Posted on 06/29/2023 4:09:45 PM PDT by Milagros
As early as 1941 the Muffi of Jerusalem Haj Amin Al-Husseini -- who (per Edward Said in his 1983 book p. 7, about his status [still] in 1946) represented the consensus of Palestine Arabs and had major backing of parties there -- requested the Axis powers to acknowledge the Arab right "to settle the question of Jewish elements in Palestine and other Arab countries in accordance with the national and racial interests of the Arabs and along lines similar to those used to solve the Jewish question in Germany and Italy."
[Fritz Grobba, Manner und Machte im Orient (Zurich, Berlin, Frankfurt, 1967), p. 194-197, 207-208. Bernard Lewis notes that "this draft was an Arab request to the Germans, not a German offer to the Arabs."
Jon Kimche, The Second Arab Awakening (London, 1970); L. Hirszowicz, The Third Reich and the Arab East (London, 1966), especially about Mufti's 1937 contact with the Nazis: p. 34. ]
___ ___ ___ Rubin, B., Schwanitz, W. G. (2014). Nazis, Islamists, and the Making of the Modern Middle East. United Kingdom: Yale University Press. ___ ___ ___ Black, E. (2004). Banking on Baghdad: Inside Iraq's 7,000-Year History of War, Profit, and Conflict. United Kingdom: Wiley, p. 313. [https://books.google.com/books?id=LVScQYzhx5oC&pg=PA313] The outlines of the demanded declaration were embodied in the mufti's personal eight-point draft.It covered all the Islamic nations of the Arab realm: Syria, Lebanon, Kuwait, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Dubai, Oman. All these countries were to be liberated from British protectorates,reservations,and mandates. Key to the mufti's draft declaration was Point 7: "Germany and Italy recognize the illegality of the 'Jewish Home in Palestine.' They accord to Palestine and other Arab countries the right to resolve the problem of the Jewish elements in Palestine and other Arab countries in accordance with the interests of the Arabs, and by the same method that the question is now being settled in the Axis counties." ___ ___ ___ "Grand Mufti Husseini Asked Hitler to Help with Arab ‘final Solution’ " JTA, July 23, 1991. [* *] ___ ___ ___ Demaris, O. (1977). Brothers in blood: the international terrorist network. New York: Scribner, p. 116. ___ ___ ___ AlRoy, G. C. (1975). Behind the Middle East Conflict: The Real Impasse Between Arab and Jew. United States: Putnam, p. 276. (Ch. 8.) [*] ___ ___ ___ Kum'a N'dumbe, A. (1974). La politique africaine de l'Allemagne hitlérienne, 1933-1943: Afrique du Nord, Afrique Centrale, Afrique du Sud. France: Centre d'histoire économique et sociale de la région lyonnaise, p. 14. ___ ___ ___ Giniewski, P. (1969). Le Sionisme d'Abraham à Dayan. Belgium: Éditions de la Librarie encyclopédique, p. 248. ___ ___ ___ Baron Russell of Liverpool, E. F. L. R. (1962). The Trial of Adolf Eichmann. United Kingdom: Pimlico, p. 38. ___ ___ ___ דותן, א., Dothan, A. (1950). מלחמת הערבים בישראל (באספקלריה ערבית). Israel: נ. טברסקי. עמ' 9. ___ ___ ___ The Palestine Problem and Proposals for Its Solution. (1947). United States: Nation Associates, p. 51.
[*] USArchII, T120, R63, S71, F50682 ff., B255147, "Déclaration officielle de l'Allemagne et de l'Italie concernant les Pays Arabes," paragraph 7: "L'Allemagne et l'Italie reconaissent l'illegalité du 'Jewish National Home' en Palestine. Elles reconaissent la Palestine et aux autres Pays Arabes le droit de rêsoudre la question des éléments Juifs en Palestine et dans les autres Pays Arabes selon l'intérêt national arabe de la même manière qu'était résolue cette question dans les pays de l'Axe. Il s'en suit aussi qu'aucune immigration juive ne sera permise dans les Pays Arabes” (Berlin, March 1, 1941). USArchII, T120, R63, S71, F50682 ff., B255146–48, Bureau of Secretary of State to von Ribbentrop, and B50692, to Woermann: Uthman Kamal Haddad suggests a refined version of paragraph 3 ("Si la France accorde l'indépendence à la Syrie, l'Allemagne et l'Italie n'auront acune objection à cet égard.") and advances a new draft of the “Déclaration officielle de l'Allemagne et de l'Italie concernant les Pays Arabes," Berlin, March 1, 1941, signed Grobba.
