'The Palestinian cause is not about land and soil, but it is... more 'The Palestinian cause is not about land and soil, but it is about faith and belief." This statement by the Islamic Resistance Movement (Harakat al- muqawama al-Islamiyya, or Hamas, its acronym) reflects an important development in the Arab-Israeli conflict, that of Islamizing ...
Among the Righteous: Lost Stories from the Holocaust's Long Reach into Arab Lands, by Robert ... more Among the Righteous: Lost Stories from the Holocaust's Long Reach into Arab Lands, by Robert Satloff. New York: Public Affairs, 2006. 251 pp. $26.00. The goal motivating historian Robert Satloff, Executive Director of the Washington Institute for Near Eastern Policy, in writing this highly readable and important book was a noble, if optimistic one. He was disturbed by the fact that "alone among peoples in the world, Arabs effectively claimed - and won exemption from the global campaign to remember the Holocaust." The reason is the widespread perception in Arab countries that whereas the perpetrators were Europeans, the Arabs were those who paid the price with the establishment of the state of Israel and the dispossession of the Palestinians. Moreover, many Arabs see the Holocaust as the main, if not only, reason why the world community has supported, or continues to support, Israel's existence. Consequently, the most prevalent Arab response has been to deny the Holocaust, as a means to demolish the legitimacy of Zionism, while a minority have justified Hitler's actions against the Jews. Corollary approaches have blamed the Zionists for collaborating with the Nazis in killing the Jews, or continuously accuse Israel of being a Nazi state in ideology and action. In writing this book, Satloff sought to alter Arab perceptions of the Holocaust by framing it as "an Arab story - preferably a hopeful, constructive, and positive story." He therefore chose to analyze the conduct of Arabs in North Africa, the only part of the Arab world under direct Nazi rule, during the Holocaust. In the book's first part, Satloff surveys the fate of the Jews under Nazi rule. Only about one percent of Jews in North Africa - between 4,000 and 5,000 - perished under Axis control in Arab lands, compared with more than half the Jews of Europe. But had U.S. and British troops not pushed Axis forces from the African continent by May 1943, the Jews of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, and perhaps even Egypt and Palestine almost certainly would have perished like European Jewry. The second part, where the book's major contribution lies, analyzes the conduct of Arabs toward the persecution of the Jews. Arabs' actions were not too different from those of Europeans. With war waging around them, most were indifferent. A percentage collaborated, including Arab officials in royal courts, Arab guards in labor camps, Arabs who volunteered to fight for Germany's cause, and those who went house to house pointing out where Jews lived. Even if 90 percent of Arabs were benignly indifferent to the fate of the Jews, Satloff states, that still left about 2 million "as participants in, supporters of, or active sympathizers with the systematic targeting of Jews." His conclusion is unequivocal: without the help of local Arabs, the extent of Jewish suffering in Arab lands would have been much less. However, there were also those Arabs "righteous among the nations," who risked their lives in order to save Jews, and Satloff brings their stories in a most captivating way. Arabs welcomed Jews into their homes, guarded Jews' valuables so Germans could not confiscate them, shared with Jews their meager rations, and warned Jewish leaders of coming SS raids. …
Islamist antisemitism in the past decades is exceptional in three major categories: It is morev i... more Islamist antisemitism in the past decades is exceptional in three major categories: It is morev irulent than anyo therp ublic expression of antisemitism in the world today. It is also the most openlyg enocidal form of existinga ntisemitism as the various Islamist spokesmen do not mince words about their aspirations regarding the intended fate of the Jews, which is totalannihilation. Finally, it is probablythe most widespread brand of antisemitism as it unifies numerous Islamists from ab road rangeo fc ountries and movements, both Sunnis and Shi'is, mainstream and radicals alike.
... the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, in more than 150 installments by the establishment newsp... more ... the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, in more than 150 installments by the establishment newspapers Ettela cat and Jomhuri-ye Eslami.26 In 2000 ... or the Zionists. On 29 December 2004, the official news agency MEHR published a review of the movie Exodus by Mojtaba Habibi, in ...
OnOctober 20, 2015, Israeli PrimeMinister Benjamin Netanyahu, while speaking at the thirty-sevent... more OnOctober 20, 2015, Israeli PrimeMinister Benjamin Netanyahu, while speaking at the thirty-seventh Zionist Congress, sought to place the ongoing spate of Palestinian violence in historical perspective and to refute Palestinian criticism of Israeli policy. The otherwise unspectacular speech gained worldwide attention when Netanyahu attributed Adolf Hitler’s decision to annihilate the Jewish people to the prodding of Hajj Amin al-Husseini (d. 1974), the former GrandMufti of Palestine and leader of the Palestinian national movement. This was said to have happened during a meeting between the two men on November 28, 1941 in Berlin. According to Netanyahu, the Führer “did not want to exterminate the Jews at the time,” but only wanted to “expel” them. Husseini, Netanyahu added, said to Hitler, “If you expel them, they’ll all come here.”
