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October 26, 2015       Share:    

Source: http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=29171

The Mufti Planned to Build a Crematorium in the Dotan Valley in Samaria

(Israel Hayom) Daniel Siryoti and Erez Linn - While researching an article on Jerusalem Grand Mufti Haj Amin al-Husseini's actions in 1942, when the Jewish community in then-British Mandate Palestine was preparing for the possibility of a Nazi invasion, veteran journalist Haviv Kanaan met with Faiz Bay Idrisi, a senior Arab officer in the Mandate Police, who spoke of al-Husseini's intention to build a crematorium in the northwest Samarian hills. "Haj Amin Husseini was gearing to enter Jerusalem at the head of the Muslim Arab Legion squadron he'd created for the Third Reich. The mufti's plan was to build a huge Auschwitz-like crematorium in the Dotan Valley, near Nablus, to which Jews from Palestine, Iraq, Egypt, Yemen, Syria, Lebanon, and North Africa would be imprisoned and exterminated, just like the Jews in the death camps in Europe." Shortly after Hitler's rise to power, al-Husseini sent a message to the German envoy in Jerusalem, expressing support for the new Nazi regime. He received generous funding from the Nazis in return.

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