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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...

Ibrahim al-Shanti - Ad Difa (Difa'a / Difae الدفاع⁩⁩) - 1930s Ad Difa'a together with Falastin is considered the most prominent and important Arabic newspaper in the Land of Israel-"Palestine" at the time, and in a relatively short time the newspaper managed to reach a wider circulation than the older Falastin. In addition, Al-Difaa managed to attract a number of senior journalists, who wrote about internal Palestinian politics, pan-Arab and pan-Islamic politics as well as on a variety of social issues. The Islamist Ibrahim al-Shanti, together with two other journalists, Sami al-Sarraj and Khair al-Din al-Zarkhli, left the newspaper al-Jama'a...