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Jamal Husseini with his uncle the Mufti, Arab-Islamic HitlerYouth - Futuwwa

Karsh, E. (2010). Palestine Betrayed. United States: Yale University Press. Chapter I. Jews and Arabs in the Holy Land

In August 1932, Abdel Hadi established the Palestinian branch of the pan-Arab Independence Party (Istiqlal), followed shortly afterward by the creation of the Youth Congress, headed by Yaqub Ghussein. Two years later, the Party for National Defense was created as the political arm of the Nashashibis, the second most powerful Palestinian Arab clan and the Husseinis' bitterest enemies, and the latter responded in kind by forming, in March 1935, the Arab Palestinian Party headed by Jamal Husseini. These were followed in the same year by the Reform Party, established by Jerusalem's mayor, Hussein Khalidi, and the National Bloc, created by the Nablus notable Abdel Latif Salah – both of which took a neutral stance in the rivalry between their larger counterparts.

This struggle for political pre-eminence was further radicalized by the Nazi seizure of power in Germany. The long-established paper Karmil pined for the appearance of "an Arab Hitler" who "will awaken the Arabs and rally them behind his leadership so that they will do what needs to be done," while Jamal Husseini invoked one of Hitler's famous refrains in inaugurating his party's youth organization. "when we began our activity we were six, then we became 6,000 and then 60 million," he quoted the German tyrant before urging the gathered youths to emulate the Nazi example by "toughening their bodies and souls so as to be able to defend the nation's honor and rights in time of need."

It was indeed the Husseinis the foremost influence in Palestinian Arab politics, who displayed the greatest enthusiasm for Nazism, going so far as to model their youth organization on the lines of the Hitlerjugend and temporarily naming it "The Nazi Scouts."

Losing no time, the Mufti rushed to the German consul in Jerusalem to tell him that "the Muslims in Palestine and elsewhere were enthusiastic about the new regime in Germany and looked forward to the spread of Fascism throughout the region." 
In a foretaste of his actual World War II conduct, he endorsed the Nazi (on) Jewish policy and offered to persuade Muslims worldwide to adopt similar measures.

4 posted on 06/25/2023 9:10:37 PM PDT by Milagros (Y)
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To: Milagros

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6 posted on 06/26/2023 12:15:16 AM PDT by LanaTurnerOverdrive (Not your guinea pig dot com)
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