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First Intifadah and Arab-Fascist attempt to poison waters (Sep 1936):

Arielli, N. (2010). Fascist Italy and the Middle East, 1933–40. United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan UK, p. 121.
https://books.google.com/books?id=jR59DAAAQBAJ&pg=PA121

The search for Libyan saboteurs and indirect military assistance

In his initial meeting with th Italians, on Sept 9 1936, Musa Alami asked for not only money and arms but also for assistance in the form of technical advisors.
These would help to carry out more efficient attacks on the pipeline from Iraq to Haifa and would arrange for the water supply of Tel Aviv to be “contaminated”.
On 26 September, Ciano told Alami that Italy would be willing to provide the necessary ‘material’.
The request for men would have to wait for a later date once the possibility of instructing Libyan non commissioned officers to carry out these tasks had been examined. Mussolini personally approved this response.


15 posted on 08/10/2023 7:43:35 PM PDT by Freeleesy
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Hazkani, S. (2021). Dear Palestine: A Social History of the 1948 War. United States: Stanford University Press.
Buhan al Din Al-Abbushi wrote :poems in praise of Hitler, wishing him victory over Britain and France. Victory of the Axis , he explained , would serve as punishment to the Allies for their support of Zionism." [Matti Peled , "Annals of Doom : Palestinian Literature — 1917–1948," Arabica, T. 29 , fasc. 2 (June 1982): 178–80.]


(1940-1942)

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Arif Abd al-Raziq - [عارف عبد الرازق]:

⁨⁨Yom Yom, 21 June 1949⁩. (p. 3(. p. 98.
Goebbels suggested to Abdul Razik the recruitment of young Arabs to the S. S.

The rebellion of Rashid Ali failed. - Abdul Razek escapes from Turkey and Bulgaria and receives a great welcome in Berlin

By Haviv Kanaan.

Rauf sinks into memories...
... We, Palestine-Arabs, received an order from Dr. Grobba to leave in cars in the direction of the Turkish border.

— von Papen intervenes —

My interlocutor seemed excited. Sweat began to cover his forehead: — We traveled in battle uniforms and armed with light weapons. But here we find out that the Turkish border guard does not allow us to pass. And these days are the last days of the rebellion and the English could appear at any moment after us and capture us. For about two days we begged the Turks to let us in. It seems that von Papen also put pressure on the Turkish authorities in Ankara. Finally they agreed to give us permission to enter, but we had to abandon the weapons, the cars and the military insignia.

- He stops for a moment and it seems that he is not very pleased with the memories: -

The Turks kept us in a remote village for two months. We were indeed free to walk around the village, but the police had a watchful eye on us. Twice we were visited by German Axis Powers' representatives who gave us reassuring promises. Finally we were informed that we were allowed to leave Turkey and move to Bulgaria. It was a big moment. Our joy knew no bounds. — Abdul Razak marries a Bulgarian woman —

We came to Sofia. At the train station we were received with great respect. German and Bulgarian officers bowed cordially. In the representative hotel of the Bulgarian capital, which bears the name of Tsar Boris's sister, luxurious apartments were prepared for us. The Germans dressed us and gave us a lot of money. The Bulgarian company welcomed us with joy. That's how I got to know the wealthy Todorovich family, which owns immovable property in the city and agricultural farms in its vicinity. I fell in love with the younger daughter and asked for her hand.

— — What kind of wedding did you have? — Rauf smiles: — the ceremony was full of impressions. There were dozens of people from all over the crowd. It was held in a church... — — How? You are a Muslim? — — 'Maaleish'. They brought in a pop with a long beard, the organ played, the choir sang and it didn't bother me at all. — How did you continue in Sofia? — what does it mean? We lived the life of exiles. We had a very good time. Only my poor brother his illness got the better of him and his suffering increased. After a happy year in Susia, we decided to go to Berlin and ask the advice of the German doctors. The reception in Berlin They also gave us a great premature reception in Berlin. Rashid Ali led the life of the Arab diaspora here. He was very conflicted with the mufti who suddenly tried to approach us. We were invited to visit all the important institutions of the Reich. We were in the Reichstag during the Fuhrer's speech. We were accepted for an interview by Himmler, head of the SS... although we knew that the situation of the Jews in the German occupation area was very bad... we were also accepted by the Minister of Propaganda Dr. Joseph Goebbels. He made a great [sic] impression[sic] on us. He suggested that we send young Arabs to serve in the S. S. In those days, the air attacks on the German capital increased and all the foreign exiles were moved to a calm place around Berlin. We decided to return to Bulgaria. We traveled through Italy, whose military situation was already in a bad state. When I returned to Sofia, I knew that the Reich had lost the battle.
(1941)

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Lebl, Z. (1996) "Hajj Amin and Berlin", chapter "Sending paratroopers behind Allied lines", p. 98.
"In secret ways, Nazi propaganda material was also smuggled into Palestine, composed by Haj Amin." Throughout the country his supporters "received his words with enthusiasm, "and the phenomenon of the years of the rebellion returned: in the Arab circles they were already debating the distribution of Jewish property after the victory; and in Jerusalem and Jaffa, in Tiberias and Safed, the fate of the young Jewish women has already been determined: for each one, her future Arab rapist has been determined."
(1944).

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