French Officer Killed by Israeli Shelling

n Israeli military vehicle was struck by an explosive device or by an anti-tank missile Sunday during a patrol in the occupied Shebaa farms region on the Israeli border with Lebabon. According to AlJazeera, at least one Israeli officer was killed and three wounded. Unofficial Israeli sources confirmed two soldiers wounded. Israel Lebanon border clash

The vehicle had set out from a military area headquarters for a routine border patrol when it was hit. Following the incident, Israeli soldiers became involved in heavy exchanges of fire with Hizbullah fighters along the northern border, Israel Radio reported.

Hizbullah said that the Israeli army was shelling the area. Hizbullah's television station Al-Manar reported that a large number of Israeli troops have been dispatched to the Shebaa farms area.

Later it was reported that a French member of a UN patrol was killed in south Lebanon by Israeli air raids, Lebanese police said Sunday, according to AFP.

A Swedish UN peacekeeper and a Lebanese driver were also injured.

http://www.albawaba.com/en/news/178868

Jan. 9, 2005 13:52 | Updated Jan. 9, 2005 19:53
IDF officer killed in Hizbullah attack on jeep in Mt. Dov
By DAVID RUDGE


IDF Lt. Sharon Elmakayis, 23, of Atlit, deputy commanding officer of a Golani infantry company was killed Sunday afternoon when an explosive charge detonated alongside an IDF Hummer jeep at the Mount Dov region of northern Israel.

The officer died of his wounds shortly after the blast. His family has been notified. Elmakayis was the 13th soldier killed by Hizbullah since the IDF withdrawal from southern Lebanon in May 2000.

Several other Golani soldiers were lightly wounded in the attack and were taken to the hospital.

Hizbullah claimed responsibility for the attack. Security officials said Hizbullah guerrillas had managed to infiltrate the Israeli border and plant the explosive device on a road often used by IDF patrols. Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz said the timing of the attack was no coincidence and was planned well in advance.

In response to the attack, the IDF began shelling Hizbullah positions in southern Leabnon. IAF helicopters and fighter planes also struck Hizbullah targets in southern Lebanon, Army Radio reported.

A French officer serving with the United Nations was killed by Israeli shelling shortly after the Hizbullah attack, Lebanese and UN officials said.

Milos Struger, spokesman for the UN peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon known as UNIFIL, said a French officer was "killed by shelling from the Israeli side of the Blue Line," the border line drawn by UN troops following Israel's withdrawal from south Lebanon in 2000.

"UNIFIL has opened an investigation into the tragic incident," Struger said in a statement issued at the UNIFIL headquarters in the Lebanese border town of Naqoura.

He said the slain officer worked for the UN Observation Group Lebanon, a UN agency that monitors the 1948 Armistice Agreement between Lebanon and Israel.

Hizbullah's military actions against Israel have been restrained in the past few months.

The Lebanese terror organization issued a statement in Beirut Sunday, in which it claimed responsibility for the attack.

According to the statement, Hizbullah claimed to have detonated an explosive device alongside an IDF armored vehicle on the Israeli side of the border.

The statement said that the bomb attack targeted an Israeli patrol on the road to the Zebdin border post and that an Israeli military jeep was "directly hit." It did not report any Israel casualties.

The statement said the attack was "within the framework of our efforts to liberate the remainder of Lebanese lands under occupation in the Chebaa Farms area," AP reported.

Explosions and subsequent exchanges of fire were clearly heard by residents of Israeli communities near the border with Lebanon.

Hizbullah and the IDF continue to exchange fire in the Mount Dov area.

Hizbullah's attack coincides with elections in the Palestinian Authority, which are taking place throughout the day.

According to Israeli defense officials, the Lebanese group has been actively aiding certain Palestinian groups and especially those opposed to the PA's democratic process.

It has also been calling on groups to continue the armed struggle against Israel.

Sep. 4, 2004 20:34 | Updated Sep. 5, 2004 7:36
Hizbullah rejects UN call for disarmament
By ASSOCIATED PRESS


The leader of the Hizbullah group on Saturday rejected a UN resolution calling for his guerilla army to be dismantled, saying the world body's call served Israeli interests.

Sheik Hassan Nasrallah also defended the presence of Syrian forces in Lebanon, a situation that began when Damascus deployed troops to Lebanon in 1976 during a civil war and has attracted recent criticism from the United States and France.

"We don't want a withdrawal of Syrian forces at this time," Nasrallah told a Hizbullah rally in his south Beirut stronghold, saying the presence of about 20,000 Syrian soldiers had helped Lebanon consolidate its security after the devastating 1975-90 civil war.

