Wasef Kamal
Wasef Kamal (Wasif) [واصف كمال ואסיף / ואצף כמאל]
Highlights:
- Born in Mandatory Palestine - E.Y., in the city of Nablus.
- Linked with the two[2] translators of Hitler's Mein Kampf into Arabic: 1. Yunis al-Sab'awi (يونس السبعاوي).[3] Also very active in the fascist al-Muthanna Club. Sabawi plotted to 'slaughter all Jews in central Iraq.' Jews.[4] 2. Kamel Mrowa (كامل مروّه, Mroue, Mroueh, pronounced Kaamel Mruwweh) He published portions of it in installments in his paper.[5]
- In 1943 Kamal went to the Axis Powers: Italy and Germany where he served as one of the closest collaborators of the Mufti.[1]
- The Mufti, together with Fawzi Kaukji and Wasef Kamal, helped organize Muslim SS-units in the Balkan.[6]
- Wasef Kamal was 'one of the few Arab leaders excluded from the amnesty of November 1946, because he is regarded as dangerous.'[1]
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the ... Congress. United States: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1947. p.2821;
Rolbant, Samuel. 'The Arabs: Politics and People.' (Amal, 1948), pp.19-20;
Cited in: Herf, Jeffrey. Israel's Moment: International Support for and Opposition to Establishing the Jewish State, 1945-1949. India: Cambridge University Press, 2022.
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Wasef Kamal.
Wasef Kamal, member of a well - known Nablus family and a teacher by profession, is notorious for his extremist propaganda among his students and for his association with the Istaklil Party during the disturbances in Palestine in and after 1936. He was a member of the National Committee in Nablus and played a role in the organization of the 1936 riots. He was a member of the National Committee in Nablus and played a role in the organization of the 1936 riots. Arrested in that year, he soon escaped to Transjordan and later to Iraq. An ally of the Mufti, he played an important role in the Iraqi rebellion of 1941 against the British.
From Iraq, he escaped to Turkey. During the first part of the war he remained in Turkey as an agent of the German Secret Service from which he received a salary. In 1943 he went to Italy and Germany where he served as one of the closest collaborators of the Mufti.
He returned to Syria in April 1946. He was one of the few Arab leaders excluded from the amnesty of November 1946, because he is regarded as dangerous.
In April, 1947, Wasef Kamal was appointed by the Arab Higher Committee as a member of a propaganda delegation to the United States. Having arrived in the United States he has been in attendance at the sessions of the United Nations.
Rasem Khalidi, member of a well-known Jerusalem family and a former Palestine government official, has been one of the closest collaborators of the Husseini family, and particularly of the Mufti. In 1936, at the outbreak of the Axis-sponsored Palestinian Arab uprisings, he was a member of the most intimate inner circle of Haj Amin el-Husseini.
In 1937, after the dissolution of the Arab Higher Committee, he was a member of an underground committee which directed Arab terrorism in Palestine. After his arrest in 1938, he fled to Syria and then to Iraq, where he joined the Mufti in organizing the Iraqi rebellion of 1941. After its failure he fled to Ankara and thence to Italy and Germany. In the midst of the war, in 1943, he served as an announcer on the Axis-Arabic radio station in Athens. Since 1944 he has been a member of the Mufti's personal entourage, first in Berlin and later in Paris.
In July 1945, he returned to Egypt and in November 1946 was included in the Palestine Government's amnesty.
Although permitted to return to Palestine, he preferred to remain in Egypt. Most recently, the United States Consul refused to grant a visa to the United States because of his activities in Nazi Germany. - ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 S. Abu Fakhr, "Wasef Kamal from Nablus to Damascus," Masarat, 08 May 2016.
- ↑ Jackson, Ashley. Persian Gulf Command: A History of the Second World War in Iran and Iraq. United States: Yale University Press, 2018. p.22.
- ↑ Tragert, Joseph. The Complete Idiot's Guide to Understanding Iraq. United States: Alpha Books, 2003. p.104.
- ↑ Schwanitz, Wolfgang G. "Hitler in the Levant: How Arabs Reacted to the Third Reich in Syria and Lebanon." Jewish Political Studies Review, vol. 21, no. 3/4, 2009, pp. 193–96. JSTOR. [1].
The whole Arab youth is enthused by Adolf Hitler,” wrote Kamil Muruwwa, the young editor of the Beirut paper An-Nida’, to the German Foreign Minister in Berlin. The year after Hitler came to power, Muruwwa translated Mein Kampf from English into Arabic and published it in daily installments in An-Nida’.
- ↑ Alon, Mati. Holocaust and Redemption. United States: Trafford, 2003. p. 207.
He, together with Fawzi Kaukji and Wasef Kamal, helped organize Muslim SS-units in the Balkan, which helped to liquidate Jews and partisans. Husseini furnished Arab volunteers for the Waffen-SS and personally intervened with high Nazi officials, to assure the extermination of thousands of Jewish children.