'The Palestinian cause is not about land and soil, but it is... more 'The Palestinian cause is not about land and soil, but it is about faith and belief." This statement by the Islamic Resistance Movement (Harakat al- muqawama al-Islamiyya, or Hamas, its acronym) reflects an important development in the Arab-Israeli conflict, that of Islamizing ...
Among the Righteous: Lost Stories from the Holocaust's Long Reach into Arab Lands, by Robert ... more Among the Righteous: Lost Stories from the Holocaust's Long Reach into Arab Lands, by Robert Satloff. New York: Public Affairs, 2006. 251 pp. $26.00. The goal motivating historian Robert Satloff, Executive Director of the Washington Institute for Near Eastern Policy, in writing this highly readable and important book was a noble, if optimistic one. He was disturbed by the fact that "alone among peoples in the world, Arabs effectively claimed - and won exemption from the global campaign to remember the Holocaust." The reason is the widespread perception in Arab countries that whereas the perpetrators were Europeans, the Arabs were those who paid the price with the establishment of the state of Israel and the dispossession of the Palestinians. Moreover, many Arabs see the Holocaust as the main, if not only, reason why the world community has supported, or continues to support, Israel's existence. Consequently, the most prevalent Arab response has been to deny the Holocaust, as a means to demolish the legitimacy of Zionism, while a minority have justified Hitler's actions against the Jews. Corollary approaches have blamed the Zionists for collaborating with the Nazis in killing the Jews, or continuously accuse Israel of being a Nazi state in ideology and action. In writing this book, Satloff sought to alter Arab perceptions of the Holocaust by framing it as "an Arab story - preferably a hopeful, constructive, and positive story." He therefore chose to analyze the conduct of Arabs in North Africa, the only part of the Arab world under direct Nazi rule, during the Holocaust. In the book's first part, Satloff surveys the fate of the Jews under Nazi rule. Only about one percent of Jews in North Africa - between 4,000 and 5,000 - perished under Axis control in Arab lands, compared with more than half the Jews of Europe. But had U.S. and British troops not pushed Axis forces from the African continent by May 1943, the Jews of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, and perhaps even Egypt and Palestine almost certainly would have perished like European Jewry. The second part, where the book's major contribution lies, analyzes the conduct of Arabs toward the persecution of the Jews. Arabs' actions were not too different from those of Europeans. With war waging around them, most were indifferent. A percentage collaborated, including Arab officials in royal courts, Arab guards in labor camps, Arabs who volunteered to fight for Germany's cause, and those who went house to house pointing out where Jews lived. Even if 90 percent of Arabs were benignly indifferent to the fate of the Jews, Satloff states, that still left about 2 million "as participants in, supporters of, or active sympathizers with the systematic targeting of Jews." His conclusion is unequivocal: without the help of local Arabs, the extent of Jewish suffering in Arab lands would have been much less. However, there were also those Arabs "righteous among the nations," who risked their lives in order to save Jews, and Satloff brings their stories in a most captivating way. Arabs welcomed Jews into their homes, guarded Jews' valuables so Germans could not confiscate them, shared with Jews their meager rations, and warned Jewish leaders of coming SS raids. …
Islamist antisemitism in the past decades is exceptional in three major categories: It is morev i... more Islamist antisemitism in the past decades is exceptional in three major categories: It is morev irulent than anyo therp ublic expression of antisemitism in the world today. It is also the most openlyg enocidal form of existinga ntisemitism as the various Islamist spokesmen do not mince words about their aspirations regarding the intended fate of the Jews, which is totalannihilation. Finally, it is probablythe most widespread brand of antisemitism as it unifies numerous Islamists from ab road rangeo fc ountries and movements, both Sunnis and Shi'is, mainstream and radicals alike.
... the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, in more than 150 installments by the establishment newsp... more ... the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, in more than 150 installments by the establishment newspapers Ettela cat and Jomhuri-ye Eslami.26 In 2000 ... or the Zionists. On 29 December 2004, the official news agency MEHR published a review of the movie Exodus by Mojtaba Habibi, in ...
OnOctober 20, 2015, Israeli PrimeMinister Benjamin Netanyahu, while speaking at the thirty-sevent... more OnOctober 20, 2015, Israeli PrimeMinister Benjamin Netanyahu, while speaking at the thirty-seventh Zionist Congress, sought to place the ongoing spate of Palestinian violence in historical perspective and to refute Palestinian criticism of Israeli policy. The otherwise unspectacular speech gained worldwide attention when Netanyahu attributed Adolf Hitler’s decision to annihilate the Jewish people to the prodding of Hajj Amin al-Husseini (d. 1974), the former GrandMufti of Palestine and leader of the Palestinian national movement. This was said to have happened during a meeting between the two men on November 28, 1941 in Berlin. According to Netanyahu, the Führer “did not want to exterminate the Jews at the time,” but only wanted to “expel” them. Husseini, Netanyahu added, said to Hitler, “If you expel them, they’ll all come here.”
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