https://freerepublic.com/tag/rootsoftheplo/ en-us Tue, 26 May 2026 03:31:36 GMT Focus Forum 15 https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4380980/posts Re fake title on JSTOR. Fact: Arab Palestinians NOT against fascism.Mustafa Abbasi’s WWII Narrative Collapses Under the Historical Record. Mustafa Abbasi’s thesis attempts to recast the history of Palestinian Arab involvement in World War II into a story of broad anti-Nazi commitment and shared Arab-Jewish resistance. The historical record does not support that conclusion. Yes, thousands of Palestinian Arabs enlisted in the British Army during WWII. That fact is real and documented. But Abbasi’s interpretation of what that enlistment meant politically and socially collapses under scrutiny. The first problem is scale. Jewish enlistment dwarfed Arab enlistment. Roughly 27,000–30,000 Jews from... On Wiki facts https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4380980/posts#comment Tue, 26 May 2026 03:31:36 GMT