Who started the Islamic violence on non-Muslims in the Middle East and more? Facts! Not 'who came first egg or chicken'

Yeah so this means they get to murder and destroy with impunity. God approves after all.
"God", or the "God of this world", does approve of "Unprovoked Violence":

2Co_4:4 in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.



On the other hand,.... The Almighty LORD GOD, does not approve of "Unprovoked Acts of Violence".

A Major Fallacy, as well as a verification of a
"Lack of Knowledge" about The Scriptures, is that YAHWEH is some "Always Loving, Always Tolerating, Come as you are & Stay that Way" Creator/Savior.
HE is not,.... Despite the Teachings of "Man's Christian/Catholic Religions".

Psa 149:1 Praise Yahweh! Sing to Yahweh a new song, his praise in the assembly of the saints.
Psa 149:2 Let Israel rejoice in him who made them. Let the children of Zion be joyful in their King.
Psa 149:3 Let them praise his name in the dance! Let them sing praises to him with tambourine and harp!
Psa 149:4 For Yahweh takes pleasure in his people. He crowns the humble with salvation.
Psa 149:5 Let the saints rejoice in honor. Let them sing for joy on their beds.
Psa 149:6 May the high praises of God be in their mouths, and a two-edged sword in their hand;
Psa 149:7 To execute vengeance on the nations, and punishments on the peoples;
Psa 149:8 To bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron;
Psa 149:9 to execute on them the written judgment. All his saints have this honor. Praise Yah!
Mat 10:34 “Don’t think that I came to send peace on the earth. I didn’t come to send peace, but a sword.
Mat 10:35 For I came to set a man at odds against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.
Mat 10:36 A man’s foes will be those of his own household.
Mat 10:37 He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter more than me isn’t worthy of me.
Mat 10:38 He who doesn’t take his cross and follow after me, isn’t worthy of me.
Mat 10:39 He who seeks his life will lose it; and he who loses his life for my sake will find it.
 
Huh? The poster listed numerous instances in which Islamists persecuted Jews, and you want him to disprove his own list?

Look, I know you’re an antisemite, but the persecution of Jews by Islamists started IMMEDIATELY with Mohammed. Jews were living peacefully until they entered the scene and started displacing and murdering them.


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And of course, the Islamists spread out and conquered all of the Middle East. Yet the antisemites pretend that this never happened, and complain about Jews’ “takeover” of their land,

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So who started the Islamic violence on non-Muslims in the Middle East and more?
Not 'who came first egg or chicken'
It's actually quite simple. The facts /history that is.


THE ANTI-CHRISTIAN WAR SINCE 1984.

The Thirty-Year Genocide: Turkey’s Destruction of Its Christian Minorities, 1894–1924.

Key Aspects of the 30-Year Genocide (1894–1924):

Timeframe & Leadership:
The period began with the Hamidian massacres (1894–1896) under Sultan Abdulhamid II, continued under the Young Turks (CUP) from 1914–1918, and concluded with the Nationalist regime under Atatürk from 1919–1924.

-The Role of Jihad: A constant throughout this period was the calculated use of a "rallying cry of jihad" by the state to mobilize Muslim populations against Christian communities. The authors state that while this campaign was not justified under the core teachings of Islam, it was used to create a pure Muslim nation.

-Demographic Change: Christians, who made up about 20% of the population of Asia Minor (Anatolia) in the 1890s, were reduced to only 2% by 1924.

-Methods of Annihilation: The policy was characterized by premeditated mass killings, forced conversions, mass rapes, brutal abduction, and homicidal deportations.
Scale: The authors estimate that approximately 2.5 million Christians were killed, with many others forced into exile.




The August 1933 Simile massacre of Assyrians in Iraq.




THE ANTI-JEWISH WAR SINCE 1920 IN THE HOLYLAND:

April 1920 "we will drink the blood of the Jews," and "Muhammad's religion was born with the sword."

