tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12677825.post5138231180552819165..comments2024-03-29T11:39:42.348+00:00Comments on Point of No Return: Jewish Refugees from Arab and Muslim Countries: Spain receives 6,000 enquiries about citizenship Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12677825.post-44066634752362146542013-02-16T19:42:46.695+00:002013-02-16T19:42:46.695+00:00some corrections to my comment on Franco.
During t...some corrections to my comment on Franco.<br />During the civil war in Spain, he used Moorish/Moroccan troops against his own people. And they were effective and feared combat force. Recall the Spanish civil war song Ay Manuela with its line "Lucharon contra los moros" [they struggled against the Moors]. <br />During the civil war and WW2, Franco allowed German agents to propagandize among the Arabs in the Spanish zone of Morocco and later in Tangiers after Spain had occupied it. There were a number of Moroccans in the Spanish zone who were Arab nationalists and collaborators/agents of/ the Germans. One bore the curious name Abdel-Khalek [Abdel-Khaled?] Torres, which may indicate an ultimate Spanish origin of his family. Note again that leading Arab nationalists in the Spanish zone collaborated with the Nazis.Eliyahu m'Tsiyonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07973268399414290195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12677825.post-72929278133388804702013-02-14T13:57:37.736+00:002013-02-14T13:57:37.736+00:00Sultana, of course Franco was helped to win the Sp...Sultana, of course Franco was helped to win the Spanish civil war by hitler and mussolini. He also sent troops [La Division Azul] to fight for the Germans on the Eastern Front. In 1940 [or approx] he sent his troops into Tangiers, up to then an international zone. Thus he ruled both Tangiers and the Spanish zone of Morocco, and in this capacity he encouraged Arab nationalism, especially against the French, and prevented Jewish youth from leaving to join the Allies.<br /><br />But the perfect opportunist that he was, when he saw the Germans losing the war [1943], he helped some Jews escape being sent to Auschwitz, and helped Jews in other ways. <br /><br />Just as interesting is that starting at the end of WW2, he took a big interest in helping Arab nationalists, selling weapons to the Palestinian Arabs for the 1948 war, sending observers to one of the first meetings of the Arab League [itself a British-sponsored institution], and giving sanctuary to German and Vichy French war criminals. Nasser once visited Franco in Madrid.<br /><br />This Spanish-Arab Friendship is little known today.Eliyahu m'Tsiyonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07973268399414290195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12677825.post-20413408513566329802013-02-10T18:01:57.877+00:002013-02-10T18:01:57.877+00:00Please excuse my mistake concerning the film on th...Please excuse my mistake concerning the film on the Spanish Civilwar, you will have corrected this mistake:<br />It's of course FOR WHO THE BELLS TOLL with Gary Cooper and Ingrid Bergman.<br />'ask not for who the bells toll for it may toll for you'<br />sultanaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12677825.post-56259299803584668592013-02-10T16:10:27.603+00:002013-02-10T16:10:27.603+00:00My thought on this matter are surely against that...My thought on this matter are surely against that. i remember Franco as a partner of Nazism and if you want to think about it there was a civil war in Spain. A lot of people died. Ernest Hemingway wrote a FAREWELL TO ARMS and even participated in that war!<br />Personally I would not want to mive in such a Catholic country. But that is my personal opinion!!!<br />PS The actual Queen's mother, (Frederica not to name her) was a great friend of HitlerAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12677825.post-20372071395958117212013-02-10T14:45:17.516+00:002013-02-10T14:45:17.516+00:00Why would they want to? Spainish citizens freely a...Why would they want to? Spainish citizens freely admit they are some of the most antisemitic people in Europe. Empress Trudyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06073538968722986065noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12677825.post-44893098851562427812013-02-10T12:39:26.521+00:002013-02-10T12:39:26.521+00:00The dictator,Francisco Franco [Franco is also a Je...The dictator,Francisco Franco [Franco is also a Jewish name], is credited with saving some Sefardic Jews from the Holocaust. But he did this only after he could see that the Germans were losing the war. I would not overrate his kindness towards Jews.Eliyahu m'Tsiyonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07973268399414290195noreply@blogger.com