Re: Why Hitler's Palestinian Ally Still Matters

I just heard the other day that Nazi scientists were spirited away after the
war and helped developed the Saturn V rocket we used to 'win' the space race
against the Soviets. Strange bedfellows, indeed.

Johne Cook
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On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 11:05 PM, Peter Chattaway <petert-LOVM4QxV+tDq6eQxt3vRmMXXUOn6P5/[email protected]
> wrote:

> http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/tobin/384111
>
> Jonathan S. Tobin - 12.13.2010 - 12:31 PM
>
> WikiLeaks isn’t the only source of interesting government documents. On
> Friday, the National Archives published a report about American efforts to
> recruit former Nazis to help intelligence efforts during the Cold War. This
> is familiar territory for those familiar with the period. While war has
> always made for strange bedfellows (such as the necessity of the wartime
> alliance with Stalin against Hitler), the willingness of the United States
> government to employ all sorts of Nazi criminals to combat the Soviets is a
> sorry chapter in our history.
>
> Nevertheless, included in this report was some fascinating material about
> one particular Nazi war criminal whose historical legacy lives on today: Haj
> Amin al-Husseini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem. The willingness of Husseini,
> the putative leader of Palestinian Arab nationalism in the 1930s and 1940s,
> to collaborate with the Nazis has long been established and has been the
> subject of more scholarly scrutiny in recent years. However, this report
> does help fill in some of the details about the extent of the mufti’s
> relationship with Berlin.
>
> Among the interesting tidbits: the mufti who did Nazi propaganda broadcasts
> to the Islamic world and helped recruit a Bosnian Muslim brigade for the SS
> was on Hitler’s payroll and actually paid twice the salary received by
> German field marshals. More chilling was Hitler’s promise that he would
> install Husseini as the head of a Palestinian state after the planned German
> conquest of the Middle East and the extermination of the hundreds of
> thousands of Jews then in the British Mandate for Palestine. The report also
> details the way French and British intelligence allowed the mufti to flee
> his European hideouts and return to the Middle East in order to carry on his
> war against the Jews.
>
> While this may seem like ancient history to observers of the contemporary
> Middle East, the mufti’s relevance to the political culture of the
> Palestinians should not be underestimated. His rejection of any
> accommodation with the Jews and his embrace of the crudest anti-Semitic
> slurs, which deliberately echo Nazi themes, is still felt today, what with
> even the supposedly “moderate” Palestinian Authority engaging in similar
> anti-Jewish incitement and hatred. So long as Hitler’s faithful Muslim ally
> remains a role model for Palestinians, peace is a long way off.
>
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