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DID YOU
KNOW…? Did you know that the man who
launched the Palestinian movement, the creator and father of PLO/Fatah (now better known as the
‘Palestinian Authority’) also ran the
German Nazi system of death camps that murdered the European Jews?
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¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ Hajj Amin al Husseini, ‘Grand Mufti’ of Jerusalem in
the first half of the 20th c., was an internationally famous anti-Semite who
organized mass killings of Jews in British Mandate Palestine.
In a speech last month at Bar Ilan
University, Benjamin Netanyahu shared “facts about the Mufti’s activities
that are less well known” by the public—in no small measure because Netanyahu
never shared them before—. The Israeli prime minister spoke of Husseini’s
pilgrimage to the Third Reich after the start of World War II. Received with
honors in Berlin, Husseini remained in Nazi-controlled Europe until the end,
and was given important responsibilities in the machinery of the Holocaust,
such as organizing entire divisions of Heinrich Himmler’s SS. If that were
not already enough, according to testimony delivered to the Nuremberg War
Crimes Tribunal, added Netanyahu, Husseini was co-architect and
co-administrator—with his best friend Adolf Eichmann—of the death-camp system
that exterminated most of the European Jews (see video).
Perhaps most amazing—in the context of the last 20
years in Israel—Husseini (as Netanyahu also explained) is who fathered the
Arab Palestinian movement. That
would be the same Palestinian movement that now negotiates with Netanyahu for
a State in the strategic territories of Judea and Samaria (‘West Bank’). As I explained in a reaction piece (Part
1), the Israeli prime minister neglected to share two important facts: 1) Husseini’s
first priority was in fact to exterminate the Jews of British Mandate Palestine, and to this end he extracted
promises from Hitler forthwith.[1] 2) But
Hitler did not conquer the Middle East. So after the war Husseini launched a
new project to exterminate the Jews of the new State of Israel. In Cairo, his
new base, Husseini recruited and trained—with the help of German Nazi
refugees—a group of young Arabs, among whom Yasser Arafat and Mahmoud Abbas.
They became the founding core of Al
Fatah, later better known as the PLO, and more recently as the
‘Palestinian Authority.’ So Benjamin Netanyahu is about to hand over
strategic Israeli territory to PLO/Fatah,
created by Husseini to continue the Final Solution in Israel. I asked (mouth agape): Why would Netanyahu now share information that opens him
to the charge of treason? My
friend Ted Belman of Israpundit
published my piece but took exception to my language. Neither Netanyahu
nor anybody else in the Israeli leadership, he averred, is guilty of treason: “I disagree
with Gil-White’s conclusion. Everyone
involved with [the] Oslo [Process] from the start knew of the Nazi connection
and chose to ignore it. I don’t see continuing
[the Oslo Process] as treason but as stupidity or naivete.” I have long argued that Jews are acutely vulnerable
in part due to historical, cultural, and psychological peculiarities that
make it difficult for them to reason about their self-defense, and about
their own leaders (HIR has an entire series on the question [2]).
I am thus grateful for the opportunity to reply, which Ted Belman, following
a private phone conversation, has graciously extended. I hope this is the
beginning of a fruitful dialogue on this important question. Ted and I are having a controversy over the meaning
of ‘treason.’ Merriam Webster defines ‘treason’ as: 1) Trying
to overthrow your country’s government; or 2) Helping
your country’s enemies during war But
what if the
government is helping the enemy? This special case brings the two
meanings into conflict. It is simple to resolve. Whoever tries to overthrow a
treasonous government is a patriot,
not a traitor, so the second meaning above is primary: ‘treason’ means
helping your country’s enemies during war. But intentions matter. To help your country’s enemy
inadvertently or accidentally is not treason (which is why Ted brings the
lesser charge of “stupidity or naïveté” to exonerate Netanyahu and others).