On Thursday, the UN Security Council narrowly approved a resolution backed by Washington and Paris aimed at pressuring Lebanon to reject a second term for pro-Syrian President Emile Lahoud and calling for an immediate withdrawal of all its foreign forces - an indirect reference to Syrian troops.

The resolution also called for "the disbanding and disarmament of all Lebanese and non-Lebanese militias."

But Lebanese lawmakers on Friday amended their constitution to keep Lahoud in office for three more years beyond his soon-to-expire term and renewed their loyalty to Syria, the main power broker in Lebanon.

Nasrallah on Saturday rejected the UN resolution regarding the militias as an Israeli "trap," saying it aimed to weaken Lebanon by disarming Hizbullah guerrillas, who fought a guerrilla war against Israel's 18-year occupation of a border zone in southern Lebanon, which ended in 2000 with the withdrawal of the Jewish state's forces.

"The disarmament of militias means (disarming) the resistance," he said. "All the world knows that the disarmament of the resistance (Hezbollah) is an Israeli demand. Today, the Israeli demands are contained in a Security Council resolution."

Nasrallah also accused the Security Council of using Lebanon's presidential issue as pretext, linking it to American and Israeli strategies following the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Hizbullah, backed by Iran and Syria, clashed with Israeli forces in a disputed area near the Israel-Lebanon border despite Israel's 2000 withdrawal. The group is on a US list of terrorist organization but is recognized as legitimate resistance by the Lebanese government.

The pro-Syrian government in Beirut has rejected repeated US demands to dismantle Hizbullah and says the Syrian army is in Lebanon on its request.

When Israel disarms, then we can talk about it.

If Israel disarmed, what would happen?

The brutal oppression of their victims would end.

that is being put force by know liars.

What is *not* hypothetical is that the Zionist military is murdering and massacring Palestinians on a routine basis, and has been for over half a century.

But hey, what else can we expect from people so devoid of moral character that they fought on the same side as Hitler?

See:


http://www.indybay.org/news/2004/09/1696976_comment.php#1713346

You better believe the situation where Israel disarms is a purely hypothetical situation. It won't voluntarily make itself prone to attack by your favorate brand of racists. You've long ago personalized the topic by throwing your support behind those racists while trying to pass yourself off as an anti-racist.

The "Zionist" military, despite your lies, isn't "murdering and massacring Palestinians on a routine basis", nor has it done so over half a century. Conversely, Palerstinian terrorists have been murdering Jews for over a century on a pretty ongoing basis.

Anyone who sincerely cares to find out the truth will find that the Nazis are the spiritual role models and the inspiration for Hizballah and the Palestinian terrorist organizations. These are the people you support.

It is the Arab terrorists who are murdering and massacring Israelis, and has been so from before the foundation of the modern state of Israel.

But hey, what else can we expect from people so devoid of moral character that they fought on the same side as Hitler? We have to remember that Husseini, the mufti of Jerusalem, tried to apply the "final solution" in Palestine and that, during WWII, Husseini was living in Germany and recruiting soldiers for the nazi army, while the "Palestinian Battalion of Jewish volunteers", as a part of the British army, was fighting against Hitler..

The Nazis are the spiritual role models and the inspiration for the Arab terrorists. That's why they were allies with Hitler.

Arabs and Nazis – Can it Be True?

By Elliott A. Green

IHC Abstract
The author shows that Arab involvement in the Nazi “Final Solution” was active and pronounced. He says Arab nationalist leaders from Morocco to Iraq cooperated with German agents before and during World War II.

Chief leader of the Palestinian Arabs, Haj Muhammad Amin al-Husseini, Mufti of Jerusalem, helped recruit an SS group among the Bosnian Muslims, blocked the further release of Jewish children from Bulgaria and prevented emigration of Jews from the Axis Zone. In other words, the author writes, he prevented thousands of Jewish children and adults from escaping their fate under the Nazis.

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Source: “Arabs and Nazis – Can It Be True?” Midstream (October 1994): 9-13.

I had read about the relationship among Nazis, Comunists and Arab terrorists in different books on terrorism. I have just found this article about the matter:

NAZIS, COMMUNISTS, ARAB NATIONALIST TERRORISTS: ONE CAMP, ONE KAMPF

Elliott A Green

The most striking proof that the Arab anti-Israel cause is a common meeting ground for both Nazis and Communists --and that the Arabs welcomed supporters of both ilks-- lies in the friendship of Carlos, the notorious master terrorist who served the PLO, with Fran*ois Genoud, an old Nazi, one of the leading Nazis in pre-War Switzerland, later a financier who provided funds for Habash's faction of the PLO.

