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Arab "Palestinian" leader, in Jerusalem (then under Jordanian rule), in spring of 1967: "We Arabs supported Hitler to get the British out of Palestine and to keep the Jews from taking it over - and that was our big mistake..."<ref>Saturday Review. (1970). Vol. 53. United States: Saturday Review Associates, [https://books.google.com/books?id=hNAaAQAAMAAJ&q=%22arabs%20supported%20hitler%22 p. 4].</ref>
Arab "Palestinian" leader, in Jerusalem (then under Jordanian rule), in spring of 1967: "We Arabs supported Hitler to get the British out of Palestine and to keep the Jews from taking it over - and that was our big mistake..."<ref>Saturday Review. (1970). Vol. 53. United States: Saturday Review Associates, [https://books.google.com/books?id=hNAaAQAAMAAJ&q=%22arabs%20supported%20hitler%22 p. 4].</ref>
The ''Canadian Institute of International Affairs'', in 1948, speaking on Palestine Israel, "in the darkest moments of 1940-41, a majority of the Arabs ...have supported Hitler on account of his anti-Jewish policy..."<ref>''Behind the Headlines''. (1948). Canada: Canadian Institute of International Affairs, vols. 8-10, pp.15-16. [https://books.google.com/books?id=efsUAAAAYAAJ&q=%22arabs%22%20%22supported%20hitler%22].
"... it is noteworthy that in the darkest moments of 1940-41, a majority of the Arabs who should—logically speaking—have supported Hitler on account of his anti-Jewish policy..."</ref>
Author in 1968<ref>Arnoni, M. S. (1968). ''Rights and Wrongs in the Arab-Israeli Conflict: To the Anatomy of the Forces of Progress and Reaction in the Middle East''. United Kingdom: Minority of One Press, pp.61-63.
[https://books.google.com/books?id=stRtAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Placed%20on%20Hitler%22]
Chapter II : From the history of Arab Nationalism.</ref>
{{quotebox-float|But the Arab record vis-a-vis the Nazis was not merely one of passivity. On the contrary, throughout the Arab world, hopes had been placed on Hitler, not only because he was an enemy of the British enemy, but also because the ideology and temperament of Nazism were in many ways attractive the Arabs.}}
Authors<ref>Mallmann, K., Cüppers, M. (2006). ''Halbmond und Hakenkreuz: das Dritte Reich, die Araber und Palästina''. Germany: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft. S.55. [p.55] [https://books.google.com/books?id=CSNoAAAAMAAJ&q=%22ihres%20virulenten%20Antisemitismus%20wuchsen%20Hitler%20und%20den%20Deutschen%20%22]
[Translated].
(Chapter: Sympathy for the Third Reich in the Near and Middle East).
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The cult of personality and, in particular, the hatred of Jews, which gave the Third Reich popularity in parts of the Arab world and beyond, the Islamic world, were precisely the most repellent characteristics that made the "new Germany" a model there, setting standards and radiating into the future. Or, to put it another way:
Not despite, but because of their virulent antisemitism, Hitler and the Germans gained sympathy among the Muslims of the Near and Middle East. It is therefore thoroughly misguided to speak of an "ideological and strategic incompatibility" between Arab nationalism and National Socialism.
Moreover, Muslims from all countries of the greater region, and not least from Palestine, persistently sought an alliance with Nazi Germany, even though playing the Arab card was avoided there for a long time.
In any case, a vast, indigenous fertile ground for the National Socialists was already evident in the Near and Middle East even before the outbreak of war.
The assertion that “the political, social, and not least military resistance potential of Palestinian society [... 1939] had been destroyed for years to come,” that “the Arabs were largely disarmed and the Zionists better equipped than ever,” and that the country was even “pacified at the outbreak of war [...],” is therefore considerably far removed from reality.
Apart from the fact that no systematic disarmament of the rebels took place, an unparalleled ideological inflame could be observed there, and an eliminatory antisemitism had taken root in the Muslim part of Palestine that was in no way inferior to German Jew-hatred and, in its practical implementation, even anticipated it to the extent that the available resources allowed. Not least because of the German arms deliveries, which will be discussed later, the uprising flared up again in the autumn of 1939.
In the summer of the following year, the German News Bureau reported: “According to reliable estimates, 20% of Jewish orange groves were completely destroyed and 40% of all irrigation systems. The resulting loss for new harvests is estimated at 33%. Agitation in Arab circles against Jewish immigration is constantly growing.” According to an estimate by the Jewish Agency’s intelligence service, around 60 percent of the country’s non-Jews supported the National Socialists at that time. Moreover, many of the former activists returned from exile at that time.</small></blockquote></ref>:
{{quotebox-float|.. the cult of personality and, in particular, the hatred of Jews, which gave the Third Reich popularity in parts of the Arab world and beyond, the Islamic world, were precisely the most repellent characteristics that made the "new Germany" a model there, setting standards and radiating into the future. Or, to put it another way:
Not despite, but because of their virulent antisemitism, Hitler and the Germans gained sympathy among the Muslims of the Near and Middle East. It is therefore thoroughly misguided to speak of an "ideological and strategic incompatibility" between Arab nationalism and National Socialism.
Moreover, Muslims from all countries of the greater region, and not least from Palestine, persistently sought an alliance with Nazi Germany, even though playing the Arab card was avoided there for a long time.
In any case, a vast, indigenous fertile ground for the National Socialists was already evident in the Near and Middle East even before the outbreak of war.}}
Published in Feb. 1948, 'Nazi Crusade in the Middle East,' a run down of personalities<ref>Middle East Bulletin. (1948). United States: Palcor News Agency.
Vol. 1, No. 4. February 6, 1948. ([https://books.google.com/books?id=aI71Xr4Hj1wC&q=%22Jihad%22 pp.1-4]).</ref>:
{{quotebox-float|In short, a pro-Nazi record is now considered in Iraq, Syria and Palestine as the highest expression of self-sacrificing and militant patriotism.
Service with the Nazis is identified with Jihad -- the Holy War. All the "fighters of the Holy War" regard it as their sacred duty to aid the ex-Mufti, Haj Amin al-Husseini, in his fight to wreck partition and destroy Jewish Palestine.}}