Lest there be any remaining doubt, this telegram has been recently unearthed in the Israeli archives. Sent by Heinrich Himmler to the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem in 1943, it conclusively vindicates the fact that the Arab struggle has historically been with the Jews, not Zionists. We know from other pronouncements that the Mufti's declared enemy is Jews 'wherever you find them', including the Arab world. The Mufti was the chief source and instigator of the incitement leading to the Farhud in Iraq in 1941. (With thanks: Lily)
A telegram from Heinrich Himmler to the grand mufti of Jerusalem has been found in the archives of Israel’s National Library.
Believed
to have been sent in 1943, it contains a promise by Hitler’s deputy to
Haj Amin al-Husseini that the German Reich will stand behind the Arabs
of Palestine and support their struggle against “Jewish intruders.”
Published on the library website
on Wednesday, the telegraph notes that the struggle against world Jewry
has been a principle of the German National Socialists from the start,
and that the regime has always followed “with particular sympathy,” the
struggle of “freedom-loving Arabs,” especially those in Palestine
battling the Jews.
“The joint recognition of the enemy and the
struggle together against it are what build the solid basis between the
National Socialists of Greater Germany and freedom-loving Muslims of the
world,” Himmler wrote.
The telegram concludes with the SS chief
sending the mufti his warm greetings on the “unhappy” anniversary of the
Balfour Declaration and best wishes for the continuation of the
struggle.
ReplyDeleteThe Mufti Husseini met with hitler on 28 November 1941, about 2 years before the telegram. Here is a relevant excerpt from that conversation or interview plus the same post carries a link to a film of Husseini arriving at hitler's headquarters and giving the Nazi salute, the stiffly upraised arm.
http://ziontruth.blogspot.co.il/2011/11/seventy-years-since-arab-mufti-haj-amin.html