(Fawzi al-Qawuqji 1947) With German [Nazi] greetings to Palestine: 'his volunteers are sworn in with the "German [Nazi] salute" under the green flag' of the Muhammad

Kaukji is the predestined commander-in-chief of a volunteer army for Palestine. Together with the Grand Mufti, whose confidant and best friend he is, he was one of the ringleaders of the bloody Palestinian Arab uprising against Jewish immigration in 1936-39. He was severely wounded at that time and fled Palestine. During the war, he met with the Grand Mufti, who had also gone on a journey, in Germany. He has not forgotten what he found so appealing back then: his volunteers are sworn in with the "German salute" under the green flag of the Pr0phet.

Mit deutschem Gruß für Palästina - DER SPIEGEL.

With German greetings to Palestine For the issue. Article 34 / 111. With German greetings to Palestine. December 19, 1947, 1:00 PM • from DER SPIEGEL 51/1947.

Half of Cairo was on its feet. From Al-Azhar University, a demonstration of some 100,000 Muslims, several kilometers long, thronged the densely packed streets of the Egyptian capital toward King Farouk's Abdine Palace. The police turned a blind eye as clenched fists rose from the crowd and a thousand voices chanted: "We want weapons!" The police knew what the weapons were being demanded for: for the jihad, the holy war for Palestine.

The crowds were particularly dense in front of the elegant Savoy Hotel in the city center. On the terrace, the prime ministers of the Arab states, who had gathered there for an Arab League "war council," stood with dignified, solemn faces, reviewing the passing of the faithful, their hands on their fezzes.

Lebanon's Prime Minister Riad el Sol waved his long-fingered arms dramatically: "We will not rest until Palestine is an indivisible and independent Arab state. Have faith in your leaders of the Arab League; soon you will witness their work." On a hotel balcony opposite, a Bedouin sheikh expressed his confidence in his own way: Koran in his left hand, pistol in his right, he enthusiastically discharged his entire magazine into the air.

Then the league representatives retreated to their hotel rooms. Negotiations continued behind closed doors. Only the room service waiters with long trays of fortifying drinks were allowed in briefly. The press had to stay outside.

Nevertheless, she picked out some interesting facts: that a detailed plan for the guerrilla war of the so-called "People's Army for the Liberation of Palestine" had been drawn up; that the Arab states had discussed withdrawing from the UN; that the Arab League intended to intervene against the UN partition plan at the International Court of Justice.

As at the last League meeting in Beirut, Haj Amin al-Husseini, the former Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and chairman of the Arab Palestine Committee, appeared again uninvited, but nonetheless welcome. He met with his Arab colleagues at an exclusive dinner hosted by Egyptian Prime Minister Nokrashi Pasha. "When the sword speaks, everything else must be silent." That was all he was willing to say to the journalists who ambushed him before the soirée. As he spoke, he thoughtfully stroked his somewhat silvery red beard with a wry smile.

He was not the only saber-rattler. Ibn Saud, who had rushed to Cairo despite suffering from gout and rheumatism, uttered the weighty words: "My last wish is to die at the head of my troops advancing into Palestine." And Syria's Defense Minister Ahmed al-Sharabati assured everyone that the Arabs would "step into a bloodbath to purify themselves."

The actual organizer of the "People's Army for the Liberation of Palestine," however, is not in such a hurry. Fauzi el Kaukji, who is providing military training in Damascus to the volunteers arriving from many Arab countries, somewhat dampened the resounding pronouncements of his high-ranking superiors: "We will not rush. But we will enter Palestine when we have completed our preparations as an organized force."

Weapons depots left over from the war are being plundered to equip the volunteers. Recently, a continuous stream of weapons has also been flowing in from Egypt. Cairo has become a center of the arms trade. Arms manufacturers from the USA and various European countries are doing big business here.

Money is also pouring into Damascus. Thousands of pounds sterling have been wrested from the coffers of wealthy Arab merchants. The eight brothers of the Salam family, who own the Middle East's airlines, have contributed 12,000 pounds sterling from their fortune to save the Holy Land. In Arab countries, postage-paid "Help Palestine" stamps are being printed on all letters.

