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Abbasi laments that “there is hardly any reference to the thousands of Palestinian volunteers, some of whom fell in battle, while others are still listed as missing in action, and no commemoration of the fallen can be found anywhere.” He suggests this “evil” is explained by “what the Palestinian people experienced during the Nakba and its aftermath, the destruction of archives and records in addition to the loss of personal documents, and the fact that no organization was established to commemorate the volunteers and their deeds.” He thus accuses Israel of covering up the Palestinian Arab role in defeating the Nazis.

Abbasi laments that “there is hardly any reference to the thousands of Palestinian volunteers, some of whom fell in battle, while others are still listed as missing in action, and no commemoration of the fallen can be found anywhere.” He suggests this “evil” is explained by “what the Palestinian people experienced during the Nakba and its aftermath, the destruction of archives and records in addition to the loss of personal documents, and the fact that no organization was established to commemorate the volunteers and their deeds.” He thus accuses Israel of covering up the Palestinian Arab role in defeating the Nazis.

It should be noted that Abbasi persistently uses the term “Palestinians” rather than “Palestinian Arabs” in his article, starting with the title. This manipulation services the popular narrative denying any linkage between the Jewish People and Palestine. In her book World War II – The Story of a Jewish Soldier, Jewish Women of Mandatory Palestine Serving in the British Army, Esther Herlitz (later an Israeli diplomat and politician who served as a member of the Knesset) wrote, “As far as the British were concerned, we from the Jewish Yishuv, and some Arabs, were Palestinians.”</small></blockquote></ref> by Jews (who were the ones mobilized en masse) to join the Brits - do not change the overwhelming facts.

It should be noted that Abbasi persistently uses the term “Palestinians” rather than “Palestinian Arabs” in his article, starting with the title. This manipulation services the popular [[narrative]] denying any linkage between the Jewish People and Palestine. In her book World War II – The Story of a Jewish Soldier, Jewish Women of Mandatory Palestine Serving in the British Army, Esther Herlitz (later an Israeli diplomat and politician who served as a member of the Knesset) wrote, “As far as the British were concerned, we from the Jewish Yishuv, and some Arabs, were Palestinians.”</small></blockquote></ref> by Jews (who were the ones mobilized en masse) to join the Brits - do not change the overwhelming facts.

Though ''Falastin'' & ''Ad-Difa'' changed tunes according to power etc.,<ref name=shimoni>Yaakov Shimoni, Arviyei Eretz Yisrael (The Arabs of Palestine), (Tel-Aviv, Palestine: Am Oved), 1947, [https://books.google.com/books?id=3-9WAAAAMAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=%D7%93%D7%A4%D7%90%D7%A2 p. 407]. <br><i>"Al Difa" changed its flavor several times: at the time of its founding it was considered the mouthpiece of the Istiqlal circles, who were then extremists and fans of fascism; Stories of direct ties formed then between its editors and Germans.</i></ref> yet, enough disastrous was the glorification of Hitler in 1932 and in 1933 to plant the seeds of venom, nor have  they become less anti-Jewish while changing ("strategic") tunes.</small>

Though ''Falastin'' & ''Ad-Difa'' changed tunes according to power etc.,<ref name=shimoni>Yaakov Shimoni, Arviyei Eretz Yisrael (The Arabs of Palestine), (Tel-Aviv, Palestine: Am Oved), 1947, [https://books.google.com/books?id=3-9WAAAAMAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=%D7%93%D7%A4%D7%90%D7%A2 p. 407]. <br><i>"Al Difa" changed its flavor several times: at the time of its founding it was considered the mouthpiece of the Istiqlal circles, who were then extremists and fans of fascism; Stories of direct ties formed then between its editors and Germans.</i></ref> yet, enough disastrous was the glorification of Hitler in 1932 and in 1933 to plant the seeds of venom, nor have  they become less anti-Jewish while changing ("strategic") tunes.</small>