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PM Netanyahu denounced the key role Palestinian leader Amin Al Husseini, the Mufti of Jerusalem, played in the Holocaust as close collaborator of Hitler and his henchmen in Berlin, and agitator for the Final Solution.
This is a well known historical fact recognized by historians that has been however ignored by both the media and the Israeli government for decades. It's time to talk about it.
This is a well known historical fact recognized by historians that has been however ignored by both the media and the Israeli government for decades. It's time to talk about it.
The PM speaks in English
So, why did it take this long for the Israeli government
to finally denounce the Nazi origins and ongoing
genocidal and racist ideology of the Palestinian movement?
Germans had to pay reparations for what they did to the Jewish people. However, their Arab collaborators, unrepentant murderers of Jews, and descendants of conquerors originating in Arabia, are regarded as 'victims' deserving a state of their own on Biblical land that has been Jewish for thousands of years.
VIDEO - The Nazis and the Palestinian Movement
The Palestinian active role in the Holocaust.
“The Mufti [Amin al-Husseini] was one of the initiators of the systematic extermination of European Jewry and had been a collaborator and advisor of Eichmann and Himmler in the execution of this plan, . . .He was one of Eichmann’s best friends and had constantly incited him to accelerate the extermination measures. I heard him say that, accompanied by Eichmann, he had visited in-incognito the gas chamber of Auschwitz”
SS Hauptsturmfuehrer Dieter Wisliceny, in a signed official deposition submitted on July 26, 1946, to the Nuremberg tribunal.
The Jewish civilization is thousands of years old. There were Jewish kingdoms on the land before it was conquered by the Romans. In 1948, after 2000 years of exile, the Jewish people regained sovereignty over a fraction of the land lost.
The 1400 year Muslim tradition of slaughtering Jews. The killings did not start with the so-called 'occupation'.
During the early years of the 20th century Arabs were repeatedly massacring Jews in the Land of Israel. The British, who had defeated the Turks in World War I, took over the land under the League of Nations Mandate for Palestine, and watched with indifference as Arabs massacred Jews again and again.
Early 20th century Arab massacres of Jews in the Land of Israel. There was no "occupation" then. |
In Iraq Arabs killed at least 600 Jews in a most gruesome manner.
But in between there were many other acts of Muslim violence against Jews - all based on the race and religion of the victims.
Eventually the British went home to allow the Arabs to deal with the Jews as they pleased. Israel declared independence in 1948, and within hours Arab armies went to war against the tiny state of Israel.
So in 1948, then again in 1967, and in 1973 Arab states have tried to massacre the Israeli people. Arabs lose wars, but keep on trying. However, Israelis are only ONE lost war away from complete annihilation.
To this day it is Arabs themselves - citizens of Israel or of the Palestinian Authority - who take it upon themselves to slaughter Jews for just being Jews, and to terrorize them into conceding more to their demands. But it is not all about a Palestinian state.
There is a long history for this Muslim hate, dating back to the founder of Islam himself, Mohammad, who ordered the massacre of many Jewish communities during his war of conquest - first in the Arabian peninsula, and then in the rest of the Middle East.
The most famous massacre of Jews perpetrated by Mohammad was that of the Banu Qurayza Jewish tribe, where 1,000 Jews were decapitated in only one day. Read more
Palestinians are actually the descendants of Muslim conquerors - the real occupiers. Jews are the indigenous people of Israel.
During World War II Muslims sympathized with the Nazis and their anti-Jewish policies. The leader of Arabs in Palestine at that time, Mohammed Amin Al Husseini, the Mufti of Jerusalem, engaged in years of incitement against Middle East Jews.
The Mufti of Jerusalem, leader of the Palestinians, and Adolf Hitler - discussing their common enemy, the Jews |
The Mufti eventually travelled to Berlin where he met Hitler and his top henchmen, all of them plotting how best to destroy the Jews.
What the Israeli PM said is basically true. His paraphrasing of Hitler and the Mufti simply summarized the essence of their relationship. A noted historian made statements in that regard. See interview at the bottom of this page.
While Hitler always hated Jews and wanted to get rid of them, his initial repressive and violent policies once in power were aimed at making Jews leave Germany. Many Jews left Germany as long as they could secure visas.
While Hitler always hated Jews and wanted to get rid of them, his initial repressive and violent policies once in power were aimed at making Jews leave Germany. Many Jews left Germany as long as they could secure visas.
The Mufti of Jerusalem made it his goal to convince Hitler that it was much better for Germany and for the Arabs to simply exterminate the Jews. From then on it was a matter of choosing the most effective methods for mass murder. Hitler had an interest in securing Muslim support in his world-conquering agenda, so exterminating the Jews became a win-win project for both German and Arab Nazis.
In the meantime the Mufti of Jerusalem also formed a Muslim Nazi SS Division made up mostly of Muslim Bosnian soldiers, infamous for having perpetrated gruesome crimes against humanity actually during their actions against Jews and other victims in Eastern Europe.
There is plenty of historical documentation to back these facts. Nobody denies them. However, when the Israeli PM paraphrased what went on in the Mufti's conference with Hitler, the pro-Arab Israeli left pounced on him accusing him of absolving the Germans for the Holocaust and blaming the Arabs.
The PM never did that. He simply highlighted the Palestinian key part played in the Holocaust.
Why is this relevant today? It is because the Palestinian movement ideology is steeped in Nazi genocidal and racist dogma, aimed at the destruction of Israel and the Jews.
Home made Palestinian Nazi flag A frequent sight in their neighborhoods. |
Speeches by Palestinian clerics and political leaders incite hatred and violence against Jews.
Their children TV programming is devoted to indoctrinate the same message of hate and violence.
Arab terrorists who kill and maim Jews are lauded as heroes, their families receive a generous salary commensurate with the number of Jewish victims, and schools and other public places are named after them.
Those salaries for terrorists, by the way, are funded by the US and EU governments. The US and the EU are keeping the Palestinian Authority on life support with the sole purpose of using them for the partition and eventual dismantlement of Israel.