'Throughout the 1920s, ’30s, and ’40s, Palestine’s Arabs consistently rejected all proposals for a political compromise and flatly demanded all of Palestine, “from the river to the sea.” And they did not restrict their activities to roundtable discussions. In April 1920, May 1921, and August 1929, Arab mobs, whose passions had been whipped up by religious and political leaders, attacked their Jewish neighbours and passers-by in Jerusalem, Jaffa, Hebron, and Safad, killing dozens in what amounted to a succession of pogroms...
But the article’s worst historical distortions concern the events surrounding the Second World War. Penslar claims that “between 9,000 and 12,000 Palestinians fought for the Allied forces in World War II.” In fact, as far as I know, it is doubtful whether any Palestine Arabs actually “fought” during the war, though perhaps some 6,000 of Palestine’s 1.2 million Arabs signed up with the British and served as cooks, drivers, or guards in British installations in Palestine. By comparison, around 28,000 of Palestine’s Jews—out of a population of around 550,000—joined the British army, and many of them actually fought in North Africa and Italy in 1941–1945.

This talk of Palestine Arabs “fighting” alongside the British is, at best, misleading. Palestine’s Arabs—like most of the Middle East’s Arabs—would have preferred a Nazi German victory and the defeat of the Western democracies. The British were seen as the common enemy of the Germans and the Palestinians. As Sakakini, a Palestinian nationalist, relates in a diary entry of 1941, the Arabs of Palestine “had rejoiced when the British bastion at Tobruk fell to the Germans,” and “not only the Palestinians rejoiced … but the whole Arab world.”

This support for Hitler wasn’t merely a matter of the old adage that “my enemy’s enemy is my friend.” Muhammed Amin al-Husseini, the leader of the Palestine national movement, was an outspoken antisemite. He aided the 1941 pro-Nazi revolt in Baghdad. When it collapsed, he fled to Berlin, where he spent the rest of the war years enjoying a handsome salary for his work as a Nazi propagandist and a recruiter of Balkan Muslims for the SS.

Palestine’s Arabs thus assisted in the destruction of European Jewry in two ways: They successfully pressured the British into closing the gates of Palestine to European Jews fleeing the Holocaust; and they supported Germany’s efforts to win the war. In radio broadcasts from Berlin, Husseini called on the Arab world to rebel against Britain and "kill the Jews."')
Benny Morris – The NYT Misrepresents the History of the Israeli–Palestinian Conflict. Quillette. Feb 27, 2024.
[The NYT Misrepresents the History of the Israeli–Palestinian Conflict]
[Benny Morris – The NYT Misrepresents the History of the Israeli–Palestinian Conflict]





THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN: 1979:

In 1979, taking hostages for 444 days.

First it targeted the US, who they called "great saran," only later it began being obsessed with Israel who it saw as US tail and the little one.

It set up Hezbollah on 1981 in Lebanon, a year before Israel responded to "Palestine" Arafat attacks on its civilians who began the infamous methods of 'dead baby strategy', using its own people as human shields. The tactics lasting to these days and adopted by Hezbollah and other Islamists.

TARGETING JEWS

June 14, 1985: TWA Flight 847 was hijacked by Hezbollah after taking off from Athens. Passengers with Jewish-sounding names were separated from the others. U.S. Navy diver Robert Stethem was murdered, and his body was thrown onto the tarmac. Dozens of passengers were held hostage for two weeks until some of the hijackers’ demands were met.

Pursuing the nuclear bomb: Late 1980s-1990s: Iran began covertly purchasing technology and constructing secret sites.

Since 1991, had declared its annihilation wish/plan on Israel, including using nukes.

March 17, 1992: A Hezbollah suicide bombing of the Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires killed 29 civilians, including two Israelis, and injured 242 additional civilians. The embassy building collapsed, as did a nearby Catholic church, a school and an apartment building across the street. Most of the casualties were Argentine civilians, mainly children from the school.

On July 18, 1994, in Argentina’s deadliest terrorist attack ever, a truck bomb exploded near the Argentine Mutual Israelite Association (AMIA) Jewish community center building in Buenos Aires, killing 85 people and injuring hundreds more. The Lebanon-based Iranian terrorist proxy Hezbollah, at the instruction of Iran’s top leadership and under the supervision of Iranian diplomats and intelligence officers, carried out the bombing.

A day later:

July 19, 1994, Iran's terror strikes again: Alas Chiricanas Airlines Flight 00901 which exploded near Colon, Panama, killing all 21 people on board, including 12 Jewish business leaders.

