Amin Ruwayha

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Amin Ruwayha / Ruwaiha [أمين الرويحة] (1901 Syria -1984 Lebanon) was an Arab writer and physician, born in the Syrian city of Latakia. He studied medicine at the universities of Vienna and Berlin, and obtained a doctorate in medicine and a certificate of specialization in orthopedic surgery from the University of Munich in Germany. He practiced medicine in Egypt, the Hijaz, Iraq and Syria, and was the head physician at the military hospital in Damascus, collaborated with Nazi Germany during WW2.


He participated in nationalist activities in the Levant and Iraq, and was connected to Hajj Amin al-Husseini. He participated in the founding of the pan-Arab fascist al Muthanna Club Party in 1935 in Baghdad, where he was one of the non-Iraqi founders of the club, along with the Palestinian Arab Akram Zuaiter.[1] Ruwayha worked closely with the German legation, [2] and acted as the link among the Axis, the Iraqi army officers, and the Jerusalem Mufti."[3]


He worked with Fawzi al-Qawuqji in 1936 riots in Mandatory Palestine serving his aide-de-campe,l.[4]

Nazi Germany honors Arab rebel Amin Ruwayha 1938

In 1938, Nazi Germany honored Ruwayha. It had bestowed him Order of "Distinction."[4]

Author:[5]

Connected with the Mufti’s circle of Arab leaders there were scores of other pan-Arab supporters who had either been indirectly in­ fluenced by the Mufti or followed their own course of action. The most prominent in the latter category was Dr. Amin Ruwayha who, as honorary physician to the German Legation in Baghdad, acted as a link between many an Arab leader and Axis representatives.

Dr. Ruwayha was a close friend of prominent Iraqi and other Arab leaders. He was also in touch with leading Iraqi army officers. All these pan-Arab leaders became exceedingly active after the arrival of in Baghdad the Mufti who, after Dr. Grobba’s departure, supplied leadership and inspiration to all pan-Arabs.

Pan-Arab ideas found fertile soil among the younger generation in Shawkat, Yunis as-Sab'awi, Salah ad-Din as-Sabbagh, Fahmi Sa’id, and Mahmud Salman.


An 'Arab Committee' under the presidency of the Mufti had already been formed in Baghdad, composed of Iraqi, Syrian, and Palestinian leaders. This committee decided to establish contact with Germany.Author:[6]


Through the Palestinian doctor Ruwayha, who was later imprisoned by the British as a Nazi spy, the German embassy promoted "aid projects" in Iraqi clinics and took care of the medical profession through the president of the medical faculty, a brother of Sami Shawkat. Officially, Ruwayha was an embassy doctor, unofficially he worked as a liaison to those clandestine circles that illegally smuggled weapons into Mandatory Palestine and from which the later fascist government in Baghdad was formed...[7]


Mufti, Mohammed Amin al-Husseini [محمد أمين الحسيني] and Rashid Ali al-Gaylani [رشيد عالي الگيلاني] in 1941, Iraq Arab-Nazi coup. (Younis Bahri first from the left)

He participated in the pro-Nazi Rashid Ali al-Gaylani's coup in Iraq, and when it failed, he was arrested by the British and exiled to Rhodesia,[1] while Nazi Germany honored him in 1938. He, among others had disseminated hatred which led to the tragic heinous Farhud pogrom on Iraqi Jews in 1941. Others include: Dr. Fadil Al Jamali (Inspector General of the Ministry of Education), Dr. Saib Showkat (Director of Baghdad Central State Hospital), General Taha Al Hashimi (Chief of Staff ), General Salah Aldin Al Sabbagh. The Palestinians Fawzi Al-Qauqji Darwish Al-Miqdadi, Mufti Haj Amin Al Husseini together with the Syrians Farid Zayn Ad-Din.[8] Where, according to some, over 1,000[9] were murdered. There were mass rapes and other brutality too.

1948

Ruwayha again worked with Kaukji in 1948,[10] Arab initiated war on the Jews in the holy land, serving with the Arab Liberation Army (ALA)[11] in the Galilee region.


