The Real Background of Arab Terrorism

Every time I hear a Hezbollah/Hamas/Islamic Jihad apologists they all say basically the same thing. If Israel would just go back to the boarders established 30+ years ago everything would be fine and the terrorist groups would stop killing Israeli civilians. They keep on pointing to the wars between Israel and its Arab neighbors (Egypt, Syria, Iran, etc.) that occurred in the 1960's and 1970's. By this argument they are saying that all terrorist activities against Israel are because of these wars (and other Israeli activities) that occurred in the 60's and 70's.

Let's take a deeper look, let's go before the 60's and see what terrorism (if any) occurred back then.

Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Mohammad Amin al-Husayni (1895 to 1974)

• The Grand Mufti is essentially the top guy in the Islamic religion.
• In 1933 al-Husayni sent a letter to Germany expressing his support of the rising Nazi ideology and its spread across the world especially in Palestine and "offered his services".
• Later that year, al-Husayni's assistants approached the German Consul General Wolff seeking his help in establishing an Arab National Socialist (Nazi) Party in Palestine to stop Jewish immigrants to Palestine and to get rid of lawful Jewish residents in Palestine.
• On 21 July 1937, Al-Husayni paid a visit to the new German Consul-General, Hans Döhle, in Palestine. He repeated his former support for Germany and "wanted to know to what extent the Third Reich was prepared to support the Arab movement against the Jews." He later sent an agent and personal representative to Berlin for discussions with Nazi leaders.
• From August 1938, Husseini received financial and military assistance and supplies from Nazi Germany and fascist Italy.
• November 28, 1941, al-Husayni asked Hitler for a public declaration that "recognized and sympathized with the Arab struggles for independence and liberation, and that it would support the elimination of a national Jewish homeland".
• During WWII the Mufti assisted in Nazi radio propaganda in Germany.
• Assisted in the formation of the Muslim Wafen SS units in the Balkans.
• Adolf Eichmann`s deputy Dieter Wisliceny testified during his war crimes trial in 1946 that ... "The Mufti was one of the initiators of the systematic extermination of European Jewry and had been a collaborator and adviser of Eichmann and Himmler in the execution of this plan... He was one of Eichmann’s best friends and had constantly incited him to accelerate the extermination measures. I heard him say, accompanied by Eichmann, he had visited incognito the gas chambers of Auschwitz."
• Among the sabotage al-Husayni organized was an attempted chemical warfare assault on the second largest and predominantly Jewish city in Palestine, Tel Aviv. Five parachutists were sent with a toxin to dump into the water system.

Now, here is the connection to modern Palestinians. This is the text of an interview with Yasser Arafat in the London-based Arabic language news paper Al Sharq al Awsat back in 2002.

Interviewer: I have heard voices from within the Palestinian Authority in the past few weeks, saying that the reforms are coordinated according to American whims...

Arafat: We are not Afghanistan. We are the mighty people. Were they able to replace our hero Hajj Amin al-Husseini?... There were a number of attempts to get rid of Hajj Amin, whom they considered an ally of the Nazis. But even so, he lived in Cairo, and participated in the 1948 war, and I was one of his troops."

Source: Mohammad Amin al-Husayni

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