Israeli embassies around the world are spreading the image of the late Palestinian Grand Mufti, a man who had very little popularity among Palestinians; in an effort to malign the Palestinian cause.

The Grand Mufti in recent years has become the favorite Palestinian for Zionists because they use him to falsely impugn the Palestinian cause against Israel as anti-Semitic if not outright Nazi.

Why isn’t his Nazi past brought up?

But this will not work. Americans may be stupid enough, but the rest of the world isn’t. The Palestinians are not anti-Semities. And their cause is noble and righteous. The Palestinians are an occupied people resisting oppressive settlers. If there is any party here resembling Nazis it is the state of Israel.

But like us talk about Nazis and alliances. The Grand Mufti did reach out to Hitler, but not out of ideological sympathy but out of a common enemy in the British. The Palestinians were occupied by the British and needed German assistance, they were not the only ones:

If Avigdor Lieberman and the purveyors of the mufti/Hitler-photo gambit in Israeli embassies want to be honest, they might add these photos of India’s Congress Party leader Subhas Chandra Bose visiting Germany. He was in Berlin at the same time as the mufti, and for the same reason: to rid his nation of British colonialism.

A number of present-day political parties found inspiration of one sort or another in the Nazis, including India’s Hindu nationalist BJP party. The party that’s the present-day BJP sent missions to Germany thru the 1930s. Yet it’s the BJP that tightened relations with Israel in 2003, when Ariel Sharon visited Delhi. . . .

Understand the historical context of British colonial subjects looking for help from Germany, however foolish and immoral it can appear to us at first blush.

Israel does not care about people with a Nazi past as long as they suit their interests like the BJP.

But that it not all. The fascist Phalange party in Lebanon was founded by Pierre Gemayale in 1936 after he was impressed by the Nazi organization at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. Since the 1950s, Israel funded and trained the Phalange and supported them in the Civil War. In 1982, Israel installed Bashir Gemayale, Pierre’s son, as Lebanese president.

And then their is Anwar Sadat who is a unrepentant Nazi. Sadat wore the uniform, but Israel could care less as long as these people support Zionism.

Just like Israel does not care about the anti-Semitism of the Christian Right all because they support Israel.

It has never been about anti-Semitism, but about anti-Zionism.