1950s plots

He was accused of participating in the attempted assassination of Colonel Adib Shishakli (1909-1964) in 1950. [12]

Ruwayha, as a member of parliament and the Syrian army, "and parliamentary deputy Jalal al-Sayyid also were arrested on the same charge. In addition, the defendants were accused of an assassination attack on Colonel Sterling, the London Times correspondent Damascus, and the bombing of the Damascus Synagogue, the UNRWA offices, and the United States Legation. Ruwayha, also, was accused of attempting to assassinate King Abdullah and receiving funds from a foreign power, allegedly Saudi Arabia."[13]

(His son in 1990 book promotes the Russian fiction forgery "Protocols" (apparently citing his father inntge 1960s'), via blatant lies, in addition he simple falsifies on the 1937 Swiss reversal[14]).

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Amin Ruwaiha. (Arab) Palestinian Encyclopedia".
  2. ↑ Wichhart, S. (2021). Britain, Egypt, and Iraq During World War II: The Decline of Imperial Power in the Middle East. United Kingdom: Bloomsbury Publishing, pp. 16-17.
    Even more troubling to British officials, anti-British and pan-Arab sentiment made Iraq vulnerable to German influence. It was an ideal base for German propaganda to the Arab world as its independence meant less Anglo-French surveillance and it hosted large numbers of Arab nationalists in exile from both Palestine and Syria. The Muthanna Club, established by the Shawkat family in Baghdad as a literary society, became the focal point of extreme pan-Arabism, attracting not only young Iraqis but youth from around the region. Dr. Amin Ruwayha, a prominent member of the club, was in close touch with the German legation, and the club's headquarters also hosted the Palestine Defence Society (PDS), which had official sanction and counted Minister of Defence Taha al-Hashimi among its former presidents.
  3. ↑ Simon, R. S. (2004). Iraq Between the Two World Wars: The Militarist Origins of Tyranny. United Kingdom: Columbia University Press, p. 35
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 The New Palestine⁩, 30 December 1938⁩ — NAZIS "HONOR" LEADER OF PALESTINE REBELS.

    Germany Bestows Order of "Distinction" — Victims Clamor for Entry.

    JERUSALEM, Dec. 29 (Palcor). — The Nazis have conferred one of their most signal honors on one of the leaders who conducted the Arab revolt in Palestine, it was disclosed by the Arabic press here last Thursday, Dec. 29.

    The man to be honored by the German Government is Dr. Amin Ruweihe, who now lives in Beirut, and who was the aide-de-campe to Fawzi Bey Kawkagi, self-styled "commander-in-chief" of the Arab rebellion in Palestine in 1936.

    Following the collapse of that campaign. Dr. Ruweihe assisted in the organization of other Arab rebel activities in Palestine. It is suspected that he is now linked to inflammatory activities emanating from Beirut.

    The Order of Distinction is the ribbon that Germany has pinned upon the man who has done so much to stir strife in Palestine.

    The Nazis Decorate Arab Rebel Leader. Jewish Press, January 6, 1939.

  5. ↑ Khadduri, M. (1960). Independent Iraq, 1932-1958: A Study in Iraqi Politics. Pakistan: Oxford University Press, p. 165.
  6. ↑ Khadduri, M. (1960). Independent Iraq, 1932-1958: A Study in Iraqi Politics. Pakistan: Oxford University Press, p. 183.
  7. ↑ Konkret. (2002). Germany: Neuer Konkret Verlag, p. 16. Kreutzer, M. (2004). Irak: von der Republik der Angst zur bürgerlichen Demokratie?. Germany: Ça Ira, p. 230.
    über den palästinensische arzt Ruwayha, der später als Nazi-Spion von den Briten inhaftiert wurde, förderte die deutsche Gesandtschaft » Hilfsprojekte « in irakischen Kliniken und nahm sich über den Präsidenten der medizinischen Fakultät, ei- nem Bruder von Sami Shawkat, der Ärzte- schaft an. Offiziell war Ruwayha Bot-schaftsarzt, inoffiziell arbeitete er als Ver-bindungsmann zu jenen klandestinen Zirkeln, die illegal Waffen ins Mandatsgebiet Palästina schmuggelten und aus denen sich die spätere faschistische Regierung in Bagdad ...
  8. ↑ Cohen, H. J. (1966). The Anti-Jewish “Farhūd” in Baghdad, 1941. Middle Eastern Studies, 3(1), 2–17. [1]. "The Syrians Farid Zayn ad-Din and Dr. Amin Ruwayha and the Palestinian Darwish al-Miqdadi were active..." Farhud. Midrash.