Hence, Treason: knowingly
helping your country’s enemies during war. Now, all of the words above matter in the scientific
investigation of possible treason: 1) Is
the purported enemy an enemy of the
country? 2) Is
a war really taking place? 3) Is the
person accused of treason really helping
the enemy? 4) Does
s/he help knowingly? I shall seek to answer these questions in order to
reach a conclusion. I hope Ted will look carefully for errors of fact or
reasoning as we continue our dialogue. Country:
Israel The UN voted in 1947, immediately after the
Holocaust, in favor of creating the State of Israel. A key argument in favor
was that the Jewish people needed its own national State in which to protect
itself from genocide. PLO/Fatah: Enemy of the Jewish people and
State In the same category with Hitler, Eichmann, and
Himmler, Husseini masterminded the German Nazi death-camp system that ground
between 5 and 6 million European Jews to death (see video). After the war, when the UN voted in favor of
creating a Jewish State, and also a
Palestinian Arab Palestinian State, in what had been British Mandate
Palestine, Husseini led the Arab Palestinians in refusal, and allied with Azzam Pasha, Secretary General of the Arab League, in
declaring a “war of extermination” against the Israeli Jews: the War of 1948.[2a] When that war failed to achieve its genocidal goal, Husseini
created Al Fatah to continue his
grisly genocidal work with the Jewish people now gathered in the State of
Israel (see video). One may argue, on the above, that PLO/Fatah therefore has the highest
possible claim to “enemy of the Jewish people and State.” However, because of PLO/Fatah’s famous offer of peace in exchange for land, there is a
controversy over whether it is still an enemy, and still at war. It is simple
to resolve. PLO/Fatah: Enemy at war As historian Kenneth Levin explains, within the
Palestine National Council, in 1974, Mahmoud Abbas and Yasser Arafat
established “the so-called Plan of Phases, according to which the Palestine
Liberation Organization [PLO] would acquire whatever territory it could by
negotiations, then use that land as a base for pursuing its ultimate goal of
Israel’s annihilation.” Immediately after the signing of the Declaration of
Principles that launched the Oslo Accords in 1993, “Arafat was declaring to
his Palestinian constituency over Jordanian television that Oslo was to be
understood in terms of the Palestine National Council’s 1974 decision.”[3]
Over the years, PLO/Fatah has actually repeated this over and over again.[3a] It follows, therefore, that any promises made in
English for the Western cameras are part of a ruse. PLO/Fatah
is at war with the Jewish people and State. Israeli
leaders: Helping the enemy Netanyahu, like many others in the Israeli ruling
elite, has been assisting the Oslo Process, the purpose of which is to bring
PLO/Fatah into the Jewish State and
give it ever increasing power over the Arab Muslim population in Judea and
Samaria. So Netanyahu, like others in the Israeli ruling elite, has been
helping an enemy at war with the Jewish State—an enemy, in fact, dedicated to
the wholesale slaughter of the Jewish people—. Israeli
leaders: Helping knowingly Ted Belman agrees that “everyone involved with [the]
Oslo [Process] from the start knew of the Nazi connection.” Let us be clear: Ted Belman has stipulated that
Israeli leaders responsible for Oslo always
knew that PLO/Fatah was created by a top leader of the Holocaust. And how could they not? These are public facts,
available in libraries (and aired publicly at Adolf Eichmann’s Jerusalem
trial in 1961). Ordinary Israelis, as Netanyahu pointed out, are mostly
unaware of these facts, but an Israeli leader, as Netanyahu demonstrated in
the same speech, is much better informed. As outlined in the Plan of Phases, PLO/Fatah’s true intentions were always to
promise peace in order to acquire territory from which to exterminate the
Israeli Jews. Again, these are public facts, explained by PLO/Fatah on Jordanian television (see
above). Granted, ordinary Israelis aren’t usually glued to the TV for
Jordanian shows featuring PLO/Fatah
leaders, but Israeli intelligence must
be. And Israeli intelligence briefs Israel’s leaders. Israeli
leaders understood PLO/Fatah’s intentions when they signed Oslo. Israeli
leaders: Lying to the Israelis This
is first and foremost a propaganda war. For the Oslo Process to happen, those Western
leaders who bully Israel, and Israeli leaders who collaborate with this
pressure, must have sufficient support among their citizens. For that to
happen, PLO/Fatah must appear as
the representative of a suffering, deserving people, not the German
Nazi-trained followers of a Holocaust leader! So stopping Oslo was easy. Prior to 1993, when the pressure began, Israeli
leaders could have used the enormous media power of the State to inform
Israelis and Westerners that PLO/Fatah
was created by Husseini—a top leader of the German Nazi Final Solution (no
less!)—to continue the Final Solution in Israel. This would have changed the political grammar completely. Instantaneously, Oslo would have become unthinkable. PLO/Fatah at
the time was a defeated organization. Menachem Begin had mauled it and sent
it into Tunisian exile way back in 1982. It was not in a position of
strength. It was moribund. The revelations of its Nazi origins would have
slammed the last nail in its coffin and simultaneously opened the door for a
reasonable solution on Israel’s terms. So why didn’t Israeli leaders stick a wrench in the
Oslo wheel, prior to 1993, by making PLO/Fatah’s
Nazi origins famous? Why instead did they revive this defeated organization,
created only to kill Jews, and bring it into the bosom of the Jewish State? I
asked Ted Belman to share his hypothesis with me. On the phone he replied: “Because they wanted peace.” In an email he elaborated: “Those who supported Oslo
followed the principle that one makes peace with one’s enemies. Everyone
wanted to believe that peace was possible so they went for it and ignored the
reality that the PLO was a terrorist group whose Charter calls for Israel's
destruction.” But Israeli leaders didn’t “ignore.