"Carlos" (his nom de guerre) was what is called a "red diaper baby." His fabulously rich father, a Venezuelan lawyer and owner of estates, gave "Carlos" the name Ilich, Lenin's patronymic, as his given name. His great wealth notwithstanding, the father was a devoted Communist. Young Ilich Ramirez Sanchez grew up a stranger to manual labor. When he left school in 1966 at age 17, he traveled in the Caribbean, later arriving in Cuba to take terrorist training from a Soviet KGB instructor. The next year he showed up at the Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow, set up by the Soviet Communists to train revolutionary cadres for the "Third World." Ilich fell in with Arab schoolmates there, while receiving Soviet indoctrination, as well as generous remittances from his father. By 1970 he was active in Habash's PFLP, taking part in the Black September battles in Jordan. He later went to live in London with his mother, separated from his father and receiving a large monthly allowance from him. Carlos lived in London (and Paris) as a playboy, indulging himself in luxuries and love affairs like many another wealthy, young Latin American in Europe. Meanwhile, he was an incognito agent for the PFLP, taking part in various acts of terrorist murder. By the end of 1973, this red diaper child of a rich Communist had become the chief PFLP terrorist in Europe.1



The Nazi-Arab-Communist triangle bears contemporary significance since it undermines Arab political claims against Israel, and in particular the claim of Arab moral innocence. Of course, because Arab nationalist support for Hitler and the Nazis was notorious before and during World War II, Western and Communist supporters of the Arab cause against Israel took pains to deny any such Arab-Nazi collaboration, and in particular to deny any Arab role in the Holocaust.

Where it was not denied explicitly, it was overlooked or minimized or denied by implication. Various accounts of Amin el-Husseini, the main Arab leader in the British Palestine Mandate (the Jewish National Home) acknowledge that he "spent most of World War II (1939-1945) in Germany" (Encyclopedia Britannica, 1985 ed), or that "he negotiated with Germany" (Dictionary of World History, 1973). A PLO spokesman, Philip Mattar, allows that el-Husseini "recruited Muslims to fight the Communists in Croatia, Bosnia, and Serbia."2 He does not tell us that el-Husseini recruited them into a Muslim S.S. division and that their atrocities were many. These and other accounts avoid the fact that el-Husseini wholeheartedly identified with the Nazi war effort and was a fervent supporter of the mass murder of Jews, advocating that Jewish children be sent to Poland where they would be "under active supervision," to use his euphemism for the death camps.3

One of the Nazis who met Haj Amin el-Husseini in the years of Nazi triumphs was one Fran*ois Genoud, an early admirer of Hitler and a founder and militant of the pre-war Swiss Nazi party, the National Front. He met Husseini in 1936 in the Middle East and once again in Berlin in 1943, while he was an agent of the Abwehr (German intelligence agency) and while Husseini, the British-appointed Mufti of Jerusalem, was urging on the Holocaust and recruiting Arabs and other Muslims into the Nazi service. Genoud met him several times in Beirut after the war, until the Mufti died in 1974. Meanwhile, unrepentant, veteran Nazi Genoud got a management position with the Red Cross in Brussels4 and later (1958) opened a bank in Geneva called the Banque Commerciale Arabe (backed by Syrian funds). Through his connections in Cairo, a post-war sanctuary for sundry Nazi war criminals, he met leaders of the Algerian FLN and was later invited to run a bank in newly independent Algeria, the Banque Populaire Arabe. In another role, he participated in organizing and/or financing the defense of Eichmann in Israel, of Klaus Barbie in France, and of PLO terrorists in Europe. He counted among his friends Wadi Haddad and Ali Hassan Salameh, PLO master terrorists who accomplished airliner hijackings and other high-profile terrorist acts. Genoud claimed in recent years that what Hitler did "was proper and in support of peace."5 Carlos met Genoud in the 1970s through mutual friends in the Habash gang, known as the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. This was a Marxist faction of the PLO, which Habash built out of a pan-Arab outfit he led called the Arab Nationalist Movement.

Genoud related with satisfaction: "He [Carlos] knew my past. I never hid it. I was always accepted."6 As he described the struggle (the Kampf) of his younger friend, Carlos, the battle was not only "for an Arab Palestine." The struggle was worldwide; Arab terrorism "is actually a world war against Zionism... Zionism is world-wide..."7 Carlos agreed with Genoud that they shared a common kampf. He wrote to Genoud from jail in France: "In this period of revolutionary ebb, men of your vision and faith in Victory are more necessary than ever" (English in original).8 This should provide food for thought for those who think that the Arab struggle is only about a "home" for those Arabs called "Palestinians."

