Things that will not help Palestine: T-shirts featuring Hitler sporting a Palestinian flag pic.twitter.com/rnrscFCSca
— Yair Rosenberg (@Yair_Rosenberg) August 24, 2014
This video presents some of the recent public statements
by Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas, in a broader, more
complete context, in order to help advance the prospect of genuine peace
between Israel and the Palestinians, by sharing factual information
about Abbas's statements.
At a 'cultural event' in London, we see what may be the ultimate lie perpetrated by Muslims: They're now claiming to be victims of the Nazis.
There can be no ambiguity in what the artist is claiming here: Jews,
gays, and ... Muslims (dressed in concentration camp outfits) were equal
victims of the Nazi holocaust. The myth of Muslim victimhood and
'Islamaphobia' is one that is now constantly pushed not just by the
Muslim Brotherhood, but even more so by their useful idiot leftist
allies, like the 'guerilla artist' here. To cast Muslims as equal
victims when they were actually
among the most enthusiastic participants in the Nazi persecution of Jews
takes the
myth of Muslim victimhood to a whole new level; and as with
most Muslim propaganda it is a perfect inversion of reality.
Hitler was actually inspired by the Muslim Brotherhood's antisemitism and the Palestinian leader Haj Amin al Husseini
was a key ally of Hitler who helped set up Hitler's Muslim SS division,
who were active in murdering Jews in Eastern Europe. Hitler promised
al Husseini that he would be allowed to carry out the murder of every
Jew in Palestine once the Nazis advanced there, and al Husseini had
drawn up detailed plans of the execution programme. And, of course,
Arab countries such as Iraq were formally allies of Nazi Germany.
Anyway, just to makes sure that nobody can be in any doubt where the
'guerilla artist' Ego Leonard's true sympathies lie he was also
exhibiting a print showing that the Arabs - with the ubiquitous large
key - have been the true owners of the land of Palestine 'since the time
of Jesus' (a good quality image of this print can be seen on the
artist's website here).
Much more about the real relationship between Muslims and Nazis here (including video) and here.
I've discussed the World War II era collaboration between the Arabs (particularly, the 'Palestinians') and the Nazis many times on this blog. The reason you don't read a lot about that collaboration in the media is that the subject is taboo in the West, particularly in Germany.
What Mr. Rössel says about Germany applies to most of the Western
world, where it is often claimed that the mufti's Hitler alliance later
discredited him in the region. Nothing could be further from the truth.
In the Mideast, Nazis were not only popular during but also after the
war—scores of them found refuge in the Arab world, including Eichman's
deputy, Alois Brunner, who escaped to Damascus. The German war criminals
became trusted military and security advisers in the region,
particularly of Nazi sympathizer Gamal Nasser, then Egypt's president.
The mufti himself escaped to Egypt in 1946. Far from being shunned for
his Nazi past, he was elected president of the National Palestinian
Council. The mufti was at the forefront of pushing the Arabs to reject
the 1948 United Nations partition plan and to wage a "war of
destruction" against the fledgling Jewish state. His great admirer,
Yasser Arafat, would later succeed him as Palestinian leader.
The other line of defense is that Arab collaboration with the Nazis
supposedly wasn't ideological but pragmatic, following the old dictum
that "the enemy of my enemy is my friend." This "excuse" not only fails
to consider what would have happened to the Jews and British in the
Mideast had the Arabs' German friends won. It also overlooks the mufti's
and his followers' virulent anti-Semitism, which continues to poison
the minds of many Muslims even today.
The mufti "invented a new form of
Jew-hatred by recasting it in an Islamic mold," according to German
scholar Matthias Küntzel. The mufti's fusion of European
anti-Semtism—particularly the genocidal variety—with Koranic views of
Jewish wickedness has become the hallmark of Islamists world-wide, from
al Qaeda to Hamas and Hezbollah. During his time in Berlin, the mufti
ran the Nazis' Arab-language propaganda radio program, which incited
Muslims in the Mideast to "kill the Jews wherever you find them. This
pleases God, history and religion." Among the many listeners was also
the man later known as Ayatollah Khomeini, who used to tune in to Radio
Berlin every evening, according to Amir Taheri's biography of the
Iranian leader. Khomeini's disciple Mahmoud Ahmadinejad still spews the
same venom pioneered by the mufti as do Islamic hate preachers around
the world.
