Israeli intelligence satellites have spied the loading of rockets and other
material in Iran believed to be destined for the Gaza Strip, the UK-based Sunday
Times reported, citing Israeli officials. According to the report, Iran
began preparing the weapons shipment around the same time Israel and Hamas
negotiated a cease-fire late last week.
The shipment is said to include
Iranian made Fajr-5 medium-range rockets, the same model that was fired toward
Tel Aviv and Jerusalem during Operation Pillar of Defense, the Sunday Times
reported.
Last month, following an air attack on a weapons plant near
Khartoum, the Defense Ministry’s director of policy and political-military
affairs accused Sudan of acting as a transit point for weapons shipments to
Gaza. Amos Gilad accused Khartoum of aiding and abetting terrorism, and said the
Sudanese regime was “supported by Iran” and was used as a route to transfer
weapons to Hamas terrorists in the Gaza Strip via Egypt. Sudan accused
Israel of attacking the military plant. The Sunday Times report also
cited Israeli officials speculating that Iran could be moving longer-range
ballistic missiles into Sudan, which could be aimed at Israel from the African
country. The official added that Tehran would act to re-arm Hamas and
other Gaza groups quickly, as it sees them as a necessary part of its response
to a possible Israeli attack against Iran.
Exploring the roots and joint ideologies of the Nazis and early
Arab-Palestinian "National" Movement headed by Jerusalem's religious
leader Grand Mufti Haj Amin al-Husseini
by Elliott A Green Whitewashing the Arab historical record has
long been the practice not only of Arab spokesmen but of the Arabs'
Western and Communist sympathizers. Among the most persistent efforts to
this end have been the denial and belittling of Arab involvement with
the Nazis and the Holocaust.
In fact, many Arab nationalist
leaders - from Morocco in the west to Iraq in the east - not only
sympathized with the Nazis but cooperated with German agents before and
during World War 2. The most outstanding Arab Nazi collaborator,
however, was the leader of the Palestinian Arabs, Haj Muhammud Amin
el-Husseini, Mufti of Jerusalem.
Husseini spent most of World War
2 in the Axis domain in Europe. He conferred officially with Mussolini
and Hitler. In a petition he submitted together with other Arab leaders,
Husseini urged the Fuehrer in the name of the Arab nation to recognize
the Arab right to solve "the Jewish Question" in the Arab countries.
Later he helped the Germans recruit an SS division among the Bosnian
Muslims, exerting his influence over their imams, later on inspiring
them during their service.
One researcher tells us, "The Mufti worked closely with the Nazi machinery responsible for exterminating Jews." (1)
This
apparatus was part of the SS headed by his friend Himmler. Husseini
made energetic efforts to further the mass murder process by preventing
the emigration of Jews from the Axis domain. He petitioned the
governments of Axis Croatia, Hungary, Rumania, and Bulgaria, as well as
their patrons in Germany and Italy, and neutral Turkey, (2) to prevent
Jews from leaving the Axis zone.
Towards the end of the war, when
the Axis satellite states of Eastern Europe could see the looming Nazi
defeat, they made plans to release Jews, especially children, from their
territory, in return for various considerations or perhaps in order to
clear themselves with Allied public opinion. The Mufti, hearing of these
plans, exerted his considerable diplomatic influence among the Germans
and their satellites to stop these children and adults from escaping
their fate under the Nazis. For instance, Husseini wrote to the Prime
Minister of Bulgaria, an Axis partner, urging Bulgaria to send 4,000
Jewish children to Poland where they would be "under stringent control"
in his words (letter of June 5, 1943). These children, he asserted,
presented "a degree of danger to Bulgaria whether they be kept in
Bulgaria or be permitted to depart from that country." (3)
One widespread myth about the Mideast conflict is that the Arabs are
paying the price for Germany's sins. The notion that the Palestinians
are the "second victims" of the Holocaust contains two falsehoods: It
suggests that without Auschwitz, there would be no justification for
Israel, ignoring 3,000 years of Jewish history in the land. It also
suggests Arab innocence in German crimes, ignoring especially the
fascist past of Palestinian leader Haj Amin al Husseini, who was not
only Grand Mufti of Jerusalem but also Waffen SS recruiter and Nazi
propagandist in Berlin. When a German journalist recently tried to shed
some light on this history, he encountered the wrath of the Arab
collaborators' German apologists.
The mufti orchestrated the 1920/1921 anti-Jewish riots in Palestine
and the 1929 Arab pogroms that destroyed the ancient Jewish community of
Hebron. An early admirer of Hitler, Husseini received Nazi funding—as
did Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood—for his 1936-1939 Palestinian revolt,
during which his thugs killed hundreds of British soldiers, Jews and
also Arabs who rejected his Islamo-Nazi agenda. After participating in a
failed fascist coup in Iraq, he fled to Berlin in 1941 as Hitler's
personal guest. In the service of the Third Reich, the mufti recruited
thousands of Muslims to the Waffen SS. He intervened with the Nazis to
prevent the escape to Palestine of thousands of European Jews, who were
sent instead to the death camps. He also conspired with the Nazis to
bring the Holocaust to Palestine. Rommel's defeat in El Alamein spoiled
these plans.
