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But the real reason Nazi Germany is used as the ultimate insult against Israelis? To hide the darkest Palestinian secret: a shared genocidal history and bloodthirsty obsession with anti-Semitism that festered long after the fall of Hitler.
It began with Mohammed Amin al-Husseini, the British-installed Grand Mufti of Jerusalem in what was then Mandatory Palestine. Husseini happily became the face of Nazi/Arab collaboration during World War II, creating a legacy of Hitler-adoration among Palestinians that still exists today.
In 1941, eight days after meeting with the Nazi foreign minister Joachim von Ribbentrop (who accelerated the Holocaust), Husseini proceeded to meet with Adolf Hitler for the first time. He was welcomed with the ultimate Nazi compliment: that he must have had “more than one Ayran among his ancestors and one who may be descended from the best Roman stock.”
And while Hitler refused any public declaration of support for overt Arab independence and liberation—though Husseini called in 1940 and 1941 for Axis powers to “recognize the right of the Arab countries to solve the question of the Jewish elements” in the Middle East “as the Jewish question was solved in Germany and Italy”—Hitler and Husseini did bond over their shared hatred of the Jews. The Führer asked Husseini to lock “deep in his heart” his single goal of destroying the “Jewish element residing in the Arab sphere under the protection of British power.”
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In 1946, Hassan al-Banna—founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, the terrorist group that gave birth to Hamas—celebrated Husseini as a “hero” and a “miracle of a man” for fighting Zionism “with the help of Hitler and Germany.”
“Germany and Hitler are gone, but Amin Al-Husseini will continue the struggle,” he said.
Husseini’s hand-picked successor, Yasser Arafat (a former Muslim Brotherhood activist), continued his legacy. Members of his Palestinian Liberation Organization idolized “Abu Hitler” as an inspiration for decades of terrorism. Mirroring the Nazi propaganda strategy, Arafat deliberately hijacked religion and education as tools of an anti-Semitism “unmatched in virulence since Nazi Germany.”
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