TheHumanAlphabet
8/2/2006, 10:10 AM
My TIVO recorded it, I think it was a History channel show. Amazing. We have France and the U.K. to thank for all the unrest in the middle east (I knew the U.K., not France) and everything being partitioned after WWI. After promising a united Arabia and getting their help to beat the Austro-Hungarian empire, the French and Brits reneged, split up the spoils (for oil - we knew that) and installed puppet governments and monarchies. What I didn't know is that the Arab "intellectuals" mostly French educated and seeking a pan-Arabia went to the Nazi's for help, got some, but the not enough to defeat the Brits. Europe was dumping the Jews into Palestine and by default the U.N. deemed Palestine two separate countries - one Arab, one Jew.
At the same time, the Mufti of Jerusalem al-Husseini was seeking Nazi help and was even deemed "caucasian" by Hitler's doctors so he could be made a General in the SS. He developed a muslim SS squad of Bosnians, chechnicks? (who were quite ruthless) that fought partisans and other allied sympathizers in East Europe. al-Husseini wasn't tried as a war criminal, because the Western leaders didn't want an Arab uproar and wanted continued access to the oil. Al-Husseini eventually went to Egypt and continued his pan-Arabian thoughts and acts there. Yassar Arafat described himself as al-Husseini's "son"...
The intial pan-Arabia thinkers were heavily influenced by the Nazi's and Mein Kampf. Apparently Saddam was a heavy reader of Mein Kampf.
Interesting...
At the same time, the Mufti of Jerusalem al-Husseini was seeking Nazi help and was even deemed "caucasian" by Hitler's doctors so he could be made a General in the SS. He developed a muslim SS squad of Bosnians, chechnicks? (who were quite ruthless) that fought partisans and other allied sympathizers in East Europe. al-Husseini wasn't tried as a war criminal, because the Western leaders didn't want an Arab uproar and wanted continued access to the oil. Al-Husseini eventually went to Egypt and continued his pan-Arabian thoughts and acts there. Yassar Arafat described himself as al-Husseini's "son"...
The intial pan-Arabia thinkers were heavily influenced by the Nazi's and Mein Kampf. Apparently Saddam was a heavy reader of Mein Kampf.
Interesting...