May 2008: Two Hezbollah terrorists were captured as they prepared to attack the Israeli embassy in Baku, Azerbaijan. The terrorists underwent advanced training in Iran before departing to Baku, carrying Iranian passports. During their arrest, security forces discovered pistols with silencers, explosives, cameras, binoculars and photographs of the Israeli embassy in their vehicle. The two were tried and sentenced to 15 years in prison. Prior to this thwarted attack, a planned attack by Iran’s Quds Force, aiming to harm Jewish figures at the Eurovision contest in Baku, was also prevented in 2008.

May 26, 2011: Eight Turkish citizens were injured in the attempted assassination of the Israeli Consul in Istanbul. The Quds Force led the attempted assassination with assistance on the ground from Hezbollah members. Preceding this attempt, in 2009 and 2010, were a number of unsuccessful attempts by Iran and Hezbollah to strike Israeli targets in Turkey.

Feb. 14, 2012: Several bombings in Bangkok, Thailand, injured five people. Thai authorities said the bombings were a botched attempt by Iranian nationals to assassinate Israeli diplomats. Several Iranians were arrested and charged with the attacks.

July 18, 2012, Hezbollah suicide bomber targeting a bus filled with Israeli tourists at Bulgaria's Burgas Airport. The explosion killed six people—five Israelis and the Bulgarian driver—and injured 32 others.

May 30, 2015: A Lebanese-Canadian Hezbollah member was arrested in Larnaca, Cyprus, after 8.2 tons of potential bomb-making material were found in his basement. A month later, he was sentenced to six years in jail for preparing the ground for Hezbollah “to harm, through terrorist attacks, Israeli interests in Cyprus.”

Aug. 9, 2018: Two Iranians who collected information on Israeli and Jewish targets in the U.S. and on opponents of the Iranian regime were arrested and later charged with spying for Tehran. One of those charged had carried out surveillance and took photos at several Jewish centers in Chicago, including the Hillel Center and the Rohr Chabad House.

2024-2025
2024, Iran using criminsl fanfs to plot attacks on Jews and others. Especially in Sweden.
2025, And 14 countries in Europe and North America have accused Iran of plotting killings and kidnappings on Western soil.




THE ANTI-AMERICAN WAR SINCE 1979.

Here is only a partial record of the Iranian regime’s blood-soaked war on Americans:

November 1979: Iranian students, backed by the regime, seized the U.S. Embassy in Tehran — taking 66 Americans hostage in a 444-day standoff.

April 1983: The Islamic Jihad, an Iran-backed terrorist group, carried out a suicide car bombing at the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, killing 17 Americans.

October 1983: Iran-backed Hezbollah terrorists killed 241 U.S. military personnel — including 220 U.S. Marines and 21 other service personnel — in a truck bombing at a Marine compound in Beirut.

March 1984: Iran-backed Islamic Jihad terrorists kidnapped CIA station chief William Buckley on his way to work in Beirut, ultimately killing him the following year.

September 1984: Iran-backed Hezbollah terrorists killed 23 innocent people — including two American service members — in a car bomb attack at the U.S. Embassy annex in Beirut.

December 1984: Iran-backed Hezbollah terrorists hijacked Kuwait Airways Flight 221 en route to Pakistan, diverting it to Tehran — where they brutally tortured and killed two American officials.

June 1985: Iran-backed Hezbollah terrorists hijacked TWA Flight 847 on its way from Athens to Rome, torturing a U.S. Navy diver before shooting him point blank in the head and tossing his body onto the Beirut airport tarmac.

July 1989: Iran-backed Hezbollah terrorists killed U.S. Marine Col. William Higgins after kidnapping him the previous year while serving with a United Nations peacekeeping force in Lebanon.

April 1995: Iran-backed Islamic Jihad terrorists killed eight people — including one American citizen — in a car bomb attack in the Gaza Strip.

August 1995: An Iran-backed Hamas suicide bomber blew up a bus in Jerusalem, killing an American and three other passengers, and wounding more than 100 others.

February 1996: An Iran-backed Hamas suicide bomber blew up another bus in Jerusalem, killing three Americans and wounding three other Americans.

March 1996: A suicide bomber linked to the Iran-backed Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorist groups killed 20 people — including two Americans — in a suicide bombing at a Tel Aviv shopping center.

May 1996: Iran-backed terrorists killed an American-Israeli dual citizen and wounded another American citizen in the West Bank.

