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The Old City of Jerusalem… passersby looking at a graffiti of a swastika and the inscription Hitler in English on a stone wall, the alleys of the Old City, policemen patrolling the place.  (From the Sherman Greenberg Film Collection).</blockquote><font size=1>([https://ynet-images1.yit.co.il/picserver5/crop_images/2022/08/07/Hk5RPyTa9/Hk5RPyTa9_0_0_1057_684_0_large.jpg] Beneath is seen a deleted star of David while the Nazi sign is up).</font></ref><blockquote>1936.<br>
 
The Old City of Jerusalem… passersby looking at a graffiti of a swastika and the inscription Hitler in English on a stone wall, the alleys of the Old City, policemen patrolling the place.  (From the Sherman Greenberg Film Collection).</blockquote><font size=1>([https://ynet-images1.yit.co.il/picserver5/crop_images/2022/08/07/Hk5RPyTa9/Hk5RPyTa9_0_0_1057_684_0_large.jpg] Beneath is seen a deleted star of David while the Nazi sign is up).</font></ref><blockquote>1936.<br>
 
The Old City of Jerusalem… passersby looking at a graffiti of a swastika and the inscription Hitler in English on a stone wall, the alleys of the Old City, policemen patrolling the place.</blockquote>
 
The Old City of Jerusalem… passersby looking at a graffiti of a swastika and the inscription Hitler in English on a stone wall, the alleys of the Old City, policemen patrolling the place.</blockquote>
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<small>(In their 1936 drawing, the Arabs misspelled Hitler - Hiteler.<ref>Losin, Y. (1982).  The Pillar of Fire: Chapters in the History of Zionism.  Israel: Shikmona, in collaboration with the Israel Broadcasting Authority (Heb.), p. 221. [https://books.google.com/books?id=e9FtAAAAMAAJ&q=1936%22HITELE%22].</ref>)</small>
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An Arab activist of Jaffa, in telling the story of his childhood, during the war: "most of the Arabs in Israel were in favor of Nazi Germany."<ref name=abusarari/>
 