If we add the Carlos-Genoud story to our knowledge that many German Nazi veterans, including war criminals, found refuge in Arab countries, particularly Egypt and Syria, we should have enough evidence to demonstrate that veteran Nazis see the Arab cause as a continuation of their own endeavors, as well as an ex post facto vindication or justification for them. We might paraphrase Clausewitz and call it a continuation of the Holocaust by other hands. Be that as it may, after the rise of the State of Israel, throughout the 1950s and into the Sixties, supporters of the Arab cause made strenuous efforts to reject any association of themselves with pro-Nazi sympathies, as well as to becloud the fact that their cause was supported by Nazis too or that the Arabs themselves had supported the Nazis during the Holocaust. For instance, an official of a US organization caring for Palestinian Arab refugees argued that whereas Christianity might have harshly persecuted Jews over the centuries, the Arabs were innocent, having treated Jews well and, of course, they had nothing to do with the Holocaust which was a purely European undertaking. Emerging from this claim was the implication that the Jews were ungrateful for the good and kind treatment they had received at Arab hands.

Yet, this endeavor was made more difficult since the Arabs themselves, including the "Leftists" among them (essentially those Arab factions supported by the Soviet Union and other Communists) continued to express admiration and sympathy for the Nazis. For instance, Gamal Abdel-Nasser told a German neo-Nazi editor in 1964: "Our sympathies in the Second World War were on the German side."9

Nevertheless, rather than discrediting the Arabs, such remarks were seen as indications that the Arabs needed guidance in presenting their image to world public opinion. Thus, the Arabs' Western and Communist friends continued to try to protect them from their indiscretions, as one might expect. These efforts seem to have succeeded. Indeed, volunteers from the German Neo-Nazi gang, the Wehrsportgruppe Hoffmann, took part in fighting Israel in Lebanon in behalf of the PLO. Yet a PLO representative provided a German journalist in Beirut with a unique and original anti-fascist historical perspective:

"He was particularly happy to receive visitors and guests from Germany. 'Just as you Germans freed yourselves from Hitler, we Palestinians intend one day to free ourselves from the Fascist Begin.'"10

When the journalist reported these remarks to the Communist East German ambassador in Beirut, the diplomat

"expressed his profound satisfaction.

'It seems that in the long run our efforts to change the image the Arabs have of Germany are paying off after all.' And the representative of East Berlin laughed."11

Nevertheless, the natural affinities between Nazis and PLO militants brought the two together, just as Amin el-Husseini, the British-appointed Mufti of Jerusalem, found his way to Berlin and the Fuehrer during WW2. And these affinities paved the way for leftist and Communist partisans of the PLO's anti-Israel cause, often in the name of "Third World Liberation," to find their way to old Nazis, as we have seen in Carlos' case. Another instance is the French lawyer, Jacques Vergs, an associate of Genoud, a veteran Communist and supporter of the PLO and the Algerian FLN, and the defense attorney for Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie.12

All this was of course long preceded by the Nazi-Soviet Pact of 1939, followed by the German-Soviet invasion of Poland. About this time, the Soviet daily Izvestiya saw fit to evaluate Nazi ideology as "a matter of taste" (November 9, 1939). But the Nazi-Soviet Pact was too big to be easily forgotten. Thus it has made its way into some of the history books.

Yet very little remembered is another strikingly relevant joint effort of Nazis and Communists. This was the support that Communists showed for Nazi arguments in the late 1920s and early 1930s. Communists then sympathetically described Germany as a victim of Western imperialism. German Communists did it of course, but so did the French CP leader, Maurice Thorez, in a speech in Berlin just two weeks before Hitler's rise to power. His words of sympathy for Germany in January, 1933, should be compared with what the worldwide Left has been saying for many years on behalf of Arabs and "Palestinians." Thorez denounced the "loathesome yoke with which France was crushing the German people" and declared himself

"in favor of the immediate evacuation of the Saar, in favor of a free choice for the people of Alsace-Lorraine, up to and including separation from France, in favor of the right of all German-speaking peoples to freely unite."13

The French historian Georges Goriely explained that the German Communists displayed

"a nationalism which sometimes surpassed that of the Nazis. Indeed, according to the Comintern, the Treaty of Versailles had supposedly reduced Germany to the status of a colony of international capitalism. Its desire for national resurgence, especially vis--vis France, was likened to an anti-imperialist struggle."14

It is needless to elaborate on the similarities with post-1948, pro-Arab, pro-PLO propaganda. More recently, Marxist-Leninist anti-imperialist rhetoric has been extended beyond supposedly this-worldly Arab nationalism. Comrade "Carlos," whose ravings at his recent trial in France merely added color to confirm his common ground with Genoud, spread his revolutionary abrazo over the fanatic Islamist movements (in his letter to Genoud).