June 1996: Iran-backed Hezbollah Al-Hijaz terrorists killed 19 U.S. Airmen and wounded nearly 500 others in a truck bombing at a U.S. Air Force housing complex in Saudi Arabia.

September 1997: Iran-backed Hamas suicide bombers blew themselves up at a shopping mall in Jerusalem, killing an American-Israeli dual citizen and wounding seven other American citizens.

August 1998: Al-Qaeda suicide bombers, facilitated by Iran-backed Hezbollah, simultaneously bombed U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, killing 224 people — including a dozen American citizens.

August 2001: An Iran-backed Hamas terrorist blew up a Jerusalem pizzeria, killing three Americans.

January 2002: An Iran-backed al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigade terrorist killed an American-Israeli dual citizen in the West Bank.

July 2002: An Iran-backed Hamas terrorist killed five Americans in a bombing at Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

June 2003: An Iran-backed Hamas suicide bomber killed 17 people — including an American citizen — on a bus in Jerusalem.

October 2003: Iran-backed Popular Resistance Committees terrorists killed three U.S. diplomatic personnel in a bombing in Gaza.

Between 2003 and 2011: Iran-backed militias killed at least 603 U.S. troops in Iraq — “roughly one in every six American combat fatalities in Iraq.”

August 2003: An Iran-backed Hamas terrorist blew up a bus in Jerusalem, killing five Americans and wounding one other American.

August 2006: Iran-backed Hezbollah terrorists killed American citizen and Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldier Michael Levin during the Second Lebanon War — the only American to die in the conflict.

January 2007: A dozen men affiliated with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Quds Force killed five U.S. soldiers and wounded three others in Karbala, Iraq, after disguising themselves as U.S. soldiers and entering the Provincial Joint Coordination Center.

March 2007: Former FBI Agent Robert Levinson disappeared in Iran, likely dying in an Iranian prison.

July 2014: Iran-backed Hamas terrorists killed two American citizens serving in the IDF.

October 2015: Iran-backed Hamas terrorists killed an American citizen and his wife in a drive-by shooting in the West Bank.

December 2019: Iran-backed Kataib Hezbollah terrorists killed an American civilian contractor and wounded several U.S. service members in a rocket attack at K1 Air Base in Kirkuk, Iraq.

January 2020: 109 U.S. troops suffered traumatic brain injuries in an Iranian ballistic missile attack on the Ain al-Asad airbase in Iraq.

September 2020: U.S. intelligence indicated the Iranian regime was considering a plot to assassinate the U.S. Ambassador to South Africa.

February 2021: An Iran-backed militia fired a rocket at coalition forces in Erbil, Iraq, wounding a U.S. service member and four U.S. civilian contractors.

July 2021: Iranian-backed militias wounded two U.S. service members in a series of rocket and drone attacks against U.S. forces in Iraq and Syria.

September 2022: An Iranian rocket attack killed an American citizen in Iraqi Kurdistan.

November 2022: An IRGC captain orchestrated the killing of an American citizen in Baghdad.

March 2023: An Iranian drone attack killed an American contractor and wounded five U.S. service members and another contractor in a strike on a coalition base in Syria.

October 2023: Iran-backed Hamas terrorists killed 46 Americans and kidnapped at least 12 Americans in the October 7th massacre.

December 2023: Iran-backed militias wounded three U.S. service members in an attack on Erbil Air Base in Iraq.

January 2024: Iran-backed Kataib Hezbollah terrorists killed three U.S. service members and wounded more than 40 other service members in a drone attack against the Tower 22 military base in Jordan.

Between October 2023 and November 2024: Iran and its proxies conducted more than 180 attacks against U.S. forces in the Middle East, wounding more than 180 U.S. service members and killing three service members.

November 2024: An Iranian national and IRGC asset was charged for plotting to assassinate President Trump.

June 2025: Iran-backed militias attacked at least three U.S. bases in Syria and two U.S. bases in Iraq.
[The Iranian Regime’s Decades of Terrorism Against American Citizens]
Imagine for a moment at the height of Muslim(ISIL) killing of mostly Muslims and Christians in Iraq in Syria that people randomly started talking about Jewish violence


That’s what this thread is. Right now according to even Jewish journalists the worst modern day civilian death ratio is in Gaza. Carried out by Jewish Fanatics killing tens of thousands of women and children. That’s a higher death ratio of civilians in Gaza compared to the war in Ukraine, the Syrian Civil War, the war in Iraq, the war in Afghanistan. And what is going on in Nigeria or Yemen. Don’t like it??? Ok take it up with Jewish journalists from various media publications. What are they some kind of Nazis. Wow. Ugh 😑

And there’s this thread talking about events that occurred decades ago or even hundreds of years ago. What in the world?

