] for considering Arabs inferior. They agreed on cooperation against Jews.[72]
Hitler, from his racist perspective, the Arabs were alien and inferior, like the Jews. [73]
Mufti to Hitler:
The Arabs could be more useful to Germany as allies than might be apparent at first glance, both for geographical reasons and because of the suffering inflicted upon them by the English and the Jews.
Hitler's reply:
Germany was resolved, step by step, to ask one European nation after the other to solve its Jewish problem, and at the proper time to direct a similar appeal to non-European nations as well.[74]
Later he would write in his memoirs, "Our fundamental position for cooperating with Germany was a free hand to eradicate every last Jew from Palestine and the Arab world. I asked Hitler for an explicit undertaking to allow us to solve the Jewish problem in a befitting our national and racial aspirations, and according to the scientific methods innovated by Germany in the handling of its Jews. The answer I got was: 'The Jews are yours'." [75][76]
10.
1942, attempts, activities including military, while Hitler remarked that he "wanted nothing from the Arabs."
From The Holocaust Encyclopedia [77]:
On July 17, al-Husayni proposed to the Ciano and the chiefs of German and Italian military intelligence that he establish a center in Egypt for the coordination of all facets of collaboration between the Axis and the "Arab Nation." The center would conduct propaganda through radio broadcasts, publications, and brochures. It would also establish Arab partisan units to conduct sabotage and incite uprisings behind British lines, and regular Arab military units that would fight "shoulder to shoulder" with Axis troops. Al-Husayni insisted that military units wear Arab uniforms, be commanded by Arab officers, and speak Arabic as the language of command. Again, the Germans refused: Hitler remarked that he "wanted nothing from the Arabs." In late September 1942, al-Husayni proposed to found another pan-Arab center in Tunisia that would:
-"strengthen ties with Arabs in French North Africa
-ship weapons, agents, equipment, and money to stiffen Muslim resistance in the event of an Allied landing
-recruit and train Arab soldiers, who would stand prepared to defend North Africa "against any threat from the Allies, Bolshevism, and Judaism".
On December 18, 1942, Arab émigrés opened an "Islamic Central Institute" (Islamische Zentral-Institut) in Berlin, with al-Husayni as a senior sponsor and keynote speaker. In his speech, al-Husayni lashed out at the Jews, stating that the Koran judged the Jews "to be the most irreconcilable enemies of the Muslims." He predicted that the Jews would "always be a subversive element on the earth [and] are inclined to craft intrigues, provoke wars, and play the nations off against one another." Al-Husayni insisted that the Jews influenced and controlled the leadership of Great Britain, the United States, and the "godless communists." With their help and support, "world Jewry" had, he asserted, unleashed World War II. He called on Muslims to make the sacrifices necessary to liberate themselves from the persecution and suppression of their enemies. Nazi propagandists provided major coverage of the opening of the “Islamic Central Institute” and al-Husayni's remarks. The German news filmed his introductory remarks and the press published his anti-Jewish attacks. On December 23, 1942, the German Foreign Office broadcast his speech during a daily Arab-language newscast to the Middle East.
Letter from Amin al-Husayni and Raschid Ali al-Gailani to the German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, 28 April 1942:
(Note the repetition of "oppression" under British, in complaining to the authoritarian Nazi dictatorship).
To the Reichminister of Foreign Affirs.
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Rome, 28 April 1942
In our conversations with you we have conveyed the trust of the Arab people in the Axis powers and in their high goals, and we have expressed the national goals of the Arab lands currently suffering under British oppression. We have declared the readiness of the Arab people to join in the struggle against our common enemies until final victory. We ask now the German government to declare its readiness to guarantee to the Arab lands currently suffering under British oppression all possible support in their struggle for liberation, to recognize the sovereignty and independence of the Arab lands of the Near East currently suffering under English oppression and their unity if the participating states so desire, as well as to agree to the elimination of the Jewish National Home in Palestine.
We are in agreement that the text and the content of this letter must be kept secret, until this can he changed by mutual agreement. Please accept, herr Reichsminister, the assurance of our highest regards. Amin al-Husayni
Raschid Ali al-Gailani [78]
From a July 7, 1942 report[79]: The Axis radio broadcast, “Voice of Free Arabs,” which is supervised by the ex-Mufti of Jerusalem, today urged the Arabs in Egypt and Palestine to launch pogroms against the Jews and to take away their property. The broadcaster stated: “Take your revenge on them. Break them before they break you. Kill them. Set their houses on fire. Close their stores.”
