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This puts the 1948 re-established Israel for the Jews returning to their historic land in context
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Rebecca Mistereggen
@RMistereggen:
This political cartoon, published in The New York Times one day after the establishment of the State of Israel, captures a pivotal moral reversal in world history.
On one side stands “Palestine”, symbolizing the reborn Jewish nation, sword in hand. Opposite him is The Grand Mufti, depicted in a Nazi uniform, an unmistakable reference to Haj Amin al-Husseini, the wartime Grand Mufti of Jerusalem who collaborated closely with Hitler’s regime, supported the extermination of Jews and later led Arab resistance against the new Jewish state.
The caption, “Not like Dachau, is it, Herr Mufti?”, cuts like a blade. Only three years after the liberation of the Nazi death camps, Jews who had been hunted and slaughtered in Europe were fighting back - this time against those who had sided with their oppressors.
I’ll just leave it here for the reader: the stance back then was that Israel’s birth was not a birth of conquest, but of survival, and that the Arab leaders who opposed it did so under the shadow of an alliance with Nazism. The victims of Dachau were no longer powerless. They had taken up the sword, and history, for once, was on their side.
Oct 6, 2025.
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"NOT LIKE DACHAU, IS IT, HERR MUFTI?"
The New York Times. May 16, 1948, Section E, Page 4.
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Overwhelming Palestinian Arab Alignment with Nazi Germany: Ideology and Collaboration in the 1930s and World War II (and beyond)
justsayingitoutloloud.blogspot.com
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Rebecca Mistereggen
@RMistereggen:
This political cartoon, published in The New York Times one day after the establishment of the State of Israel, captures a pivotal moral reversal in world history.
On one side stands “Palestine”, symbolizing the reborn Jewish nation, sword in hand. Opposite him is The Grand Mufti, depicted in a Nazi uniform, an unmistakable reference to Haj Amin al-Husseini, the wartime Grand Mufti of Jerusalem who collaborated closely with Hitler’s regime, supported the extermination of Jews and later led Arab resistance against the new Jewish state.
The caption, “Not like Dachau, is it, Herr Mufti?”, cuts like a blade. Only three years after the liberation of the Nazi death camps, Jews who had been hunted and slaughtered in Europe were fighting back - this time against those who had sided with their oppressors.
I’ll just leave it here for the reader: the stance back then was that Israel’s birth was not a birth of conquest, but of survival, and that the Arab leaders who opposed it did so under the shadow of an alliance with Nazism. The victims of Dachau were no longer powerless. They had taken up the sword, and history, for once, was on their side.
Oct 6, 2025.
_
"NOT LIKE DACHAU, IS IT, HERR MUFTI?"
The New York Times. May 16, 1948, Section E, Page 4.
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Overwhelming Palestinian Arab Alignment with Nazi Germany: Ideology and Collaboration in the 1930s and World War II (and beyond)
Overwhelming Palestinian Arab Alignment with Nazi Germany: Ideology and Collaboration in the 1930s and World War II (and beyond)
Overwhelming Palestinian Arab Alignment with Nazi Germany: Ideology and Collaboration in the 1930s and World War II (and beyond) Th...
justsayingitoutloloud.blogspot.com
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