It wasn’t about Israel.
It was Nov. 28, 1941. Israel, founded in 1948 — seven years later — did not exist. The territory of modern-day Israel and Palestine was then under the control the British.
Europe was at war. Adolf Hitler’s Germany was on the march. It had conquered France, Poland, the Czech Republic, and invaded Russia.
But on this November day, meeting at his office in the Reich Chancellory in Berlin, Hitler was meeting with a decidedly non-European individual.
Hitler’s visitor was one Haj Amin al-Husseini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and a Palestinian Arab. A careful record of their conversation was kept. And over there at the Times of Israel, the essence of that conversation has been published.
Among other things said to Hitler by the Grand Mufti was this:
The Arabs were Germany’s natural friends because they had the same enemies as had Germany, namely the English, the Jews and the Communists.
To which Hitler replied that:
Germany stood for uncompromising war against the Jews…. Germany was resolved, step by step, to ask one European nation after the other to solve its Jewish problem, and at the proper time to direct a similar appeal to non-European nations as well.
As soon as Germany had won the war, Hitler said:
Germany’s objective would then be solely the destruction of the Jewish element residing in the Arab sphere under the protection of British power. In that hour the Mufti would be the most authoritative spokesman for the Arab world.
In other words?
The existence of Israel is not at the center of the current war in the Middle East.
The center of this war — as the hardcore history of the decidedly pre-Israel Hitler–Grand Mufti meeting a full 83 years ago so vividly demonstrates — is about killing Jews. Exterminating an entire race of human beings. And doing so for no other reason than hatred of Jews. Which is exactly what motivated Hitler to launch the Holocaust.
That was the position of the Palestinian Grand Mufti in 1941 — and it is the position of Hamas and Iran and their allies today.
The question for Americans now is why President Joe Biden doesn’t understand this most basic fact in world history.
Only in the last few days have Jew-haters gathered in Dearborn, Michigan, to shouts of “Death to Israel!” and “Death to America!” What they really mean, of course, is “Death to Jews.”
Reuters reports:
Biden, 80, has evolved in the face of a challenging 2024 reelection bid, threats by some would-be supporters to withhold their votes over his lack of backing for Palestinians, and a warning from former President Barack Obama that Israel’s actions could backfire.
What happened on Oct. 7 was, simply put, an attack designed, Hitler-style, to kill as many Jews as possible. If there was a wave of a magic wand that could replace Jews in the Middle East with, say, Presbyterians or Catholics or Black Baptists, it is entirely possible none of what’s happening would be happening.
The hard central fact of not just our time but seemingly time immemorial is hatred for Jews. Which all too frequently results in murderous wars designed to kill Jews at a maximum, or, at a minimum, anti-Semitism. An anti-Semitism that has sadly erupted in 21st-century America on one college campus after another.
The question is obvious.
When will America — in this case Joe Biden as president of the United States — take on this virus of Jew hatred directly? To call it out for what it is, whether in Dearborn, Michigan, the rest of America, the Middle East, or any other corner of the globe where it can be found?
Pretending that what the Grand Mufti and Adolf Hitler were about in 1941 is no longer happening, or ignoring it altogether in today’s 21st century, will not solve what is a very real — and dangerous — problem.
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