Once again, there is unrest in the Middle East. Once again, we read shocking headlines. The Zionist-Palestinian conflict is one long chain of tragedies and bloodshed. Residential neighborhoods have been transformed into war zones, and there seems to be no hope for a lasting peace.
Our members and readers have long known our position; nevertheless, in the present circumstances we will once again restate it clearly. The Zionist ideology is antithetical to the Torah. Zionism was devised to replace the Torah and its commandments with empty nationalism and power. Jews believe that the redemption of the Jews will come only through G-d, and then there will be peace for the entire world. Zionists believe only in the power of their hands: a physical, artificial redemption.
It is therefore self-understood that the State of Israel has zero connection with Jews or Judaism. We, Orthodox Jews, did not make the state. We show our disasssociation from it by not participating in its elections or accepting its financial benefits. Therefore, we bear no responsibility for the states actions.
Just as Jews would not be held responsible in a conflict between North Korea and South Korea, Jews should not be held responsible for the Zionists decisions and conflicts. The State of Israel has as much to do with Jews and Judaism as does China or Mongolia.
Orthodox Jews tell the world: WE ARE NOT ZIONISTS. The Zionists are not our representatives or spokesmen. They have no right to speak in the name of Jewry. It is a terrible mistake to confuse Jews with Zionists. We wish to live in peace with all the nations. We pray for our Jewish brethren and non-Jews in the Middle East, that they should be saved from all misfortunes and danger. And most of all, we await that great day when G-ds glory will be revealed in the entire world, and there will be peace for all of humanity.
Source: www.jewsagainstzionism.com...
But on the other hand, after the British Mandate was imposed on Palestine after the fall of the Ottoman Empire, the poverty stricken area was initially grateful for the influx of money and know-how that came in with the immigrating Jews. Moderate Muslim leaders looked forward to the new economic synergy. Unfortunately, one person instigated to stop this harmony from developing. That was Mohammad Amin al-Husayni. He opposed the immigration and instigated riots and terrorism against the immigrating Jews. His anti-Jewry was so strong that he had all moderate Muslim leaders assassinated. Later, he was to align himself with Hitler and even was present for the Final Solution conference. This figurehead set in motion the current state and mentality of the Palestinian. (His nephew took over the task, ie., Arafat and continued the same tactics.)
...al-Husseini consolidated his control over the Palestinian Arabs with a campaign of murder against Jews and non-compliant Arabs, the recruitment of armed militias, and the raising of funds from around the Muslim world using anti-Jewish propaganda. In 1937 the Grand Mufti expressed his solidarity with Germany, asking the Nazi Third Reich to oppose establishment of a Jewish state, stop Jewish immigration to Palestine, and provide arms to the Arab population. Following an assassination attempt on the British Inspector-General of the Palestine Police Force and the murder by Arab extremists of Jews and moderate Arabs, the Arab Higher Committee was declared illegal by the British. The Grand Mufti lost his office of President of the Supreme muslim Council...
According to documentation from the Nuremberg and Eichmann trials, the Nazi Germany SS helped finance al-Husseini's efforts in the 1936-39 revolt in Palestine. Adolf Eichmann actually visited Palestine and met with al-Husseini at that time and subsequently maintained regular contact with him later in Berlin...
At the Nuremberg Trials, Eichmann's deputy Dieter Wisliceny (subsequently executed as a war criminal) testified:
* The Mufti was one of the initiators of the systematic extermination of European Jewry and had been a collaborator and adviser of Eichmann and Himmler in the execution of this plan. ... He was one of Eichmann's best friends and had constantly incited him to accelerate the extermination measures. I heard him say, accompanied by Eichmann, he had visited incognito the gas chamber of Auschwitz.
With the collapse of Nazi Germany in 1945, the Mufti moved to Egypt where he was received as a national hero. After the war al-Husseini was indicted by Yugoslavia for war crimes, but escaped prosecution. The Mufti was never tried because the Allies were afraid of the storm in the Arab world if the hero of Arab nationalism was treated as a war criminal.
From Egypt al-Husseini was among the sponsors of the 1948 war against the new State of Israel.
www.palestinefacts.org...
More on the history of the "Grand Mufti Nazi":
Mufti Amin al-Husseini allied with Hitler
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So the whole issue has been politicized by both side. Unfortunately, it's the common people of both sides that are being used as pawns of their leaders and suffer the most.
[edit on 6/1/2009 by Matrix1111]
