Palestinians: What do you think of Haj Amin al Husseini?

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[tombuddy]

Do Palestinians learn in school any history other than "Palestine existed for an unspecified long time, and then Israel occupied it"?

[eve-]

He was a pal of Hitler and spent the war years in Berlin as Hitlers guest.
But he also published a guide to Al Aksa compound which acknowledged it as the site of the Jewish temples. Something Arabs deny today.

[judgedayan]

Corey, I know you don't make up the questions, but it behooves you to learn the subject when the question comes in. That way you can have a poignant follow up questions that are based on historical accuracy. Haj Amin al Husseini, in the 30s fomented riots in Jerusalem, stirring up animosity between Arabs and Jews, and was arrested by the British Authorities, but he escaped to Egypt and never came back to Israel. He didn't just meet Hitler, Hitler appointed him to a position in the Muslim Balkans to facilitate extermination of the Jews. He died in June 1974. We say on him Yemach Shmo V'zichro. It seems our curse on him is fulfilled, most of the Arabs you interviewed never heard of him.

[Santirata]

How do these people not know anything about their own history, while at the same time holding such strong convictions?

[shakked]

As an Israeli Jew it blows my minde. I guess at some point most of the people in this land will fight without really knowing what they are fighting about.

[yoavhi]

i'm amazed at how many Palestinians are ignorant about the leader who is almost single-handedly responsible for their history of defeat and victimhood. but i guess i understand them, its much easier to blame their situation only on Israel rather than have a look at their own faults throughout history

[jrjrdiablo_the_devils_advocate]

If you read the Wiki page on this guy, you'll find out that he was obsessed with the Al-Aqsa mosque (Temple Mount and the Western wall) . He thought Jews were going to destroy it and (re)build Solomons Temple there. He was going to try anything & everything to keep that from happening. Islam has a history of putting their holy places on top of other religions holy places. Then they become protected at any cost. Not only have they done this to the Jews, but they have done this in India as well.

[michaelsmullen]

Every Jew in Israel knows of Haj Amin al Husseini, the Grand Mufti Of Jerusalem!

[aaronmass]

He did more than meet with Hitler, Corrie.
Why are you playing coy with them.
He was a personal friend of Hitler and Himmler and helped raise SS troops in the Balkans. Some historians also attribute to him the idea of the final solution, which he evidently pitched to Hitler in 1940 as he lived in Germany during a war.

[shainazion]

Thank you, Corey! One of my questions asked!!

[Maq]

He was the mufti of Jerusalem from 1921-37, he started the Arab and Jew conflict.

[jrjrdiablo_the_devils_advocate]

One has to remember when he met with the Nazis, it was in 1940/41. So this was before the UN resolution about the state of Israel. It wasnt like the 'Zionists' were controlling the area & being all cruel like the current narrative depicts. Being the Mufti of Jerusalem, he must have had some problems with Jews there. He actually travelled to Germany to talk. Im sure they didnt talk about the weather or football. His feeble mind didnt come up with the final solution, but Im sure he was giddy & excited to know about it though.

[solvingpolitics]

He ended up like all of H1t lers allies. He died a failure just swept into the dust binds of history.

[ItayAI]

The reason Palestinians have no idea who is this guy is the fact that he was a shame for the Islamic nation after 7 Arab armies completely lost to the newborn Jewish state in 1948, so they censored him.
What sad is that cooperating with the worst dictator in history didn't bother them but once he hurts their reputation... this is what the religion of the desert is all about- honor and revenge.

[em]

Even i know who he is ...cant believe they havent heard of him.

[fafolaw]

Lol they either pretend not to know who he was, or they pretend not to know that he was a nazi collaborator, he even recruited Bosnian Muslims for the Waffen-SS.
Edit: ok, not all of them are pretending, but some of them are.

[michaelsmullen]

It was way before we were born, way before we were Palestinians! Too much Jew Hatred and not enough History in the School Curriculum!

[mgm]

For a Palestinian to not know who Husseini was is like for Israeli to not know who Ben Gurion was or who Golda Meir was 🤦🏻🤦🏻

[noaa]

So they are sure they are the owners of the land before 1948 but they dont know who was their leader back then.
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[David]

That last guy really has a deep understanding of democracy 😂