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and anti-armor shells, as well as other military means and wireless communication equipment. They assigned us four four-engine aircraft, which were few at that time. In the summer of 1944 we sent an aircraft carrying some of these weapons, supplies and equipment, with five people led by the fighter Sheikh Hasan Salama. The aircraft landed on the island of Rhodes, refueled and headed for Palestine at high altitude until it reached the designated place. Those aboard descended by parachute, with their equipment, weapons and devices, in the western Jordan Valley near Jericho. Their mission was limited to:

1. Preparing the stores to receive the weapons stockpiled in the warehouse in Berlin.

2. Establishing wireless contact with us to send the remaining weapons and equipment.

3. Training the young men and preparing them for the battle.

We sent another aircraft under the command of the Iraqi fighter, Mr. Jasim Karadi, who led the Iraqi volunteers in 1936 in the Jenin hills of Palestine.

We had also prepared stores in the Western Desert after Rommel’s campaign, in which we placed about thirty thousand weapons with their ammunition. But the failure of Rommel’s campaign prevented us from benefiting from these weapons.

The deception caused by English promises and lies, and the heedlessness that lay upon the hearts of the Arabs because of the deception practiced by colonial agents, led those who had undertaken and been assigned to shelter the fighters who landed by parachute and conceal the weapons they carried to refuse to enter this adventure. They claimed that the English had changed their position after the Jews in Palestine had attacked and killed some British officers and blown up some official British buildings in the country, such as immigration and police offices. Some colonial agents who pretended to be patriotic and sincere had assured these deceived men that British policy had changed and that Britain was fully prepared to do justice to the Arabs and strike the Jews. It is sad that some Arabs are deceived by such promises, even though they have tested them repeatedly, and still deceive themselves, believe their enemies and repeatedly get bitten by snakes from the same holes.

Here we are today, after bitter experiences and many stings, still finding some Arabs pinning their hopes on peaceful solutions and mistaking a mirage for water. They have not yet realized that