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An Important "Lost Chapter" in Middle East History, May 8, 2004
Jew-hatred in the Islamic Middle East is at tremendous heights, and stands as a major obstacle to peace. How many know, however, that it was Hitler's man in Jerusalem, the old Mufti of Jerusalem Haj Amin Al-Husseini, who was most directy responsible for stoking the fires of Jew-hatred through his intimate connections with the Nazi regime. One of the big war-criminals who participated in the Jewish Holocaust, organizer of the Hansar Division of Muslim Nazis (with swastikas on their Fez hats) who enthusiastically slaughtered Jews, Gypsies and Serbs in the Balkans, who later organized coups against the British in Iraq, and fled with many old Nazis after the war to various Islamic nations, which welcomed them with open arms. Escaping the Nuremburg war crimes trials, and the hangman's noose, after the war years Al-Husseini went on to manipulate Middle East politics from behind the curtain -- always with the goal towards extermination of the remaining Jewish populations. Yasser Arafat was one of his minions, as was Nasser of Egypt, who filled his ranks with old SS officers who had escaped from Germany. Goebbels uebermensche anti-Jewish propaganda, circulated widely in Europe and the Middle East, was adopted by the Islamist and Palestinian terror groups, and today the same old recycled Nazi lies are being spread by mainstream Arab and Muslim news sources. This stands as a major obstacle to peace, but it is one which Western journalists are more likely to be ignorant of, or to be willfully disbelieving about. An incredible history is summarized in this book by Chuck Morse, facts which rarely get into the standard histories of the Middle East, or of Europe, due to a widespread emotional "blind spot" (or willful lies of omission) which seems to persist into this day, where Islamic fanatics are so often given a "free pass", allowing Jews to continually be misportrayed as the source of the world's evil. With Americans increasingly being cast as "The Devil" by the Islamists, taking on the same role as scapegoat as was historically reserved for the Jews, these facts of history need more attention, not less, and after 9-11 we ignore this material at our peril.
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33 of 40 people found the following review helpful:
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From Hitler to Hamas, January 15, 2006
Haj Amin al-Husseini represented the opposite of the noble Emir Faisal Ibn Husein, the enlightened Arab King of Hejaz who had cordial relations with Chaim Weizmann and wanted to achieve a peaceful Middle East with co-operation between Jew and Arab.
Unfortunately Al-Husseini's ideology of hatred won out. As Grand Mufti of Jerusalem he spearheaded the imperialistic or utopian strain of Islam that has turned into a modern hydra. In 1920 he organised the murder of Jews who were praying at the Wailing Wall, and he never looked back. Throughout the rest of his time in Palestine he furthered his murderous designs because of the British policy of appeasement, with further campaigns in 1929 and from 1936.
In the 1930s Al-Husseini became a proponent of Hitler, eventually settling in Berlin where he encouraged the annihilation of European Jews and planned to become the leader of the Arab world in expectation of an Axis victory. He unceasingly promoted the Holocaust and Nazism amongst the Arabs. This strain of Nazism was a blend of National Socialism and fundamentalist Islam that would make deep inroads into the Arab world.
After the war Al-Husseini fled to Cairo where was instrumental in accommodating fleeing Nazis and organising for the destruction of Israel. The hatred of Israel now took on a Leftist flavour as the Soviet Union became the champion of the Arab cause. Arab leaders like Gamal Abdel Nasser, Saddam Hussein and Yasser Arafat were all influenced by his hateful ideas.
Al-Husseini did not only target Jews, but also moderate Arabs and the free West in general. Nazism was the spiritual and physical bridge by which Islamic extremism became prominent in the Arab world. He introduced the demented belief that utopia could be achieved on earth by the destruction of Israel and the annihilation of the Jews.
This malevolent Islamo-Fascism is the cause of much of the misery in the Arab world today and at the root of the hatred of non-Muslims, particularly the United States and Israel. In this, the extremists are assisted by international leftists. The Western democracies are now tasting the fruit of a decades long policy of appeasement towards this odious movement and its demonic founder.
But there is still a chance that the legacy of Emir Faisal might prevail, although recent developments in France and Europe as a whole do not look promising. Al-Husseini was without doubt one of the most evil personalities of the 20th century as meticulously documented in this revealing book.
Plenty of black and white photographs enhance the text, illustrating Al-Husseini's meetings with Nazi and Arab leaders, and of Bosnian Muslim brigades in World War II.
There are nine indices with documentary evidence of the historical narrative. Appendix A is the Balfour Declaration of 1917, B provides excerpts of the correspondence of King Faisal, C is the Weizmann-Faisal Agreement of 1919, D provides a dialogue between Lord Peel and Husseini from the Palestine Royal Commission Report.
