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| | '''Shakib Arslan''' (Arabic: شكيب أرسلان, 25 December 1869 – 9 December 1946) (Abou Ghaleb) was a forner Druse notable, Druze prince (amir) in Lebanon, who left his community and clung to fascism,<ref name=book-assaf-1967p129/> allied,<ref>Elst, Koenraad. Indigenous Indians: Agastya to Ambedkar. India: Voice of India, 1993. [http://books.google.com/books?id=exVuAAAAMAAJ&q=arslan p. 353].<blockquote>Young Fidel Castro would imitate Mussolini in front of the mirror. The secularist Baath Party in Syria and Iraq was modelled on Mussolini's Fascist Party. The Iranian Shah Reza Pahlevi was an open admirer of Hitler (for which he was forced by the British to abdicate in favour of his son)... The Muslims in particular were enthusiastic... Muslim nations rallied to ally with Hitler: the Bosnian Muslims, the Kalmuks, the Chechen and Ingosh, the Balkans, the Meshkets, and the Krim Tatars. In West Asia, prominant leaders like the Druze leader Shakib Arslan (Walid Jumblatt's father) and the Mufti of Jerusalem allied themselves with Hitler.</blockquote></ref> propagated for [[Hitler]], tight with the Mufti [[Mohammed Amin Al-Husseini]], [[Jamal Husseini]] and other ieaders in Arab Mandatory Palestine. | | '''Shakib Arslan''' (Arabic: شكيب أرسلان, 25 December 1869 – 9 December 1946) (Abou Ghaleb) was a forner Druse notable, Druze prince (amir) in Lebanon, who left his community and clung to fascism,<ref name=book-assaf-1967p129/> allied,<ref>Elst, Koenraad. Indigenous Indians: Agastya to Ambedkar. India: Voice of India, 1993. [http://books.google.com/books?id=exVuAAAAMAAJ&q=arslan p. 353].<blockquote>Young Fidel Castro would imitate Mussolini in front of the mirror. The secularist Baath Party in Syria and Iraq was modelled on Mussolini's Fascist Party. The Iranian Shah Reza Pahlevi was an open admirer of Hitler (for which he was forced by the British to abdicate in favour of his son)... The Muslims in particular were enthusiastic... Muslim nations rallied to ally with Hitler: the Bosnian Muslims, the Kalmuks, the Chechen and Ingosh, the Balkans, the Meshkets, and the Krim Tatars. In West Asia, prominant leaders like the Druze leader Shakib Arslan (Walid Jumblatt's father) and the Mufti of Jerusalem allied themselves with Hitler.</blockquote></ref> propagated for [[Hitler]], tight with the Mufti [[Mohammed Amin Al-Husseini]], [[Jamal Husseini]] and other ieaders in Arab Mandatory Palestine. |
| | He was a who was known as Amir al-Bayān (Arabic for "Prince of Eloquence") because in addition to being a politician, he was also an influential pan-Arabist, pan-Islamist writer, poet and historian an author, he penned some 20 books and 2000. | | He was a who was known as Amir al-Bayān (Arabic for "Prince of Eloquence") because in addition to being a politician, he was also an influential pan-Arabist, pan-Islamist writer, poet and historian an author, he penned some 20 books and 2000. |
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| | + | One of the Druze families who converted to Islam, Arslan was one of the pillars of the all-Arab and all-Muslim movement in Syria.<ref>[https://www.nli.org.il/en/newspapers/hed/1949/04/01/01/page/11 Hed HaMizrah - הד המזרח, 1 April 1949, p. 11]. |
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| | + | האמיר שכיב ארסלן, שנמנה על משפחות הדרוזים שנתאסלמו, היה גם אחד מעמודי התווך של התנועה הכל־ערבית והכל מוסלמית בסוריה. הוא הלהיב את המאמינים לקנא את קנאת האיסלאם ועורר את חמת הנוצרים. במאמריו ובנאומיו הרבים, הוכיח האמיר, כי , הערבים הם נאמנים לשושלת הכליפים התורכים ומבכרים אותם על פני האומים, העבאסים והפטימים (ר' מאמרו בOrient- של 5 באוקטובר .(197והאציל הדרוזי לא נשאר רק נאה דורש. בראש גדוד דרוזי , צעד האמיר למצרים בראשית המלחמה הראשונה כדי לכבוש את הסואץ ולהחזיר את עמק הנילוס לסולטן בקושטא. |
