The Great Smoky Mountain Journal
OUR VIEW
Posted: Tuesday, January 01, 2019 02:25 PM
OUR VIEW: As We Recognize International Holocaust Remembrance This Weekend, Let Us Never Forget The Six Million Jews Slaughtered By Nazi Germany And The Ties Of Islam To History's Darkest Hour
More than six million people were killed in the Holocaust. The number is so large you lose sight of the individuals who make up that figure. Each life taken had its own story, family and a contribution to make to the world. Their loss is all the more staggering when you realize this.
All these Nazi victims had one thing in common – they were deemed to be “other,” different, not worthy of respect or empathy, less than human.
How could this have happened? This is the key question we must continue to ask as we remember six million precious souls who died at the hands of Nazi Germany. With some who seek to erase this dark stain from history's road map, it's imperative we keep its realization alive for future generations so the same mistake will never be made again against the Jews, or any other group.
The Holocaust followed a sequence seen in other genocides and ethnic cleansings – certain groups were singled out from the general population and targeted.
As they become more forcibly ostracized, the initial verbal abuse endured eventually leads to physical attacks. No longer worthy of respect, the group has become devalued. By the time the victims are being rounded up and marked for eradication, there is little outcry from the general population. The victims are no longer seen as people, just a problem to be eradicated for the good of society.
President Donald Trump recognized Saturday’s International Holocaust Remembrance Day with his own message honoring Holocaust survivors and victims.
“Our Nation is indebted to the Holocaust’s survivors,” Trump said in his presidential message. “Despite the trauma they carry with them, they continue to educate us by sharing their experiences, strength, wisdom, and generosity of spirit to advance respect for human rights.”
“We will confront anti-Semitism. We will stamp out prejudice. We will condemn hatred. We will bear witness. And we will act,” he said.
Trump later posted on Twitter, “We pledge with all of our might and resolve: Never Again!”
Other public officials also showed their support for International Holocaust Remembrance Day in person and on social media. First Lady Melania Trump visited the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum on Thursday, and a number of lawmakers posted tributes on Twitter. Many held signs to signify their remembrance.
Some Democratic lawmakers, such as Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren made clear their Holocaust Remembrance Day salutes were another way to compare Hitler's actions against the Jews with what President Trump is doing to secure our borders. The message is because President Trump is not granting amnesty to millions of lawbreakers and illegal aliens he somehow is as evil as a mad man who gassed six million Jews to death.
This same party that is quick to put illegal aliens over American citizens, is also the party that is quick to defend Islam and all its violence directed at Jews claiming that any angst against Muslims over their violence is also racist and Hitler-based bigotry.
Never let a solemn moment of reflection of a serious historical event go without the stupidity and utter disgusting rhetoric from the Democratic Party.
What is never discussed about Hitler's actions are the numerous Islamic ties to the Final Solution. Hitler was a big fan of the Arab World in the early stages of World War II and without good reason in his demonic mind.
On 11 June 1941 Hitler and the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces issued Directive No. 32, titled "Preparations for the period after 'Barbarossa'" which read (in part):
"Exploitation of the Arab Freedom Movement. The situation of the English in the Middle East will be rendered more precarious, in the event of major German operations, if more British forces are tied down at the right moment by civil commotion or revolt. All military, political, and propaganda measures to this end must be closely coordinated during the preparatory period. As central agency abroad I nominate Special Staff F, which is to take part in all plans and actions in the Arab area, whose headquarters are to be in the area of the Commander Armed Forces South-east. The most competent available experts and agents will be made available to it. The Chief of the High Command of the Armed Forces will specify the duties of Special Staff F, in agreement with the Foreign Minister where political questions are involved."
General der Artillerie Walter Warlimont, who was involved in military alliances with some Arabs, reports that many German officers believed:
"...the only real political rallying point among the Arabs was their common hatred of the Jews, while "Arab nationalist movements" as such, because of the diversity of interests in the various Arab countries, existed only on paper."
Some wealthy Arabs who traveled to Germany in the 1930s brought back fascist ideals and incorporated them into Arab Nationalism.
One of the principal founders of Ba'athist thought and the Ba'ath Party, Zaki al-Arsuzi, stated that Fascism and Nazism had greatly influenced Ba'athist ideology. An associate of al-Arsuzi, Sami al-Jundi, wrote:
"We were racists. We admired the Nazis. We were immersed in reading Nazi literature and books that were the source of the Nazi spirit. We were the first who thought of a translation of Mein Kampf. Anyone who lived in Damascus at that time was witness to the Arab inclination toward Nazism. Michel Aflaq a founder of the Ba'athist philosophy admired Hitler and the Nazis for standing up to Britain and America. This admiration would combine aspects of Nazism into Ba'athism."
