Jerusalem News (1 November 2015, 19 Cheshvan, 5776)
Contents:
1. About the Mufti of Jerusalem! (Compiled by Steven Shamrak)
2. Backgrounder: Hajj Amin al-Husseini by Gary C. Gambill
3. Military Intelligence chief: We're already at war with Iran
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1. About the Mufti of Jerusalem!
(Compiled by Steven Shamrak)
Extracts:
The Mufti did not inspire Hitler to commit the Holocaust, but he was a willing and eager participant....
In 1941, Haj Amin al-Husseini fled to Germany and met with Adolf Hitler, Heinrich Himmler, Joachim Von Ribbentrop and other Nazi leaders. He wanted to persuade them to extend the Nazis' Â anti-Jewish program to the Arab world.
The Mufti sent Hitler 15 drafts of declarations he wanted Germany and Italy to make concerning the Middle East. One called on the two countries to declare the illegality of the Jewish home in Palestine.
In November 1941, the Mufti met with Hitler, who told him the Jews were his foremost enemy. ...
Mufti offered Hitler his "thanks for the sympathy which he had always shown for the Arab and especially Palestinian cause, and to which he had given clear expression in his public speeches....The Arabs were Germany's natural friends because they had the same enemies as had Germany, namely....the Jews...."
In 1945, Yugoslavia sought to indict the Mufti as a war criminal for his role in recruiting 20,000 Muslim volunteers for the SS, who participated in the killing of Jews in Croatia and Hungary. He escaped from French detention in 1946, however, and continued his fight against the Jews from Cairo and later Beirut. He died in 1974.
Another thing that Hitler was inspired from Islam, was the idea of the yellow star.
 It was required for Jews to wear it in Muslim invaded countries to ensure that they were treated as 2nd class citizens.
Things You Need to Know About the Mufti
1) Husseini used the 'Temple Mount libel' to drive the 1929 Arab massacre of Jews in Hebron. (Fatah and Hamas are doing now!)
2) Husseini worked closely with Adolf Eichmann on the extermination of Jews in the Holocaust. (The PA has the same goal!)
3) Husseini's role throughout World War II was as an anti-Semitic, anti-Allied propagandist.
4) Nazi support of Husseini led to radicalizing the Muslim world.
5) Husseini's radical, violent anti-Semitism became a founding feature in both Palestinian nationalism and modern Islamism.
6) Husseini's 'fusion' of European anti-Semitism with Islamic views of Jewish evil has been adopted by Islamists around the world. (Regardless if it is Shi'a Iran or Sunni Saudi Arabia!)
7) Husseini recruited thousands of Muslim soldiers for Hitler.
8) Husseini was designated by the UN as a war criminal. (But France let him go!)
9) After World War II, Husseini continued spreading anti-Semitic propaganda as a central tenet of Palestinian nationalism.
10) Husseini remains a hero to Palestinians.
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2. Backgrounder: Hajj Amin al-Husseini by Gary C. Gambill
http://www.meforum.org/5597/backgrounder-hajj-amin-husseini
Extracts:
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu caused a storm of controversy on October 20 by quoting Hajj Amin al-Husseini, the infamous grand mufti of Jerusalem during the interwar years, as having told Adolf Hitler in 1941 to "burn" rather than deport the Jews of Europe, insinuating that this influenced the unfolding Nazi genocide.
While the veracity of this quote is in question, few dispute that Husseini could well have said something to this effect given his genocidal hatred of Jews, penchant for blood-curdling rhetoric, and determination to prevent Jewish immigration to Palestine. However, opinions differ sharply, even among MEF staff and fellows, as to the degree of Hussein's influence, both in Nazi Germany and the Middle East.
MEF Hochberg Family Writing Fellow Wolfgang G. Schwanitz, coauthor of Nazis, Islamists, and the Making of the Modern Middle East (2014), argues that two components of this question are unmistakably clear. First, Husseini's over-arching goal prior to and during Hitler's reign, he notes, was that "whatever happens with Jews under Hitler's reign in Europe, they should not come to the Middle East." At the very least, the Germans understood that deportation as a solution to Europe's "Jewish Question" risked alienating their top protege in the Arab world, Â a region they expected in 1941-42 to be invading soon.
Second, Schwanitz notes that the historical record shows the mufti to be unquestionably the "foremost extra-European adviser in the process to destroy the Jews of Europe." Adolf Eichmann and his subordinates frequently briefed Husseini as the genocide unfolded, "as if to reassure him that Hitler had not changed his mind," he writes in a forthcoming article.
In contrast, MEF fellow Jeffrey Herf, author of Nazi Propaganda for the Arab World (2010), contends that the Husseini's "importance in Nazi Berlin lay far more in assisting the Third Reich's Arabic language propaganda ... and in mobilizing Muslims in Eastern Europe to support the Nazi regime." Although these achievements surely facilitated Nazi atrocities, Hitler "made the decisions to implement the Final Solution and had communicated those decisions to key actors in the Nazi regime at the latest a month before his [1941]meeting with Husseini."
Whatever his role in the Holocaust, MEF staff and fellows widely agree that Husseini was a critical ideological progenitor of Middle Eastern extremism today. The mufti was among the first to "exploit the draw of the Islamic holy places in Jerusalem to find international Muslim support" for the anti-Zionist cause, notes MEF President Daniel Pipes, a theme very much in evidence today among Palestinian Islamists.
Hitler's Mein Kampf has been a bestseller in the Middle East since the 1930s.
As Boris Havel illustrates in a recent Middle East Quarterly article, Husseini's propaganda traced "alleged Jewish power and ambitions" in the here and now "to supposed Jewish activities at the time of Muhammad," a theological innovation that is today a staple of Islamist discourse.
Because of Husseini, there remains an "inescapable and inextricable connection between Islamists ... and the Nazi movement" today, MEF Director Gregg Roman told Al-Jazeera English on October 22. In an early Middle East Quarterly article, famed Princeton University historian Bernard Lewis notes (without specific reference to Husseini) the "astonishing degree" to which "the ideas, the literature, even the crudest inventions of the Nazis and their predecessors have been internalized and Islamized" in the Middle East.
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3. Military Intelligence chief: We're already at war with Iran
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/202742#.VjYQfbcrK70
By Cynthia Blank
First Publish: 11/1/2015, 10:03 AM
Extracts:
Reuters
Israel's Military Intelligence chief warned last week that Israel and Iran are both battling for technological edge - and the Islamic Republic is quickly narrowing the gap between the two countries.
Maj. Gen. Herzl Halevi made the remarks at closed lecture Thursday to donors and faculty members of the College of Management at the Rothschild Bank in Tel Aviv, Haaretz reports.
"If you ask me whether we'll be at war with Iran within the next 10 years, I'll give you a surprising answer: We are already at war with Iran," Halevi asserted. "We're in the midst of a technological war with Iran. Our engineers are fighting Iranian engineers today and it's becoming increasingly significant."
"Today we have the advantage, but Iran is closing in on it," he added. "Since the 1979 revolution, the number of universities and university students in Iran has increased twentyfold, compared with three and a half times for Israel."Â