The stamping is said to have already generated 25,000 pounds sterling.

In Palestine itself, the carnage that Syria's defense minister spoke of with a threatening raised finger has already become a reality in some respects. Since the announcement of the UN partition plan, hundreds of Jews and Arabs have remained on the Palestinian battlefield. The American-owned Trans-Arabian Pipeline Co. has had to halt construction of its pipeline from the Iraqi oil fields to the Mediterranean Sea because the safety of its construction crews is at risk. This prompted the American weekly magazine "Newsweek" to describe it as an "arabesque of blood and oil."

As he liked it: swearing-in according to the tried and tested pattern.

Bloom, Jack Brian. Out of Step: Life-story of a Politician : Politics and Religion in a World at War. South Africa: Jack Bloom, 2005, p.111, pp.332-333

https://books.google.com/books?id=Kr2gAAAAMAAJ&q=%22arab-nazi%22

…Who was actually ethnically cleansed in the Middle East and threatened with genocide by people allied with the Nazis? In 1940, there were about 1 million Jews in the Arab-ruled countries and in Iran. Today, there are only about 25,000 Jews in these countries.

The Arab-Nazi link is well-established, extending well beyond the Mufti of Jerusalem and Adolf Hitler. Most Arabs aligned themselves with the Nazis, who inspire political movements such as the Ba’ath parties of Syria and Iraq . Sami al - Joundi , one of the founders of the ruling Syrian Ba’ath Party, recalled:
“We were racists. We admired the Nazis . We were immersed in reading Nazi literature and books”.
Gamal Abdul Nasser was a member of Young Egypt, a party that imitated the Nazis with its own version of storm troopers, torch processions and slogans.

Former Nazis served in Nasser’s army and secret police, and his personal bodyguard was SS General Oskar Dirlewanger.

Nasser said on 1 May 1964:” During the Second World War, our sympathies were with the Germans ... the lie[sic] of the six million murdered Jews is not taken seriously by anybody.”

[...]

Even today, Hitler’s Mein Kampf ranks high on the best-seller list amongst Palestinian Arabs. The preface to the Arabic edition claims that his “theories of nationalism, dictatorship and race... are advancing especially within our Arabic states”.

When Palestinian police first greeted Yasser Arafat

When Palestinian police first greeted Yasser Arafat in the self-rule areas, they offered the infamous Nazi salute.

In April this year, a columnist in the Egyptian government daily Al-Akbar defiantly repeated his “thanks to Hi_tler, of blessed[sic] memory[sic], who on behalf of the Palestinians, revenged in advanced against the most vile criminals on the face of the earth. Although we do have a complaint attains him for his revenge[sic] on them was not enough”.

The Sydney Jewish News⁩, 2 May 1947⁩

The Arab Killer-Nazi and the General.

By Our Special Correspondent, SOLOMON ITZHAKI (Jerusalem).

A few days after General Barker’s departure from Palestine, there was a new guest at the Lydda airfield named Fawzi Kawkadji.

* * *

The skies of Eretz Israel still remain heavily clouded, while the name of two “stars” suddenly appeared before the astonished Yishuv: the well-known and “glorious” General Evelyn Barker, G.O.C. British Army in Palestine “unvisibly” left the country, while only a few days later, another “glorious” personality touched the earth of the Holy Land—the famous Arab-killer Nazi, the enemy of Britain and Russia and of the Jews (of course) Fawzi Kawkadji arrived by plane directly from Paris to Lydda, and he, too, was “unvisible” to British detectives and C.I.D. officials, who are great experts in hunting illegals... Kawkadji was certainly an illegal passenger: he reached Palestine without a British visa, but—he is not a Jewish refugee, who escaped the crematories and the gallows: Fawzi wass a killer-Nazi and seemingly he is not considered as dangerous as the unhappy Jewish refugee. This unhappy Jewish refugee... If he dies before discovering his dreamland, his Eretz Israel, the powers will be grateful to him, because he brought relief to the international problem. And if, he dares take his fate into his own hands and strives to reach the country of his longings without a certificate—the mighty machinery of the British power wll rise against him and hunt him down on land sea and in the air and finally he will be deported to another camp in Cyprus.
He is suspected of communist or terrorist activities and “anti-British tendences in general” and his presece is unde sirable everywhere.