An Arab activist of Jaffa, in telling the story of his childhood, during the war: "most of the Arabs in Israel were in favor of Nazi Germany."<ref name=abusarari/>
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Historian on the Arabs in the land, referring on the WW2 period - atmosphere:<ref name=asaf-1967-p153>Asaf, Michael. The History of the Awakening of the Arabs in the Land of Israel and their Flight [Toldot Hit'orerut Ha-arvim Be'eretz Israel U-brihatam].  Israel :  Tarbut ve-hinuch, 1967, pp. 153-4. [https://books.google.com/books?id=UdYMAQAAMAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=%22%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%91+%D7%94%D7%A2%D7%A8%D7%91%D7%99%D7%9D%22].
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<blockquote><small>Political indifference prevailed, which entailed anticipation of the results of the war and wishes of the majority of Arabs that Britain would emerge defeated in it.  In this atmosphere, even the leaders of the opposition, who remained in Israel, saw no point in any political action.  And especially after the restrictions on immigration were satisfactory to them, this situation was very desirable to the British authorities, whose main goal was to rule the Land of Israel during the war, the rule of a British colony to all intents and purposes.  Whereas the active Arab force, led by Muhammad Amin al-Husseini, moved from Syria and Lebanon to Iraq, place of the German political headquarters in the Middle East (Baghdad).  The young Arab generation then mostly followed the fascist Nazi axis, which operated in two huge propaganda arms: the Italian arm was active in Egypt, Lebanon and Syria, and the German arm, mainly in Iraq and Iran, the Arab rebels from the Land of Israel - turned to the Baghdad center of the Axis, its great stronghold [p. 154]  which was also fueled by its intense hatred for the Jews.  Then, during the war, the pan-Arab delusion arose among the Arab activists and their leader Muhammad Amin al-Husseini, and his own delusion was even fueled by political and material support from Italy, Germany and Iraq.  And in Israel there were still acts of terror and acts of robbery between the Arabs among themselves here and there, but the mandate authorities did not attach political importance to them, rich Arabs, who did not participate in the rebellion or fled from his provocation, began to return to Israel.  Economic life flourished under the favorable circumstances of the war and at the end of 1939 the authorities were able to determine the renewal of economic, and even social, relations between the Arabs and the Jews, to such an extent that the effect of the rebellion was wiped off the surface.
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Then the return of political exiles to Israel also began, and the authorities encouraged it, to remove them from the network of action for Nazi Germany, and they encouraged it even more with the first great victories of the Allies in the war.
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A major crisis point in the action of the Axis in the Arab countries was the suppression of the rebellion in Iraq, in May 1941. The rebellion was carried out under the guidance of the Nazis and with the active support of Muhammad Amin al-Husseini and his men, after being suppressed with the help of British forces across the Jordan, al-Husseini and his active associates fled (30.5.1941) to Tehran and from there  They continued to Italy, Germany and the other Axis countries... 1941 Al-Husseini was received for an interview with Hitler, in the presence of the foreign minister, von Ribbentrop;  The axis' broadcast stations and newspapers floated the announcement of Muhammad Amin al-Husseini, as a central figure in the Muslim world and a fighter against the English, the Americans, communists and Jews, and in the fervor of friendship, the fascist Nazi axis credited the Palestinian activists with various positions and tasks, including the purchase of weapons and smuggling them into the Land of Israel to secret locations, in the possession of loyalists and arms dealers..</small></blockquote></ref><blockquote>anticipation of the results of the war and wishes of the majority of Arabs that Britain would emerge defeated in it.</blockquote>
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In 1942, many Arabs in Palestine reacted with 'open joy' upon hearing Jews' fate in Europe.<ref name=mjc-reaction>Michael J Cohen, "[https://books.google.com/books?id=CbLpAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT584 Britain's Moment in Palestine: Retrospect and Perspectives, 1917-1948]," (Routledge, 2014).<blockquote>On 2 July 1942, the second day of the first battle of El Alamein, the Mufti's supporters organized a public meeting in Nablus, in order to congratulate each other on the approaching victory and to wish the Mufti a long life. Cohen reported that the Mufti's supporters in Haifa had visited the local villages of Kabatia and Yabed, where they had met with his followers in order to plan the pillaging of Jewish villages in the Jezre'el valley, after the British retreat...
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In 1942, many Arabs in Palestine reacted with 'open joy' upon hearing Jews' fate in Europe.<ref name=mjc-reaction>Michael J Cohen, "[https://books.google.com/books?id=CbLpAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT415 Britain's Moment in Palestine: Retrospect and Perspectives, 1917-1948]," (Routledge, 2014).<blockquote>On 2 July 1942, the second day of the first battle of El Alamein, the Mufti's supporters organized a public meeting in Nablus, in order to congratulate each other on the approaching victory and to wish the Mufti a long life. Cohen reported that the Mufti's supporters in Haifa had visited the local villages of Kabatia and Yabed, where they had met with his followers in order to plan the pillaging of Jewish villages in the Jezre'el valley, after the British retreat...
    
On the same day in July, Cohen reported that <b>the Arabs</b> had received news about the fate of the Jews in Europe with <b>“open joy”</b>. They expressed the hope that the Germans would conquer Palestine and “liberate” them from their Jews. Some of the moderate minority refused to believe the news, arguing that it was merely Jewish propaganda designed to capture the sympathy of the world, that it was inconceivable that a country of Germany's cultural level could commit atrocities such as those being reported.</blockquote></ref>  
 
On the same day in July, Cohen reported that <b>the Arabs</b> had received news about the fate of the Jews in Europe with <b>“open joy”</b>. They expressed the hope that the Germans would conquer Palestine and “liberate” them from their Jews. Some of the moderate minority refused to believe the news, arguing that it was merely Jewish propaganda designed to capture the sympathy of the world, that it was inconceivable that a country of Germany's cultural level could commit atrocities such as those being reported.</blockquote></ref>  
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* Arab activist, in telling the story of his childhood, as a matter of fact, during the war: "most of the Arabs in Israel were in favor of Nazi Germany."<ref name=abusarari/>
 
* Arab activist, in telling the story of his childhood, as a matter of fact, during the war: "most of the Arabs in Israel were in favor of Nazi Germany."<ref name=abusarari/>
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* Historian on the Arabs in the land, referring on the WW2 period - atmosphere:<ref name=asaf-1967-p153/> "anticipation of the results of the war and wishes of the majority of Arabs that Britain would emerge defeated in it."
     
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