What happens to the Jews, or whether the Palestinian state goes up in flames in factional violence after that, is of no concern to them at all. All that matters is to despoil Jews of their land, and to make Israel so vulnerable (only nine miles wide) that it would be eventually destroyed.
What happens to the Jews, or whether the Palestinian state goes up in flames in factional violence after that, is of no concern to them at all. All that matters is to despoil Jews of their land, and to make Israel so vulnerable (only nine miles wide) that it would be eventually destroyed.
European Jews are fleeing the continent, frightened by a resurgence of anti-Semitic violence perpetrated mostly by Muslim immigrants and their descendants. There are 52 million Muslims in Europe, and even if only a small fraction of them attack Jews, that has resulted in the loss of many lives.
Muslim anti-Semitism in Europe
Jews getting murdered by Muslims
just for being Jews
WATCH VIDEO: Pat Condell speaks about a special kind of anti-Semitism - Muslim anti-Semitism - Muslims are the New Nazis
References
Important articles which portray this history.
The truth about Jerusalem’s grand mufti, Hitler and the Holocaust
by Abraham Cooper and Harold Brackman, Jewish Journal.
Mufti Advised Hitler on Holocaust, Says Middle East Forum Scholar
Middle East Forum
The Nazi roots of Palestinian nationalism
By David Storobin
Legacy of the Mufti and Hitler: The facts that are known
By David Bedein, Behind the News
And while you are at it, look into:
PLO/Fatah and Iran: The Special Relationship
Francisco Gil-White
Israel must not create a Palestinian state because she would be inviting the final solution into her back yard.
The above links provided by:
http://www.israpundit.org/archives/63610169
The 'moderate' chief of the Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas praises the Mufti of Jerusalem and his ideas on this short video clip.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=b1oJx2DwCk8
VIDEO - Palestinian TV teaching children to hate and kill Jews
See more anti-Semitic videos on Palestinian Media Watch
http://www.palwatch.org/site/modules/videos/pal/videos.aspx
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=b1oJx2DwCk8
VIDEO - Palestinian TV teaching children to hate and kill Jews
See more anti-Semitic videos on Palestinian Media Watch
http://www.palwatch.org/site/modules/videos/pal/videos.aspx
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THE FARHUD - When Arab Nazis slaughtered over 600 Iraqi Jews in an orgy of violence on June 1-2, 1941
Further inspired by Nazi ideology, Arabs felt compelled to slaughter their Jewish neighbors. Women were raped and then had their body parts hacked off.
One Iraq historian suggested as many as 600 were murdered during the overnight rampage. The Jewish Burial Society was afraid to bury the bodies. The corpses were ignominiously collected and entombed in a large, long, rounded mass grave that resembled a massive loaf of bread.
THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT that was occupying Iraq at that time told their soldiers nearby TO DO NOTHING AND LET THE ARABS VENT THEIR RAGE with complete impunity. British access to Arab oil was their top priority.
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GERMAN TAXPAYERS FUNDING WAR AGAINST THE JEWS, now under the guise of pro-Palestinian activism
The historic alliance of Muslims and Germans for the destruction of the Jews dates back to the Third Reich
Photo: The Mufti in Berlin, reviewing Muslim Nazi troops.
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PALESTINIANS SET FIRE TO JOSEPH'S TOMB, a Jewish sacred shrine - Read history of ongoing Palestinian desecration of Jewish and Christian holy sites - When they took over the Church of the Nativity they defecated in it and used the bible as toilet paper -
Jordanians used Jewish tombstones as latrines
Palestinian harassment and violence against Christians and terror against Jews
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- Same genocidal ideology, same symbols, same goals
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- The Religion of Peace has been massacring Jews since its founder MOHAMMED ordered the decapitation of ONE THOUSAND JEWS in only one day - Gaza Imam calls on Palestinians to form stabbing gangs to restrain Jews and cut them into body parts - Watch VIDEO - The myth of 'MODERATE' Islam
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How the US and Europe
finance Arab terror against Jews
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REACTION TO PM NETANYAHU'S SPEECH
PROFESSOR FRANCISCO GIL WHITE
sets the facts straight.
sets the facts straight.
A non-Jewish scholar in the subject of the ARAB-NAZI link has just published this article that should be of interest to all those intrigued by a subject that has long been hushed up by the media, universities, and politicians (including those in Israel).
NETANYAHU'S BOMBSHELL:
Founder of Palestinian movement instigated Holocaust
Francisco Gil-White has a Master’s in Social Science from the University of Chicago, and a Ph.D. in Evolutionary and Sociocultural Anthropology from UCLA. His work integrates social and biological science in the study of human behavior, an orientation he defended in his Master’s thesis, which received the 1995-96 Earl and Esther Johnson Prize (University of Chicago).
http://www.hirhome.com/colapso/colapso_eng.htm
Is this true?
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in a speech to the World Zionist Congress, stated that Hajj Amin al Husseini, the founding father of the Palestinian movement, had convinced the Nazis to exterminate the European Jews. We examine here the evidence relevant to this claim.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recently stated that the father of the Palestinian movement, Hajj Amin al Husseini, convinced the Nazis to exterminate the European Jews. Here is a brief summary of what happened, published by the Jerusalem Post on 21 October 2015:
“In a speech to delegates at the 37th World Zionist Congress in Jerusalem on Tuesday, the premier claimed that Hitler’s original intentions were solely to expel the Jews.
According to Netanyahu, the Fuhrer changed his mind at the insistence of the Palestinian Arab leader at the time, Haj Amin al-Husseini, who argued that the expulsion of the Jews would result in their arrival en masse to Palestine, which at the time was under British Mandatory rule.”[1]
This has created a storm. Immediately, authorities of all sorts were quoted in the media stating that Netanyahu’s claims were outrageous and untrue. I will examine the outraged reactions in a future piece.
Here, I examine Netanyahu’s claim in light of the available historical evidence, so that readers may form an opinion as to whether they are true.
For context, I begin with a short summary of what is not in dispute.
First, Hajj Amin al Husseini is the father of the Palestinian movement, and mentor to such figures as Yasser Arafat and Mahmoud Abbas, the current leader of this movement.
Second, Husseini organized several mass terrorist attacks against the Jews in British Mandate Palestine. The first was in 1920.