. . the reality.” They kept quiet about PLO/Fatah’s Nazi origins and insisted forcefully that PLO/Fatah wanted peace. So they lied. And why did
they lie? They lied because it was the only way to advance Oslo and bring
PLO/Fatah into Israel. They lied
because the truth would have stopped Oslo. Israel’s
leaders lied. Ted Belman has already stipulated to this as well,
because “Leaders lied, Jews died” is the title of an article
published on HIR and Israpundit
that Ted helped me co-edit. Conclusion To claim that Israeli leaders pushed for Oslo out of
“stupidity or naïveté” is to say that those who actually run things, who hold
the reins of power, are a lot stupider than Ted Belman and me. But I find it
implausible that world leaders are imbeciles who need us to lecture them on basic geopolitical reasoning. If Israeli leaders had first shared with the public
that PLO/Fatah was the spawn of the
Final Solution, and then tried to
push Oslo, I could agree with the “stupidity or naïveté” hypothesis. But they lied. And why? Because the
truth would have killed Oslo. That is consistent with malice, not “stupidity or naïveté.” So why is this not treason? I ask Ted Belman: To knowingly bring into strategic
territory of the Jewish State—created to safeguard Jews from genocide—a group
trained and chartered by a top Holocaust leader to continue the German Nazi genocide. . .—this is
not treason? Can Ted please give us an example of what he would consider treason? (Just to have
a benchmark.) And while we are at it, how about an explanation of
the political benefits that Ted perceives, for opponents of the Oslo Process
such as Ted Belman, of defending Netanyahu from this charge?
_____________________________________________________ Related readings _____________________________________________________ Op-Ed: What Netanyahu Didn't Say in Bar Ilan Speech II The Nazis and the Palestinian movement Leaders Lied, Jews died. How did the 'Palestinian movement' emerge? The
British sponsored it. Then the German Nazis, and the
US. Where’s Waldo? The Real Netanyahu _____________________________________________________ Footnotes and Further Reading [1] The first thing Husseini
did upon meeting Hitler in November of 1941 was secure from the Führer the
following promise: as soon as Germany had conquered the Middle East, “Germany’s objective would then be solely the destruction of the Jewish
element residing in the Arab sphere under the protection of British power.” The quotation comes from the German Nazi minutes of
the meeting. (The link below reproduces the entire document.) Author:
Germany. Auswärtiges Amt
[Foreign Ministry]. Title: Documents on German foreign policy, 1918-1945,
from the archives of the German Foreign Ministry. Akten
zur deutschen auswärtigen Politik.
English Publisher: Washington, U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1949- Description:
Book v. fold. maps. 24 cm.;
Series D, Vol. XIII no. 515. NOTE: You may read the entire document at: [2] THE PROBLEM OF
JEWISH SELF-DEFENSE; An HIR series Part
0: The Crisis of 1933: In
1933, ordinary Jews all over the world banded together and came within an
inch of destroying the Hitler regime. They did not fail. Their leaders failed
them. Part 1: How the mainstream Jewish
leadership failed the Jewish people in World War II Part 2: How most mainstream Diaspora
Jewish leaders are failing the Jewish people today Part 3: What is the problem with the
Israeli ruling elite? Is it stupidity? Or is it something else? Part 4: The responsibility of the
mainstream (Labor Zionist) Israeli leaders during the Shoah
('Holocaust') Part 4.5: The Devil’s Advocate: Refuting Anna Porter's defense of
Rudolf Kastner in Kasztner’s
Train Part 5: How Jewish piety sabotages
Jewish self-defense [2a]
Barnett, D., & Karsh, E. (2011). Azzam's
Genocidal Threat. Middle East Quarterly,
18(4), 85-88. [3] “Shortly after signing the Declaration of Principles and the famous
handshake between [PLO leader Yasser] Arafat and [Israeli prime minister]
Yitzhak Rabin on the White House lawn, Arafat was declaring to his
Palestinian constituency over Jordanian television that Oslo was to be
understood in terms of the [PLO’s] Palestine National Council’s 1974
decision. This was a reference to the so-called Plan of Phases, according to
which the Palestine Liberation Organization [PLO] would acquire whatever
territory it could by negotiations, then use that land as a base for pursuing
its ultimate goal of Israel’s annihilation.” SOURCE: Levin, K.
