The Arabs in Mandatory Palestine went together like peanut butter and jelly for NAZISM

Comment at EoZ ^ | 8 Feb 2024

[Milagros]

The Arabs in Mandatory Palestine went together like peanut butter and jelly for NAZISM.

Morris, Benny. ”1948: A History of the First Arab-Israeli War.” United States, Yale University Press, p. 21.

* The Palestinians, Khalil al-Sakakini, a .. Jerusalem educator, jotted down in his diary, ”rejoiced [as did ‘the whole Arab world’] when the British bastion at Tobruk fell .. to the Germans.”

* One of the first public opinion polls in Palestine, conducted by al-Sakakini’s son, Sari Sakakini, on behalf of the American consulate in Ierusalem, in February 1941 found that 88 percent of the Palestinian Arabs favored Germany and only 9 percent Britain.

Cohen, Hillel. ”Army of Shadows: Palestinian Collaboration with Zionism, 1917–1948.” United States, University of California Press, 2008, p. 175. In February 1941, 88 percent of those polled expressed support for Germany, while only 9 percent supported England.

Anti-Semitism and Ignorance. F. Meiton: The Arabs and the Holocaust. Fredrik Meiton, November 29, 2010. …the poll carried out by Sari al-Sakakini, which, in February 1941, put the figure at 88 percent.

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*In general: the major Arab newspapers (Falastin فلسطين, Ad-Difa ’الدفاع, Carmel, etc.) praised Hitler in the 1930s. [Ehrlich, 2002:81 (Heb.)] (it should also be noted ‘Falastin’ who called Hitler “noble” [Palestine Post, 22-May-1933]). The editor of 'Al-Jami'a al-Islamiyya' [الجماعة الإسلامية] wrote on May 22, 1933: "When Hitlerism appeared, the Arabs cheered and rejoiced, saying: A blow from heaven in the hands of others..."

*In 1936, T. Wurst, the German consul in Jaffa: “The Muslim Palestinians .. deeply impressed by fascist teachings and views, especially from the National Socialists.” [Mallman, Cüppers, 2010: 38].

*The cry of ‘Heil Hitler’ became a key word that rang brazenly throughout Palestine.” [Ziff, 1938:430].

*In 1934, an Arab Nazi party was established [ibid]. In 1935 there are groups: Arab-Nazi [JTA, June-25-1935]. Also in Haifa, a Nazi-Arab club ‘The Red Moon’ was established [JTA July-1-1935]. In 1936, the ‘futuwa’ – modeled on the ‘Hitler youth’. [Rosen, 2005:109].

* On 21 Dec, 1942, letter, representatives of the Reich and the NSDAP in Palestine described the Arabs' hope for a great Arab state: "Arabs in Palestine were waiting for Hitler to come to Palestine and expel all the Jews..."

* New York Times, May 23, 1937, ‘All’ the Arabs of Palestine, [even non-Muslim Arabs] celebrated Muhammad’s birthday with a flying Nazi swastika and pictures of Hitler. [New York Times, May 23, 1937].

*Hilda Wilson, a teacher in Beer-Zeit throughout the rebellion of 1936-9, noted that most of her students were pro-Nazis and approved of Hitler. [Segev, 1999:343].

*In March 1935, the Templar newspaper wrote: Many Arabs saw Hitler as the most important man of the 20th century and almost every Arab knew his name. Fascism and National Socialism with their anti-Jewish attitude were welcomed by many Arabs. [Canaan, 1968: 53 (Heb.)].

*In 1937, Walter Dohle, the German consul in Jerusalem wrote: “Palestinian Arabs in all social strata have great sympathy for the new Germany and its Fuehrer…” [YNet, 7.5.2006]

* Awni Abd al-Hadi (of the Istiqlal institutions and the Supreme Arab Committee) in January 1937 told the Nazi magazine that the Arabs like the Nazis. [Sentinel, Feb. 25, 1937].

* In 1938, Arabs respond to Hitler’s words with cheers from the newspapers [for example, in the Petersburg Times – Sep 16, 1938].

*1938, about a hundred Arabs, including from Palestine, are represented in Nuremberg a.j.n. September 23, 1938 when Fauzi Kaukeji welcomes them. [Davar, Jan. 5, 1947].

*Journalist John Gunther in 1939: “The greatest contemporary Arab hero is – Adolf Hitler.” [Gunther, 1939:528].