Then, after the British made him the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, he used that position to launch new terrorist attacks in 1921, 1929, and 1936-39.
The last was called the ‘Arab Revolt’ and Husseini and allies waged it with weapons supplied by Adolf Hitler.
Third, after he left the Mandate in 1939, Husseini went to Iraq to organize a pogrom against the Iraqi Jews that destroyed the Jewish community there (the Farhud).[2]
Fourth, Husseini traveled to Italy and then to Berlin, where he was received with full honors and sat down for a high-profile chat with none-other than the Führer himself.
The Nazi film (included in the documentary shown at top right) and a Nazi memorandum of this meeting both survived.
An especially relevant excerpt from that memorandum is the following:
“The Führer then made the following statement to the Mufti, enjoining him to lock it in the uttermost depths of his heart
- He (the Führer) would carry on the battle to the total destruction of the Judeo-Communist empire in Europe.
- At some moment which was impossible to set exactly today but which in any event was not distant, the German armies would in the course of this struggle reach the southern exit from Caucasia.
- As soon as this had happened, the Führer would on his own give the Arab world the assurance that its hour of liberation had arrived. Germany’s objective would then be solely the destruction of the Jewish element residing in the Arab sphere under the protection of British power…” [3]
Fifth, Husseini spent the rest of the war in the German-occupied sphere and played an important role in Nazi propaganda inciting Muslims on the German radio to murder Jews.
Sixth, he recruited and supervised the formation of large SS divisions made up of Bosnian and Albanian Muslims that participated in the massacres of the Yugoslav chapter of the Holocaust (photographic evidence for these latter activities is abundant, and may be found on the internet).
All of the above points are uncontroversial, and for those not specifically footnoted here you may consult the relevant documentation in a different HIR article.[4]
You may also consult the documentation put together by The Nation in the 1947 article reproduced at right. ( visit the link for this.)
So what is the great brouhaha in the media all about? It is about the following two questions:
1) Did the Nazis, as Netanyahu claims, initially mean to expel the Jews, rather than kill them all?
2) Did Hajj Amin al Husseini, as Netanyahu claims, convince the Nazis to abandon the expulsion programme for a death camp system that would kill every Jew?
It is important, in this regard, that Adolf Eichmann confessed in his trial in Jerusalem that he made an early trip to British Mandate Palestine in 1939 to meet Husseini.
Thus, coordination between Husseini and the recognized mastermind of the death camp system began relatively early. It is also relevant that, according to Eichmann’s testimony, the point of the trip was to see if the Jews could be sent to British Mandate Palestine.[5]
This is strongly consistent with Netanyahu’s claim that initially the Nazi plan was to expel the Jews.
As explained in another HIR article on this question,[5a] a number of historians have concluded from the bulk of the evidence that, until the fall of 1941, the Nazis were mostly interested in expulsion.
For example, Gunnar Paulsson explains that “expulsion”—not extermination—“had initially been the general policy of the Nazis towards the Jews.”[6] Tobias Jersak writes:
“Since the 1995 publication of Michael Wildt’s documentation on the SS’s Security Service (Sicherheitsdienst SD) and the ‘Jewish Question,’ it has been undisputed that from 1933 Nazi policy concerning the ‘Jewish Question’ aimed at the emigration of all Jews, preferably to Palestine.”[7]
Even after the conquest of Poland, writes Paulsson, “Jewish emigration continued to be permitted and even encouraged, while other expulsion plans were considered.”[8]
Christopher Simpson points out that, though many Jews were being murdered, and people such as Reinhard Heydrich of the SS pushed for wholesale extermination, “other ministries” disagreed, and these favored “deportation and resettlement,” though they disagreed about where to put the Jews and how much terror to apply to them.[9]
And so, “until the autumn of 1941,” conclude Marrus & Paxton, “no one defined the final solution with precision, but all signs pointed toward some vast and as yet unspecified project of mass emigration.”[10]
It is true that a great many Jews were being killed on the Eastern front, and these deaths of course must be counted in what is called the Shoa (or ‘Holocaust’), but, according to these historians, “until the autumn of 1941” there wasn’t as yet a decision to kill all of the European Jews in death camps.
Husseini arrived in Berlin in “the autumn of 1941” (October 1941, to be precise). Husseini thus arrived right on time to argue powerfully in favor of what became the Wannsee Conference decision to kill every last living European Jew. This agrees nicely with Netanyahu’s claims.
However, I must point out that Eichmann’s testimony about his trip to Palestine to meet with Husseini makes it obvious that there was contact between Husseini and the Nazis well before Husseini’s arrival in Berlin.
This may also be inferred from German Nazi shipments of weapons to Husseini’s terrorists during the so-called ‘Arab Revolt’ of 1936-39. Thus, Husseini had ample opportunity to argue influentially in favor of total extermination well before October of 1941.
Nothing necessarily hinges, therefore, on Husseini’s arrival in Berlin, or on the exact date of the first killings to be labeled ‘Holocaust,’ as many seem to think.
Finally, according to Dieter Wisliceny, right-hand man to Adolf Eichmann, Husseini did contribute to the Nazi decision to create a death camp system, precisely in the manner that Netanyahu claims.
After the war, and prior to his execution for crimes against humanity,Wisliceny was asked to comment on the testimony of one Eng. Andrej or (Endre) Steiner.
During the war, according to Steiner’s testimony,Wisliceny had stated that the Mufti Husseini had played an important role convincing the Nazis to opt for extermination. Wisliceny confirmed the testimony. This was all summarized by State Attorney Bach at the Eichmann trial in Jerusalem:
[Excerpt from the Eichmann trial transcript begins here]
State Attorney Bach: This is our document No. 281. Mr. Steiner first tells us that Wisliceny described his talks with Eichmann, why Palestine cannot be considered as the destination for emigration:
“When I asked him why, he laughed and asked whether I had never heard of the Grand Mufti Husseini. He explained that the Mufti has very close contact and cooperation with Eichmann, and therefore Germany cannot agree to Palestine being the final destination, as this would be a blow to Germany’s prestige in the Mufti’s eyes.”
