On Democracies and Death Cults: Israel and the Future of Civilization

by Douglas Murray

But there was one Nazi leader who managed to leave the inferno of Europe with his head held high. Haj Amin al-Husseini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, distinguished himself in 1941 by actually going to Adolf Hitler and offering the services of his people. It was the Mufti’s view that he and Hitler should be in alliance because they had a natural common enemy—the Jews. Newsreel footage from their meeting shows the Mufti doing a Nazi salute before shaking Hitler’s hand, as well as inspecting Nazi troops. The official record of their meeting shows that Hitler agreed to have no territorial claim on Arab lands so long as the Mufti helped him with the extermination of the Jews in the Middle East. Al-Husseini was only too pleased to oblige and helped to set up a division of Germany’s Waffen SS in his region to clear the Jews from the Middle East. Through his military and political leadership as well as his Arabic tirades on public radio, he repeatedly made it clear that his aim was to kill the Jews.