Haj Amin al-Husseini, the notoriously anti-Jewish grand mufti of Jerusalem, sought Adolf Hitler’s help for an Arab version of the “Final Solution” to the Jewish problem, according to the Simon Wiesenthal Center.
The center made the statement after analyzing documents uncovered at the United Nations Archives in New York.
The mufti wielded considerable power as both the religious and nationalist leader of Arabs in Palestine and beyond during much of the British mandatory period.
He fled to Nazi Germany in late 1941 and started a systematic drive to extend the Nazis’ anti-Jewish policies and methods to the Arab Middle East, anticipating an Axis victory.
One significant aspect of the find, said Rabbi Marvin Hier, dean of the Wiesenthal Center, is that it counters the longstanding argument among many Palestinians that while they had no part in Hitler’s persecution of the Jews, they are paying the price for his crimes.
“The documents, in fact, show that the dominant leader of the Palestinian Arabs wanted to do to the Jews of the Middle East what Hitler was doing to the Jews of Europe,” Hier said.
After participating in a short-lived pro-German coup in Iraq, Husseini arrived in Berlin on Nov. 6, 1941, and over the next few months sent Hitler 15 drafts, proposing an official declaration by Germany and Italy on the Middle East.
In one of the French-language drafts, annotated in Arabic in the mufti’s handwriting, he urged inclusion of the following statement: “Germany and Italy recognize the illegality of the ‘Jewish Home in Palestine.’
“They accord to Palestine and to other Arab countries the right to solve the problem of the Jewish elements in Palestine and other Arab countries, in accordance with the interest of the Arabs and, by the same method, that the question is now being settled in the Axis countries.
“Under this agreement, no Jewish immigration into the Arab countries should be permitted.”
‘FIGHTING THE JEWS WITHOUT RESPITE’
At that time, the extermination of the Jews was already in full swing in the conquered Soviet territories, so there is little doubt what the mufti meant by solving the Jewish problem “by the same methods” employed by the Axis, Hier said.
Husseini had a chance to press his points with the fuhrer personally during a 90-minute meeting in late November 1941, which the mufti recorded in his own handwriting in a diary.
Hitler, according to the diary, assured the mufti that the Jews were his foremost enemy.
“Primarily, I am fighting the Jews without respite, and this fight includes the fight against the so-called Jewish National Home in Palestine, because the Jews want to establish there a central government for their own pernicious purposes,” the Nazi leader said.
“It is clear that the Jews have accomplished nothing in Palestine, and their claims are lies. All the accomplishments in Palestine are due to the Arabs and not the Jews,” he said. “I am resolved to find a solution for the Jewish problem, progressing step by step without cessation.”
While “our common enemies are Great Britain and the Soviets,” said Hitler, “behind them stands hidden Jewry, which drives them both.”
Despite these heartfelt assurances, Hitler put off the mufti’s pleas for an official Axis declaration of support for the Arabs. The right time for such a statement, Hitler said, would be after his armies conquered the Soviet Union’s southern Caucasus region, probably in 1942, opening the road to Iran and Iraq.
As it turned out, the Red Army successfully defended the southern Caucasus against the Nazi onslaught.
CONTINUED FIGHT AGAINST JEWS
Husseini remained in Germany throughout the war, met again with Hitler, with SS leader Heinrich Himmler, and apparently with Adolf Eichmann, and “toured” some of the main extermination camps as guest of their commandants.
In 1945, the government of Yugoslavia under former partisan leader Marshal Iosip Tito sought to indict him as a war criminal for his role in recruiting 20,000 Moslem volunteers for the SS, who participated in the killing of Jews in Croatia and Hungary.
He escaped from French detention in 1946 and continued his fight against the Jews, from Cairo and later Beirut, where he died in 1974.
The documents detailing Husseini’s petitions and meeting with Hitler were found in the mufti’s villa in Germany in 1945. They were transmitted to the United Nations Archives, with copies and some of the documents also held by the U.S. National Archives in Washington and the archives of the Federal Republic of Germany.
The U.N.-held documents were researched over a month’s period by Mark Weitzman of the Wiesenthal Center’s New York office.
Why weren’t the documents discovered earlier? “It’s a matter of what to look for and where to find them,” said Weitzman, pointing out that incriminating documents on the wartime service of Kurt Waldheim, the Austrian president, also lay undiscovered for decades in the same archives.