Then he goes on: “At this further conversation Wisliceny gave me more details about the cooperation between Eichmann and the Mufti.
The Mufti is a sworn enemy of the Jews and has always fought for the idea of annihilating the Jews.
He sticks to this idea always, also in his talks with Eichmann” – and here we have one of the points about which Wisliceny has reservations – “who, as you know, is a German who was born in Palestine.
"The Mufti is one of the originators of the systematic destruction of European Jewry by the Germans, and he has become a permanent colleague, partner and adviser to Eichmann and Himmler in the implementation of this programme.”
Here Wisliceny adds: “I have read these descriptions and find them correct, except for this, that Eichmann was born in Palestine, and that the Mufti was a permanent partner of Himmler’s; this is not what I said.”[11]
[Excerpt from the Eichmann trial transcript ends here]
Wisliceny, an eyewitness to the relationship between the Mufti Husseini and Eichmann, agreed to everything that Steiner had said except for the bit about Eichmann having been born in Palestine and about his relationship with Himmler.
So Wisliceny agreed that “The Mufti is one of the originators of the systematic destruction of European Jewry by the Germans”—in other words, that he had played an important role in the decision to set up the death camp system.
Those who disagree with Netanyahu cannot simply express ‘outrage’ and claim, in the abstract, that Netanyahu is wrong.
No matter that they consider themselves great ‘authorities’ invested with institutional prestige.
No matter that they claim to speak for Yad Vashem, or ‘Holocaust survivors,’ or the ‘Jewish people’ or ‘real’ or ‘serious’ historians—or any other category of presumed scientific or moral authority which they hope will seem like a big enough stick to beat Netanyahu with.
The sources are the sources. If Netanyahu’s detractors wish to disagree with the sources that support his claims, they must speak directly to their content and make a specific argument. That is the sport of historical interpretation. We’ll be waiting.
In closing, I will add that I find the moral arguments brandished to attack Netanyahu especially interesting. And they are most revealing, I believe, about a number of things, including who really has influence over media content, and which forces are ultimately responsible for shaping Israeli politics. I shall have much to say about this in a future piece, soon to come.
The Mufti meets Hitler
Read also
How did the ‘Palestinian movement’ emerge? The British sponsored it. Then the German Nazis, and the US.
http://www.hirhome.com/israel/pal_mov4.htm
The CIA protected Adolf Eichmann, architect of the Holocaust
Has the US ruling elite been pushing a pro-Nazi policy?
http://www.hirhome.com/israel/eichmann.htm
PLO/Fatah’s Nazi training was CIA-sponsored
http://www.hirhome.com/israel/cia-fatah.htm
The Collapse of the West: The Next Holocaust and its Consequences
http://www.hirhome.com/colapso/colapso.htm
Footnotes and Further Reading
[1] “Palestinian mufti convinced Hitler to massacre Europe’s Jews, Netanyahu says”; Jerusalem Post; 21 October 2015.
[2] Black, E. (2010). The Farhud: Roots of the Arab-Nazi Alliance in the Holocaust. Washington DC: Dialog Press.
http://www.farhudbook.com/
[3] Author: Germany. Auswärtiges Amt. Title: Documents on German foreign policy, 1918-1945, from the archives of the German Foreign Ministry. Akten zur deutschen auswärtigen Politik. English Publisher: Washington, U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1949- Description: Book v. fold.maps. 24 cm. [Series D, Vol. XIII no. 515]http://www.hirhome.com/israel/muftihitler.htm
[4] “How did the ‘Palestinian movement’ emerge? The British sponsored it. Then the German Nazis, and the US.”; from UNDERSTANDING THE PALESTINIAN MOVEMENT; 13 June 2006; by Francisco Gil-White
http://www.hirhome.com/israel/pal_mov4.htm
[5] Here follows what Eichmann stated on the question of an early meeting with Hajj Amin al Husseini:
[Prosecution lawyer] Q. You have told us of your programme to “put soil under the feet” of the Jewish people. I assume that this was not your personal invention. Could you tell us who were the righteous men who conceived this programme: Heydrich, Himmler, Streicher, Rosenberg – which one of them?
[Eichmann] A. As far as I know, at that time, when I tried to sell this idea within the Service, no one else expressed it.
- Only you?
- At that time, in any event, I did not hear it from anyone else and I also know that this idea was, at that time, ridiculed and scoffed at by some. My impetus came from Adolf Boehm’s book, and there I recognized the root of all evil in the homelessness of this people, and I made no bones about it, within my official sphere of service.
- And a clear expression of the need to give this people a homeland, you gave, for instance, in the report about your journey to Palestine in 1939, correct?
- This is not my report. I have said so myself, and it was confirmed recently in testimony by the person who had then been the superior in command of both myself and the author.
- That is not correct, but let me refer only to what you have stated. You have said, in your interrogation, that this report had been corrected by you in your handwriting. This appears on page 341 and 342 of your Statement, where you said that the report had been shown to you before being passed on. Is that correct?
- I corrected it, but only the spelling, as one can easily find out.
- Your journey was designed among other things, to establish contact with Hajj Amin al-Husseini, isn’t that correct?
- The purpose was, first, to get to know the land and its people, and secondly, to establish contact with all kinds of persons.
- I am talking about Hajj Amin al-Husseini.
- If this were possible, yes, that too, of course.
- One of the objects of your journey was to establish contact with Hajj Amin al-Husseini, is that correct? “Yes” or “no”?
