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the sea routes used by American ships. This did not prevent the English and Jews from claiming that a German submarine had sunk the ship “Sussex,” which operated in the English Channel to transport ordinary passengers between Calais in France and Dover in Britain. This false and misleading report was transmitted to America with the claim that many passengers on this American ship had drowned. The incident was among the strongest causes that stirred American public opinion and provoked America to enter the war. Shortly after America entered the war, it became clear that the report was untrue and had been fabricated by the Jews and English: the Sussex was still sailing in the English Channel, and not a single American had drowned.

Hitler says that he saw no difference between any Christian and any German or Austrian Jew. He was therefore astonished when he saw the change in the position of the Jews in Germany after Britain’s promise to them. They rushed to spread corruption and destruction in Germany, especially in the German army, and generally in the countries allied with it. They spread extensive propaganda to weaken the strength of the people and army, saying that there was no benefit in continuing the war because American President Wilson had announced his world peace plan and his Fourteen Points, which called for equality between victor and vanquished. This had a profound effect on German military and civilian people. At the same time, Jewish organizations began extensive acts of sabotage to destroy transportation and cut supplies to the army, espionage throughout its locations and means, and every act capable of destroying Germany and its ally.

At that time we witnessed what Jews in our Palestinian country carried out in acts of sabotage and espionage against the Ottoman army through Jewish espionage organizations, one of whose most important members was a Jewish woman named Sarah Aaronsohn. General Cevat Rıfat Atilhan, who had been director of military intelligence in the Ottoman Fourth Army, told me about this in detail and wrote a special book on the matter published by the journal Palestine. I heard a similar account from the late Dr. Hasan Fuad al-Ibrahim Pasha of northern Aleppo, who was chief physician in the Ottoman army stationed in Haifa. He told me that while he was eating breakfast one morning during the war in a house on Mount Carmel in Haifa, where some Jews had previously lived, he saw a pigeon flying around the house, where there were several pigeons. He noticed something attached to one of its legs and asked those with him to catch it. When they caught it, they found a coded message on its leg and sent it to