Instantly after the burning, rape, mutilation and homicide of Jews on October seventh, I used to be not alone in noticing an ethical distinction between Hamas and the Nazis: the Nazis tried to cover their crimes towards the Jews from the German folks (and the world) whereas Hamas proudly did so from the Palestinian folks. revealed their crimes towards Jews (and did not thoughts that the world would inevitably see them brag about killing Jews). Along with videoing their atrocities, Hamas has paraded captured Jews — useless and alive, clothed and bare — earlier than Palestinian crowds in Gaza.
This results in a sobering realization.
Hamas boasting to their fellow Palestinians about what they did to the Jews whereas the Nazis tried to cover what they did from their fellow Germans meant not solely an ethical distinction between Hamas and the Nazis however an ethical distinction between the German folks throughout the Nazi period and The Palestinian folks right now — and for practically the final hundred years.
Morally talking, it could be exhausting to call a folks much less influential than the Palestinians within the final century. For many who do not perceive {that a} generalization means, by definition, there are exceptions, I ought to word that the Palestinians at all times have and have had nice folks. However the Palestinians’ rising document of evil over the previous century has few friends.
Let’s begin within the Nineteen Forties.[1]
Within the early Nineteen Forties the main Palestinian non secular chief, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al-Husseini, was a serious supporter of the Nazis and their marketing campaign of extermination towards the Jews. There’s a well-known picture of al-Husseini assembly Hitler in Berlin on November 28, 1941. The Holocaust Encyclopedia studies, “Al-Husseini famous that Germany alone acknowledged the worldwide risk of the ‘Jewish drawback’ and took motion. To ‘remedy’ the worldwide …”
The Encyclopedia additionally notes that “on December 18, 1942, Arab émigrés opened an ‘Islamic Central Institute’ (Gentral-Institute in Islam) in Berlin, with al-Husseini as a senior sponsor and keynote speaker. In his speech, al-Husseini denounced the Jews. out that the Qur’an judged the Jews to be ‘essentially the most implacable enemy of the Muslims’.”
Haaretz newspaper — which is left-wing and anti-Benjamin Netanyahu — described al-Husseini as “the daddy of Palestinian nationalism.”
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All of this Nazi-like Palestinian hatred predates the institution of the State of Israel.
Earlier than recounting the many years of Palestinian killing of Jews in Israel, it is usually essential to notice the ethical document of the Palestinian folks in direction of their fellow Arabs. The Palestinians have been extensively hated within the Arab world for good cause: wherever they went in massive numbers, they wreaked havoc.
On September 6, 1970, Palestinian terrorists hijacked Trans World Airways, Swissair, and Pan Am planes. A number of days later, they hijacked a British Abroad Airways Company (now “British Air”) airliner. Palestinian terrorists separate the flight crew and Jewish passengers, conserving 56 Jewish hostages in custody, whereas releasing the non-Jews. In complete, 5 planes have been hijacked and three of them landed in a desert airstrip in Jordan. These hijackings and Palestinian violence in Jordanian cities led to the Jordanian-Palestinian Civil Conflict in September 1970, throughout which, in keeping with the Palestinians, Jordan killed 25,000 Palestinians.
Seven months later, in April 1971, Palestinian chief Yasser Arafat referred to as for the ouster of King Hussein of Jordan. In November of the identical 12 months, 4 members of the Black September terrorist group (which took its title from the September 1970 defeat of the Palestinians in Jordan), assassinated Jordanian Prime Minister Wasfi Tal in Cairo. As reported in The New York Occasions, one “assassin knelt beside his sufferer to lick his blood.” A photograph of the Palestinian killer ingesting (not simply licking) Tal’s blood was extensively printed.
After destabilizing Jordan and dropping the civil warfare they created, tens of 1000’s of Palestinians fled to Lebanon, the place they shortly proceeded to destroy that nation. Their love of violence and terror led to the Lebanese Civil Conflict in 1975, which lasted till the Nineties. That warfare left an estimated 150,000 Lebanese useless, tens of 1000’s injured, lots of of 1000’s displaced and destitute, and Lebanon’s Christian inhabitants from 55% in 1970 to 35% in 2022.
