Editing Palestine (section)

=====Zionist and Arab collaboration with Nazi Germany=====
Yitzhak Shamir, the seventh Prime Minister of Israel, was a leader in the Zionist militant group Lehi (AKA "Stern Gang") during the British Mandate era. He and the other leaders of the Lehi (1940-48) proposed an alliance between Zionism and Nazism-- between themselves and Hitler. They were declined by the Nazis due to Germany's former support for the Mufti, Hajj Amin al-Husseini. 

Hajj Amin al-Husseini was the leader of Palestine beginning in 1923, when he was installed by Britain to leadership of the British Mandate of Palestine. At this time, and until Palestinian public opinion shifted around 1936 to a majority anti-Britain sentiment, al-Husseini lauded Britain and was staunchly on their side.

Hitler eventually supported the Mufti because they shared an anti-British sentiment-- Hitler, who rose to power surfing a tidal wave of British finance capital, was initially an ally of the City of London, as well as a political ally of Churchill and MI6. Their motive for bolstering Hitler was simple-- Germany could be used as a bulwark against the Soviet Union, which for 30 years prior to the second World War the combined ruling class of Anglo-Saxon Europe (Britain, Germany, France) and America tried to prevent and then destroy. This is much like how Ukraine is being used today as a bulwark against modern Russia, and, generally speaking, for the same reason-- the prevention of a multipolar world. 

However, the Nazis also then turned on their financiers; they severed the Anglo-Nazi alliance (although Churchill praised the Nazis as late as 1938), and with this Hitler found support in Arab states who had been subjected to British imperialism for centuries. 

The basic, ''organic'' anti-British position of the Arab people ''as a civilization'' was founded on the fear of dispossession of their land, which evidentially did happen in the aftermath of World War II. They were willing to go to war to defend their sovereignty and self-determination (i.e. the right to rule over themselves rather than a foreign power ruling them, to choose their own path of development). This popular sentiment led to the Arab revolts against British political-economic rule over Palestine and other Arab territories starting in 1936 and lasting until 1939. However, the ''inorganic'' resistance channeled this sentiment of the average Arab of Palestine, Iraq, Syria, and so forth into dead-end scenarios and destructive activity. 

Zachary Lockman wrote on the matter regarding the violent side of the Arab Revolt: 

"On April 15, 1936, members of the guerrilla band founded by Shaykh ‘Izz al-Din al-Qassam held up cars and buses near Nablus, killing two Jewish passengers. Two days later a right-wing Jewish paramilitary group retaliated by killing two Arabs. Arab protests soon erupted throughout the country, gradually taking on the character of a broad-based anticolonial and anti-Zionist popular uprising. To contain the violence and channel the upsurge from below, Arab nationalist activists quickly called for a countrywide general strike. The strike spread rapidly, as did new “national committees” which sprang up to lead the struggle in all the major towns. Taken by surprise, the elite politicians tried to catch up with and ride the wave of popular energy by endorsing the strike call and forming a new Arab Higher Committee (AHC) on which all the major parties were represented, with Amin al-Husayni as its president."

The Mufti, who first was appointed to power and thereby funded by British intelligence, rejected British rule in the wake of the 1936 Palestinian-Arab revolts in order to harness the energy of the mass movement. He hoped to become a Western agent embedded in Arab leadership, as evidenced by the AHC proposal. What began as peaceful protests against British rule were harnessed by al-Husseini and his forces, turned into violent action against the British and Jews in Palestine and Iraq. 

However, the revolt was not entirely violent. In fact, it was mostly peaceful.

The resistance began long before the 1930s. In 1922, a year before Amin al-Husseini was appointed by the British, and in response to Zionists calling for a boycott of Arab produce and labor, the exclusion of Arabs from Jewish communities, and forbidding of Arabs purchasing land from Jews, the fifth Arab Congress called for a boycott of Jewish goods. From the time of the British Mandate until today, the Palestinians have called upon international organizations such as the UN for diplomatic intervention. Palestinians held a general strike in 1936 against Zionism and British rule. Urban workers and rural workers shut down transportation, harbors, and other sectors for six months-- the longest general strike in history.

These actions both demonstrate Palestinian peaceful resistance at the time, and continue to undermine the narrative painting Arabs (Palestinians particularly) as always choosing violent resistance first.

From Lockman: 

"The general strike would continue for six months, until October 1936, making it one of the longest general strikes in history. It constituted the first stage of a countrywide Arab nationalist revolt against both British rule and Zionism which would end only in the summer of 1939. The strike was accompanied by numerous attacks on Jews and Jewish property as well as on British installations, transport, communications, and personnel, carried out mainly by the numerous village-based guerrilla bands that sprang up in the countryside during the spring and summer of 1936 and gave the revolt an increasingly violent and openly insurrectional character."

Having no benefactor to guarantee his stay in power, Amin al-Husseini turned to Hitler. In this turn, the Mufti allied with Abdel-Karim Qasim, an Iraqi general who took power during the Iraqi Revolution of 1941. Qasim carried out the Farhoud: the Iraqi branch of the Holocaust. He later ousted the Nasserist Free Officers following the 1958 revolutionary coup, installed Iraqi Nazis back into top government positions, and funded the Mufti's SS network.

