From 1945 'The Arabs of the Middle East': "The oil, with which the Arab countries are endowed, covers a multitude of sins"

The Jewish Voice Pictorial | 1945

[Milagros]

(Links * | * | *)

The Jewish Voice Pictorial.  vols. 7-10. (1944-7). United States: Cleveland, Ohio, p.8

The Arabs of the Middle East.

(End of 1945).

THE Arabs of the Near East have quite unexpectedly been brought into the foreground by the end of the Second World War in Europe.

In contract with the attitude of America, England and others towards the Jews, who threw themselves, body and soul, into the struggle against Hitler's Germany and Mussolini's Italy and contributed so very much towards winning the war in the Near East, is the suddenly manifested great friendship for the Arabs by these countries. England particularly has chosen to forget that the overwhelming majority of the Arabs till almost the last moment of the war befriended the Axis. From Egypt whose sympathies with the fascist regimes of Germany and Italy were no secret, all the way to Persia, the Arabs were all out antagonistic towards the United Nations.
"Friendship" of the Arabs of Iraq and Persia was won by the Allied Nations at the point of a gun.
Palestinian Arabs were outspokenly in favor of a Hitler victory and in neighboring Syria it was even worse.

- Nothwithstanding these facts, which even the Arabs would not venture to deny, the great powers afforded Arab rulers an opportunity to hop on the bandwagon at practically the last moment, to pose as friends of the United Nations by forthwith declaring a paper war on the Axis, thus assuring themselves a place at the Conference of the United Nations in San Francisco, where they were received with open arms and treated with favoritism and flattery bordering on the ridiculous.

The oil, with which the Arab countries are endowed, covers a multitude of sins.

Oil appears to nollify for England and America even the stab wounds which were inflicted in the back of the Democracies only yesterday by the Arabs. The oil of Arabia casts into oblivion the tragic Jewish sacrifices on all fronts...

[Milagros]

Fast forward to 2026:
Islamic regime of Iran holds the world hostage by ‘oil.’ And those seeking its favor whitewash its crimes on its own people and on others (via proxies)for 47 tears.

[Milagros]

https://books.google.com/books?id=JTF3AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA248

Memorial Services in the Congress of the United States and Tributes in Eulogy of Robert Francis Kennedy, Late a Senator from the State of New York. (1968). United States: U.S. Government Printing Office, p.248:

Hate propaganda and terrorism do not respect or recognize boundaries and they can travel fast and far in this time of swift communication.

We recall the frightening rise of anti-Semitism in America and in other lands—including the Arab countries—in the 1930’s, when the noxious Nazi poison began to spread across frontiers and around the world.
(Sirhan’s father last week recalled that his son often said that he admired Hitler.)

No one dreamed when Hitler seized power in 1933 that many millions would be doomed by his preachments.

We need to do more—so much more—to combat hate incitement everywhere, for it spreads everywhere. We cannot be indifferent or neutral on issues involving life and death, peace and war, tyranny and freedom.

[Milagros]

The Sunday Sun. Jun 11, 1968
https://books.google.com/books?id=k5ZlAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA13

Sirhan Fits Classic Image of Unbalanced Assassin.
London Sunday Times.

[...]
“Papa, my teachers say I’m going to be a great man,” the father quotes him saying. Or “Tell me, papa, am I cleverer than brothers?”
my
His father would reply that if all went well the boy would go to university in England. “You should have seen him walking round the house after I said that — so happy, so big,” the father said.
A psychologist might find in these early intimations of greatness, followed by the crushing life of a delivery boy to a Los Angeles food wholesaler, some hint of what I drove him to his desperate act.
There was always a streak of latent fanaticism in Sirhan — specifically, a certain single-mindedness unusual in a child. He often said he admired Hitler.
His father quotes him as saying more than once: “Hitler was a big man, a great man [sic], and he had good ideas. In the end he was wrong because he did terrible harm to his country. But he was wrong only because his policies failed.”

[Milagros]

Ayton, M. (2022). The Kennedy Assassinations: JFK and Bobby Kennedy—Debunking The Conspiracy Theories. United Kingdom: Frontline Books. Pt.2

https://books.google.com/books?id=DWiIEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT235

As a young adult, Sirhan sought meaning by embracing anti-Semitism, anti-Americanism and Palestinian nationalism. Sirhan’s parents taught him the Jews were ‘evil’, ‘stole their home’ and they also taught him to hate, despise and fear Jews. As a part-time gardener Sirhan came to hate the Jews whose gardens he tended...

Walter Crowe, who had known Sirhan from the time they were teenagers, said Sirhan was virulently anti-Semitic and also espoused a belief in violent action as a political tool. Crowe said Mary Sirhan propagated these views to Sirhan.

Crowe believed al-Fatah’s terrorist acts were justified and that Palestinian terrorists had gained the respect of the Arab world. He said Sirhan spoke of ‘total commitment’ to the Palestinian cause and took a left-wing position on issues such as racism and the Vietnam War. However, Crowe said, Sirhan was a `reactionary’ when it came to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Crowe believed that Sirhan saw himself as a ‘committed revolutionary’ willing to undertake ‘revolutionary action’. Sirhan was for `violence whenever, as long as it’s needed’. Later Crowe came to feel guilty about the part he may have played in putting ideas of terrorist acts into Sirhan’s head and reinforcing Sirhan’s resolve to commit a violent political act.45 Lou Shelby was Adel’s boss and the owner of the Fez Club in Hollywood. He knew the Sirhan family intimately and described Sirhan as ‘intensely nationalistic with regard to his Arab identity’. According to Shelby:

“We had a really big argument on Middle East politics . . . we switched back and forth between Arabic and English. Sirhan’s outlook was completely Arab nationalist – the Arabs were in the right and had made no mistakes. I tried to reason with him and to point out that one could be in the right but still make mistakes. But he was adamant. According to him, America was to blame for the Arabs’ misfortunes – because of the power of Zionism in this country. The only Arab leader he really admired was Nasser and he thought Nasser’s policies were right. The Arabs had to build themselves up and fight Israel – that was the only way.”

