Aren't Palestinians as responsible as their leader al-Hajj Amin Hussieni who collaborated with the Nazis during WW II?

Aren't Palestinians as responsible as their leader al-Hajj Amin Hussieni who collaborated with the Nazis during WW II?
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Posted on August 2, 2001

Unfortunately, to the Palestinian people this question implies that they should pay the price for the collaboration of a single person with the Nazis! Although there were a minority of Palestinians who collaborated with the Nazis, a whole nation cannot pay the price for the choices of a few. It's not just that the Palestinian people (and most of the Arab countries as well) aided the allies with men and logistical support, they also ignored the call for Jihad, against the Allies, that was declared by al-Hajj Amin in April, 1941 (Righteous Victims, p. 165).

Since the Palestinian people were promised full independence in 1949, and strict limitation on Jewish immigration to Palestine, based on the 1939 White Paper, the Palestinian people had an incentive to help the Allies win the war. It should be noted that several Palestinian brigades were enlisted into the British Army, and the Palestinian resistance to the brutal British occupation almost completely ceased during and after WW II.

In general, the Palestinian people are proud of the fact that they were among the few who did not collaborate openly with Nazis. On the other hand, the peoples and governments of France, Italy, Japan, Romania, Croatia, Chechnya, Bulgaria, Switzerland, ... etc. all collaborated openly with the Nazis. Tragically, many of these peoples and governments happily pointed out their Jewish citizens to the Gestapo. So it's unfair, if not outright criminal, to exploit al-Hajj Amin's conduct in order to eternally condemn the Palestinian people as Nazis, while ignoring the choices made by most European peoples and governments who openly collaborated with the Nazis.

In that regard, it's worth noting that Josef Stalin, the Soviet premier and dictator, forcibly transferred the people of the Caucasus to Siberia as a collective punishment for their collaboration with the Nazis during WWII. However, the same people were allowed to return to their homes in 1958 when the scale of the war crime became known to Khruschev, Stalin's successor in the 1950s. If the people of the Caucasus were allowed to return to their homes under Communist rule, why can't the Palestinian refugees return to their homes under Israeli rule?

IRONICALLY, the shocking truth is that it has been proven that the Jewish Stern gang received funding and arms from the Italian Fascists to resist the British Mandate in Palestine. In fact, the Stern gang's collaboration with the Fascists and Nazis was going on while their Jewish brothers were being persecuted in Nazi concentration camps. It should also be noted that when the Americans, British, and their Arab allies were busy blocking the Desert Fox's (Erwin Rommel) advances in north Africa, the Stern gang's leader Yitzhak Shamir and the Irgun gang's leader Menachem Begin were busy ambushing British soldiers, blowing up the vital Haifa-Cairo railroad supply line, and terrorizing British and Palestinian civilians (Righteous Victims, p. 174). And when Yitzhak Shamir, Israel's future Prime Minister in the 1980s, was asked to explain their collaboration with the Fascists, he replied:

"The enemy of my enemy is my friend." (One Palestine Complete , p. 464).

Since these findings have only have only JUST started to surface lately (and are kept smothered in many Jewish communities), we feel it's necessary to directly quote one of the MOST pro-Israel historians, Martin Gilbert, who wrote:

"Avraham Stern who had formed a breakaway 'Irgun in Israel' movement (also known as the Stern Gang), tried to make contact with Fascist Italy in the hope that, if Mussolini were to conquer the Middle East, he would allow a Jewish State to be set up in Palestine. When Mussolini's troops were defeated in North Africa, Stern tried to make contacts with Nazi Germany, hoping to sign a pact with Hitler which would lead to a Jewish State once Hitler had defeated Britain. After two members of the Stern's Gang had killed the Tel Aviv [British] police chief and two of his officers, Stern himself was caught and killed. His followers [chief among them Yitzhak Shamir who led the Stern Gang after Stern's death] continued on their path of terror." (Israel: A History, p. 111-112)

What makes many Palestinians and Arabs EXTREMELY ANGRY is that the memories of the Holocaust are being exploited to paint Palestinians as Nazis. Such dangerous comparison and propaganda tactics are continuously fed to many Israeli school children from inception, especially upon visiting the Holocaust museum at Yad Vashem. It should be emphasized that many life size pictures of al-Hajj Amin standing alongside Hitler are on display at Yad Vashem, just West of Jerusalem not far from DEIR YASSIN. It's hypocritical to hold Palestinians responsible for the "ill fated" choice of al-Hajj Amin, while Israelis and Jews still blind themselves to the choices some of their leaders made during WW II.

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Posted by Brent on March 24, 2008 #32608

Also study the Haavara agreement also called the "Transfer Agreement". In this agreement started around 1933 the Zionist Jewish organizations operating in Germany freely and openly collaborated with the ruling Nazi party in Germany. The Zionist Jewish organizations agreed to pay money to have the Nazis in return provide transportation of German Jews to Palestine. Once in Palestine the Zionist Jewish colonies were given access to purchasing of German farming supplies, etc. Around 60,000 German Jews invaded Palestine via the Haavara "Transfer" Agreement with the Nazis.