- Yes, that too.
http://www.nizkor.org/hweb/people/e/eichmann-adolf/transcripts/Sessions/Session-090-01.html
[5a] “The Nazis and the Palestinian Movement: Documentary and discussion”; Historical and Investigative Research; 26 July 2013; by Francisco Gil-White
http://www.hirhome.com/israel/nazis_palestinians.htm
[6] Paulsson, G. S. (1995). The ‘Bridge over the Oresund’: The Historiography on the Expulsion of the Jews from Nazi-Occupied Denmark. Journal of Contemporary History, 30(3), 431-464. (p.442)
[7] Jersak, T. (2000). Blitzkrieg revisited: A new look at Nazi war and extermination planning. The historical journal, 43(2), 565-582 (p.571)
[8] Paulsson, G. S. (1995). The ‘Bridge over the Oresund’: The Historiography on the Expulsion of the Jews from Nazi-Occupied Denmark. Journal of Contemporary History, 30(3), 431-464. (p.442)
[9] Simpson, C. (1995). The Splendid Blond Beast: Money, Law, and Genocide in the Twentieth Century. Monroe, ME: Common Courage Press. (p.77)
[10] Marrus, M. R., & Paxton, R. O. (1982). The Nazis and the Jews in occupied Western Europe, 1940-1944. Journal of modern history, 54, 687-714. (p.687)
[11] The Steiner testimony appears in Session 50, part 7, of the Eichmann trial transcript.
http://www.nizkor.org/hweb/people/e/eichmann-adolf/transcripts/Sessions/Session-050-07.html
ADDITIONAL NOTE. The Steiner testimony presented at Nuremberg, and an additional, independent testimony presented by Rudolf Kasztner, also at Nuremberg, and also confirmed by Wisliceny, were both reproduced here:
Pearlman, M. (1947). Mufti of Jerusalem: The story of Haj Amin el Husseini. London: V Gollancz. (p.73)
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Leading historian Dr. Wolfgang Schwanitz backs Netanyahu over Mufti's Holocaust role as 'historical fact'
Middle East Forum scholar Dr. Wolfgang Schwanitz backs PM's comments that Jerusalem's Grand Mufti helped the Holocaust as 'historical fact.'
“It is a historical fact that the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem al-Hajj Amin al-Husaini was an accomplice whose collaboration with Adolf Hitler played an important role in the Holocaust," Dr. Wolfgang Schwanitz stated. "He was the foremost extra-European adviser in the process to destroy the Jews of Europe.”
Schwanitz noted the Mufti's role in his book, Nazis, Islamists, and the Making of the Modern Middle East, in which he contended that Hitler's orders to prepare for the Holocaust directly followed a meeting between the two.
Husseini additionally noted that “since any European Jews let out of Europe might later go to Palestine, al-Husaini made it clear that if Hitler wanted Muslims and Arabs as allies he must close Europe’s exits to Jews."
"At the same time, al-Husaini and Arab rulers also told Britain that if it wanted to keep Arabs and Muslims from being enemies, it must close entrance to Palestine to all Jews. By succeeding on both fronts, al-Husaini contributed to the Holocaust doubly, directly, and from the start.”
Al Husseini in Berlin |
"He wanted to expel them. And Hajj Amin al-Husseini went to him and said – 'if you expel them, they will all come here.' 'So what shall I do with them?', Hitler asked, and Husseini answered – 'burn them.'"
Netanyahu's remarks were widely criticized by MKs in the opposition, who accused him of not only distorting history, but also exploiting the Holocaust to incite against the Palestinians.
Realizing the extent of the backlash, Netanyahu doubled down on his claim Wednesday, stating that accusations by leftist politicians that he had absolved Hitler from blame for the Holocaust, were "absurd."
"I had no intention of exonerating Hitler from his diabolical responsibility for the extermination of European Jews," Netanyahu told reporters before flying to Germany. "Hitler is responsible for the Final Solution for annihilating the Six Millions; he made the decision.
Al Husseini and German Nazi officer |
According to Dr. Schwanitz, foremost expert on the ties between Nazis and Islamists, there is much evidence that al-Husaini’s primary goal was blocking all of the ways out of Europe. He pushed Hitler to slam the last doors of a burning house shut.
In their 2014 book Nazis, Islamists, and the Making of the Modern Middle East, published by Yale University Press, Schwanitz and co-author Barry Rubin delve into the deep ties between Hitler and the Grand Mufti:
At their meeting [on November 28, 1941, Hitler and al-Husaini] concluded the pact of Jewish genocide in Europe and the Middle East, and immediately afterward, Hitler gave the order to prepare for the Holocaust. The next day invitations went out to thirteen Nazis for the Wannsee Conference to begin organizing the logistics of this mass murder.The highly acclaimed book also examined the Grand Mufti’s efforts to prevent Europe’s Jews from finding refuge in the land that would become Israel:
And since any European Jews let out of Europe might later go to Palestine, al-Husaini made it clear that if Hitler wanted Muslims and Arabs as allies he must close Europe’s exits to Jews.
At the same time, al-Husaini and Arab rulers also told Britain that if it wanted to keep Arabs and Muslims from being enemies, it must close entrance to Palestine to all Jews. By succeeding on both fronts, al-Husaini contributed to the Holocaust doubly, directly, and from the start.
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Historian Dr. Yosef Sharvit: 'Netanyahu's Hitler ruckus set records straight'
Dr. Yosef Sharvit says 'despite inaccuracies,' Netanyahu's comments that caused an uproar finally addressed Mufti's central Holocaust role.
Dr. Yosef Sharvit, a historian of the Jewish History and Contemporary Judaism department at Bar Ilan University, spoke to Arutz Sheva on Friday about Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's comments on the Holocaust this week that raised a ruckus.
Al Husseini at Nazi meeting in Germany |
Netanyahu on Tuesday suggested Nazi leader Adolf Hitler was not planning the "annihilate" the Jews until he met Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Haj Amin al-Husseini in 1941, in a comment that was sharply criticized by his political opponents and the White House which Thursday night condemned his "inflammatory rhetoric."
The prime minister later doubled down, clarifying he did not absolve the genocidal Hitler of any responsibility.
But according to Sharvit, Netanyahu's statement was important in setting things in order regarding the history of the Holocaust.
The silence about the Mufti's role in the Holocaust has been broken
Nazi Muslim flag used by the Muslim Nazi Bosnian SS Division created by Amin Al Husseini |
"Aside from the inaccuracies, I think that thanks to Netanyahu's words we come out of this with a benefit, because he dealt with the centrality of the mufti who for some reason has been taken off the historical stage in everything related to the Holocaust," said Sharvit.
The historian emphasized to Arutz Sheva that there is great importance in noting the part played by the Arab mufti in the Holocaust.