Appendix E gives the minutes of a meeting between Hitler and Al-Husseini, F is an excerpt from the diary of Al-Husseini on his meeting with Hitler, G is a letter in which he asks the Hungarian government to send 1000 Jews to their death in Poland instead of allowing them to escape to Israel, H is his address to Arab-Americans and I is the Palestine National Covenant that denies the right of Israel to exist.
The text concludes with a moving prayer for the state of Israel by the Chief Rabbinate. It is a prayer that all true Christians would do well to heed and incorporate into their worship in these trying times. The book concludes with notes, an index and biographical information on the author.
I also recommend The Other War: Israelis, Palestinians and the Struggle for Media Supremacy by Stephanie Gutmann, Our Hands Are Stained with Blood by Michael l Brown, Dream Palace Of The Arabs by Fouad Ajami, Israel: Life in the Shadow of Terror by Nechemia Coopersmith, Myths And Facts by Mitchell G Bard and Unholy Alliance: Radical Islam And The American Left by David Horowitz.
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32 of 41 people found the following review helpful:
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An important investigation into an evil ideology., July 16, 2005
This well written book scrutinizes the story of Haj Amin al-Husseini and how his influence has allegedly resulted in Islamo-fascism and Jihad terrorism becoming the dominant political philosophies in the Arab world. The reader being shown how Nazism took root in the Islamic world through the untiring efforts of al-Hussein, the former Mufti of Jerusalem.
Initial coverage of al-Husseini's life demonstrates his involvement in instigating the first large-scale pogrom against the Jews in Palestine during 1920, illustrated by the writer as the first wholesale slaughter of Jews in the Arab world for hundreds of years. Al-Husseini is also cited as being culpable for the instigation of further violence against the Jews in Palestine, whilst simultaneously being responsible for what is called the brutal purging and assassination of any Arab who dared to oppose him.
Subsequently being appointed by the British as the Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin Al-Husseini, is shown to have been the mentor to a more modern personage, who also shared his family name and who, it is described, is believed to have been his nephew. The individual concerned was born in Cairo in 1929 and named Muhammad Abdel Rahman Abdel Rauf Arafat al-Qudwa al-Husseini - better known as Yasser Arafat.
The Mufti's sympathy and embracing of the philosophy and goals of the Third Reich is covered with reference to the meetings between al-Husseini and Nazi leaders such as Hitler himself, Adolf Eichman and von Ribbontrop.
Living in Berlin throughout the Second World War, the book reveals how al-Husseini was allowed to live in the luxurious surroundings of a mansion confiscated from a wealthy Jew and how he was set by the Nazis as a virtual head of a Nazi-Muslim government in exile. Access being granted to him to the "sonderfund" which constituted property and money confiscated from European Jews en-route to the concentration camps.
Also documented is the role al-Husseini allegedly played in the recruiting/training of Muslim divisions in Nazi-occupied Yugoslavia, together with his cited radio transmissions to the Arab world which included some of the most "blood curdling anti-Jewish statements and propaganda in history".
The study shows how Hitler allegedly promised al-Husseini, in explicit terms, that following the final solution of the Jews in Europe, the Nazi regime would assist al-Husseini in implementing a final solution against the Jews of Palestine and eventually the entire Arab world itself.
As a result of Hitler's subsequent defeat, and faced with promises that would henceforth fail to materialise, the book shows how al-Husseini fled to Cairo where he remained as a guest of King Farouk and General Abdel Gamal Nasser. Remaining in Cairo for the remainder of his "career", al-Husseini is cited as helping with the settlement of Nazi war criminals in the Arab world and devoting his energies towards the "destruction of the state of Israel".
The author detailing how in post war Cairo, al-Husseini established himself as a key player in transferring Hitler's program of genocide against the Jews into the Middle East itself, with a platform being provided within the ensuing Arab-Israeli conflict.
The contention within this book is that al-Husseini always insisted that Palestine should be rendered virtually "Judenrein" (free of Jews) and adamantly refused to recognise any national rights for the Jews following the re-birth of Israel in 1948.
The study elaborating that al-Husseini's cited intransigent position remains within the Arab world to this day, as a mainstay and driving force amongst radical Arab/Islamic elements which is described as possibly being a "seamless continuation and an extension of the Nazi Holocaust against the Jews of Europe".
The Mufti's activities in Nazi Germany and occupied Europe are depicted as having set the stage for today's Islamic terrorism, where the cited mind-set and world-view are described as having many similarities with totalitarian fascism.
Many will disagree with such observations but the evidence provided reveals a disturbing case to answer.
Numerous photographs are provided along with detailed references which even include the minutes of the meeting of al-Husseini with Adolf Hitler himself during 1941, together with extracts from al-Husseini's diary pertaining to this meeting.
The book culminates with the personal thoughts of the writer in relation to the present day peace process in the Middle East, where he describes that, after studying the issues presented within this work, his hopes and prayers for "peace" are mixed with more than a "healthy dose of skepticism".
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