In the meantime, all through Israel’s historical past, Palestinians have killed Jews in Israel each time attainable, blowing up colleges and municipal buses filled with passengers, blowing up Passover Seders and family-filled weddings and pizza parlors, and wherever else Jews have been gathered. Frequently, they stabbed and shot Jews who have been merely going about their day by day enterprise.
To quote just a few of 1000’s of examples, on Could 8, 1970, Palestinian terrorists entered Israel and massacred the Avivim faculty bus, killing 13 civilians, together with 9 kids, and injuring 25 different kids in a bomb assault.
On Could 22, 1970, Palestinians threw a rocket-propelled grenade at an Israeli faculty bus, killing 9 kids and three adults and wounding 25 others.
On Could 30, 1972, Japanese terrorists appearing on behalf of a Palestinian terrorist group killed 26 folks and injured 80 passengers at Israel’s worldwide airport (then referred to as Lod).
On Could 15, 1974, Palestinians entered a college in Ma’lo, Israel, the place they took 105 highschool college students and greater than 10 hostages. They ultimately killed 25 hostages, together with 22 college students, and injured 68 others.
On March 11, 1978, Palestinians hijacked a bus and killed 38 Israeli residents, together with 13 kids, and injured 76 others.
On October 19, 1994, a Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up on a bus throughout the morning rush hour in Tel Aviv, killing 22 folks and injuring 50 others. Hamas has claimed duty.
On March 2, 2002, a Palestinian suicide bomber killed 11 folks and injured greater than 50 at a Saturday night bar mitzvah celebration. The terrorist detonated the bomb subsequent to a gaggle of girls ready with their child carriages for his or her husbands to go away a close-by shrine.
On March 27, 2002, a Palestinian suicide bomber attacked a resort within the coastal metropolis of Netanya in the course of a Passover Seder with 250 company, killing 30 and injuring 140.
On July 31, 2002, a bomb exploded within the pupil heart cafeteria on the Hebrew College campus, killing 9 and injuring 85. Hamas has claimed duty.
On August 19, 2003, a Palestinian suicide bomber detonated a bus in Jerusalem, killing 23 folks and injuring greater than 130 others. Hamas has claimed duty.
This quick checklist is under no circumstances exhaustive.
In line with the Palestinian Heart for Coverage and Survey Analysis, as of 2022, most Palestinians help terrorist assaults towards Israeli Jews. Moreover, the Palestinian Authority within the West Financial institution is paying greater than $300 million yearly — about 8% of the Palestinian funds — to terrorists imprisoned and the households of terrorists killed whereas participating in terrorist acts towards Jews. One other Palestinian opinion ballot means that a big majority of Palestinians within the West Financial institution — greater than 75% — at present help Hamas.
The Palestinian folks like to kill Jews and have beloved to take action for practically a century. Palestinian girls routinely throw sweet within the streets to rejoice terrorist assaults towards Jews. Distinction this with Israel, the place many human rights organizations maintain Israel accountable for its remedy of Palestinians. Distinction this with the Israelis, who for years willingly drove Palestinians from the West Financial institution and Gaza to hunt remedy in Israeli hospitals.
To be “pro-Palestinian” right now is to be pro-Hamas simply as to be “pro-German” was to be pro-Nazi throughout World Conflict II. The one distinction is that total the Germans have been higher folks than the Palestinians. For those who help the Palestinians, you must know who you help.
Dennis Prager is a nationally syndicated radio talk-show host and columnist. His commentary on Numbers, the fourth quantity of “The Rational Bible,” his five-volume commentary on the primary 5 books of the Bible, will probably be printed in November 2024 and is now out there for presale on Amazon. He’s the co-founder of Prager College and might be contacted at dennisprager.com.