2005. The Oslo syndrome: Delusions of a people under siege. Hanover, NH:
Smith and Kraus. (p.ix) [3a] Here is one example. Faisal Husseini, grandnephew of
Mufti Hajj Amin al Husseini, and Yasser Arafat’s and Mahmoud Abbas’s
right-hand man in Jerusalem, said the following shortly before his death. “. . .Faisal Husseini, the top PLO official in Jerusalem…[was]
quoted as likening the Oslo accords to a ‘Trojan horse.’. . .[T]he weekly Al-Arabi, quotes Husseini as
calling the Oslo accords ‘just a temporary procedure, or just a step towards
something bigger. . .the liberation of all historical Palestine from the (Jordan)
river to the (Mediterranean) sea, even if this means that the conflict will
last for another thousand years or for many generations.’ ” SOURCE:
The Baltimore Sun, July 11, 2001 Wednesday, FINAL EDITION, Pg. 1A,
1574 words, Israelis taking darker
view of Palestinian intentions; Many see existence of Jewish state at
risk, Mark Matthews [4]
“Fatah Declares War over Temple Mount: ‘Green Light’ on Terror: While Fatah
head Abbas talks to Israel, Fatah’s armed wing declares war over Jewish
visits to the Temple Mount”; Israel
National News; 10 September, 2013; by Maayana Miskin. [5] Newsday (New York, NY), September 8, 2002
Sunday, NASSAU AND SUFFOLK EDITION, Pg. A05, 1333
words, WEST BANK; Inside the Crucible; An occasional series on te Israel-Palestine conflict; Militia Goes More Quietly; Al-Aqsa
changes tactics after losses, By Matthew McAllester.
MIDDLE EAST CORRESPONDENT [6] The quotation comes from the German Nazi minutes of
the meeting. (The link below reproduces the entire document.) Author:
Germany. Auswärtiges Amt
[Foreign Ministry]. Title: Documents on German foreign policy, 1918-1945,
from the archives of the German Foreign Ministry. Akten
zur deutschen auswärtigen Politik.
English Publisher: Washington, U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1949- Description: Book
v. fold. maps. 24 cm.;
Series D, Vol. XIII no. 515. NOTE: You may read the entire document at: [7] Barnett, D.,
& Karsh, E. (2011). Azzam's Genocidal Threat. Middle East Quarterly, 18(4), 85-88. [8] “PLO/Fatah's
Nazi training was CIA-sponsored”; Historical
and Investigative Research; 22 July 2007; by Francisco Gil-White http://www.hirhome.com/israel/cia-fatah.htm [9] “The mufti
[Hajj Amin] barely escaped trial for [war crimes] by fleeing to Egypt in 1946.
There he made young Yasser Arafat, then living in Cairo, his protégé. The
mufti secretly imported a former Nazi commando officer into Egypt to teach
Mr. Arafat and other teenage recruits the fine points of guerrilla warfare
[NOTE: In fact, these Nazis
were sent to Egypt by the CIA]. Mr. Arafat
learned his lessons well; the mufti was so proud of him he even pretended the
two of them were blood relations.” SOURCE:
Washington Times; August 9, 2002; "Yasser Arafat: Nazi trained", by
David N. Bossie. [10] “By
[1970]…the splinterization of the guerilla ranks
largely dictated the altered nature of their offensive against Israel.
Nominally, most of them belonged to an umbrella coordinating federation, the
Palestine Liberation Organization. Yet this prewar, Egyptian-dominated group
had been seriously crippled by the June debacle, and its leader, Ahmed Shukeiry, had been forced into retirement. Since then, the
PLO had experienced less a revival than a total reincarnation of
membership and purpose under the leadership of Yasser Arafat.
Consisting ostensibly of representatives of all guerilla organizations, the
PLO in its resurrected form was almost entirely Fatah-dominated, and
Arafat himself served as president of its executive. In this capacity he
was invited to attend meetings of the Arab League, and won extensive
subsidies from the oil-rich governments of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and the
sheikhdoms of the Persian Gulf.” SOURCE: Sachar, H. 1982. A history of Israel: From the rise of
Zionism to our time. New York: Knopf. (p.698) |
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