Good job on the good Jews of the world who are calling out the Jewish supremacists just like good Christians and good Muslims have called out supremacists in their own ranks.
 
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Oh boy guess all those white Christian men are somehow Nazis^^^^. What are they supposed to be talking about What happened in Africa or the Ottoman empire 100 years ago?

“How dare you criticize the war in Gaza shut your Nazi mouth you should be talking about what’s happened in Africa or the Ottoman empire 100 years ago”
 
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Oh boy guess ..
Are you saying that KKK/Neo-Nazis are just "Israel critics"?

Anti Trump drives anti Israel sentiments.
Face the Nation
| 04/19/2026


MARGARET BRENNAN: I want to ask you, as a Democrat, there was this extraordinary vote this past week in the Senate. Forty Senate Democrats tried to block a U.S. weapons sale to Israel, and that adds to this growing rift we have seen between your party and Benjamin Netanyahu. Do you think Democrats are going to come to regret this break in the alliance?

HOCHSTEIN: So I hope that it's not a break in the alliance. I think this, what it really demonstrates is for the last several years, Prime Minister Netanyahu has sacrificed Israel's interest in the United States. The most important asset the Israel has is not its military or its intelligence. It's the relation, it's the special relationship with the United States that has been bipartisan for so many decades.

He has destroyed that because he has decided to become not just part of the Republican Party, but he's decided to become just an appendage of Donald Trump. And so every Democrat now sees, if you want to be Trump, great, if we're anti-Trump, then by de facto, we are against you. I think this is a lot to do with Bibi Netanyahu and his extremist right-wing government, and not to do with Israel. Look, you have half of Israel is voting against Bibi. So I think this- Democrats should be aligning with Israel, not with Bibi.
 
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Oh boy guess all those white Christian
You do know there are more Christians pro Israel than there are Jews as a population here.

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Anti Trump drives anti Israel sentiments.
Face the Nation
| 04/19/2026

MARGARET BRENNAN: I want to ask you, as a Democrat, there was this extraordinary vote this past week in the Senate. Forty Senate Democrats tried to block a U.S. weapons sale to Israel, and that adds to this growing rift we have seen between your party and Benjamin Netanyahu. Do you think Democrats are going to come to regret this break in the alliance?

HOCHSTEIN: So I hope that it's not a break in the alliance. I think this, what it really demonstrates is for the last several years, Prime Minister Netanyahu has sacrificed Israel's interest in the United States. The most important asset the Israel has is not its military or its intelligence. It's the relation, it's the special relationship with the United States that has been bipartisan for so many decades.

He has destroyed that because he has decided to become not just part of the Republican Party, but he's decided to become just an appendage of Donald Trump. And so every Democrat now sees, if you want to be Trump, great, if we're anti-Trump, then by de facto, we are against you. I think this is a lot to do with Bibi Netanyahu and his extremist right-wing government, and not to do with Israel. Look, you have half of Israel is voting against Bibi. So I think this- Democrats should be aligning with Israel, not with Bibi.
 
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Oh boy guess all those white Christian men are somehow Nazis^^^^. What are they supposed to be talking about What happened in Africa or the Ottoman empire 100 years ago?

“How dare you criticize the war in Gaza shut your Nazi mouth you should be talking about what’s happened in Africa or the Ottoman empire 100 years ago”
Wondering how many of those polled could find Israel on the globe/world map ...

Meanwhile, Oct. 7, 2023 wasn't the first or only event of this sort. It was part of a pattern at least 78+ years old, if not older (depending upon one's view, knowledge of history).
In politics, and religious relations, actions often have reactions. When the exchange of animosity goes back centuries(millennia), picking a single day/event as an example, or exception, can often be an exercise in distortion.

Hamas launches deadliest attack in Israeli history

Israel and Hamas Conflict In Brief: Overview, U.S. Policy ...

Israel-Hamas War (Gaza Conflict) | Explanation, Summary ...

October 2024 Iranian strikes on Israel - Wikipedia

April 2024 Iranian strikes on Israel.
 
