by Caroline Glick
Of course, everyone knows the obvious anniversary -
Nov. 29, 1947 was the day the UN General Assembly passed the plan to
recommend the partition the British Mandate of Palestine into a Jewish
state and an Arab state. The Jews accepted the plan. The Arabs -- both
local and regional - rejected it. The local Arabs who 25 years later
became known as "Palestinians," responded to the passage of UNGA
resolution 181 by launching a terror war against the Jews. Their war was
commanded by Iraqi and Lebanese terror masters and supported by the
British military and its Arab Legion from Transjordan.
On
May 15, 1948 five foreign Arab armies invaded the just-declared Jewish
state with the declared aim of annihilating all the Jews.
Now for a couple less known anniversaries
On
November 28, 1941 the religious and political leader of the Palestinian
Arabs and one of the most influential leaders of the Arab world Haj
Amin el Husseini met with Adolf Hitler in Berlin. Husseini had courted
the Nazis since just after the Nazis rose to power in 1933. Husseini was
forced to flee the British Mandate in 1937 when he expanded his fourth
terror war against the Jews, that he began in 1936 to include the
British as well.
He fled to Lebanon, and then
in October 1939 he fled to Iraq. In April 1941 he fomented a pro-Nazi
coup in Iraq. As the British -- with massive unheralded assistance from
the Jews from the land of Israel -- were poised to enter Baghdad and
restore the pro-British government, Husseini incited the Farhud, a
3-day pogrom against the Jews of Baghdad that took place over the
festival of Shavuot. 150 Jews were murdered. A thousand were wounded and
900 Jewish homes were destroyed.
With the
coup defeated and the Jews murdered, Husseini escaped to then pro-Nazi
Iran and then in October to Germany by way of Italy. (He was flown out
of Iran on an Italian Air Force plane, and feted by Mussolini when he
landed in Rome).
He arrived in Berlin and two
and a half weeks later he had a prolonged private meeting with Hitler.
There, on November 28, 1941, two months before the Wannssee Conference,
where the German high command received its first orders to annihilate
European Jewry, Hitler told Husseini that he intended to eradicate the
Jewish people from the face of Europe.
Husseini
remained in Berlin through the end of the war and served as a Nazi
agent. In Berlin he broadcast daily diatribes to the Arab world on
German shortwave radio in Arabic. Specifically Husseini exhorted them to
kill the Jews in the name of Allah and make common cause with the Nazis
who would deliver them from the Jews, the British and the Americans.
In
1943 Husseini organized the Hazhar SS Division of Bosnian Muslims. His
division carried out the massacre of 90 percent of the Bosnian Jewish
community of 12,000.
In 1920 Husseini
personally invented what later became known as the Palestinian national
movement. He shaped its identity around the sole cause of destroying the
Jewish presence in the land of Israel.
During
the war Husseini used his broadcasts to shape the political and
religious consciousness of the Muslim world by fusing Islamic Jew
hatred with annihilationist Nazi anti-Semitism. Whereas much of the Nazi
anti-Semitic ideology was discredited in postwar Europe, it has
remained the single most resonant theme of Arab politics since World War
II.
In 1946, as his fellow Nazi war criminals
were being tried in Nuremberg, Husseini made a triumphant return to
Egypt where he was welcomed as a war hero by King Farouk, the Muslim
Brotherhood and the young officers in the Egyptian army who fused Nazi
national socialism with the Islamism of the Muslim Brotherhood and took
over Egypt after deposing Farouk in 1951.
The
founder of Palestinian nationalism's singleminded dedication to the
genocide of Jewry brings us to the second notable but forgotten
anniversary we passed over this month.
On Nov. 12
1942 the British led forces -- with the massive and unreported support
of Jewish commando and engineering units from the land of Israel --
defeated Germany's Afrika Corps led by Gen. Rommel in the second Battle
of Alamein. With the German defeat, the specter of a German occupation
of the Middle East was removed. Husseini and Himmler had planned that
under German occupation, the Arabs would expand the Holocaust to the
800,000 Jews of the Arab world and the 450,000 Jews in the land of
Israel. To this end, the Germans had organized the Einzatzgruppen Afrika
unit attached to Rommel's army. Under the command of SS LTC Walter
Rauff, it was tasked with murdering Jews located in the areas that were
to come under German occupation.
It is fitting
that yesterday, on the anniversary of Hitler's meeting with Husseini,
Germany announced that it would not oppose Husseini's heirs' bid to
receive UN recognition of a Palestinian state that seeks Israel's
destruction.
Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.
The more things change, the more they remain the same.
Caroline Glick
Source: http://www.carolineglick.com/e/2012/11/a-few-notable-anniversaries-on.php
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