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They sense in Hitler a similarity, as they listen to broadcasts in Arabic from Zeesen, Germany.</blockquote>
They sense in Hitler a similarity, as they listen to broadcasts in Arabic from Zeesen, Germany.</blockquote>
In 1942, author B. Ziff:
"Throughout the Arab world an unappeasable pro Hitler rage has existed for years".<ref>Ziff, W. B. (1942). The Coming Battle of Germany. United States: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, pp.105-106.
[https://books.google.com/books?id=ZgbPAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Arab%20world%22] [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.58210/page/n132/mode/1up archive].
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The abutting Arab states have no military strength or resistance power. The Arab looks picturesque and ferocious on his camel but is no match for modern instruments of war or the men who wield them. When the pro-Axis leader, Rashid Ali el Gailani, seized authority in Iraq a mere handful of British Imperials overthrew him and forced the capitulation of the Iraqian Army.
Throughout the Arab world an unappeasable pro-Hitler rage has existed for years... Yemen is tied up with Italy. The other Arab states are held by force or purchase and are completely unreliable.
A trained army of 250,000 loyal men fighting on familiar territory could make a world of difference at this moment of the war. When the present war began, several hundred thousand young Jews of Palestine, many of them European-trained as soldiers and officers, volunteered to fight for Britain and her allies. They are still waiting to be called. They know the desert and how to fight in it, and have a willingness to fight Fascism unmatched anywhere in the world, since they know what will happen to them and their families should Germany prevail in the Middle East.
British policy in this sector, acquiesced in by the American State Department, is one of yielding to blackmail by a potential enemy. Declaring that “a Jewish army of 200,000 men would make the defenses of the Suez Canal almost imprepable," Congressman Andrew L. Somers roared to his peers: “First we saw Munich, then we saw appeasement in the Far East, and then we saw appeasement in the Near East. Today, Munich is past, today Japanese appeasement is past, yet appeasement is still in force in the Near East.”
The explanation offered from British official quarters is that the Arabs will not enlist and they do not wish to offend them by allowing the Jews to do so.
The attitude of the 390,000,000 people of India toward this war is a mixture of irascibility, hope, indifference, and apathy. Mohammedans dislike Hindus and both combine to resent the presence of their European overlords. Pro-Asiatic slogans have a considerable audience, and the usual quota of ambitious young politicos are in direct contact with the Axis.</small></blockquote></ref>