Tuesday, July 28, 2009
This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.
Alan Dershowitz: Will Hamas's New 'Culture War' Acknowledge Its Historic Ties to Nazism? - '...[Grand Mufti Haj Amin al-]Husseini’s significant contributions to the Holocaust were multifold: first, he pleaded with Hitler to exterminate European Jewry and advised the Nazis on how to do so; second, he visited Auschwitz and urged Eichmann and Himmler to accelerate the pace of the mass murder; third, he personally stopped 4,000 children, accompanied by 500 adults, from leaving Europe and had them sent to Auschwitz and gassed; fourth, he prevented another two thousand Jews from leaving Romania for Palestine and one thousand from leaving Hungary for Palestine, who were subsequently sent to death camps; fifth, he organized the killing of 12,600 Bosnian Jews by Muslims, whom he recruited to the Waffen-SS Nazi-Bosnian division. He was also one of the few non-Germans who was made privy to the Nazi extermination while it was taking place. It was in his official capacity as the leader of the Palestinian people and its official representative that he made his pact with Hitler, spent the war years in Berlin, and worked actively with Eichmann, Himmler, von Ribbentrop, and Hitler himself to “accelerate” the final solution by exterminating the Jews of Europe and laying plans to exterminate the Jews of Palestine...' [The Nazi roots of the Palestinian National Movement.]
Perhaps an even better question in this regard is whether or not the standard MSM reportage will throw some light on this facet of their history ... or given his recent incursion into "teachable moments," whether Barack Obama will ...
I say "perhaps even better" because we already know Hamas won't be doing so.
May the grand mufti haj amin al-husseini CONTINUE to BURN in Hell for his leadership of islamofascism during WW2.
The funny part of all this is that, although the ties connecting the Grand Mufti to the later Palestinian terror organizations are obvious, he did not call himself a Palestinian. (No one did in those days. To the extent that the word was used at all, it was to describe someone as a "Palestinian Jew" or a "Palestinian Arab" -- i.e. a geographic description, not an ethnic one. The use of the word "Palestinian" in its current meaning began in the early 1960s.)
Therefore: to many Zionists, the Grand Mufti was a Nazi collaborator and a horrible human being, but he was not a Palestinian. To the Palestinians, however, who claim to have been there forever, he was a Palestinian... and a direct precursor to Fatah chief Mahmoud Abbas, who denies the Holocaust happened.
Irony? But of course. Welcome to the Middle East.
respectfully,
Daniel in Brookline