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| | + | שכיב ארסלן הרים אז על נס את נאמנותה של סוריה לכתר עותמן. ערביה השיבו ריקם את פני השריף פיצל בן חוסיין וכל תכניותיו לטובת המרד )בתורכיה) לא מצאו הד בדמשק או בארם צובא. הערבים נשארו נאמנים לכליף עד הרגע האחרון... |
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| | + | שכיב ארסלן, שישב בימים ההם בג'ניבה ונהל את תעמולתו לטובת הערבים, הוא המטיר אש וגפרית על הציונים ועל אנגליה. הוא טען כי לא לראשונים ולא לאחרונים אין זכויות, על פלשטינה. שכח הדרוזי את ברית השלום, שנכרתה בין בגי שבטו ובין יהודי מטולה, במעמדו ובהשפעתו. והלא באותה ברית כבר הוכרו זכויות הישראלים במולדתם... |
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| | + | Emir Shakib Arslan, who was one of the Druze families who converted to Islam, was also one of the pillars of the all-Arab and all-Muslim movement in Syria. He excited the believers to envy the zeal of Islam and provoked the anger of the Christians. In his many articles and speeches, the emir proved that the Arabs are loyal to the Turkish caliph dynasty and honor them over the Umms, the Abbasids and the Fatimids (cf. his article in the Orient..) At the head of a Druze battalion, the Emir marched to Egypt at the beginning of the First War to conquer the Suez and return the Nile Valley to the Sultan of Kushta. |
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| | + | Shakib Arslan then miraculously lifted Syria's loyalty to the Ottoman crown. The Arabs welcomed Sharif Feisal Bin Hussein and all his plans in favor of the rebellion (in Turkey) found no echo in Damascus or in Aram Tzoba (Aleppo). The Arabs remained loyal to Kalif until the last moment... |
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| | + | Shakib Arslan, who sat in Geneva in those days and conducted his propaganda in favor of the Arabs, is the one who rained fire and brimstone on the Zionists and England. He claimed that neither the former nor the latter have rights over Palestine. The Druze forgot the peace treaty, made between the tribesmen of his tribe and the Jews of Metula, in his position and influence. And it wasn't in that alliance that the Israelis' rights in their homeland were already recognized...</font> |
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| | + | Explains a writer who met him:<i> |
| | + | He excited the believers to envy the zeal of Islam and provoked the anger of the Christians. In his many articles and speeches, the emir proved that the Arabs are loyal to the Turkish caliph dynasty and honor them over the Umms, the Abbasids and the Fatimids. At the head of a Druze battalion, the Emir marched to Egypt at the beginning of the First War to conquer the Suez and return the Nile Valley to the Sultan of Kushta. |
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| | + | Shakib Arslan then miraculously lifted Syria's loyalty to the Ottoman crown. The Arabs welcomed Sharif Feisal Bin Hussein and all his plans in favor of the rebellion (in Turkey) found no echo in Damascus or in Aram Tzoba (Aleppo). The Arabs remained loyal to Kalif until the last moment... |
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| | + | Shakib Arslan, who sat in Geneva in those days and conducted his propaganda in favor of the Arabs, is the one who rained fire and brimstone on the Zionists and England. He claimed that neither the former nor the latter have rights over Palestine. The Druze forgot the peace treaty, made between the tribesmen of his tribe and the Jews of Metula, in his position and influence. And it wasn't in that alliance that the Israelis' rights in their homeland were already recognized...</blockquote></font></ref> |
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| | [[File:Arslan.jpg|thumb|Emir Shakib Arslan with the Mufti, Hashim al-Atassi and others]] | | [[File:Arslan.jpg|thumb|Emir Shakib Arslan with the Mufti, Hashim al-Atassi and others]] |