"When Haj Amin al-Husseini met Hitler in November 1941, he told him that there's a stark similarity between Nazism and Islam," explained Sharvit.
"Husseini was responsible for establishing SS units in the Balkans. He was friendly with senior SS commanders, and was responsible for Berlin Radio broadcasts in all the Islamic lands."
"His Berlin Radio broadcasts would always end by calling to slaughter the Jews.
"He also was among the initiators of the final solution for Jews in the land of Israel, and if (senior Nazi commander) Erwin Rommel would have G-d forbid reached Israel, Haj Amin al-Husseini had a detailed plan to destroy the Jewish community."
Dr. Sharvit stated that the mufti was even considered a greater Nazi criminal than Adolf Eichmann.
"He was a figure known better than Eichmann until he (Eichmann) was brought to Israel" where he was executed, says the historian.
Holocaust of Jews in Arab lands averted
There were more than a million Jews living throughout the Middle East.
"In essence, he also led the Holocaust of the Jews in the Arab countries. There too a similar process to what happened in Europe took place: discriminatory legislation, robbing Jews, establishing Judenrate ('Jewish councils' - ed.), establishing work camps and in the end they were to have established death camps as well."
"All of this was stopped thanks to Operation Torch," he said, noting the American and British invasion of French North Africa in 1942.
"Therefore I salute Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu who raised to public awareness the centrality of Haj Amin al-Husseini in the Holocaust of the Jews," concluded Sharvit.
Sharvit's support echoes that of Middle East Forum scholar Dr. Wolfgang Schwanitz , who on Wednesday gave Netanyahu historical backing.
"It is a historical fact that the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem al-Hajj Amin al-Husseini was an accomplice whose collaboration with Adolf Hitler played an important role in the Holocaust," Schwanitz stated. "He was the foremost extra-European adviser in the process to destroy the Jews of Europe."
In defending his own remarks, Netanyahu quoted the testimony of Adolf Eichmann's deputy at the Nuremberg trials after World War II, who said: "The Mufti was instrumental in the decision to exterminate the Jews of Europe.
"The importance of his role must not be ignored. The Mufti repeatedly proposed to the authorities, primarily Hitler, Ribbentropp and Himmler, to exterminate the Jews of Europe. He considered it a suitable solution for the Palestinian question."
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Op-Ed: Legacy of the Mufti and Hitler: The facts
By David Bedein
Director of the Israel Resource News Agency and
The Center for Near East Policy Research Ltd.
He is also an investigative reporter.
Putting the facts on the table about the Mufti and Hitler.
Following the surprise that greeted the statement of the Prime Minister of Israel that the Mufti of Jerusalem inspired Hitler to initiate the “final solution” to murder the Jews of Europe, the time has come to clear the air and state the facts as we know them.
The following article is excerpted from a paper that I delivered at an Israel Knesset Forum on Holocaust Remembrance Day, 2012.
The titular leader of the Palestinian Arab community in the previous generation: Haj Amin Al Husseini, the Mufti of Jerusalem, forged a pact with Adolf Hitler on November 28, 1941, one week before the infamous Wannsee conference on the Final Solution for the Jewish people, originally scheduled for December 7, 1941, yet was postponed by one month, due to the attack on Pearl Harbor on that very day.
The protocols of the Hitler -Mufti pact were presented as evidence against the Mufti in the Nuremberg war crimes trials, explicitly state that Hitler would exterminate the Jews in Europe, while the Mufti would enlist Nazi aid to exterminate Jews in Palestine, so as to establish a “Judenrein” state of Palestine.
To that end, the Mufti ensconced himself in Hitler’s bunker, from where he recruited an Islamic unit of the Waffen SS, which actively engaged in the mass murder of Jews, while issuing Arabic language appeals on Nazi radio inciting Moslems to join the Nazi cause and to prepare for mass murder of Jews in Palestine.
The Protocols of the Nuremberg conviction of the Mufti were published in the 1946 book, Mufti of Jerusalem, authored by Journalist Maurice Pearlman, who was appointed in 1948 as the first director of the Israel Government Press Office.
Pearlman cited affidavits of senior SS prosecution witnesses who testified that the Mufti, working directly under Eichmann and Himmler, identified the Mufti’s instrumental role in making sure that millions of Jews were murdered, and not ransomed.
No one denies the Mufti’s Arabic language radio broadcasts, his recruitment of the Islamic SS unit, and his active involvement in SS round ups of Jews in Yugosolvia.
And there is no doubt that Mufti was aware of the Final Solution, fully supported it, and sought to extend it to the Arab world.
Amin Al Husseini inspecting his
Muslim Nazi troops
The Mufti was one of the initiators of the systematic extermination of European Jewry for the Germans and had been the permanent collaborator and advisor of Eichmann and Himmler in the execution of the plan…
According to my opinion, the Grand Mufti, who had been in Berlin since 1941, played a role in the decision of the German government to exterminate the European Jews, the importance of which must not be disregarded.
He had repeatedly suggested to the various authorities with who had been in contact, above all before Hitler, Ribbentrop and Himmler, the extermination of European Jewry.
He considered this as a comfortable solution of the Palestinian problem. In his messages broadcast from Berlin, he surpassed us in anti-Jewish attacks. He was one of Eichmann’s best friends and had constantly incited him to accelerate the extermination measures…
Al Husseini salutes his Muslim Nazi Bosnian troops |
In 1961, when Eichmann was brought to justice in Jerusalem, Israel’s then foreign minister, Golda Meir, called for the Mossad to apprehend the Mufti and to sit him alongside Eichmann on trial in Jerusalem
Maurice Pearlman traces the Mufti’s escape to Cairo, where Pearlman reported how the Mufti influenced the newly formed Arab League to spawn the charter of the Arab League, with an explicit statement that its purpose was to wipe out any Zionist entity that would soon come about.
Indeed, the Mufti inspired charter of the Arab League would soon form the basis of the Arab league declaration of war to destroy the nascent state of Israel in 1948.
The British refused to arrest the Mufti
The refusal of the UK to arrest the Mufti in Cairo, described by Pearlman, caused the head of the Zionist revisionists in the United States at the time, Ben Zion Netanyahu, father of Israel’s current Prime Minister, to launch an unsuccessful campaign to push the US to demand the arrest of the Mufti in Cairo.