11.
Active in organizing SS Nazi Muslim division (1943)[80] in Yugoslavia especially detriment to Hungarian Jews.[81] And to Christians in the Balkan.[82]
When the SS decided in February 1943 to recruit among Bosnian Muslims for a new division of the Waffen-SS, SS Main Office Chief Berger enlisted al-Husayni in a recruiting drive in Bosnia from March 30 and April 11. On April 29, Berger reported that 24,000–27,000 recruits had signed up and noted that the "visit of the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem had had an extraordinarily successful impact." Both al-Husayni and the SS repeatedly referred to the success of the 13th Waffen-SS Mountain Division (also known as "Handschar"). Al-Husayni spoke to the military Imams of the division...[83]
12.
From early 1943, for at least six months, he, repeatedly, kept uging, the Nazis to bomb Jerusalem, Tel-Aviv, Haifa port.[84] [85] [86][87][88]
13.
Broadcasted over the airways to the Muslim world anti Jewish incitement to kill Jews wherever they "find them."[89][90] That this "pleases Allah".[91][92][93][94] Most notable in 1944.[95][96][97][98] Worth mentioning, that 1944 was after he was convinced, nazi Germany isn't and wouldn't help him in anything and that he couldn't even prevent the very little Jewish immigration from the Germans in exchange for Germans held in British custody.[99]
14.
Prevented rescue of children of Bialystok, 1943.[100][101] As well as interrupting saving other thousands of children which were to be swapped by Germans.[102]
16.
November 2, 1943. It was already after the defeat of the Axis in North Africa in El-Alamain, and the prospect of “liberation” for the Arab countries was clearly nil, yet, el-Husseini did not end his anti-Jewish diatribes. To mark the anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, he organized a protest rally in Berlin on. His speech on this occasion was again full of anti-Semitic stereotypes and agitation against the Yishuv...[103]
16.
December 17, 1944.
It was the final phase of the war, el- Husseini gave a radio address on the occasion of the Islamic New Year's celebration, which was broadcast to the entire Arab world, he declared: "We will not be satisfied with less than what the free nations have fought for—genuine independence that does not allow entry to foreigners and that leaves no room for Jews, in which the entire Arab fatherland is available to the Arab people alone." [104]
17.
Under his leadership, the 1944 Atlas-Operation, with the intention of poisoning Tel Aviv's wells[105] failed, where (some estimate) "a quarter of million people would have died if the plot had succeeded".[106]
18.
Post WW2:
On May 7, 1945, the day of the German surrender, al-Husayni flew to Bern, Switzerland. The Swiss authorities denied his appeal for asylum, detained him, and turned him over to French border authorities. French authorities placed al-Husayni under house arrest at a villa near Paris. Though the British initially wanted custody of al-Husayni, there were significant obstacles to obtaining a conviction against him before an international tribunal. Moreover, both Britain and France, seeking to reestablish their influence in the Arab world, saw serious liabilities in holding al-Husayni in custody. In late 1945, the Yugoslav government withdrew its extradition request for al-Husayni.
On May 29, 1946, carrying a passport issued to Ma'ruf al-Dawalibi, al-Husayni escaped from French custody and flew to Cairo, Egypt.[107]
9 May, 1945. In days of anti-French unrest in Lebanon, on May 9, 1945, clashes between Palestinians and the French had erupted when Palestinian soldiers paraded under a portrait of Palestinian Mufti Amīn al-Husaynī and a flag bearing a swastika.[108]
On May 7, 1946, the Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi League - NSANL submitted a petition to President Truman, which was presented to Congress by representative Emmanuel Celler from New York. The memorandum urged the president to launch an investigation into the activities of the Arab Office, alleging that its anti-Zionist campaign was inciting religious and racial hatred in order to advance foreign political goals. The memorandum accused Arab Office director Khulusi Khairy and Anwar Bekir Nashashibi of having cooperated with the far-right activist Gerald L.K. Smith and the anti-Semitic Blue Star Mothers group. Through its institution of an anti-Jewish boycott in November 1945 and in appointing the Mufti as the rightful representative of the Arabs in Palestine, the Arab League had revealed itself as an “anti-democratic and authoritarian body,” the petition continued.[109][110][111]
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