Saturday, October 24 2015
7:00 pm: UPDATES
4:42 pm: Another stabbing averted, this time in South Tel Aviv. Palestinian terrorist from Yatta beside Hebron captured by police on street corner with screwdriver.
12:00 pm UPDATES
11:52 am: Palestinian terrorists are currently attacking IDF soldiers along the Gaza border fence. IDF is using “riot control” methods to control the situation–meaning they are not using live ammunition.
11:39 am: A Palestinian terrorist who attemped to stab an IDF soldier at the Jalama Checkpoint near Jenin has been shot and killed. The soldier was not wounded.
11:00 am UPDATES
9:51 am: A Palestinian terrorist attempted to stab a Jewish man on the Nablus Road in Jerusalem. The man fought him off and wrestled the knife from his hands–and was not wounded. The terrorist escaped.
9:30 am: All morning long, we have heard loud explosions to the south of us here in Ashdod. Various reports have discussed the possibility of missile intercepts in the Ashkelon region and Egyptian bombing of Rafah. No further info at this time.
9:00 am UPDATES
***Palestinian terror yesterday . . .
Friday was another day of horrendous Palestinian violence throughout eastern Jerusalem, Judea, and Samaria. Among the more than 50 attacks with “rocks”, shootings, Molotovs, stabbings, and arson, one stands out for its barbarism.
Palestinian terrorists nearly succeeded in burning an entire family alive in their car when they attacked it with Molotovs late yesterday afternoon in Samaria near Givat Assaf. As we reported yesterday, the entire family suffered burn wounds–but the four-year-old girl in the back seat was directly hit when the Molotov smashed through the window of the car. It landed in her lap and set her on fire from the waist up. At least 35% of her upper body was burned before her parents and sisters could get her out of the child restraint harness.
There is no word on her condition this morning.
And there is no word of condemnation about this attack anywhere–not from Mahmoud Abbas, not from the White House, not from the European Union, not from the United Nations, not from the international press–not from anyone.
***Shuafat and Qalandiya . . .
As your humble servant pointed out last week, much of the terrorism in eastern Jerusalem and elsewhere is emanating from the lawless Palestinian fiefdoms of Shuafat and Qalandiya–two neighborhoods in eastern Jerusalem.
But these are not your normal neighborhoods. Left alone for decades by a fearful Israeli security apparatus, Shuafat and Qalandiya are armed camps. Just how armed was made clear yesterday when it was revealed that Israeli police were chased out of Shuafat last Saturday night.
The police had gone in to prepare a house a dead terrorist for demolition. They were quickly surrounded by dozens of heavily armed men who threatened to open fire if they did not immediately leave. And so they staged a hasty retreat.
Yesterday’s revelation came with the details that there are more than 400 M-16 rifles, numerous other assault rifles, explosives, and hand grenades in Qalandiya alone. In Shuafat there are more than 3000 M-16s and Kalashnikovs, grenades, and IEDs. All of these weapons are under the control of disparate groups of terrorists and criminals.
It is an intolerable situation. Either Israel has sovereignty over these areas or it doesn’t.
***Speaking of Israeli sovereignty . . .
So now “the Quartet” is returning to Israel to mediate the “situation” on the Temple Mount–a bogus situation completely created by the Islamic Wakf, the Islamic Movement, Jordan, and the PLO.
Yesterday, Mahmoud Abbas threw down the gauntlet with a new list of demands necessary for him to “cool” the situation and negotiate with Israel:
1. Israel must return to the pre-September 2000 situation on the Mount. Why pre-September 2000? Because at that time the Islamic Wakf completely controlled Jewish access to the Mount.
2. Israel must freeze all “settlement activity.” Of course, PM Netanyahu effectively froze all construction in Judea, Samaria, and eastern Jerusalem 6 years ago.
3. Israel must release the last batch of 26 Palestinian murderers from Israeli prisons that were to have been released back in April of last year. You might remember that Netanyahu had agreed to release 104 prisoners but only 78 were released following the creation of a PLO-Hamas government. Those 78 have already committed uncounted terrorist attacks in Israel.
Needless to say, if Netanyahu were to agree to any of these conditions, it would be the end of his government.
TODAY’S BLOG:
As any reader of israelstreet knows, your humble servant is not the world’s biggest supporter of PM Netanyahu. Nevertheless, the opprobrium heaped on Netanyahu’s head because of remarks he made at the 37th Zionist Congress on Tuesday about the Mufti of Jerusalem is at least partially misplaced.
Let’s take a look at exactly what Netanyahu said after he discussed the “first lie”–that Israel is trying to change the status quo on the Temple Mount:
“The second [lie] . . . is that we seek to destroy the al-Aqsa Mosque. Now this is particularly farcical. It would be farcical if it weren’t tragic. My grandfather came to this land in 1920 and landed in Jaffa, and very shortly after he landed he went to the immigration office in Jaffa. And a few months later it was burned down by marauders. These attackers, Arab attacks, murdered several Jews, including out celebrated writer Brenner.
And this attack and other attacks on the Jewish community in 1920, 1921, 1929, were instigated by a call from the Mufti of Jerusalem Haj Amin al-Husseini, who was later sought for war crimes in the Nuremberg trials because he had a central role in fomenting the final solution.