A little known fact concerns the Mufti’s special relationship with a young relative in Cairo, to whom the Mufti would affectionately give the name “Yassir Arafat”. In December 1996, Haaretz interviewed Yassir Arafat’s younger brother and sister, who said that the Mufti performed the role of a surrogate father figure and mentor to the young Arafat.
The Mufti's Nazi ideology inspired the creation of the Palestinian movement and its organization, the PLO
The failure of the Arab League, in 1948, to mobilize the Arabs of Palestine into an active war against the newly formed Jewish state led the Mufti to urge the Arab League, in 1964, to launch the PLO, the Palestine Liberation Organization, whose stated covenant of purpose was almost identical in language to the charter of the Arab League: to exterminate new state of Israel.
PLO leader Yassir Arafat (right) at Al-Husseini's funeral |
Today, the new curriculum of the Palestinian Authority is imbued with the legacy of the Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin Al Husseini, whose vision of a Jew-free Palestine is taught in every educational institution of the Palestinian Authority, together with the armed struggle to liberate Palestine, as an ideal for Palestinian Arab students.
On January 4, 2013, Mahmoud Abbas, spoke glowingly of the legacy of the Godfather of the PLO, the Mufti of Jerusalem, via video link on a wide screen to the masses in Gaza, who gathered to celebrate the founding of Fatah (Arabic word for "conquest"), otherwise known as the Palestine Liberation Organization.
Abbas praised the Mufti as a man whose ways should be emulated by all Palestinian Arabs. "We must remember the pioneers, the Grand Mufti of Palestine, Hajj Muhammad Amin Al-Husseini, as well as Ahmad Al-Shukeiri, the founder of the PLO," Abbas said, according to a translation of the speech made by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI).
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David Bedein
The writer is the director of the Israel Resource News Agency & The Center for Near East Policy Research Ltd. His website is www.IsraelBehindTheNews.com
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Historian: The Mufti planned to burn Jews
Dr. Edy Cohen of Bar-Ilan University says that Netanyahu's comments on the Mufti and the Holocaust have a basis in history.
Dr. Cohen is currently completing a book entitled “The Mufti and the Jews - the War of Haj Amin Al Husseini against the Jews of the World”.
Dr. Cohen is currently completing a book entitled “The Mufti and the Jews - the War of Haj Amin Al Husseini against the Jews of the World”.
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s comments regarding the role of the Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin Al Husseini, in the Holocaust have a basis in history, Dr. Edy Cohen of the Department of Middle Eastern Studies at the Bar-Ilan University told Arutz Sheva on Sunday.
"The Prime Minister’s remarks were not far from reality,” he told Arutz Sheva. “There was a plan by the Mufti to burn the Jews from Arab countries and Jews in Palestine after the German victory in the battle of El Alamein in 1943.
"Haj Amin al-Husseini was an officer in the Turkish army. I have no proof, but apparently he knew about the Armenian Genocide and drew his ideas from that. None of the historians have referred to that.”
Dr. Cohen quoted the Mufti’s words in Arabic against Iraqi Jews, whom he called a “fifth column” who provided information to British intelligence, and said that he played a part in the Farhud - the pogrom against the Jewish population of Baghdad on June 1 and 2, 1941, following the British victory in the Anglo-Iraqi War (that resulted in 600 Iraqi Jews murdered).
“The Mufti was responsible for the killing of hundreds of Jews; he planned to build incinerators in the Dotan Valley to implement the ‘Final Solution’ in the Middle East,” said Dr. Cohen.
“He took that idea from the Turks. Why do many people ignore the facts rather than reading what the Mufti himself wrote in Arabic? 'I did not cooperate with the Nazis out of the belief in Nazism, but on the assumption that they would win the war and there will be no traces of any Jews in Palestine and in the Arab countries.'"
"When the Mufti was in Iraq, he established up 'Hizb al Umma' party, and the party’s constitution states that all Jews must be expelled from Arab countries as Mohammed did. For me, the Mufti is like Hitler," said Dr. Cohen, who stressed that, while he could not commit as to the content of the conversation between the Mufti and Hitler, it is clear that “both were inspired by each other.
They both wanted to eliminate the Jews in Europe and Palestine. There was an unwritten plan that Hitler will focus on the European Jews and the Mufti on the Jews from Arab lands and in Palestine."
Netanyahu last week suggested that Adolf Hitler was not planning to "annihilate" the Jews until he met al-Husseini in 1941, in a comment that was sharply criticized by his political opponents and the White House which Thursday night condemned his "inflammatory rhetoric."
The prime minister later doubled down, clarifying he did not absolve the genocidal Hitler of any responsibility.
Several historians have already backed Netanyahu’s comments, such as Middle East Forum scholar Dr. Wolfgang Schwanitz who said last week, "It is a historical fact that the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem al-Hajj Amin al-Husseini was an accomplice whose collaboration with Adolf Hitler played an important role in the Holocaust. He was the foremost extra-European adviser in the process to destroy the Jews of Europe."
Dr. Yosef Sharvit, a historian of the Jewish History and Contemporary Judaism department at Bar-Ilan University, also said that Netanyahu's statement was important in setting things in order regarding the history of the Holocaust.
"Aside from the inaccuracies, I think that thanks to Netanyahu's words we come out of this with a benefit, because he dealt with the centrality of the mufti who for some reason has been taken off the historical stage in everything related to the Holocaust," Sharvit told Arutz Sheva on Friday.
"When Haj Amin al-Husseini met Hitler in November 1941, he told him that there's a stark similarity between Nazism and Islam," explained Sharvit. "Husseini was responsible for establishing SS units in the Balkans. He was friendly with senior SS commanders, and was responsible for Berlin Radio broadcasts in all the Islamic lands."
"His Berlin Radio broadcasts would always end by calling to slaughter the Jews. He also was among the initiators of the final solution for Jews in the land of Israel, and if (senior Nazi commander) Erwin Rommel would have G-d forbid reached Israel, Haj Amin al-Husseini had a detailed plan to destroy the Jewish community."
