12,000 Palestinians Fought for U.K. in WWII
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12,000 Palestinians Fought for U.K. in WWII Alongside Jewish Volunteers, Historian Finds
Sparking an uproar in 2015, Netanyahu argued prominent Palestinian leader 'played an important role' in Hitler's plan to annihilate the Jews, but Prof. Mustafa Abbasi says Palestinians were 'not at all' looking to aid the Nazis.
Arab rookies line up in a barracks square for their first drill under a British soldier, in Mandatory Palestine, December 1940.AP
In 2015, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sparked an uproar when he claimed that Mufti Haj Amin al-Husseini was the one who’d urged Hitler to annihilate the Jews. In the wake of the criticism this elicited, Netanyahu said his intention was not to absolve Hitler of responsibility for the Holocaust, but to note that “the Mufti played an...