PHANTOM NATION: THE PALESTINE LIE

 

Look closely at the Eagle of Saladin emblazoned on Palestinian and Egyptian flags. Head turned sharply to the right, wings tucked in rigid military precision, claws gripping a shield with an uncanny familiarity. Now compare it to the Reichsadler, the Nazi eagle clutching a swastika wreath. Coincidence? Some might say. Whether they believe it or not's another matter. This is no accident of design. It's a deliberate echo, a symbol inspired and reinvented from the toxic alliances between Arab leaders and Hitler, refined by fleeing Nazis who poured their venom into the Middle East after the war. 

The red, white, and black colours mirror the swastika flag itself. Of course, the apologists will deny it. That's their stock response. And those that've swallowed this narrative for years will resist the truth. I understand the reluctance. It's never nice to realise you've been duped, especially when so much pride and emotion are invested in a 'cause'. But that's how they get you and keep you in the net: pride, ego, wilful ignorance, all the old favourites.

At the heart of this fabricated identity stands Haj Amin al-Husseini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and godfather of what passes for Palestinian nationalism. He was also first cousin to the grandfather of Yasser Arafat, the architect of modern terror against Israel. During the Second World War, al-Husseini didn't sit idly by. He flew to Berlin, where he broadcast vicious anti-Jewish rants on Nazi radio and actively recruited Muslims into the SS. 

He met with the highest echelons of the Reich, including Heinrich Himmler, the architect of the Holocaust, and Adolf Hitler himself. Photographs capture these unholy encounters: the Mufti in Nazi uniform, raising the Sieg Heil salute to goose-stepping troops. This was not some fringe figure. Al-Husseini shaped the Arab world's response to the Jewish return to their ancestral homeland, infusing it with genocidal zeal straight from the ovens of Europe.

He was far from alone in his fanaticism. After the war, thousands of Nazis escaped justice through secret ratlines, finding refuge in Egypt and Iraq. There, they embedded themselves in militaries and governments, training up officers and advising leaders. Egypt's 1952 revolution was no spontaneous uprising. It arrived perfectly timed with this influx of fugitives, as Gamal Abdel Nasser rose to power under the guidance of Nazi experts like Johanna von Konigsmark. 

The new Egyptian flag adopted that year screamed their influence: red, white, and black stripes evoking the swastika banner, crowned with a carbon-copy Nazi eagle at its centre. Iraq followed in 1959, just years after the same network orchestrated a savage massacre of its Jewish population, the Farhud's echoes still fresh. These emblems were not innocent heraldry. They were badges of imported hate, designed to perpetuate the exterminationist ideology that had ran amok in Europe and now found fertile ground in the Arab world.

The Palestinians, as a so-called people, emerged from this same poisoned well in the 1960s. Before then, they held Jordanian or Egyptian citizenship, their identity tied to broader Pan-Arab dreams or local tribal loyalties. The turning point came after Israel's stunning victory in the Six-Day War of 1967, when the Jewish state reclaimed Judea and Samaria, the biblical heartland cruelly dubbed the West Bank by its occupiers. Suddenly, overnight, these same individuals cast off their old nationalities and declared themselves Palestinians. 

It was a calculated ploy, as admitted by former PLO terrorist Walid Shoebat. Before defecting to the side of truth, Shoebat confessed: After the Six-Day War in 1967, I became a Palestinian overnight. This approach better helped us achieve our goals of removing the Jews from the land by us becoming displaced Palestinians in the eyes of the international community, instead of the Jordanian invaders that we were, both Jordanian, which was also a new national identity, and all flavour of Pan-Arab identity. Because in truth, before the 1960s there were no real Palestinian people. We were the first that started considering ourselves Palestinians and the first to be recognised as such by friends we had acquired from around the world.

This invention was no organic awakening. It was a strategic fabrication, timed to exploit Western guilt and reframe aggression as victimhood. The Eagle of Saladin became their badge, a supposed nod to a 12th-century hero who once cut down the infidels. But let us dispense with the romantic nonsense. Ancient Saladin eagles surely did exist, minted on coins after his death in honour of his brother. 

Those were double-headed, with flowing tails, no rigid shield, and certainly none of the telltale rightward glare or angled perch that screams Third Reich. The modern version? It's a post-war facsimile, stripped of the swastika to dodge outright condemnation but retaining every fascist flourish: the laurel wreath markings, the militaristic poise. Proponents wave vague Crusades-era banners to lend it antiquity, but the truth is plainer. It is Nazi iconography laundered through Islamic veneer, a dog whistle for those who dream of driving every Jew into the sea.

This is the genius of the propaganda: dress Nazi hate in heroic robes, and the gullible will applaud. Western liberals, ever eager for a cause, coo over it as an ancient symbol of unity, blind to how it channels the regime that industrialised Jewish genocide. Israel, the sole democracy in the region, stands as the bulwark against this resurgent evil. 

The Jewish people, returning to their eternal homeland after many generations of forced exile, face not a legitimate national rival but a phantom constructed for their destruction. People may flatter to deceive with symbols and they may lie, but historical facts don't. It's time to wake up. The Palestinian myth quickly unravels even under the lightest scrutiny, revealing not a people but a weapon, forged in the fires of Berlin and aimed at Jerusalem. Stand with Israel, the true heir to this land, and reject the shadows that seek to eclipse it.