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The long, toxic afterlife of Nazi propaganda in the Arab world
In a 2007 book, Jihad and Jew-Hatred: Islamism, Nazism and the Roots of 9/11 (Telos Press), the German political scientist Matthias Kuentzel details how Nazi ideology influenced Islamist ideologues like Hassan al-Banna and Sayyid Qutb of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, as well as the Palestinian leader Haj Amin al-Husseini. More recent examples abound.
Between 1939 and 1945, shortwave radio transmitters near Berlin broadcast Nazi propaganda in many languages around the world, including Arabic throughout the Middle East and North Africa, and Persian programs in Iran. English-language transcripts of the Arabic broadcasts shed light on a particularly dark chapter in the globalization of pernicious ideas.
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White House condemns Netanyahu's 'inflammatory rhetoric'
This is like Turkey suppressing the truth about the Muslim genocide of Armenians for years, and trying to deny it ever happened, regardless of the historical record.
White House spokesperson cracks down on Netanyuahu's suggestion that Jerusalem Grand Mufti instigated Holocaust.
The White House condemned Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu for "inflammatory rhetoric" Thursday after he said that a celebrated early Palestinian Arab leader played a central role in instigating the Holocaust.
White House spokesman Eric Schultz said, "I don't think there's any doubt here at the White House who is responsible for the Holocaust that killed six million Jews."
"We here continue to stress publicly and privately...the importance of preventing inflammatory rhetoric, accusations or actions on both sides (that) can feed the violence."
"We believe that inflammatory rhetoric needs to stop," said Schultz, without commenting on the open incitement to murder by the Palestinian Authority.
While Netanyahu was widely criticized by pro-Arab leftists for his statement, Middle East Forum scholar Dr. Wolfgang Schwanitz on Wednesday gave him historical backing.
"It is a historical fact that the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem al-Hajj Amin al-Husseini was an accomplice whose collaboration with Adolf Hitler played an important role in the Holocaust," Schwanitz stated. "He was the foremost extra-European adviser in the process to destroy the Jews of Europe."
In defending his own remarks, Netanyahu quoted the testimony of Adolf Eichmann's deputy at the Nuremberg trials after World War II, who said: "The Mufti was instrumental in the decision to exterminate the Jews of Europe. The importance of his role must not be ignored.
"The Mufti repeatedly proposed to the authorities, primarily Hitler, Ribbentropp and Himmler, to exterminate the Jews of Europe. He considered it a suitable solution for the Palestinian question."
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When did Haj Amin Al-Husseini – Palestine jihad founder, Nazi collaborator – meet the Nazis?
None of the historians the media is quoting mentioned that al-Husseini was in contact with the Nazi’s long before his officially recorded visit with Hitler. The points with a star (*) and linked are dates not mentioned in the article below the video:
- * 1914-1917 Husseini’s First Taste of Jihad: Amin Al-Husseini swears allegiance to the Ottoman Empire during the Muslim genocide of 1.5 million Armenian Christians. He is an officer stationed in Smyrna and participates first-hand in the Armenian genocide.
- Belfour declaration, which established the borders of Israel and includes Jordan, is drafted in 1917.
- Fanatical Haj Amin begun to instigate anti-Jewish riots in Palestine as early as 1920.
- When the Mufti appeared before the “Palestine Commission on the Disturbances of August 1929” (the Shaw Commission) in December 1929, he held a copy of the “Protocols of the Elders of Zion” in his hand.
- * Arab Nazi political groups spring up throughout Middle East in 1933. (Nazi Germany and the Arab world, 1933-1944, by Francois R Nicosia)
- When Hitler proclaimed the Nuremberg Race Laws in 1935, not so few Palestinian Arabs sent him telegrams congratulating him.
- * Husseini Meets Hitler’s banker in 1936. Francois Genoud, later known as the Swiss Banker of the Hitler’s Third Reich, travels to Palestine to meet Amin Al-Husseini for the first time. Their relationship will continue well into the 1960’s.
- There is a rare document about a possible visit by Haj Amin Al-Husseini to Yemen in 1936. The document refers to Al-Husseini as “an envoy of Hitler.”
- As early as February 1933, a few weeks after Hitler became Reich Chancellor, the Mufti sent a telegram to Berlin addressed to the German consul-general in Jerusalem saying he looked forward to spreading Nazi ideology in the Middle East and Palestine.
- In July 1937, the Mufti visited the German consul-general to express his support for Nazi Germany once again.
- In November and December 1937, a representative from the Mufti traveled to Berlin to seek German financial and military support.
- * Amin Al-Husseini ends up on Hitler’s payroll. Al-Husseini visits Jerusalem German Consul. He meets SS Hauptschanfuehrer A.Eichman and SS Oberscherfuehrer H. Hagen to discuss “the Jewish question”. Amin Al-Husseini subsequently receives financial and military aid from Nazi Germany.
- Adolf Eichmann, SS Lieutenant-Colonel and one of the major organisers of the Holocaust, knew the Mufti quite well. As early as 1937, he was sent to the Middle East to contact the Mufti and other Arab leaders. He and SS Oberscharführer Herbert Hagen arrived in Haifa by boat on October 2, 1937.
- The Mufti traveled to Berlin in November 1941 to meet Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop and Hitler.
- The Nazis granted the Mufti asylum in 1941.
- After the war the Mufti’s diary was found by the Allies. On a page bearing the date of 9 November 1944, the following words had been written: “The best of the friends of the Arabs. Eichmann.” Above the word “Eichmann” (written in Latin characters) appeared the following Arabic words in Al-Husseini’s own handwriting: “fairus nadira jiddan” and “Kheir mukhlis lil-arab” – “a very rare diamond” and “the best redeemer for the Arabs.”
Read full article here:
https://themuslimissue.wordpress.com/2015/10/21/when-did-haj-amin-al-husseini-palestine-jihad-founder-nazi-collaborator-meet-the-nazis/
https://themuslimissue.wordpress.com/2015/10/21/when-did-haj-amin-al-husseini-palestine-jihad-founder-nazi-collaborator-meet-the-nazis/
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