With the support of Hitler and Qasim, Hajj Amin al-Husseini gained access to an SS network and subsequently headed the SS branch of Palestine. Qasim, the Iraqi Hitlerite, used his position to diplomatically and financially support the Mufti, nominally with 100,000 Iraqi Dinars. In a document quoted in Sovinform's article on Qasim, the CIA admits that the Mufti detested Communists and described the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) as either "Communists or saboteurs" of his regime. al-Husseini is also stated in this document to have delayed orders for the assassination of the PLO's head, Shafiq al-Hut, until the 100,000 Iraqi Dinars from Qasim were replaced. He publicly angled this stance against "Palestinian infighting".

According to the Sovinform article:

"...[T]he Mufti had been the head of the ‘Jaysh Al-Jihad Al-Moqaddas’ (translated to English as the ‘Sacred Struggle Army’ or the ‘Holy Jihad Army’), an army of terror created by the direct order of Hitler in 1944, furnished with arms by the SS, parachuted from Germany into Palestine by Sheikh Hasan Salameh (father to the commander of the Fatah’s commando forces, the infamous CIA spy Ali Hasan Salameh), directed by a nucleus of 60 Nazi Palestinian jihadists trained in Nazi-occupied Netherlands during the Great Patriotic War [(World War II)], and operationally commanded by the SS-trained commando Abdel-Qader Al-Husseini. [...] The Mufti cannot in the least be regarded as 'only one Nazi.' Rather, he led a powerful army of SS operatives, whose goal during the 1948 War was not to fight the Haganah and Irgun but to wage war on the Palmach and the kibbutzim."

The Haganah (1920-1948), later the IDF under the Mossad framework (Israeli intelligence), served as a ''de facto'' military force which defended the (largely imported) Jewish population. According to Israeli Prime Minister and historian Yitzhak Ben-Ami, as well as multiple Israeli outlets, the Bitzur branch of the Zionist paramilitary organization Haganah worked to encourage Jews to emigrate to Israel, especially from Arab and European states. This was another tactic employed to create an disproportionate and artificial Jewish population in Palestine, which would ultimately serve the ends of the British, French, and American powers. 
[[File:Immigration.webp|thumb|Graph depicting the 26-year period in which Jews from all over the world, especially Jewish displaced persons from Europe, immigrated to Palestine]]
Meanwhile, the Irgun (1931-1948) was another Zionist military organization headed by Vladimir Jabotinsky which attacked Arabs wantonly, unlike the Haganah which cooperated openly with the British military and security forces and acted deliberately in its terror attacks.

Also from the Sovinform article:

"The CIA reported that the Mufti’s 'followers' – read: jihadist commandos directed by the SS – were integrating into the Palestine 'Liberation' Army [(PLA)] set up by Qasim:

'Former Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Hajj Amin Husayni has sent instructions to his followers in the West Bank of Jordan to go to Iraq to join the Palestine Army being formed by Iraqi Prime Minister Abd-al-Karim Qasim for the alleged purpose of liberating Palestine. Many villagers in the Nablus District of the West Bank of Jordan have wanted to go to Iraq for this purpose, but they have had difficulty securing exit permits from the Government of Jordan (GOJ).

'In November 1960 some Jordanian followers of Haj Amin Husayni departed for Baghdad by way of Beirut and Damascus. Among those who wanted to go but had not yet secured permits to go to Iraq were Farid Fakhir-al-Din and his two sons who are in the Jordan Arab Army. Farid Fakhir-al-Din intended to use the Beirut-Damascus-Baghdad route if the GOJ persisted in not issuing permits to villagers of the West Bank of Jordan to travel to Iraq. (‘SUBJECT: Recruits from West Bank of Jordan for Palestine Army in Iraq’, CIA, CIA Sources: A Jordanian (B) with good West Bank contacts; from a former follower (F) of the ex-Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Hajj Amin Husayni. Date of Report: 5 December 1960, Date of Information: November 1960, p. 1)'"

Continuing on:

"By force, the Palestinians living in Iraq were to join the Mufti’s Nazi army of terror. The Iraqi Major-General Dr. Akram Al-Mashhadani wrote:

'The late Al-Husseini had a close relationship with Abdel-Karim Qasim, and he constantly visited Iraq. He was the one who convinced Qasim to establish the Palestine Liberation Army in 1961, which was trained in the Al-Mahawil ‘Al-Musayyib’ camp during the early 1960s. Service in this Army was made compulsory for Palestinians.' (The Mufti Haajj Amin Al-Husseini and his relations with Adolf Hitler and Abdel-Karim Qasim, Al-Gardenia, Major-General Dr. Akram Al-Mashhadani, November 2015)"

Therefore, in the midst of turmoil in British Palestine, with the organic Arab revolts, the artificially whipped-up Nazi-Arab collaborators, and the Zionist paramilitary violence, Hajj Amin al-Husseini was in fact not in support of Arab self-determination, but of using Palestine and Iraq as a Nazi "launching pad" from which to stage another front against the Soviet Union during the second World War. With this, we turn to the massacres committed by these Zionist paramilitary organizations, the diplomatic and military situation unfolding into the events of Arab-Israeli war of 1948, and the subsequent founding of the State of Israel.