before the recent "tool"
of the Palestinian cause was invented.
The survivors were obliged to abandon their possessions and run.
At the beginning of this century Jews were recorded in nearly every town that is today considered to have been "purely Arab".
It was Jewish refugees who were forced to flee from their homes within Palestine to other areas in Palestine.
David Landes in "Palestine Before the Zionists", writes:
"Jews had to pass Muslims on their left side, because that was the side of Satan.
They had to yield the right of way, step off the pavement to let the Arab go by, above all make sure not to touch him in passing, because this could provoke a violent response.
In the same way, anything that reminded the Muslims of the presence of alternative religions, any demonstration of alternative forms of worship, had to be avoided, so synagogues were places in humble, hidden places, and the sounds of Jewish prayers carefully muted".
DeHass also writes: "Murad III decreed that all Jews throughout his empire be executed", this decree was prevented by Solomon Ashkenazi, Murad's confidential agent.
In 1576 Sultan Murad III enacted legislation to uproot and deport a 1000 of the 15,000 of Safed's Jews to Cyprus.
In the 16th century in Jerusalem the Jews were so taxed to the point of extortion and most of Jerusalem's Jews ran to Hebron, Gaza, and Tiberius to become refugees.
Bedouin raiders, general anarchy, tax corruption, with additional tax burden was aimed only at the Jews, yet they held steadfast in Judah-cum-Palestine.
The Jerusalem Jews were bitterly and mercilessly persecuted during the 17th century reign of an Arab ruler Ibn Barouk who bought the rule from Murad IV.
In 1660 the entire Jewish community was massacred by Arabs with only one survivor.
Little is known by Arabs as to why Ahmad Basha El-Jazzar [The butcher] held this name, his sadistic wanton exploits became legend during the 1800s, who was known to travel accompanied by an executioner.
When The Butcher encountered a subject who was adjudged to be misbehaving, "The criminal bowed his neck, the executioner struck, and the head fell" (DeHass).
Hayim Farhi, the only Jew who has risen to power in the area was imprisoned by The Butcher, cutting off his nose, ear, and gouging out his eye.
The Jews were at the bottom of the heap of peoples in status who had to pay to pray on the Wailing Wall, protection money was always collected against destruction and vandalism of the Jewish burial grounds, and to prevent molestation of Jewish travelers.
In the 1830s havoc was created during the Egyptian reign of Palestine, and the Jews were persecuted brutally throughout the country.
In 1834 the inhabitants of Eastern Palestine crossed the Jordan River to join natives of Nablus, Hebron, and Bethlehem, 40,000 of them rushed on Jerusalem and looted the city for 5 days were the Jews had their homes sacked and their women raped. (DeHass, History, vol V, p.393).
The Jewish story in Palestine was like the story of a rape victim, blamed for being there at the time.
In the following few decades (1848 - 1878) scores of incidents involving anti-Jewish violence, persecution, and extortions filled page after page of documented reports from the British Consulate in Jerusalem too overwhelming to show in these pages.
Throughout the 19th century Jews were victims of mass hunger and of Arab attacks.
The 1929 Arab riots resulted in the rape and massacre of most of Hebron's Jewish community.
Later Muftism by Haj Al-Ameen El-Husseni started fatwas (religious decrees) against all the Jews as a response to the Zionist movement.
His collaboration with Hitler on the Eve of The Final Solution left an everlasting mark on the history of Muftism in The Holy Land.
Letters of collaboration with Heinrich Himmler and the Hungarian Prime Minister resulted in the death of 400,000 Jews when he succeeded to stop them from immigrating to the Holy Land.
Till now, no apology, hearing, or condemnation was made by any Arab government or religious official.
Hajj Amin al-Husseini, Mufti of Jerusalem,
inspecting troops in Bosnia (1943).
The Mufti of Jerusalem salutes the Bosnian SS division
Photo from:SM, Yugoslavia, WWII, Muslim SS division Hanjar, photographs source: www.flamemag.dircon.co.uk/yugoslavia_collaboration.htm
From the Encyclopedia of Holocaust, Edition 1990, Vol. 2, page 704. The caption under the photograph reads: Hajj Amin al-Husseini, Mufti of Jerusalem, inspecting troops in Bosnia (1943).
Grand Mufti of Jerusalem organises recruitment to Bosnia's SS division
During the Second World War in Yugoslavia, as with the Catholic Church in Croatia, many Muslim clerics in Bosnia and Kosovo were willing accomplices in the genocide of the nations Serbian, Jewish and Roma population.