PROFESSIONAL TROUBLE MAKER.

But Kawkadji was an Arab refugee, a professional instigator and rebel and a sworn enemy of Britain. He didn’t worry. Many loyal friends were on his side, aeroplanes will bring him to his place of destination and certificates will not be lacking, Yes, the unbelievable has happened: Fawzi Kawkadji the ringleader of the Arab gangs in Palestine in 1936-39, the accomplice of the Iraqi Nazi-leader Rashid Ali who started the rebellion against the Allied Powers in 1941, the faithful satellite of Hitler until the collapse of thes Third Reich—has been released by the Russians in whose detention he has been, firstly in Sophia then in Berlin, the French Secret Service delivered a passport to him, they allowed him to leave France by air for the Middle East, and he has not been arrested by the British when the plane landed in the Lydda airfield before the very eyes of His Majesty’s mighty army.

SYRIAN, NOT PALESTINIAN.

Kawadji is an “old glory.” Already in 1925 he practised in inciting rebellions when he organised an uprising against the French administration in Syria, his birthplace. Following the defeat of that uprising he escaped to Baghdad, where he deliberated as to how to return and renew the activities against the French. It was easy to prepare anti-French movements in Iraq, where the British are the sole rulers... But the French were careful and Kawkadji’s movement has been abated.
Then he found another sphere of action: Palestine.

At the outbreak of the bloody Arab disturbances aiming at the killing of Englishmen and of Jews he became the head of the gangs, and directed their activities until 1939. Jewish “Haganah” members under the leadership of the unforgotten Charles Ord-Wingate, finally got him: the rebel’s camp was cordoned off, by the British Jewish Army, however for reasons which are unclear to this day the iron ring was not closed and Kawkadji again succeeded in escaping to Baghdad.

In Iraq he was one of the most ferocious anti-British fighters, under the orders of the famous Nazi-agent Dr. Grubbe[a], but during an open battle near the Iraqi capital he was wounded and transported by a special plane of the German Embassy to Berlin.

His activities during the war years are well known, he was the aide-de-camp of the ex-Mufti of Jerusalem, he went to Yugoslavia and Bulgaria to mobilize Moslem citizens of these countries against Russia and Great Britain, he spoke tens of times on the Nazi radio calling the Arab world to rise up against “British Imperialism and Bolshevist Judaism”; he became a bemedalled SS-man and got even a Nazi wife.

What’s going on behind that international story the hero of which is Fawzi Kawkadji? Whom will he serve at present? The Russians, the French, the British?
In any case, with the arrival of Kawkadji in the neighbourhood of Palestine ,the list of the Arab ‘ leaders who, during the war, were engaged in hostile activities aga inst the Allied Nations, has been completed...

The British could easily arrest him. There is no doubt, that he IS one of the great war-criminals, but—the official communique of, the Palestine Government naivelyI stated today:
“Fawzi Kawkadji regretfully escaped the vigilance of the Palestine Frontier Control...”

BARKER’S FRIENDSHIP FOR NAZIS.

On the other hand, you may be told in Jerusalem and Tel-Aviv: “Don’t worry, Kawkadji isn’t as dangerous as... General Barker. And the General has already left, Baruch Ha’shem.”
Because, among all those who headed the British administration for the last thirty years there has been no person whose principal line in his relation to the Yishuv was that of hatred to Jews, racial hatred of the notorious type.
Gen. Barker was known here even prior to his arrival. His excessive friendship for the Nazis in Germany, in Schleswig-Holstein, and his spiritual intimacy with the Nazis reached a stage which compelled the Danish press to demand his removal. This was the spiritual preparation which brought him to the country of, Jewish National Home. A few months after his arrival he staged the “Black Sabbath” of June 25th. All the acts committed by the British troops against the Yishuv were largely due to his plans. The attempt to destroy the Jewish political representation, the desire to disgrace it by seizing its premises, the attempt to desrtroy the Jewish defensive force.
https://www.nli.org.il/en/newspapers/sydneyjn/1947/05/02/01/article/30

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