*Ahmad Shukeyri [Shukeiri, Shukairy], testifies in his book (in 1969, pp. 196, 201; Encounter, vol. 39, p.76. S. Spencer, Irving Kristol, 1972) that they sympathized with the Nazis and “prayed” for their victory, referring to the years 1940-1. (The same Ahmad Shukeiri helped with propaganda for Hitler [Congressional Record.. Vol. 107, Pt 24, 1961, p.5735 (p.35); Detroit Jewish News, 3-Feb-1967,9], with Jamal Husseini – both justified the holocaust in 1946 [B’nai B’rith, 12-Jul-1946], promoted neo-Nazis in 1962 [JTA, Dec.3.1962; JTA, De.4.1962; Congressional Record : Proceedings and…’ US Congress, 1965, PA15915-6], was associated with Issa Nakhle [Herut, Nov-29-1953 (Heb.)] – who glorified Nazi Germany [DAIA, Apr. 1958], denied the holocaust [Nov.13.1972 at UN; 1978 in his memorandum to Carter, Sadaat ahead of Camp David; etc.] and worked with neo-Nazis for most of his career. [1963 corresponding with A. Arcand; Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith, 1969:.425; Anti Defamation League of B’nai B’rith, 1983:49; The American Spectator, 1986:20]).

*Jaffa Arab activist, Muhammad Abu Sarrari: “Most Arabs in Israel were in favor of Nazi Germany.” [Arbel, 2000:19 (Heb.)].

* Dr. Zaid Hamzeh (who was 9 years old in 1941): “We Arabs supported Hitler during World War II because he hated the Jews.” [Memri, according to an interview with him on 9-Oct-2019].

* "Palestinian" Arab leader, in Jerusalem (then under Jordanian rule), spring, 1967: "We Arabs supported Hitler to get the British out of Palestine and to keep the Jews from taking it over - and that was our big mistake..." [Saturday Review. (1970). vol. 53. United States: Saturday Review Associates, p. 4].

* Arab "Palestinian" leader Farouq Qaddoumi (b. 1931): We supported the Nazis in WWII. [Memri, December 18, 2013].

*In 1941, Aref Abd-Razak meets Himmler, meets Goebbels – who, according to his words, made a “great impression on him”, and who suggested that he recruit Arabs for the SS. [Yom Yom, 21-June-1949 (Heb.)].

*In 1942 when the rumors came about the fate of the Jews, there was public jubilation among the Arabs. [Cohen, 2014, according to the journalist’s testimony].

* August 1942: The CIA reports on the anti-Jewish sentiments of the ‘majority’ of Palestinian Arabs, influenced by propaganda. Expect Rommel… [Herf, 2009:139].

*In 1944, ‘in secret ways, Nazi propaganda material, authored by Hajj Amin, was also stolen into Palestine. Throughout the country his supporters drank in his words with thirst, 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. [Lebl, 1996:98 (Heb.)].

* Before the Farhud (in which they threw babies into the water in front of their parents, raped women before killing them), the Palestinian teachers in Iraq incited the mufti. [Julius, Huffington Post May 25, 2015]. And the Jenin born poet Bohan al-Din al-Abushi called for genocide [Shasha, 2008:6]. He also wrote pro-Hitler poems in 1942-1940. [Hazkani, 2021].

* Ahead of the Nuremberg Trials, the Falastin defended Nazism, saying that "Nazism which is -- as much a way of life as democracy and -- socialism" in a leading article. [The Palestine Post, 31 October 1945].

* The Islamic Ad-Difaa (Al Difa) الدفاع, in honor of the Christian holiday has put at the top of the issue a picture of the "Fuhrer," published the "will" of Hitler with great prominence. [Ad Difaa, Jan 1, 1946; denounced in ha-Tsofeh, Jan 2, 1946].

* An Arab newspaper elaborates about "Hitler the Great (sic) Leader". "Adolf Hitler, the lost European man" - an article of this name with a picture on "the greatest [sic] leader who rose in Germany" was published in the latest issue of "alwahda" (الوحدة) the Arab weekly in Jerusalem. [HaMashkif, June 4, 1946].

*According to Edward Said, the pro-Nazi mufti represented the consensus of the Arabs of Palestine. In his book (1983:7): "The Arab Higher Committee; It operated… especially since 1946… This committee, headed by the national leader of Palestine, Haj Amin al-Husseini, represented the Palestinian Arab national consensus, backed by the parties The Palestinian political parties that operated in Palestine, and were recognized in some way by Arab governments as the voice of the Palestinian people, until the PLO…"

[sheik yerbouty]

Together, they’d make a shit sammich!

[Milagros]

Lol

[Milagros]

* 1942-1945: infamous Arab Palestine Islamic leader Haj Amin al Husseini, the Mufti: no. 1 Hitller’s active Arab helper, very close Himmler. Preaching for genocide and Jihad to the Arab world, overseeing schools for combining radical Islam and Hitlerism; mobilized SS Muslim units; plotted crematorium in Dothan Valey for M.E. and N. African Jews; intervened against rescue of thousands of Jewish children who were to escape the Holocaust to come to Mandatory Palestine. He had a large Arab entourage with him.