    C) Hatred of the Jews: stirred by several organizations headed by such prominent officials as Dr. Fadil Al Jamali (Inspector General of the Ministry of Education), Dr. Saib Showkat (Director of Baghdad Central State Hospital), General Taha Al Hashimi (Chief of Staff ), General Salah Aldin Al Sabbagh. The Palestinians Fawzi Al--Qauqji Darwish Al Miqdadi, Mufti Haj Amin Al Husseini together with the Syrians Farid Zayn Ad--Din and Dr. Amin Ruwayha were also very active in these organizations.

    The driving force behind this anti British, anti Jewish, anti Zionist movement was the German embassy in Baghdad headed by Dr F. Grobba which generously supplied money, books and film.
    Remembering the Farhud – the Mufti Inspired Krystallnacht in Iraq. Crethi Plethi. 1 June 2010.
    Hatred of the Jews – stirred by several organizations headed by such prominent officials as Dr. Fadil Al Jamali (Inspector General of the Ministry of Education), Dr. Saib Showkat (Director of Baghdad Central State Hospital), General Taha Al Hashimi (Chief of Staff), General Salah Aldin Al Sabbagh. The Palestinians Fawzi Al-Qauqji Darwish Al Miqdadi, Mufti Haj Amin Al Husseini together with the Syrians Farid Zayn Ad-Din and Dr. Amin Ruwayha were also very active in these organizations.
  9. ↑ Carole Basri, First came the Farhud: The 2-stage ethnic cleansing of Iraqi Jewry, TOI, June 2, 2021.
  10. ↑ Arab source "Palestine Srudies": MEMOIRS, 1948. PART I. FAUZI AL-QAWUQJI.

    On April 6, 1948 alarming reports started reaching the Tulkarm front to the effect that Jewish forces were concentrating against it. This was the first reaction on the part of the Haganah High Command. I saw the picture clearly, and expected that the Jews would attack on this front to force me to reduce the blockade of Mishmar Ha'emek by withdrawing some of the forces fighting in this field.

    I cabled to the Commander of the Front, Captain Madlul Abbas, to warn him to make preparations to confront the situation I anticipated with all available forces, and not to expect me to send either men or ammunition to reinforce him.

    The Jerusalem area, which was not under my field command, had suffered a severe setback by the death on April 7, 1948 of its commander, 'Abd al-Qadir al-Husseini. In this critical situation I was visited by Dr. Amin Ruwayha with a delegation from Jerusalem who told me of the deteriorating situation there, and asked me to send reinforcements urgently. Dr. Ruwayha sent the following cable to Damascus: 146S 8/4. To Commander-in-Chief and Inspector-General.

    I returned today from the Qastal front. The death of 'Abd al-Qadir al-Husseini has caused confusion in the whole area. The commanders of companies and detachments who are his followers, and some of them his relations, request the High Command to immediately entrust Qawuqji with the protection of Qastal to allay fears in Jerusalem. Request you accede to their wishes at once, if only temporarily, to save the front from collapse.

    AMIN RUWAYHA
  11. ↑ Levenberg, H. (1993). Military Preparations of the Arab Community in Palestine, 1945-1948. United Kingdom: Frank Press, p.206
  12. ↑ Torrey, G. H. (1964). Syrian Politics and the Military, 1945-1958. United States: Ohio State University Press, pp. 185-186
  13. ↑ Torrey, G. H. (1964). Syrian Politics and the Military, 1945-1958. United States: Ohio State University Press, pp. 185-186
  14. ↑ The Global Impact of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion: A Century-Old Myth. (2012). United Kingdom: Taylor & Francis, ch.15
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