"Our materialistic conception of the World did not prevent us from seen [= seeing; error in Carlos' original], years ago, that a new kind of militant, the Islamic Revolutionist has joined the vanguard of Revolution, of which he now is the spear-head.

"This new state of affairs was not accepted by most fellow revolutionaries at the time, out of dogmatism."15

Genoud died in June 1996 and Carlos was convicted of murder in a French court in December 1997. However, "the Islamic Revolutionist" is now leaving his own trail of blood along the track trod by Hitler and Husseini. Can the Communist Left today be seen as other than a partner in the mortal threats hanging over humanity and civilization?

NOTES

1. Christopher Dobson and Ronald Payne, The Carlos Complex (New York, 1977), pp 30-66. Le Monde, 13 December 1997.

2. Philip Mattar, "The Mufti of Jerusalem and the Politics of Palestine," Middle East Journal vol. 42 (Spring 1988); p. 237.

3. Bartley Crum, Behind the Silken Curtain, New York, 1947; 111-12. Lukasz Hirszowicz, The Third Reich and the Arab East, London, 1966; 262-63, 312-13; Daniel Carpi, "The Mufti of Jerusalem, Amin el-Husseini, and His Diplomatic Activity during World War II (October 1941-July 1943)," Studies in Zionism, No. 7, Spring 1983; pp. 130-31. Joseph Schechtman, The Mufti and the Fuehrer (New York, 1965); pp. 154-58. Also see E.A. Green, "Arabs and Nazis -- Can It Be True?" Midstream (October 1994).

4, Le Monde, June 2-3, 1996.

5. L'Express, January 25, 1996, p 16

6. Tribune de Genve, August 18, 1994; quoted in L'Express, January 25, 1996, p 17.

7. Ibid.

8. L'Express, January 25, 1996; p 18.

9. I.F. Stone's Weekly, June 1, 1964, quoted from Deutsche National Zeitung und Soldaten Zeitung, May 1, 1964. I.F. Stone was known as a leftist critic of Israel.

10. Peter Scholl-Latour, Adventures in the East (New York: Bantam, 1988), p 163.

11. Ibid.

12. Le Point, 4 May 1987.

13. Le Monde, January 13, 1985, p 2.

14. Ibid.

15. L'Express, January 25, 1996; p. 18. Original in English.



1. Christopher Dobson and Ronald Payne, The Carlos Complex (New York, 1977), pp 30-66. Le Monde, 13 December 1997.



2. Philip Mattar, "The Mufti of Jerusalem and the Politics of Palestine," Middle East Journal vol. 42 (Spring 1988); p. 237.



3. Bartley Crum, Behind the Silken Curtain, New York, 1947; 111-12. Lukasz Hirszowicz, The Third Reich and the Arab East, London, 1966; 262-63, 312-13; Daniel Carpi, "The Mufti of Jerusalem, Amin el-Husseini, and His Diplomatic Activity during World War II (October 1941-July 1943)," Studies in Zionism, No. 7, Spring 1983; pp. 130-31. Joseph Schechtman, The Mufti and the Fuehrer (New York, 1965); pp. 154-58. Also see E.A. Green, "Arabs and Nazis -- Can It Be True?" Midstream (October 1994).



4. Le Monde, June 2-3, 1996.



5. L'Express, January 25, 1996, p 16



6. Tribune de Genve, August 18, 1994; quoted in L'Express, January 25, 1996, p 17.



7. Ibid.



8. L'Express, January 25, 1996; p 18.



9. I.F. Stone's Weekly, June 1, 1964, quoted from Deutsche National Zeitung und Soldaten Zeitung, May 1, 1964. I.F. Stone was known as a leftist critic of Israel.



10. Peter Scholl-Latour, Adventures in the East (New York: Bantam, 1988), p163.



11. Ibid.



12. Le Point, 4 May 1987.



13. Le Monde, January 13, 1985, p 2.



14. Ibid.



15. L'Express, January 25, 1996; p. 18. Original in English

ARABS AND NAZISM
Arie Stav
(Editor's note: Writing in the November 1995 issue of the Israeli journal Nativ, of which he is editor, Arie Stav describes the similarities between Islam and Nazism. The following are excerpts.)

The Arabs' identification with the Nazis is normally explained in terms of a common enmity to France and Britain but this is only a partial explanation. The Arab masses admired Hitler in the 1920s and this admiration broke out with great enthusiasm after he seized the government in 1933. The day after he was appointed chancellor, the first telegrams of congratulation Hitler received were transmitted by Wolf, the German Consul in Jerusalem, followed by those from Arab countries.