Wondering how many of those polled could find Israel on the globe/world map ...

Meanwhile, Oct. 7, 2023 wasn't the first or only event of this sort. It was part of a pattern at least 78+ years old, if not older (depending upon one's view, knowledge of history).
In politics, and religious relations, actions often have reactions. When the exchange of animosity goes back centuries(millennia), picking a single day/event as an example, or exception, can often be an exercise in distortion.

Hamas launches deadliest attack in Israeli history

Israel and Hamas Conflict In Brief: Overview, U.S. Policy ...

Israel-Hamas War (Gaza Conflict) | Explanation, Summary ...

October 2024 Iranian strikes on Israel - Wikipedia

April 2024 Iranian strikes on Israel.
Thanks. Only that I exclude Wikipedia on anything related to Israel, because of the gang of 40 who control that narrative.
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Wondering how many of those polled could find Israel on the globe/world map ...

Meanwhile, Oct. 7, 2023 wasn't the first or only event of this sort. It was part of a pattern at least 78+ years old, if not older (depending upon one's view, knowledge of history).
In politics, and religious relations, actions often have reactions. When the exchange of animosity goes back centuries(millennia), picking a single day/event as an example, or exception, can often be an exercise in distortion.

Hamas launches deadliest attack in Israeli history

Israel and Hamas Conflict In Brief: Overview, U.S. Policy ...

Israel-Hamas War (Gaza Conflict) | Explanation, Summary ...

October 2024 Iranian strikes on Israel - Wikipedia

April 2024 Iranian strikes on Israel.
No, the vast majority could NOT find Israel in the map. But they know that it’s the “Jew country,” and that’s enough for the antisemites to crawl out of the woodwork and spread anti-Israel propaganda.
 
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Wiki is usually a start, and helpful if you check the sources they used.
I agree must use a pound of salt.
 
Rosen, D. M. (2005). Armies of the Young: Child Soldiers in War and Terrorism. United Kingdom: Rutgers University Press pp. 106-107.

Throughout the 1930s the children of wealthy Palestinians returned home from European universities having witnessed the emergence of fascist paramilitary forces.
Palestinian students educated in Germany returned to Palestine determined to found the Arab Nazi Party of Palestine.

The Husseinis used the Palestinian Arab Party to established the al-Futuwwa youth corps, which was named after an association of Arab knights of the Middle Ages and which was officially designated the Nazi Scouts.68 By 1936 the Palestinian Arab Party was sponsoring the development of storm troops patterned on the German model. These storm troops, all children and youth, were to be outfitted in black trousers and red shirts and were to be divided into three sections: below age fifteen, ages fifteen to twenty, and twenty years and older. The first troops were founded in Lod and Jerusalem.

The young recruits took the following oath: “Life—my right; independence— my aspiration; Arabism—my principle; Palestine—my country, and there is no room in it for any but Arabs. In this I believe and Allah is my witness.” The British were clearly alarmed, reporting that “the growing youth and scout movements must be regarded as the most probable factors for the disturbance of the peace.”

The British were quite correct because the increasing levels of youth violence they were observing were merely the prelude to the outbreak of the Great Arab Revolt of 1936–1939. The al-Futuwwa youth groups connected Palestinian youth to fascist youth movements elsewhere in the Middle East. While the Mufti was establishing youth groups in Palestine, al-Futuwwa groups were established in Iraq for boys between the ages of fifteen and twenty; they were also modeled on Hitler Youth. During the Great Arab Revolt the Mufti fled from Jerusalem and made his way first to Lebanon and then to Iraq. In Iraq he helped set up an Arab Committee to promote collaboration between Iraq and the Nazis and brought the Iraqi al-Futuwwa under its control. In sharp contrast to the groups in Palestine, Iraqi fascist youth groups operated with state sponsorship and support. They were deeply involved in the staging of deadly pogroms against Iraqi Jews. Al-Futuwwa and other youth groups continued to thrive in Iraq throughout the 1960s and 1970s. They were a precursor to the Baathist militia and were the most deadly expressions of Baathist ideology.

In Palestine the deadly potential of the youth groups was never fully realized. Statesponsored mass mobilization of children and youth could not take place under British rule. Nevertheless, the idea of militant youth organizations and organized youth combatants remained central to the Palestinian vision of resistance.
 

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