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Admiration of Hitler and Nazism

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Admiration of Hitler and Nazism

The name Hitler does not carry the stigma in PA society that it does in the West. Both the Hamas weekly and the Fatah PA dailies have written in favorable tones about Hitler. To some Palestinians, the man and his name are worthy of admiration. While it may be surprising to Western observers to see official Palestinian sources presenting Hitler in a heroic light, it is important to note that the revulsion of Hitler that is taken for granted in the West is not true of Palestinian society.

There are even Palestinians whose first name is “Hitler”: Hitler Salah [Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Sept. 28, 2005], Hitler Abu-Alrab [Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Jan. 27, 2005], Hitler Mahmud Abu-Libda [Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Dec.18, 2000.] Articles reflecting admiration for Hitler have appeared in both Fatah and Hamas newspapers.

[Husseini inspects Nazi troops] [Hitler with Husseini]

A contributing factor to this admiration may be the history of the Hitler-Arab alliance during the Second World War. The Arab leader from British Palestine, the Mufti Haj Amin Al-Husseini, was actively allied with Hitler. The numerous meetings between the Mufti and Hitler, as well as the Mufti’s radio broadcasts urging Muslims to fight alongside the Nazis, are well-documented.

The following are more examples of Hitler admiration amongst PA society:

PA daily op-ed lauds Hitler and Nazism: "Had Hitler won, Nazism would be an honor"

Source: Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Mar. 18, 2013

Op-ed by Hassan Ouda Abu Zaher:
"'History is a great lie written by the victors' - said Napoleon Bonaparte, the source of dubious historical writing and father of Freemasonry in France. If so, is the history planted in us through TV and the standard educational curriculum indeed true? The source of this history is the West - the victor ever since the fall of Andalusia (Muslim Spain)! ...Our history is replete with lies, from lies about the corrupt [Caliph] Harun Al-Rashid, which ignore the sources indicating that he dedicated one year to pilgrimage [to Mecca] and one year to Jihad (i.e., he was a good Muslim), to the lie about Al-Qaeda and the Sept. 11 events, which asserted that Muslim terrorists committed it, and that it was not an internal American action by the Freemasons, which was mentioned in the Illuminati game cards ten years before it took place, and in over 15 Zionist and Freemason Hollywood-produced films in the 1990s. The method of repeating [the lies] over and over has authenticated false facts. Had Hitler won, Nazism would be an honor that people would be competing to belong to, and not a disgrace punishable by law. Churchill and Roosevelt were alcoholics, and in their youth were questioned more than once about brawls they started in bars, while Hitler hated alcohol and was not addicted to it. He used to go to sleep early and wake up early, and was very organized. These facts have been turned upside down as well, and Satan has been dressed with angels' wings..."
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PLO children's magazine glorifies Hitler

Source: Zayzafuna magazine, Feb. 1, 2011

Essay in Zayzafuna youth magazine glorifies Hitler:
“One hot day, I was very tired after a hard day… and suddenly I saw four white doors in front of me. I opened them in no particular order... I turned to the next door; there Hitler awaited me. I said, 'You're the one who killed the Jews?'
He [Hitler] said: 'Yes. I killed them so you would all know that they are a nation which spreads destruction all over the world. And what I ask of you is to be resilient and patient, concerning the suffering that Palestine is experiencing at their hands.'
I said [to Hitler]: 'Thanks for the advice.'"
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Note: Zayzafuna is a PLO magazine for children funded by the PA. The magazine, which includes material written by both the magazine’s staff and child readers, represents the values of the educators and serves as a window into the minds of the Palestinian children submitting material to the magazine. PMW’s book Deception includes a chapter on Zayzafuna. Following PMW’s exposure of Hitler glorification in the February 2011 issue, UNESCO halted it’s funding of the magazine. View UNESCO’s statement and PMW's bulletin on the December 2011 issue of the magazine.

Hitler honored through PA radio quiz

Source: Radio Voice of Palestine (Fatah), Nov. 27, 2007

Voice of Palestine radio contest
"His golden year was 1940, when his armies invaded Denmark, Norway, Luxembourg, Holland, and Belgium and defeated France ... By mid 1942, his country controlled the largest land area in Europe… He refused to surrender and continued to fight for two more years, but, his bitter end came in the spring of 1945 when he took his own life…. Who is he?"

Hamas: Hitler praised the Palestinians as models

Source: Al-Risala (Hamas website), May 18, 2006

The Hamas weekly listed with pride the ways in which different foreign leaders singled out the Palestinians as examples of ideal revolutionaries. The first leader the Palestinian paper cited for praising the Palestinians was Adolf Hitler:
"Adolf Hitler, while exciting the Germans of the Sudetenland - the Sudetenland is a German province that the Allies had annexed to Czechoslovakia after the First World War - told them in his broadcasts: Look at what the Palestinian revolutionaries are doing to Great Britain!"

Palestinians name children after famous Nazi

Source: Al-Ayyam, Nov. 15, 2001

"Woman's Voice" supplement to Al-Ayyam PA daily:
"Sometimes parents name their children with foreign names, due to the father's admiration for a foreign personality. This is the source of the names Rommel [Nazi General] and Napoleon."

“Charmed” Arabs named their children “Hitler”

Source: Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Apr. 13, 2000

"Even Adolf Hitler, who after the fall of Nazi Germany turned into a political horror for most writers and artists, during the last decades has started to reestablish his place in the picture. There are some in Britain who defended Hitler and tried to do justice for him. There are elderly people, among them Arabs, who still carry the name Hitler since their fathers, who were charmed by him, linked them [their children] with his name."