He flew to Berlin. Hitler didn’t want to exterminate the Jews at the time, he wanted to expel the Jews. And Haj Amin al-Husseini went to Hitler and said, ‘If you expel them, they’ll all come here.’ ‘So what should I do with them?’ he asked. He said, ‘Burn them.’ And he was sought in, during the Nuremberg trials for prosecution.
He escaped it [prosecution] and later died of cancer, after the war in Cairo. But this is what Haj Amin al-Husseini said. He said, ‘The Jews seek to destroy the Temple Mount.’
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First is anything that Netanyahu said about Mufti Husseini’s alliance with Nazis untrue?
The answer is “no”. Every word and action that Netanyahu attributed to the Mufti is exactly correct. If Netanyahu can be blamed for anything in regard to the Mufti, it is that he didn’t say enough. Here’s a short summary of what the Mufti did and said from 1933 to 1945:
1. In 1933, weeks after Hitler came to power, German Consul-General in Palestine sent a telegram to Berlin reporting that Mufti al-Husseini and other Palestinian Muslims were enthusiastic about the Nazi regime and spreading fascism in Palestine.
2. In the summer of 1940, Mufti Husseini submitted to the Nazi government a declaration of Arab-German cooperation. The declaration included this clause:
“Germany and Italy recognize the right of the Arab countries to solve the question of the Jewish elements, which exist in Palestine and in the other Arab countries, as required by the national and ethnic (völkisch) interests of the Arabs, and as the Jewish question was solved in Germany and Italy.”
3. On October 10, 1941, Mufti Husseini arrived in Rome for a meeting in which he and Mussolini discussed their hostility to Jews.
4. On November 6, 1941, Mufti Husseini arrived in Germany. On November 20, he met with German Foreign Minister von Ribbentrop; on November 28, he was officially received by Hitler.
Mufti Husseini with Hitler in December 1941.
5. Shortly thereafter, Mufti Husseini took up residence in a Nazi-paid-for suite at Berlin’s luxurious Hotel Adlon. At the same time he began his nightly radio broadcasts which always ended with calls to “slaughter the Jews.” He was paid 50,000 marks per month.
6. In 1942, Mufti Husseini visited Sachsenhausen concentration camp where he applauded the Nazi treatment of Jews. There is also some evidence that Mufti Husseini visited Auschwitz, Majdanek, Treblinka, and Mauthausen.
7. In 1943, Mufti Husseini went to Bosnia where he personally recruited and established the infamous Muslim “Handschar” 13th Waffen SS division which carried out wholesale massacres of Jews in Croatia (which then included Bosnia) and Serbia. He wrote a pamphlet for the Handschar which concluded with the famous quotation from the Hadith: “The Day of Judgement will come, when the Muslims will crush the Jews completely: And when every tree behind which a Jew hides will say: ‘There is a Jew behind me, Kill him!'”
Mufti Husseini with his Waffen SS unit.
7. At the Nuremberg trials, one of Adolf Eichmann’s deputies, Dieter Wisliceny, testified that Mufti Husseini met with Eichmann and told him (Wisliceny) that he (Mufti Husseini) had visited Auschwitz with Eichmann. Wisliceny added:
“The Mufti was one of the initiators of the systematic extermination of European Jewry for the Germans and had been the permanent collaborator and advisor of Eichmann and Himmler in the execution of the plan . . . According to my opinion, the Grand Mufti, who had been in Berlin since 1941, played a role in the decision of the German government to exterminate the European Jews, the importance of which must not be disregarded.
He had repeatedly suggested to the various authorities with who had been in contact, above all before Hitler, Ribbentrop and Himmler, the extermination of European Jewry. He considered this as a comfortable solution of the Palestinian problem. In his messages broadcast from Berlin, he surpassed us in anti-Jewish attacks. He was one of Eichmann’s best friends and had constantly incited him to accelerate the extermination measures…”
In short, PM Netanyahu was absolutely correct in asserting that Mufti Amin al-Husseini played an important role in the Holocaust that consumed European Jewry. He indisputably played a central role in fomenting the final solution.
Moreover, Netanyahu was absolutely correct in pointing out that Husseini fomented hatred against Jews throughout his life and incited numerous terror attacks and pogroms against Jews here in Israel. And to the extent that Mahmoud Abbas constantly extols al-Husseini as a hero of the Palestinians whose words and deeds must be followed, al-Husseni continues to incite violence every day.
It is no incitement whatsoever for Netanyahu to state these facts.
However, the other part of Netanyahu’s statement is an egregious error.
Whereas it is true that Hitler met with Husseini and Husseini stated that Jews should be burned–before the infamous Wannsee “Final Solution” conference–one cannot argue that Hitler and his followers did not have the extermination of the Jews in mind long before the meeting with al-Husseini.
The elimination of European Jewry was Hitler’s idea all along, and it was an idea that al-Husseini eagerly supported in every way that he could. The fact is that exterminations had already begun before November 28, 1941 though not on an industrial scale.
To suggest, as Netanyahu did, that al-Husseini was responsible for the Holocaust is incorrect, and should be loudly corrected by him in every venue. It was a surprising mistake for someone so well versed in history to make.
To sum up:
Did Amin al-Husseini bring about the Holocaust? Absolutely not.
Did Amin al-Husseini do everything he could to support the Nazi regime and the murder of Jews? Absolutely yes.
A student from Malawi, who had worked with an Israeli health volunteer in his country battling AIDS, came up to us as we walked down the street in the UC-Davis Picnic Day Parade and wanted to carry the Israeli flag.