Germany's anti-French and anti-British policies were not at all obvious to the Arabs until its open breach of the Versailles treaty. Until 1939, when Hitler invaded Poland, there was no reason to assume Hitler, who was an anglophile and based his strate gy in Mein Kampf on long term cooperation with England, might be the one to save the Arabs from English colonialism. The Middle East, precisely because it was primarily an area of British influence, had relatively low priority in Hitler's plans.

The Jews were, of course, the victims of Nazi anti-Semitism but, at least initially, Nazi anti-Semitism was


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directed against all members of the "Semitic race," including the Arabs. The Nazi leadership expressed disdain and racial abhorrence toward the Arabs and was confused and discomfited by the efforts of Haj Amin el-Husseini, the Jerusalem Mufti, to woo it, at least prior to the outbreak of the war.
As soon as Hitler rose to power, parties that imitated National Socialism were founded in Arab countries, like the Social-Nationalist Party in Syria led by Anton Sa'ada, who openly and enthusiastically copied the Nazis. Sa'ada, who styled himself as the Fuhrer of the Syrian nation, stated in the party platform that the Syrians were the superior race by their very nature. Hitler was "Islamicized" and known by his new name Abu Ali (in Egypt, for some reason, it was Muhammed Haidar). Egyptian followers even "found" the house in which Hitler's mother was born in Tanta, Egypt and the place became a pilgrimage site.

The most influential Arab party to follow the Nazi model was Young Egypt, known also as the Green Shirts, in tribute to the Nazi Jung Deutschland and the Brown Shirts of the SA. The party was founded by Ahmed Hussein in October 1933, and followed the German model down to the raised hand greeting. There were stormtroopers, torch processions, Nazi slogans including a literal translation into Arabic of "one folk, one party, one leader" as well as "Egypt over all." Bands of hooligans were formed for the
suppression of opponents and, of course, Ahmed Hussein took the role of Fuhrer. Nazi anti-Semitism was emulated in every detail, from a boycott of Jewish businesses to physical attacks and anti-Semitic incitement. Indeed, Nazi anti-Semitic theory, practice and policy fitted the needs of Arab nationalism of the 1930s like a glove.
During the war, members of the Young Egypt spied on behalf of Rommel's Afrika Korps and a young lieutenant by the name of Anwar Sadat was tried and imprisoned. After the war, Gamal Abdul Nasser, another member of Young Egypt, was among the group of officers who led the July 1952 revolution in Egypt. The first step of the new regime after it had seized power--shades of Hitler--was to outlaw all the other political parties in Egypt. Sadat continued to express open admiration for Hitler in a letter he sent to the Egyptian daily Al Mussawar on September 18, 1953. This open bow to Hitler--despite the revelations of Nazi atrocities in the Nuremberg trials--is evidence of the depth of Sadat's identification with Nazism.

Nazi ceremonials continue to be used in today's Egypt. The President's ceremonial troops wear Wehrmacht helmets and receive heads of government at Cairo airport with a military parade which contains the famous goosestep. One of the most surrealistic sights during the negotiations surrounding the peace treaty with Egypt was the figure of Begin, survivor of the Holocaust, walking past the honor guard like someone in a trance.

Nostalgic admiration of Nazis has remained strong in Syria. Sami al-Joundi, a founder of the Syrian Ba'ath movement, writes: "We were racists. We admired the Nazis. We were immersed in reading Nazi literature and books that were the source of the Nazi spirit...We were the first who thought of a translation of Mein Kampf. Anyone who lived in Damascus at that time was witness to the Arab inclination toward Nazism."

Needless to say, Hitler's definition of Zionism in Mein Kampf is endlessly quoted. "They [Zionists] do not have any intention to establish a Jewish state in Palestine in order to settle there. They only fight for one place in which they [can base] a central organization for carrying out their global plot, a city of refuge for criminals and a training center for the scoundrels of the future." This paragraph, cited in most anti-Zionist writings in the Arab world, bestows the weight of supreme authority.

Similarly, in answering the argument of "the Zionists" that the Protocols of the Elders of Zion are a fabrication, Mein Kampf is quoted as proof of their authenticity, which settles the matter, given that Hitler's authority has assumed canonical status. Mein Kampf, incidentally, continues to be published in numerous editions in the Arab world, especially in Egypt.

The Arab countries were not unique in serving as refuge for fleeing war criminals, but only in the Middle East, and particularly in Egypt, could the Nazis find shelter bestowed on the basis of ideological identification. Nasser received hundreds of war

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criminals, among them the SS General who commanded the Einsatzgruppen in charge of the murder of Ukrainian Jews, who became his close companion and bodyguard. Hundreds of Nazis were harnessed in the Arab effort to liquidate Israel, through developing means of destruction or indoctrinating the armed forces. Alois Brunner, one of the most brutal war criminals, found shelter in Damascus, where he served for many years as the senior adviser of the Syrian general staff.

