were notable for the increasing Arab unease, and their riots and massacres of Jews, intended to pressure the British to limit Jewish immigration. Many of these hate crimes were organized or incited by Haj Amin al-Husseini, the Mufti of Jerusalem, who capped his brilliant Muslim career by mobilizing Muslim soldiers for Hitler in World War II, and even receiving a private tour of a Nazi concentration camp (in future Arab-Israeli wars a frequent rallying cry for Arabs was "We're going the finish the job that Hitler started!")
For some reason fathomable solely to Arab Muslims, apparently, despite the fact that numerous peoples lives in the so-called holy land over the centuries, including Jews (for over 3500 years), Arabs, Greeks, Turks, Armenians, Bosnians, Druze, Kurds, Germans, Persians, Tatars, Georgians, and others, only the Arabs were allowed to create nations and homelands there. Thus the repeated refusals of the Arabs to even consider several partition plans of Jewish/Arab homelands under the British Mandate and the UN, despite the fact that the proposed UN plan had a Jewish homeland that was undeniably majority Jewish in population.
Let me be clear on this point - I don't hate Muslims any more than a Nazi fighter hated Germans, but I hate the extremely dangerous, fascist religious ideology which manifests itself in Islam, a sick cult hell-bent on world domination by the most violent means imaginable.
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In reality, the years between the wars
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