[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

Much to this whole story, including the effect on those "pan-Arab" socialists who brought European socialism in their lands. Note that National Socialism was what Nazis called "Aryan socialism," to distinguish it from Communism or "Marxist socialism."

"The first attempts to translate Mein Kampf into Arabic were extracts in various Arab newspapers in the early 1930s. Journalist and Arab nationalist Yunus al-Sabawi published translated extracts in the Baghdad newspaper al-Alam al-Arabi, alarming the Baghdadi Jewish community. Lebanese newspaper Al Nida also separately published extractions in 1934. The German consulate denied it had been in touch with Al Nida for these initial translations."

Mein Kampf in Arabic Wiki

"The ideas were so influential that, in the period between the two World Wars, they inspired the creation of new Arabic political groups, such as the Syrian Social Nationalist Party, the Lebanese Phalanges Party, the Young Egypt Party, the paramilitary group al-Futuwwa in Iraq, and also a branch of Syria's future Ba'ath Party, which is still in power with Bashar al-Assad. These movements all shared an admiration for the political model of the Reich, which some would openly support during the war."

Mein Kampf And The Nazi Role In Arab Anti-Semitism

"The owner told Mako that it was his son who placed the book in the store and that he himself is “a religious man who never even brings such books in.” He explained that he buys stocks of books from other sellers and it’s possible he accidentally purchased the Nazi books as part of a larger shipment without realizing it."

Arabic translation of ‘Mein Kampf’ sold in Israel Jerusalem Post, 22 October 2019

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Lots of those in the Middle east were pro nazi. In Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by Shirer, in the chapter Barbarossa:Turn to Russia, Balkan Prelude, Hitler decided to support Iraq and sent a few arms to them.

“He ordered a military mission, a few planes and some arms to be dispatched to Baghdad to help Iraq.”

[Milagros]

Yes. The last piece about mein kampf sold in Israel (JPost, 2019) was in ARAB VILLAGE OF ARRABA.

[Milagros]

*Jan 6, 1942: 'Up until a month or two ago, you would have heard from Englishmen from various circles the "ruled law," that the majority of Arabs are Nazis. One would say 70%, one would say 90% - that was the dispute.' [Political Struggle: A file of speeches and documents. Vol. 1, Iss. 1, ch. 3. Moshe Sharett, Shifra Kolat, 2009, p. 56].

[Milagros]

Segev, Tom. Jerusalem Ecke Berlin: Erinnerungen. Germany, Penguin Random House Verlagsgruppe GmbH, 2022, "Anständig Bleiben".
https://books.google.com/books?id=mEFnEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT51

Solange der Weltkrieg andauerte, gab es für meine Eltern keine andere Zuflucht als das Land Israel, und da konnten sie praktisch nur als Teil der jüdischen Gesellschaft leben. Mein Vater sagte sich vermutlich, dass er nicht aus der jüdischen Gemeinde in Berlin ausgetreten war, um in Palästina sein Leben für sie zu geben, aber er konnte sich natürlich mit dem Kampf gegen das Naziregime identifizieren und wusste auch, dass die meisten Führer der Araber Palästinas die Nazis unterstützten. Kaum ein Jahr vor dem Aufruf zum Einrücken hatte er in der Zeitung lesen können, dass der Mufti Hadsch Amin al-Husseini sich in Berlin aufhielt und unter anderem mit Hitler konferierte. In jenen Wochen häuften sich die Nachrichten über die Judenvernichtung. Und so meldete er sich schließlich. In seiner »Urkunde über Pflichterfüllung« heißt es: »Übernahm die ihm übertragene Aufgabe.« Es steht nicht da, welche Aufgabe das war. Seine Einheit wurde zum laufenden Schutz der jüdischen Stadtviertel eingesetzt. Mein Vater konnte sich einreden, er verteidige Frau und Tochter.

As long as the world war lasted, there was no other refuge for my parents than the land of Israel, and there they could practically only live as part of Jewish society. My father probably told himself that he had not left the Jewish community in Berlin to give his life for them in Palestine, but he could of course identify with the fight against the Nazi regime and also knew that most of the Palestine's Arab leaders supported the Nazis. Barely a year before the call for action, he had read in the newspaper that the Mufti Hajj Amin al-Husseini was in Berlin and, among other things, conferred with Hitler. In those weeks the news about the extermination of the Jews became more and more frequent. And so he finally came forward. In his "certificate of fulfillment of duty" it says: "Took on the task assigned to him." It doesn't say what task that was. His unit was deployed for ongoing protection of the Jewish neighborhoods. My father could convince himself that he was defending his wife and daughter.