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June 1933, another attempt to establish an Arab-Nazi Party in Palestine.<ref>Helmreich, William. The Third Reich and the Palestine Question. N.p.: Taylor & Francis, 2017. [https://books.google.com/books?id=Ph8xDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT104].</ref><ref name=harkabi-1986/>
June 1933, another attempt to establish an Arab-Nazi Party in Palestine.<ref>Helmreich, William. The Third Reich and the Palestine Question. N.p.: Taylor & Francis, 2017. [https://books.google.com/books?id=Ph8xDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT104].</ref><ref name=harkabi-1986/>
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<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>
Indeed, <i>the fact that no Arab Nazi party was ever formed in Palestine was not because there was no local demand.</i><ref>Cohen, Michael J. Britain's Moment in Palestine: Retrospect and Perspectives, 1917-1948. United Kingdom: Taylor & Francis, 2014. [https://books.google.com/books?id=DLPpAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA404 p.404].</ref>
Indeed, <i>the fact that no Arab Nazi party was ever formed in Palestine was not because there was no local demand.</i><ref>Cohen, Michael J. Britain's Moment in Palestine: Retrospect and Perspectives, 1917-1948. United Kingdom: Taylor & Francis, 2014. [https://books.google.com/books?id=DLPpAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA404 p.404].</ref>
Nevertheless, there were Arab Nazi organizations, including in April 1934, June 1934, June 1935 as reported at the time, cited further.
Nevertheless, there were Arab Nazi organizations, including in April 1934, June 1934, June 1935 as reported at the time, cited further.
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We have made the world safe for the English, not by police, not by armies, but by arming the people themselves. The worst thing we have ever done in Palestine, worse even than our emigration distinctions, was when the Jews were being massacred and we, at the request of the Grand Mufti, almost at his orders, lined the Jews all up and disarmed them because they were Jews. That is the sort of thing which people remember. It was not under this Government, it is true, but you cannot expect that anybody in that country will look for justice or hope for better things as long as you have that spirit ruling there. I sometimes think that the feeling has now become pro-Nazi. Hitler's "Mein Kampf" goes to Palestine, and is sold freely. The whole book is a denunciation of the Jew—all lies and abuse. At the same time there is a book published in this country called "The Brown Book of the Hitler Terror." When that got out to Palestine it was banned. It is allowed in this country, but there it is legal to abuse the Jews but not legal to abuse the abusers.</blockquote>
We have made the world safe for the English, not by police, not by armies, but by arming the people themselves. The worst thing we have ever done in Palestine, worse even than our emigration distinctions, was when the Jews were being massacred and we, at the request of the Grand Mufti, almost at his orders, lined the Jews all up and disarmed them because they were Jews. That is the sort of thing which people remember. It was not under this Government, it is true, but you cannot expect that anybody in that country will look for justice or hope for better things as long as you have that spirit ruling there. I sometimes think that the feeling has now become pro-Nazi. Hitler's "Mein Kampf" goes to Palestine, and is sold freely. The whole book is a denunciation of the Jew—all lies and abuse. At the same time there is a book published in this country called "The Brown Book of the Hitler Terror." When that got out to Palestine it was banned. It is allowed in this country, but there it is legal to abuse the Jews but not legal to abuse the abusers.</blockquote>
[[File:Ghuri- "Hitler whom the Arabs admire very much.".jpg|thumb|Emil Ghuri in 1934: "Hitler whom the Arabs admire very much."]]
On July 7, 1934, Emile Ghouri [Ghuri, Ghory] in his paper, ''The Arab Federation'' wrote:<ref>[https://www.nli.org.il/en/newspapers/pls/1934/07/16/01/article/35/ The Palestine Post, 16 July 1934].
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TROUBLES IN GERMANY
The following paragraph is taken from the Arab Federation, a Jerusalem weekly in English, dated July 7.
The people of Palestine have been watching the recent troubles in Germany with great interest and keen.
They were astonished by the courageous quick actions of Hitler whom the Arabs admire very much.</small></blockquote></ref>
"The people of Palestine have been watching the recent troubles in Germany with great interest and keen.
They were astonished by the courageous quick actions of Hitler whom the Arabs admire very much."
On June 8, 1934, the ''Mukkattam'' (Al-Muqattam) [المقطم], Arab daily, reported that a Palestine Arab Nazi youth organization has been formed with a three-point movement hostile to the Jews.
On June 8, 1934, the ''Mukkattam'' (Al-Muqattam) [المقطم], Arab daily, reported that a Palestine Arab Nazi youth organization has been formed with a three-point movement hostile to the Jews.