Muslim Judeophobia is not—as is commonly claimed—a reaction to the
Mideast conflict but one of its main "root causes." It has been fueling
Arab rejection of a Jewish state long before Israel's creation.
"I am not a Mideast expert," Mr. Rössel told me, but "I wonder why
the people who so one-sidedly regard Israel as the region's main problem
never consider how the Mideast conflict would have developed had it not
been influenced by fascists, anti-Semites and people who had just
returned from their Nazi exile."
The neo-Nazi, Willi Pohl, helped forge passports and ferried one of the Black September terror cell ringleaders around Germany in the weeks before the Olympic massacre.
Based on recently released files from Germany’s security service BfV, der Spiegel reported Sunday that Pohl had met with Saad Walli, an “Arab-looking man” who boasted of his contacts to the radical wing of the Palestine Liberation Organization, seven weeks before the massacre in September 1972. Saad Walli was the code name of Abu Daoud, one of the masterminds behind the attack.
The 2,000-page report, which the police of the city of Dortmund sent to the BfV and other national authorities, does not mention any efforts made by any of the contacted officials to apprehend Abu Daoud in the weeks prior to the massacre, the weekly reported.
In October 1972 Phol was arrested by the police and was found in possession of grenades, arms and ammunition. The weapons were thought to be held in keeping for Black September to be used in a retaliatory attack against German targets. He was sentenced to two years in prison.
Pohl, who today makes a living writing crime novels and has “credibly distanced himself from terrorism,” according to Der Spiegel, helped Abu Daoud in several ways. He helped him forge passports and other documents and drove him “across the country, where he met with Palestinians in several cities,” the magazine quotes Pohl as saying.
Pohl, who renounced terrorism decades ago and now publishes crime novels under another name, told Der Spiegel he was unknowingly involved in the preparations for the attack. “I chauffeured Abu Daud back and forth across Germany, where he met Palestinians in various cities,” he told the paper.
Pohl was eventually arrested in October 1972 in Munich. He was found in possession of sub-machine guns, hand grenades and other weapons and is thought to have been planning further attacks on German soil on behalf of the PLO, Der Spiegel said.
He was sentenced to only two years in prison, released a short while later and then left Germany for Beirut.
Sorry, but if he went to live in Beirut, I don't buy that he didn't know what he was doing. Amazing though that the Mossad has not gone after him like they went after everyone else who was involved. Hmmm.
This video will show the similarities between what is taught to Muslims and what was taught to Nazis. I won't even tell you that it will shock you - it probably won't.
Seth Mandel interviews German scholar Matthias Küntzel, author of Jihad and Jew-Hatred: Islamism, Nazism and the Roots of 9/11 (Hat Tip: Linda C).
Küntzel is very disappointed with the response by Western leaders to the naked anti-Semitism and the presence of Nazi ideology in public statements by influential clerics like Qaradawi, such as when he praised the Holocaust.
“If the pope would do something like this, or some of those surrounding the pope in Rome, there would be an outcry throughout the world,” Küntzel said. “But if this kind of very important Muslim speaker does the same, there is silence. And the reason is that people underestimate and don’t know much about the roots of this anti-Semitism. The traditional way to analyze this is to say, well this is the result of the Middle East conflict so if Israel and Zionism would behave more correctly and we can finish with the conflict, then we can finish with anti-Semitism as well.”
This is what Küntzel calls the filter that exists between actual events and their interpretation. Anti-Semitism, or at least a certain strain of it, was imported into the Middle East, and is now being exported from it.
“We are just at the beginning of a change in the analysis of the roots of the anti-Semitism in the Middle East,” Küntzel said. “And I consider this a very important task also to educate Western governments that this is not just the outcome of a conflict caused by Jews who immigrated to Palestine, but that this is something very similar to Nazi anti-Semitism and has to be taken as seriously as the Nazi anti-Semitism was taken.”
Küntzel said he is trying to dispel the false assumption that anti-Semitism has anything to do with Jewish behavior—it doesn’t. Anti-Semitism stems from the mind of the anti-Semite, not with anything the Jews do. So to couch it in terms of a Jewish issue, he said, is completely backwards. It is the province of non-Jews, and therefore must be dealt with by non-Jews as well, not ignored. The Jews, he said, can’t do anything about anti-Semitism if it is not dealt with by society at large.
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