The Husseini family continues to play a role in Palestinian affairs, with Faisal Husseini, whose father was the mufti’s nephew, active as the leading spokesman for the Palestinian cause.
[*] Though perhaps not for want of trying; in negotiations with the Axis powers , the Committee for the Co - ordination of Arab Policies, founded in Baghdad in 1940 by the Mufti of Jerusalem, formally asked them to acknowledge the Arabs ' right " to settle the question of Jewish elements in Palestine and other Arab countries in accordance with the national and racial interests of the Arabs and along lines similar to those used to solve the Jewish question in Germany and Italy.
[*] 7°) L'Allemagne et l'Italie reconnaissent l'illégalité du "Jewish National Home" en Palestine. Elles reconnaissent à la Palestine et aux autres Pays Arabes le droit de résoudre la question des éléments juifs en Palestine et dans les pays de l'Axe.
[*] Le mufti avait préparé plusieurs projets de déclaration officielle allemande. L'une, du 28 septembre 1941 (1), après avoir reconnu l'indépendance arabe, et une fédération dont Hadj Amine serait le chef, règle de la manière suivante le sort du Foyer juif: « L'Allemagne et l'Italie reconnaissent l'illégalité du Jewish National Home en Palestine.
Elles reconnaissent à la Palestine et aux autres Pays Arabes le droit de résoudre la question des éléments juifs en Palestine et dans les autres pays arabes selon l'intérêt national arabe et de la même manière qu'était résolue cette question dans les pays de l'Axe. »
[*] Clause 7 reads as follows : Germany and Italy recognise the illegality of the ' Jewish Home in Palestine'. They accord to Palestine and to other Arab countries the right to resolve the problem of the Jewish elements in Palestine and other Arab countries in accordance with the interests of the Arabs, and by the same method that the question is now being settled in the Axis countries.
Dothan, A. (1950). The Arab War in Israel (in Arab view). Israel: n. Tversky. p. 9.
(*] ..The draft, written in French, was found in the Mufti's archives in Germany, with marginal notes in Arabic, in the Mufti's handwriting).
L'Allemagne et l'Italie reconaissent l'illégalité du ,,Jewish National Home" en Palestine. Elles reconaissent la Palestine et aux autres Pays Arabes le droit de rêsoudre la question des éléments Juifs en Palestine et dans les autres Pays Arabes selon l'intérêt national arabe de la même manière qu'était résolue cette question dans les pays de l'Axe.
[*] "Exhibit IV. A proposal for a Nazi pro-Arab Declaration, submitted by the Mufti to the Germans and the Italians. During his stay in Germany, the Mufti repeatedly urged the Germans to issue a Declaration to the Arabs, promising them the establishment of an ' Arab Union', the formation of an Arab pro-Axis army, etc One of these Mufti-suggested Declarations entitled, 'Declaration officielle de l'Allemagne et de l'Italie concernant les pays arabes', found in the archives of the Mufti's Bureau in Germany contains among others:
'Article 7, Germany and Italy declare that the Jewish national home in Palestine is illegal. They recognize the right of the Arabs of Palestine and the Arabs of other Arab countries to solve the problem of the Jewish elements in Palestine and the other Arab countries according to the national interest of the Arabs and in the same way that this problem was solved in the Axis countries.' "
He was only, just, “anti zionist.”
Old web site with Arab-Nazi historic information. Only available via the WayBack Machine.
https://web.archive.org/web/20150109022831/http://www.tellthechildrenthetruth.com/amin_en.html
From left, Fritz Grobba, Uthman Kamal Haddad, Amin al-Husseini
With al Kailani (Gaylani)
Inspecting weapons units
Himmler's telegram to the Palestine Mufti - Autumn 1943
Barid al Sharq (Nazi Mag. in Arabic, 1939-1945)
That would mean ghetto-ization. The Wansee Conference, where it was determined to implement a “final solution,” occurred in 1942, not 1941.
My recollection is that there are many statements by the Mufti incdicating his objective as Arab independence to deal with the Jewish question in Arab lands in their own way, as the Germans did in Germany. I’ve read some suggestions the Mufti was at Wansee, no idea if that’s true. No guest lists so I’ll have to wait for AI to tell me. But ghettos would have been a temporary solultion.
Even if he was at Wansee, it was in 1942. One of the pre-Wansee “solutions” was shipping all the ghettoized Jews to Madagascar.
Yes, have to put them somewhere.
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