The Mufti Haj Amin el Husseini was the equal of any of the war criminals. In postwar testimony, a senior aide to Eichmann described el-Husseini's appetite for destruction. He said that the Mufti visited the Auschwitz gas chambers, in disguise, and reproved the Germans for their lack of diligence in the destruction of the Jews. He loudly protested the proposed Nazi deal to save 4,000 Bulgarian Jewish children or to exchange trucks for Hungarian Jews.

The Mufti was never tried because the Allies were afraid of the storm in the Arab world if its national hero were to be treated as a criminal. The Mufti was received as a national hero in Egypt where he was among the sponsors of the 1948 war. Indeed, the Mufti represents the link connecting the two attempts to destroy the Jews, that of the Nazis and that of the Arabs. It is thus not surprising that the Mufti has a lofty place in the PLO's pantheon. Arafat saw the Mufti as an educator and leader, declaring in 1985 that he deemed it an honor to walk in his footsteps. Arafat stressed that the PLO continued to march in the path carved out by the Mufti.

During the Eichmann trial in Jerusalem, the Arab world rose to his defense and his capture by Israel was described as a crime against humanity. On April 24, 1961, Jerusalem Times, the English-language Jordanian daily, published an open letter to Eichmann congratulating him on the slaughter of the Jews and promising that the remaining six million would be destroyed when the time came. The daily Saudi al-Bilad crowned its March 31, 1960 masthead with the words "Eichmann seized, who had the honor to liquidate six million Jews."

The PLO's ties with proto-Nazis and neo-Nazi organizations are well-documented. Recently, because of its close relationships with the Israeli and American Jewish left, the PLO has downplayed its worship of the Nazis. But old habits are difficult to uproot and so, in August 1995, when the PLO police (the core of the future army) completed their course, the graduates were sworn in with the Nazi salute. Fawsi Salim el Mahdi, a commander of "Force 17," Arafat's praetorian guard, is known by his nickname 'Abu Hitler' because he called his two sons Eichmann and Hitler.

Like Nazi Germany in 1936, which built up an unprecedented store of weaponry, there is currently a massive arms buildup going on in Arab countries, particularly in Egypt and Saudi Arabia. Egypt, a poor state with a gross national product of 750 dollars per person, after the peace treaty with Israel, faced no strategic dangers. Hence, one might have expected that like NATO states after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Egypt would reduce its defense budget to about 2% of GNP. Instead it vastly accelerated
its arms buildup, spending between 14-18% of its GNP on defense, 7-9 times what NATO members do. Today, Egypt's army numbers half a million soldiers, making it the fifth largest in the world! Egypt assembles the American battle tank Abrams M1A1, the most expensive battle tank of the Western alliance, and is building an airport which will soon be the largest and most sophisticated in the region. Egypt's weapon expenditures are those of a state at war.
The Arabs are also rapidly developing atomic/biological/chemical weaponry. Syria's store of chemical



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weapons is the third largest in the world, after Russia and the United States. Egypt and Libya are not far behind. William Safire called Libya's poison gas stores "Auschwitz in the desert." By the year 2000, the Arabs will have more than 2,000 ground to ground missiles with a range of more than 1,200 kilometers. Two NATO capitals, Athens and Rome, will be within the range of Arab ballistic missiles with chemical or biological warheads. We should remember Muammar Qadaffi's words in 1986 after the American navy staged punishing raids on Tripoli: "If I had had missiles with which I could have attacked London and New York, I would have destroyed both of them."

The most important link between Nazism and Islam is the hatred of Israel. The redemption of Aryan man from the epidemic of Judaism was held to depend on the "final solution" and so is the destruction of Israel put forth as a condition for the salvation of Islam and the unity of the Arab nation. While, in the West, the Holocaust is seen (for the time being) as the deepest moral crisis in the history of Western civilization, and the deniers of the Holocaust are (for the time being) marginal figures, in the Arab world the situation is totally different. The very expression "Holocaust" refers to the "Holocaust of the Arabs in Palestine and the Arab world" brought about by Israel. For Arabs, this Holocaust is the failure of the Arabs to destroy the Jews three years after the Holocaust. While this may sound macabre to Western ears, it goes to the heart of Arab morality and anti-Semitism.

In the Arab world, the attitude toward the destruction of the Jews swings between two poles: justification and denial. The justifiers see the Holocaust as an appropriate punishment for the Jews. The deniers say the Holocaust was a myth created by Zionism to extort money from the Germans and to serve as an alibi for the slaughter the Jews have conducted against the "Palestinians."