John and Patricia Strathmann had been ‘good friends’ with Sirhan since high school. According to John, Sirhan was an admirer of Hitler, especially his treatment of the Jews, and was impressed with Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf’ and the Nazi leader’s ‘hypnotic control over people’. John also said Sirhan became ‘intense’ and ‘mad’ about the Arab-Israeli Six-Day War just a year earlier. Sirhan’s friend Elsie Boyko said Sirhan had always been fervent and emotional whenever he discussed the Arab-Israeli conflict and was critical of US foreign policy regarding Israel.

Sirhan discussed politics, religion and philosophy with his boss, John Weidner, a committed Christian. Weidner was honoured by Israel for his heroism in saving more than 1,000 people from the Nazis. Sirhan worked for Weidner from September 1967 to March 1968. It was Sirhan’s touchiness, arrogance, feelings of inadequacy and inferiority, and resentment of authority that caused friction between employer and employee. Weidner described Sirhan as ‘a hot-tempered man’ with ‘fantasies’. ‘He had strong patriotic feelings for his country [Palestine]’, Weidner recalled.

[Milagros]

Arnoni, M. S. (1968). Rights and Wrongs in the Arab-Israeli Conflict: To the Anatomy of the Forces of Progress and Reaction in the Middle East. United Kingdom: Minority of One Press, pp.61-63 link

Chapter II : From the history of Arab Nationalism.

[...]

The relevance of the political quality of Arab nationalism to the present international dispute was underlined by the Syrian President, Dr. Nureddin el-Attassi, when, in the process of addressing the emergency session of the U.N. General Assembly on June 20, 1967, he fount it profitable to state: 'the Arabs fought both World Wars and contributed to the liberation of Europe from Nazism and the realization of Allied victory.'

Relevant as is this general subject, Dr. el-Attassi did not let historic fact inhibit his imagination.

Otherwise he might have recalled that his own kinsman and a predecessor in the Syrian presidency, Hashim el-Attassi, not only congratulated the pro-Nazi rebels in Baghdad in 1941, but also called on all Syrians to help the revolt prevail. (Which, incidentally, did not disqualify him from another, post-war, term as President of Syria.) He might also have reminded us that Syria as well as Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Lebanon did not declare war on Nazi Germany until February 1945, when her defeat had practically been accomplished. They acted only days before March 1, 1945, which was the deadline for the status of belligerent ...against the Axis required for membership in the United Nations and participation in its founding conference in San Francisco. (Just the same , the gesture was to be paid for with the life of the Egyptian responsible for it , Prime Minister Ahmed Maher, who was assassinated by the Moslem Brother-hood.)

But the Arab record vis-a-vis the Nazis was not merely one of passivity. On the contrary, throughout the Arab world, hopes had been placed on Hitler, not only because he was an enemy of the British enemy, but also because the ideology and temperament of Nazism were in many ways attractive the Arabs. Already in the 1930's John Gunther found that "Hitler is tremendously popular with the Arabs.... the greatest contemporary Arab hero is—Adolf Hitler."

In a work outstanding for its dcholarship and based on documentation drawn from official German and Arab sources, Lukasz Hirszowicz writes:

'The Arab leaders did not conceal their antipathy to France, their distrust of England and their preference for Germany, even in conversations with the Consul- General of the United States. They did not regard the war in Europe as a misfortune; they pinned their hopes on its weakening the Western Powers... True, certain public figures in Syria, and particularly in Lebanon, held a different point of view, but they were rather isolated in Muslim circles.'

Robert St. John, the renowned correspondent, author and biographer, wrote a sympathetic biography of President Gamal Abdel Nasser after numerous conversations with him and his intimate friends. In it he throws light not only on Nasser's personal attitude toward the Nazis but also on the Egyptian attitude generally:

'The pro-Axis sympathies of most Egyptians at this time were not based alone on the conviction that the Germans and Italians were going to win the war. Nor alone on the Arab proverb: "He who is the enemy of my enemy is my friend." The ideology of the two totalitarian powers was ready-made for a country like Egypt. It reassured the wealthy pashas and beys who were amassing fortunes out of the war and wanted to keep their money. But at the same time the mumbo jumbo of the "socialism" they dispensed fascinated the masses of the poor, the ignorant, and those easily taken in by slogans. There was something in it for every Egyptian. Military men such as young Lieutenant Nasser were impressed by the might of the Wehrmacht and the Luftwaffe, by the military genius that had so quickly brought about the fall of Warsaw, Copenhagen, Oslo, Brussels, Paris. Athens, Belgrade.'

Nasser himself has confirmed his biographer's impression of his sentiments. In an interview he granted to and had published on the front-page of the notorious neo-Nazi German weekly Deutsche National Zeitung und Soldaten Zeitung, on May 1, 1964, the UAR President was quoted as saying:

'During the Second World War our sympathies were with the Germans. The mobs in the streets of Cairo were jubilantly shouting, "Rommel! Rommel! Rommel." '

In Nablus, Palestine, crowds were receiving British troops with shouts of "Heil Hitler!"

In the streets of Damascus, Homs, Aleppo, a song was heard:

Bala Missou,
bala Mister Bissama Allah,
oria alard Hitler.
(No more Monsieur, no more Mister In heaven Allah, on earth Hitler.)

Nasser and the Axis.

But the Arabs served Nazi Germany not only with ballads and Hitler salutes. In Arab country after Arab country power plays were taking place in attempts to align them with Germany and / or Italy..