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→1930s (1932-9): fascism & Hitler
Hitler, who has proven himself a remarkable [sic] leader striving to redeem his people, did not rely on personal or family influence or on social, scientific and economic status.
Hitler, who has proven himself a remarkable [sic] leader striving to redeem his people, did not rely on personal or family influence or on social, scientific and economic status.
He based his acts on the sincerity of his mission, while in Palestine the leaders are corrupt, liars, robbers, servants of the Mandate government, who prefer this government to the homeland and to the future of its sons.</blockquote>
He based his acts on the sincerity of his mission, while in Palestine the leaders are corrupt, liars, robbers, servants of the Mandate government, who prefer this government to the homeland and to the future of its sons.</blockquote>
[[Joseph Francis (journalist)|Joseph Francis]], editor of ''Falastin'' and correspondent for three other Arab newspapers, seeks Nazi alliance and to form Arab Fascist Party. He is rejected, repeatedly.
Author:<ref>Black, E. (2010). ''The Farhud: Roots of The Arab-Nazi Alliance in the Holocaust''. Washington, DC: Dialog Press. [https://books.google.com/books?id=f9LrEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT385 Ch. 12] 'The Arabs Reach for the Reich.'</ref>
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A July 31, 1933 Foreign Office memorandum, distributed to German embassies in London, Cairo, Baghdad, Beirut, and Geneva, instructed diplomats to avoid Arab organizations, otherwise "members of the German Reich may otherwise come into suspicion of interfering in the political relationships of Palestine."
With zero cooperation from the German government and no possibility of joining the Nazi Party, Arabs decided to form their own Fascist and Nazi parties. If they could not join them, they would imitate them. In April 1933, Joseph Francis, editor of ''Falastin'' and correspondent for three other Arab newspapers, approached German Consul Wolff in Jerusalem offering "the felicitations and admiration of the youth of Palestine." Francis requested German "guidance on how to create a Fascist Party of Palestine with the goal of destroying the Jewish Communist movement which is devastating Palestine." Consul Wolff avoided any specific response. Francis came back in June 1933 and insisted that his request obtain a copy of Nazi Party bylaws be forwarded to senior Reich officials. If he didn't get a positive response, Francis suggested, he would contact Italian Fascists and use their bylaws - although he preferred the German bylaws.
Wolff again refused to comply. In a memo headlined "Planned Establishment of a National Socialist Arab Party," Wolff told Berlin, "The slightest easily imaginable indiscretion could endanger or even lose me the necessary and requisite trust of the Mandate government." He added, "Promoting the activist Nationalist Arab tendencies would be seen as directly counter to their [the Mandate's] political objectives." The German Foreign Ministry in Berlin supported Wolff's refusal to cooperate. In a dispatch copied to several embassies, Berlin instructed, "All official German representatives will refrain from any foreign policy decisions behind the circles of acquaintance associated with Francis, for one because it is not clear what paths the planned movement intends to strike out upon."
The same enthusiastic approach and stony response played out in other Arab capitals. In August 1933, the German envoy in Baghdad was contacted by the publisher of the newspaper Istiqlal as well as some Arab legislators. They "have informed me that they have been contemplating forming a National Socialist Party emulating that of Germany. They have asked me to provide them materials about the German National Socialist Party, and in particular the party planks and if possible the bylaws in either English or French."
Activist Arab editor Amir Arslan, who headed up La Nation Arabe, circulated both in Geneva and in Syria, was repeatedly rebuffed in his efforts to schedule a meeting with Hitler or secure any assistance.
Ultimately, Arabs did create numerous Nazi-style or Fascist parties without assistance.</small></blockquote>
In May, 1933, the [[Falastin]] ran a vile editorial against the Jews, glorifying Hitler dragging the debunked old "Protocols" into it too.<ref>[https://www.nli.org.il/he/newspapers/pls/1933/05/22/01/article/42 The Palestine Post, May 22, 1933].<blockquote>"Noble Hitler" — Says "Falastin"
In May, 1933, the [[Falastin]] ran a vile editorial against the Jews, glorifying Hitler dragging the debunked old "Protocols" into it too.<ref>[https://www.nli.org.il/he/newspapers/pls/1933/05/22/01/article/42 The Palestine Post, May 22, 1933].<blockquote>"Noble Hitler" — Says "Falastin"