Posted by Brent on November 13, 2007 #23398

Correction: This little Waffen SS militia recruited and organized by al-Husseini was AGAIN Bosnian (not Arab) and was fighting Communists partisans in the Balkans during WWII.

Posted by Brent on November 13, 2007 #23397

al-Husseini's only roles were speaking into the Middle East on Nazi radio stations and militia organizing. Al-Husseini's only military role with the Nazis was forming a Bosnian Waffen SS unit of about 10,000 men to fight against Communist (Communism often equaled Jewish) partisans in the Balkans. This little Waffen SS militia recruited and organized by al-Husseini was against Bosnian (not Arab) and was fighting Communists partisans in the Balkans during WWII.

Posted by Brent on November 13, 2007 #23395

Zionist often overemphasis al-Husseini role with the Nazis: There, according to objective historians, the mufti helped the Germans with propaganda and recruiting among his fellow Muslims, steadfastly opposing any German actions that would facilitate Jewish emigration to Palestine (which National Socialist policy had earlier supported).

Those verifiable grievances have never been enough for Zionist publicists, however.

Posted by Brent on September 29, 2007 #21046

You also do a good job pointing out in your article that Husseini had was almost completely ignored that is why he ran away for some safety in Berlin. Husseini actually had the bravery to resist against the British Zionist controlled occupiers. Also on the comment list Gary makes a good point that after the war Husseini's relationship with the Nazis was considered of such little importance he wasn't even sought out by the Nuremburg show trial. The same Zionists again had leaders in the Lehi (Stern Gang) that worked with and got arms from Mussolini's Fascist Italy and offered the Nazis a military alliance. Among them the Zionist future "Israeli" PM Yitzhak Shamir (Yzternitzky)

Posted by Brent on September 29, 2007 #21045

The British army enlisted around 6,000 Palestinian Arab soldiers for the British military. These Palestinian soldiers put aside the hate them must have felt for the British Colonial occupiers of Palestine to fight against the Axis powers. Again these Palestinian Arab British forces were fighting with the same British who had the raving British Christian Zionist Lord Balfour. These same British were working hand and hand with the Zionist movement and would betray the Palestinian Arabs later.

Posted by Brent on August 8, 2007 #18973

Many Zionist Jews aided the Nazis and Axis powers during WWII. Jews like Avraham Stern, Yitzhak Shamir (real last name Yzernitzky), Begin, etc. Also the Arab nations mostly aided (with men+arms) the Allied powers in WWII. Also Palestinian brigades were in the British army in WWII!! Also Jewish groups+ org.'s during the WWII era were willing to send their Jewish bros and sis to death in hopes that more Jewish deaths would give them sympathy for a "state" after the war. A quote by WWII era Jewish Zionist Yitzhak Greenbaum "One Cow in Palestine, is worth more the all the Jews in Europe" they didn't give a crap about their Jews bros and sis they just had hope in being famous for having a "state" and power. See website Jews Not Zionists. Jews ran the Russian Bolsheviks and the USSR which killed 100 million+ non-Jews in Jewish run Gulags under Leon Trotsky (real name David Bronstein), Lenin, Genrikh Yagoda, Lazar Kaganovich (Jewish butcher of the Ukraine) etc. Go to website JewWatch.

Posted by Gary on May 6, 2007 #15505

Those critical of al-Hajj Amin Husseini should acquaint themselves with the circumstances and events that caused him to seek sanctuary in Hitler's Berlin, including being chased throughout the Middle East by the British for his role in the Palestinian resistance, e.g., the Great Rebellion of 1936. Nor should it be forgotten that following the war, his relationship with the Nazis was seen as being of such little consequence that he was never sought out by officials at Nuremberg. He lived out his last days in Beirut. Zionists continually point their fingers at al-Hajj Amin Husseini and unjustly malign him while ignoring the documented collusion with Nazis and Mussolini's thugs on the part of the Stern Gang (including future Israeli PM, Yitzhak Shamir - real name Yitzhak Yzernitzky) and its betrayal of fellow Jews in Europe.

Posted by خطاب on February 7, 2007 #13619

One can't say "never again" about the Shoah and allow things like Deir Yassin to happen. Unfortuantely, the Jewish suffering during the shoah is well known while the Palestinian experience during the al-Nakba has been kept from world scrutiny. How much collaboration existed between the Zionists and the Nazis during the war? Was the Shoah exacerbated by the Zionists failing to help their brothers in the hope for an Israeli state? Why aren't these things known? why is it so hard to find out about the Nakba and the Palestinian people? Why is one called anti-semitic if one criticises zionism? Sorry too many questions and not enough answers. But there wouldn't b a problem if we had the answers.

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