Maarouf al-Dawalibi

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Maarouf al-Dawalibi (Ma'aruf. Arabic: معروف الدوليبي; March 29, 1909 - January 15, 2004) was a Syrian politician, one of the founders of the People's Party, who served twice as prime minister of Syria. With a pronounced dislikes (among them: Jews, Britons, Americans). In World War II he worked in Berlin with the pro-Nazi Mufti of Jerusalem.[1][2]

He was born in the city of Aleppo and was a professor of law at the Syrian University and a prominent leader in the Muslim Brotherhood in Damascus.

In 1942, while a student in Paris, he visited the "Palestinian" Arab mufti Haj Amin al-Husseini in Nazi Germany. He befriended him and stayed with him for 40 days. In 1943 he visited him again, with the approval of the military authorities, and stayed with him for 50 days. In 1946 he visited him several times in his prison in France, and in June of that year he rescued him from his house arrest and brought him to Cairo, and this after he had made all this journey himself beforehand to make sure that Mufti was not in danger.[3][4]

A dossier on Dawalibi documents that while in Paris, he was a Nazi spy.[5]

In 1947, about a year after the independence of Syria, he was elected as a member of the Syrian People's Council, in which he represented the electorate of his city of Aleppo. In the years 1949-1950 he served as Minister of the Economy, and in 1951 he briefly served as the chairman of the Syrian People's Council.

On November 28, 1951, he became prime minister for the first time. However, refusing to appoint the previous Minister of Defense, Fawzi Salo, to his government, General Adiv Shishkali ordered Dawalibi's arrest on November 29, 1951. The entire government and all politicians supporting the alliance with Iraq, including the leader of the People's Party, Nazim Qudsi and Rushdi Al-Kikhya were imprisoned. In protest, President Hashim al-Atassi resigned and joined the opposition. Shishkali appointed his right-hand man Fawzi Salo to the positions of Chief of Staff, Prime Minister, Minister of Defense and President.

After Shishekly's escape from Syria, Dualibi served as Defense Minister in 1954-1955. After the victory of the People's Party in the elections, he served from December 22, 1961 for a little more than three months as Prime Minister (and at the same time as Foreign Minister), until he was deposed again on March 28, 1962 in a military coup.

After the seizure of power by the Ba'ath Party, after the coup of General Louis al-Atassi on March 8, 1963, he was arrested along with all the other enemies of the United Arab Republic and imprisoned in the military prison. After his release a few months later, he went into exile, first in Lebanon and then to Saudi Arabia, where he worked as a private adviser to the king.

World Muslim Congress

In 1982, U.S. members of Congress received packages with Neo-Nazi antisemitic literature as well as Holocaust denial. Investigation determined it came from Pakistan from World Nuslim Congress. Head at the time was Maarouf Al-Dawalibi, who succeeded the ex Mufti of Jerusalem - who founded it in 1949.[6]

UN Forum

In 1985,[7] after al-Dawalibi's anti-Semitic statement at the UN forum and the justification of the Holocaust, the USA sent a letter of protest which read:

the U.S. has learned “from credible public sources” that Al-Dawalibi “was a collaborator with the Hitler regime during World War II,” and spent the war years “as the personal secretary to Nazi collaborator Amin Al-Husseini, the former Mufti of Jerusalem.” Al-Dawalibi, the letter added, “was a known anti-Semite and served as an informer for Hitler’s security police.”

His son, Nofal al-Dawalibi, surprisingly, was connected to the Syrian opposition against Assad.

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References

  1. ↑ SYRIA: New Tenants - TIME. "Dawalibi, 50, an oyster-smooth politician who suggests a corpulent Fu Manchu, is a man of pronounced dislikes (among them: Jews, Britons, Americans). In World War II he worked in Berlin for a time with the pro-Nazi Mufti of Jerusalem."
  2. ↑ Tanenbaum Collection, 1945-1992. Series D. AJC. Dec 20, 1984 — "Maa'ruf Dawalibi served as secretary to Haj Amin-al Husseini between 1942 and 1945 in Berlin ..."
  3. ↑ Carlson, J. R. (2014). Cairo to Damascus. United States: Read Books Limited. [1]
  4. ↑ Hajj Amin al-Husayni: Wartime Propagandist | Holocaust Encyclopedia. "On May 29, 1946, carrying a passport issued to Ma'ruf al-Dawalibi, ex Mufti al-Husayni escaped from French custody and flew to Cairo, Egypt."
  5. ↑ "U.N.'s history of anti-lsrael slander must be stopped." Northern California Jewish bulletin (San Francisco, Calif.), Volume 136, Number 33, 28 August 1987.
  6. ↑ Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the ... Congress. (1982). United States: U.S. Government Printing Office. May 3, 1982, p.8467. 'Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith -- Special Report -- March 25, 1982."
  7. ↑ Special to the JTA U.S. Protests to the UN About Anti-semitic Remarks at a UN Forum by an Arab Nazi. JTA, April 5, 1985.

    The letter added that the U.S. has learned “from credible public sources” that Al-Dawalibi “was a collaborator with the Hitler regime during World War II,” and spent the war years “as the personal secretary to Nazi collaborator Amin Al-Husseini, the former Mufti of Jerusalem.” Al-Dawalibi, the letter added, “was a known anti-Semite and served as an informer for Hitler’s security police.”
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