The two most noted Arab politicians who actively collaborated with the Nazis were Grand Mufti of Jerusalem (al Quds) Haj Amin al-Husseini, and the Iraqi Prime Minister Rashid Ali al-Gaylani. Al-Husseini is seen by many to be father figure of the current Palestinian Authority organization backed by Hamas and other terror groups bent on the destruction of Israel and the establishment of Jerusalem as its own city. That is why President Trump's recent announcement that the U.S. was recognizing Jerusalem as Israel's capital city has so angered so many Palestinians that they are threatening to cut off peace talks with Israel. That's a huge joke considering the Palestinians have never been a serious broker in any peace talks to begin with. President Trump is more than right to cut off their financial aid until they decide such a time is right.
The United States is no longer funding terrorism under the Trump camp, unlike his predecessor, Barrack Hussein Obama, who it seemed was bankrolling every anti-Israel group in the world while in office.
An interesting side note to this to gather more understanding what type man al-Hussenini was includes the fact that the British had forced Mufti al-Husseini into exile for his role in the 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine. The ex-Mufti had agents in the Kingdom of Iraq, the French Mandate of Syria and in Mandatory Palestine.
In 1941, the Mufti actively supported the Iraqi Golden Square coup d'état, led by Rashid Ali al-Gaylani. After the Golden Square Iraqi regime was defeated by pro-British forces, Rashid Ali, the Mufti, and other Iraqi veterans took refuge in Europe, where they supported Axis interests.
Both men, but especially Al-Husseini, were particularly successful in recruiting several tens-of-thousands of Muslims for membership in German Schutzstaffel (SS) units, and as propagandists for the Arabic-speaking world. The range of collaborative activities was wide.
According to historical data, Anwar Sadat, who later became president of Egypt, was a willing collaborator in Nazi Germany's espionage according to his own memoirs.
Adolf Hitler was a mad man to begin with but his meeting with Haj Amin al-Husseini on 28 November 1941 added fuel to his already demonic inspired "fire" to destroy the Jews.
The official German notes of that meeting contain numerous references to the extermination of all Jews both inside and outside Europe. The following excerpts from that meeting are statements from Hitler to the Mufti:
"Germany stood for uncompromising war against the Jews. That naturally included active opposition to the Jewish national home in Palestine, which was nothing other than a center, in the form of a state, for the exercise of destructive influence by Jewish interests."
After this meeting Hitler would on his own give the Arab world the assurance that its hour of liberation against the Jews had arrived. Germany's objective would then be solely the destruction of the Jewish people residing in the Arab sphere under the protection of British power. Haj Amin al-Husseini became the most prominent Arab collaborator with one of history's most demonic and evil men.
Al-Husseini developed friendships with high-ranking Nazis, including Heinrich Himmler, Joachim von Ribbentrop and (possibly) Adolf Eichmann while contributing to Axis propaganda services, and to the recruitment of Muslim and Arab soldiers for the Nazi armed forces, including three SS divisions consisting of Yugoslavian Muslims.
He was involved in parachuting Germans and Arab agents to foment attacks against the Jews in Palestine during the War.
He assisted the German entry into North Africa, particularly the German entry into Tunisia and Libya. His espionage network provided the Wehrmacht with a forty-eight-hour warning of the Allied invasion of North Africa. The Wehrmacht, however, ignored this information, which turned out to be completely accurate.
He intervened and protested to government authorities in order to prevent Jews from emigrating to Mandatory Palestine.
There is persuasive evidence that he was aware of the Nazi Final Solution and celebrated Hitler's final move to destroy the Jews.
Yet 70 years later the world ignores the fact the modern Palestinian movement was birthed by this same man. The hatred for the Jews remains to this day in the dialogue of Islam. Whether we say they are radical or just "peaceful," and I put that in quotations for a reason, the fact remains as we honor International Holocaust Remembrance Day in 2018, the world is not much different than it was in 1941. The stripes of the swastiza have been traded for the sword of Islam, but the hatred remains the same.
On International Holocaust Remembrance Day (Jan. 27), #WeRemember the six million innocent Jewish men, women, and children who perished during the Holocaust.
We must continue our vigilance against anti-Semitism, prejudice, and racism in this modern hour.
God loves all people, Jews, Muslims, Americans and any other group on this Planet. He does not however condone evil and violence against His chosen people. The world may stand against Israel but in doing so they are standing against the apple of God's eye. It would be in the best interest of the Palestinians to get along with their cousins. In this family fight, God may not take sides, but He does honor His own Word that declares He has chosen Jerusalem as His own, put His own name on it, and has be by divine decree given it to Israel.
Let us pray for the PEACE of God's eternal city in these last hours. And may again we remember the Holocaust and curse those who seek to deny it while embracing the offsprings of those who perpetrated it. Shalom.
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Christopher McDonald, Publisher, Editor in Charge
Great Smoky Mountain Journal
Haj Amin al-Husseini and Adolf Hitler on 28 November 1941. Hussenini is believed to have been the one to give Hitler the idea for the "Final Solution"