If some Arab states had responded and launched internal revolts to shake the position of the occupying English and the Zionists at the time Rommel’s army was advancing toward El Alamein, that would have had a major effect on the Germans’ success. What confirms this is that the English began withdrawing toward Sudan and burning their files and documents, while the Jews were seized by great panic and began selling their properties and lands at the cheapest prices and fleeing the country.
It was a precious opportunity that the Arab nation wasted by being deceived by England’s false promises, whose reality the Arabs had learned after the First World War, when England broke its promises to them, conspiring with the Jews against Palestine and all the Arab and Islamic countries. The Arabs should have learned from what England’s breaches had repeatedly done to them and should not have been bitten twice from the same hole.
Whoever is not increased in lessons by his days, blindness is more fitting for him than guidance.
For all these reasons, I firmly believe that I was right to go to Germany and cooperate sincerely with it while it was fighting our enemies, the conspirators seeking to usurp our land and freedom, humiliate us, and exploit us. May God have mercy on the one who said:
“When a people attacks me, I attack them. In this, O Banu Hamdan, am I unjust? When you gather an intelligent heart, a sword, and a proud spirit, wrongs will avoid you.”
I mentioned earlier some incidents of mutual hatred and bitter conflict that occurred between the Germans and the Jews. They had old causes and more recent ones. Among the old causes, which the Germans shared with other European peoples, was that the Jews took advantage of the Catholic Church’s prohibition of usury and all banking transactions for all adherents of the Christian religion. They monopolized all banking and financial transactions and thereby gained absolute control over economic affairs. Some Jewish families in Germany became enormously wealthy, such as the Rothschild, Warburg, Oppenheimer, and Rathenau families, among others. The German governments, provincial princes, merchants, and farmers were forced to borrow from the banks of these Jewish families, which burdened the country with heavy debts. When they were unable to repay these debts, they were forced to entrust Jewish creditors with monopolies over customs duties or the collection of taxes. As for farmers and merchants who were unable to repay the loans and their heavy interest, their properties were confiscated for the benefit of the Jews. When Germany’s industrial revival began, there was no way to finance it except through Jewish capitalists or Jewish banks. This enabled the Jews to gain financial influence and control in Germany, and all this caused German hatred of the Jews.
During this period of Germany’s industrial revival, Jewish immigrants from Russia and Poland streamed into Germany carrying the ideas of revolution and Zionism. It was not long before these revolutionary Jews had tangible influence in Germany. The Jew Mordecai, who was Karl Marx, published the Communist Manifesto in 1848, and the Jewish Ferdinand Lassalle became one of the leaders of the social democrats.
In 1866, the Jew “Kofi Blind” in Berlin attempted to assassinate Germany’s leader, the famous political genius Bismarck, who was concerned to protect Germany’s interests from harm by Jews and others.
Jewish influence in Germany increased when Jewish immigrants from Russia joined them. Among them were Rosa Luxemburg, “Kurt Eisner–Kosmanowski,” “Eugen Levine–Nissen,” and others, until the two Jewish financiers “Warburg” and “Balin” managed to persuade Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany to meet Theodor Herzl in 1898 at the German embassy in Istanbul during the Kaiser’s visit to Turkey. Herzl asked the Kaiser to request that Sultan Abdülhamid agree to open the gates of Jewish immigration to Palestine. But the sultan explained to the German Kaiser the sound reasons that compelled him to reject that request. When the Kaiser reached Jerusalem, Herzl met him there a second time, asking about the result of the request to the sultan, but the Kaiser contented himself with speaking about the weather. Historians of this journey reported that when Wilhelm reached Jaffa he stayed at the German “Hartke” Hotel. It was spring, during the orange-blossom season. The Kaiser stood on the hotel balcony, enjoyed the view of orange trees surrounding him on every side as far as the eye could see, smelled their fragrant scent, and sent Sultan Abdülhamid a telegram describing this beautiful view and the fragrance of the orange blossoms. He said it was the most beautiful view he had seen in his life. This is a crushing reply to the Zionists’ boasts that they were the first to plant orange trees in Palestine, since at that time there was no Jewish agricultural presence in the country.
The failed result that Herzl suffered when he met the Kaiser and learned of the refusal