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ARABS AND NAZISM
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The "latest research" comes from the pen of Mahmoud Abbas, whose book is called The Other Side: The Secret Relationship Between Nazism and ZIonism. Abbas refutes "the Zionist fantasy, the fantastic lie that six million Jews were killed." According to Abbas there were only 890,000 victims and even these were the victims of a Zionist-Nazi plot. What distinguishes this book is not its contents, but its author, who (also known as Abu Mazen) is an architect of the Oslo agreement and supposedly a representative of moderation in the Arab world. His signature is on both the September 13, 1993 agreement and on the final Oslo agreement signed on September 20, 1995.

The destruction of Israel has become a theological imperative for Islam. At the fourth Islamic conference in Cairo, in 1968, Sheik Nadim el-Jasser of Lebanon said that Allah had posed a challenge to the Moslems with the establishment of the Zionist entity, and their salvation could only come if they first destroyed Israel. In the Egypt of the 1980s, el-Jasser's thesis was expanded to argue that the destruction of the Jews was no longer merely an Islamic theological problem, no longer a regional issue, but a categorical imperative for all humanity, whose redemption will come only after it recovers from the cancerous growth that has spread over the body of mankind.

According to this view, the existence of Israel is intended to solve the logistical problem of gathering the Jews into one place in order to make it easier to destroy them. Jahia al-Rahawi amplifies this theme in Al Ahrar, the Arab daily published by Egypt's
Liberal Party. "When the State of Israel was established and recognized by many in both East and West, one of the reasons for this recognition was the desire to get rid of as many representatives as possible of the human error which is called Jews. There was an additional purpose, a secret one, namely to place them all in one location so that they might be extinguished at the appropriate moment. In this confrontation, we see how that great man Hitler, may Allah have mercy on him, one of the wisest of men, dealt with this problem. Out of compassion for humankind, he tried to destroy every Jew, but despaired of healing this cancerous growth that spread in the body of humanity." This was published on July 19, 1982. On October 22, 1986


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Sheik Yusef Badri, one of Egypt's senior theologians, was quoted as saying: "We are waiting for the day when the Jews will be gathered in Falestin and it will be a day of enormous slaughter. The Jews will hide behind stones and rocks but each will call to a Moslem and say 'A Jew hides behind me. Come and kill him.' "

When Berlin fell, Hitler said that the destruction of Germany was appropriate for a nation that had failed to fulfill its purpose. In 1982, Ahmed Ben Bela, knowingly or not, repeated Hitler's words when he expressed his willingness to destroy the Arab world so long as Israel was destroyed. If there is no other solution, he declared, there will be a nuclear war and so that matter shall be finished once and for all.+





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SPOTLIGHT ON THE PERES GOVERNMENT
...Labor Party MK Dalia Itzik has urged the Attorney General to consider deporting Israeli opposition activist Nadia Matar. But first, Itzik says, criminal proceedings should be initiated against Matar because she "doesn't understand anything about democracy"...Another Labor MK, Yoram Lass, recently asked that Mrs. Matar be prosecuted for "harassing" him because she sent him faxes criticizing some of Labor's positions...
...Ma'ariv reports that Peres government cabinet ministers and Labor MKs are "furious" over a newspaper advertisement placed by the Labor splinter group, The Third Way, headlined, "It is forbidden to wait until Peres asks, 'Where did I go wrong?' " The Laborites reportedly said that the ad was "beyond good taste" and "inciteful and unacceptable"...

...With the approval of the Peres government, the Israeli Supreme Court has ordered the release of Mussa Mustafa, an aide to PLO Security Chief Jibril Rajoub, to enable Mustaffa to compete in the PLO elections on January 20, 1996. Mustafa had been imprisoned while awaiting trial for torturing Arabs who were considered critics of Yasser Arafat...

...Hebron activist Baruch Marzel has been sentenced to three months in prison for the "crime" of calling PLO official Faisal Husseini a "murderer." Husseini is a convicted Arab terrorist who spent time in Israeli prisons in 1967-1968 for assisting a terror cell in Jerusalem...
...Ha'aretz reports that Peres's Education Minister, Amnon Rubenstein, intends to propose legislation to change the official "Goals of Education" that were originally promulgated in 1953. The existing goal includes "love of the homeland and loyalty to the state and the people of Israel." Rubenstein wants it changed to "love man, love his people and his country, be a citizen loyal to the State of Israel"...

...Prime Minister Peres declared on Israel Television in December that "it was a mistake to bomb the nuclear reactor in Iraq"...

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