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THE DETROIT mg NEWS

PLO Nazi Ties Date to Jerusalem Mufti

NEW YORK — The
founding father of Palesti-
nian Arab terrorism — Haj
Amin el Husseini — was
actively involved in the
World War II Nazi annihi-
lation of the European
Jews, and planned to have
the extermination program
extended to the Jews in
Arab countries of the Mid-
dle East and North Africa,
according to a documented
study by Elias Cooper, a
professor of history at the
City University of New
York, who serves as editor
of The American Zionist, a
journal published by the
Zionist Organization of
America.
Prof. Cooper stresses that
the relevance of this history
is centered in the fact that
the Nazi orientation of the
so-called Palestinian cause
has outlived iie author, and
is at the root of the bitter-
ness in the Arab-Israeli con-
flict:

"In view of the Hue-
seini heritage, it is easier
to understand the men-
tality of Arab terrorists
who took hostage and
murdered Israeli chil-
dren, murdered an entire
Israeli Olympic team,
planted bombs in market
_places and cinemas,
hijacked passenger
planes and imitated the
methods of Auschwitz by
selecting Jews among the
passengers for their hos-
tages.

"And the ties of the cur-
rent terrorists to Husseini
are not only ideological, the
long-time leader of the PLO
terrorists, Yasir Arafat, is a
blood relation of the one-
time Mufti of Jerusalem."
In a special postscript de-
voted to excerpts from the
just-published memoirs of
Anwar Sadat, this supposed
peacemaker emerges as a
self-confessed and unrepen-
tant former Nazi col-
laborator, who to this day
views Hitler as a hero.
Prof. Cooper makes these
points in a book published
in magazine form: "Forgot-
ten Palestinian: The Nazi
Mufti — Roots of the Bitter-
ness in the Arab-Israeli
Conflict" which takes up the
entire current issue of the
American Zionist.

Prof. Cooper docu-
ments the war-time col-
laboration between Haj
Amin el Husseini, the
Mufti of Jerusalem, and
the Nazis on the basis of
many hitherto unpub-
lished captured German
documents kept on mic-
rofilm at the National
Archives in Washington.

The study specifically re-
futes the claim that Arabs
are not responsible for the
Holocaust that befell Euro-
pean Jewry. According to
Prof. Cooper: "The Arab
connection to the Holocaust
is both general and specific.
In the 1930's and during
World War II Arab leaders
throughout the Middle
East, by threatening to
make common cause with
the Axis powers, pressed
Britain, the power then ad-
ministering Palestine, to
keep the gates of that coun-

try closed to Jewish ref-
ugees.

"The specific Arab con-
nection to the Holocaust
was the activity of the
leader of the Palestinian
Arabs, Haj Amin el Hus-
seini, who sat out the Sec-
ond World War in Berlin as
Hitler's Quisling-in-
waiting, the man who hoped
to be Hitler's 'gauleiter' for
the Middle East, and who
associated himself fully
with the Nazi "fmal solu-
tion.' "
The main documents pro-
ving the Mufti's association
in the Nazi campaign of
genocide are the following:
• The clause which the
Mufti proposed as part of a
1940 Arab-Axis treaty:
"Germany and-Italy-recog-
nize the right of the Arab
countries to solve the. ques-
tion of the Jewish- elements
in Palestine and other Arab
countries in a manner that.
conforms to the national
and ethnic interests of the

Arabs and to the solution of
the Jewish question in the
countries of Germany and
Italy."
• A November 1943
speech by Husseini over Be-
rlin Radio, which carried
this statement: "National
Socialist Germany knows
the Jews well and has de-
cided to find a final solution
for the Jewish danger ...
The Arabs ... and Moslems
. are obliged to make this
their goal from which they
will not stray and which
they must reach with all
their powers: It is the expul-
sion of all Jews from Arab
and Moslem lands."

Cooper points out that
this statement proves
that the Mufti was plan-
ning to extend the Nazi
extermination program
to the Jews of the Middle
East because at that very
time the Mufti was writ-
ing letters to the leaders
of Hungary, Bulgaria,
Romania and other Nazi
satellite governments

advising them to "expel"
all their Jews to Poland,
the center of the extermi-
nation activities.

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The Nazi orientation of
the Palestinian movement
is traced from the Mufti of
Jerusalem's first contacts
with Nazi Germany in the
1930's, his central role in
fomenting a pro-Axis revolt
in Iraq in 1941 at the height
of the Battle for Britain,
through his pro-Nazi prop-
aganda, sabotage and re-
lated activities directed
from his Berlin headquar-
ters from 1941 to the end of
the world conflict in May
1945.
Prof. Cooper concludes
that precisely those who are
demanding a new Palesti-
nian state -- one between
Israel (Jewish Palestine)
and Jordan (Arab Palestine
— must not be accommo-
dated because they follow in
the genocidal tradition of
Husseini, whose program is
best consigned to "the
dustbin of history."

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