From 1941 until 1945, the Nazi-installed regime of Ante Pavelic in Croatia carried out some of the most horrific crimes of the Holocaust (known as the Porajmos by the Roma), killing over 800,000 Yugoslav citizens - 750,000 Serbs, 60,000 Jews and 26,000 Roma.
In these crimes, they were helped by Muslim fundamentalists in Bosnia and Kosovo
A notorious anti-Semite, he openly encouraged Muslims to join Nazi units that would be later implicated in genocide and crimes against humanity -
The infamous Hanjar (or Handschar) 13th Waffen SS division.
One of these crimes was the The Massacre at Koritska Jama Gorge, in Bosnia during 1941.
The Nazi's also established a puppet state in Serbia under General Milan Nedic, who along with the Cetniks also particapated in the Holocaust in wartime Croatia (which included Bosnia) and Serbia.
The Nazis had taken al-Husseini under their protection following the wartime invasion of Iraq.
He was to spend most of the war living in a luxurious suite at the Hotel Adlon in Berlin.
Hitler had enjoyed quite a following among the nationalist youth of Egypt during the war, after Nassiri Nasser, the brother of the future president of Egypt, had published an Arab edition of Mein Kampf in 1939, describing its author as the "strongest man of Europe".
Not surprisingly, Egypt became like Argentina after the war - a safe haven for SS war criminals who fled there after the war.
Many were keen to help President Nasser in his attempts to destroy the State of Israel.
There is evidence that the shadowy ODESSA network helped many of them to Egypt.
Apart from Syria - who still host the wanted SS war criminal Alois Brunner, it was in Egypt that the Post-war Arab links to the ODESSA network were strongest.
Many of the victims of the Holocaust/Porajmos were murdered in the Second World War's third largest death camp - Jasenovac, where over 200,000 people - mainly Orthodox Serbs met their deaths.
Some 240,000 were "rebaptized" into the Catholic faith by fundamentalist Clerics in "the Catholic Kingdom of Croatia" as part of the policy to "kill a third, deport a third, convert a third" of Yugoslavia's Serbs, Jews and Roma in wartime Bosnia and Croatia (The Yugoslav Auschwitz and the Vatican, Vladimar Dedijer, Anriman-Verlag, Freiburg, Germany, 1988).
The most senior Muslim cleric to be involved in the Holocaust/Porajmos was Hajj Amin al-Husseini, who according to the Encyclopedia of the Holocaust (Edition 1990, Volume 2, Pages 706 and 707), made a substantial contribution to the Axis war effort by organizing "in record time" recruitment to Muslim SS units in Croatia that would be involved in some of the worse atrocities of the Second World War.
Altogether, it is estimated that some 20,000 Muslims fought in the Hanjar (Sword) SS Division, which fought against Yugoslav partisans led by General Tito, and carried out police and security details in fascist Hungary.
The Nazi's recruited two SS divisions from Yugoslavia's Muslim population: the infamous Bosnian 13th Waffen Hanjar (or Handschar) SS division, and the Albanian Skanderbeg 21st Waffen SS division.
SS conscription in Yugoslavia during the war produced 42,000 Waffen SS and police troopsThe Encyclopedia of the Holocaust states:
They participated in the massacre of civilians in Bosnia and volunteered to join in the hunt for Jews in Croatia . . . The Germans made a point of publicizing the fact that Husseini had flown from Berlin to Sarajevo for the sole purpose of giving his blessing to the Muslim army and inspecting its arms and training exercises.
President of Bosnia "recruited" for the SS Handschar Division
Alija Izetbegovic
According to one article on the web, Ethnic Conflicts in Civil War in Bosnia, Alija Izetbegovic, the current President of Bosnia and Herzegovina, is the person who connects the present and the World War II.
During the World War II, he was also linked to the SS Handschar Division.
He joined the organization "Young Muslims" in Sarajevo on March 5, 1943, and is alleged to have engaged as a member of the organization in recruiting young Muslims for Handschar Division in collaboration with German intelligence services (ABWER and GESTAPO).
Thus, in the spring of 1943, as leader of the Muslim youth in Sarajevo, he welcomed the Nazi collaborator Amin-el Husseini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, to Sarajevo.
In 1946, however, he was sentenced by the Yugoslav Supreme Military Court to three years of imprisonment and two years of deprivation of civil rights, because of his fascist activities. What was alleged to be his "criminal record" was published by Russian gazette "Izvestija" on 17th November 1992.
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