Hassan Salameh

Hassan Salameh (in Arabic: حسن سلامة; 1912-June 2, 1948) was the leaders of the Great Arab revolt (terror campaign) in 1936-1939. Collaborated with Nazi Germany. During the 1948 War of Independence, he served as the deputy of Abd al-Qader al-Husseini and was killed in early June 1948 after a battle with the Etzel members.

Born in the village of Qula in the lowlands in 1912. During the Great Arab Revolt in 1936-1939, the armed Arab gangs who acted against Jews and British. In July 1936, the British army destroyed his home in her voice. The Arab Higher Committee protested the "aggressive act of destruction without justification". During the rebellion, he was also responsible for murder of many Arabs. During the rebellion, he was appointed commander of the Central Region (Jaffa, Lod and Ramla). Muhammad Izzat Darwaza, who was a member of the "Central Committee of National Jihad in Palestine (Arabic: اللجنة المركزية للجهاد الوطني في فلسطين)" of the rebellion, told his memories about a case in which Salameh took advantage of his authority and power and took over a orchard of a man who was absent from the country, and rented to others.

After the terror Arab revolt collapsed in Palestine and the breaking of World War II, in October 1939, Salama fled via Beirut and Damascus to Baghdad, together with the mufti of Jerusalem Hajj Amin al-Husseini, Arab High Committee members Jamal al-Husayni, Rafiq al-Tamimi and the revolt military leaders Fawzi al-Qawuqji and Arif Abd al-Razzaq.

From there he went with the Jerusalem Mufti el-Husseini to Iraq. There, Salameh worked with el-Husseini and the German Ambassador to Iraq with other Arabs at the Golden Square (consisting of Salah al-Din al-Sabbagh, Kamil Shabib, Fahmi Said, and Mahmud Salman) - Pro Nazi coup by Rashid Ali al Gaylani, and then the two among instigators to the Farhud pogrom on Iraqi Jews. "The Farhud was an antisemitic pogrom which took place in Iraq on the eve of the festival of Shavuot, 1941. Taking place over the course of a few days, rioters looted Jewish homes and shops, while Jews in a number of Iraqi cities were cruelly murdered. The descriptions of survivors are horrific... They told of babies whose hands and feet were cut off in order to remove golden jewelry that had been hidden on their bodies. They witnessed acts of rape and abductions of young women who were never seen again."

From Iraq, he moved to Nazi Germany as part of the mufti's entourage. Salameh married a German and became a member of a special commando unit of the German foreign intelligence organization Amt VI. From there he returned to parachute during World War II as a partner in the "Atlas" German paratroopers and Arabs who plummeted in the area of ​​Jericho. In October 1944, the British captured a part of the operation participants in the Jericho area but not Salameh, who fled a doctor's home in a small village near her voice. There was also a leg injury, which was caused when the plunger. According to newspaper Le Monde, Salma served as a "connection" as part of the Nazi German army, at Rommel's headquarters.

Hassan Salameh headquarters in the British Army School building, near the city of Ramla and Beer Yaakov, by the railroad at the northern West entrance to the city. Together with Abdel Jabar Shumeri, Ramla's Iraqi commander, abused the residents of the area and carried out attacks in the roads that led to West Jerusalem. Together with them in the building, about 100 Iraqi soldiers were. The building belonged to the Supreme Muslim Council.

The Sallama village was one of the largest villages and lived in more than 7,600 residents. Hassan Salameh designed an attack against the Hatikvah neighborhood ahead of time, because of the topographic structure that gave it an advantage. He designed a mortar shell and the deception attack that would attract the defense forces to one place, and then - a crush on the "Beit Ya'akov" neighborhood. He recruited 400 armed fighters from Lod, Ramla and Nablus. It was the first big military confrontation in the War of Independence - the battle of the Hatikva neighborhood.

The Haganah headquarters received an intelligence warning and the size of the warrior power but not its location. On December 8, 1947 at 19.00, the attack began with fire and fierce rocks of hundreds of fighters as well as Kfar Sallama people. Due to weapons faults, the defenders, members of the "Guard Corps" retreated. The Arabs did not take advantage of their first success for the continuation of the attack, but began robbery, looting and ignition. The defeat hit Hassan Salameh's prestige. He later did not try to attack Jewish communities and refer his efforts to harm Jewish transport.

On the eve of Operation Nachshon (in the War of Independence), on April 5, 1948, it was decided to attack the headquarters who served as a basis for actions on the axis in West Jerusalem in a operation called "Hasal" (finish), probably after Hassan Salameh. The 52nd Battalion force from the Givati ​​Brigade stripped the structure and while a battle laid out of explosives that caused the collapse of two -thirds of it. In the operation, between 14 and 20 were killed in the building. Hassan Salameh himself was not injured, because he visited the wedding at the city of Lod or with his mistress in Jaffa, but his prestige in the local population and his soldiers were harmed and it was easy to perform Operation Nachshon the day after the commander of the headquarters. The raider force had only a few minor casualties. Following the raid, Salameh passed the center of his activities to Yahudiye village [يهودية].

On May 31, 1948, Hassan Salameh attacked an armored force of Etzel who conquered Rosh HaAyin the day before, forcing him to withdraw from Rosh haAyin (up to 'Operation Betek'). In this attack, Salameh was mortally wounded. and died a few days later.

Son: Ali Hassan

The son of Hassan Salameh, Ali Hassan Salameh ("Red Prince"), later became the leader of the Black September "Palestinian" terrorist organization (- code name Abu Hassan) which operated in the 1970s, would mastermind the Munich Massacre in 1972. He was eliminated in 1979 by a Beirut baker.

See also

• Wasef Kamal
• Yusuf Abu Durra
• Fattah al-Imam
• Darwish al-Miqdadi
• Akram Zuaiter
• Fawzi al-Qawuqji
• Abu Ibrahim al-Kabir
• Yaqub al-Ghusayn
• Wasef Kamal
• Maarouf al-Dawalibi
• Fadhel al-Jamali
• Rashid Ali al-Gaylani
• Muhammad 'Izzat Darwazeh
• Munif al-Husseini
• Joseph Francis (journalist)
• Fuad Saba
• Yaqub al-Ghusayn
• Mamdouh Al-Maidani

• Nazism at Arab Palestinians

References

"The Mufti.. concocted a new kind of antisemitism that combined traditional Muslim antisemitism, like the anti-Jewish verses you find in the Koran, with the Nazi antisemitism that demonised Jews... His whole ideology was antisemitic and from the very beginning he targeted Jews, not Zionists."

The difference between lies and reality is sometimes just a color on a map

W. Ormsby-Gore as he was preparing the royal commission report, "Though I knew there was ill-feeling between Jews and Arabs, I had not realized the depth and intensity of the hatred with which the Jews are held by the Arabs..."

"It is not Israel's settlement blocks but rather the Palestinian ideological blockade that constitutes the biggest barrier to peaceful arrangements . The Jew-hatred in this region must no longer be played down as a kind of local custom ..."

The only tweet (July 2014) on the Twitter account of the late American Elan Ganeles - murdered by Arab-Islamist "Palestinian" on Feb 27, 2023 hy"d: "I think you're always going to have tension in the Middle East, when there's [are] people who want to kill Jews, and the Jews don't want to be killed, and neither side is willing to compromise."