Does Hamas’s plan to wipe out the Jews in Israel come directly from Adolf Hitler? Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations, Gilad Erdan, indicated the answer is “Yes” on April 8, holding up a photo of Hitler meeting with Haj Amin al-Husseini, the grand mufti of Jerusalem in 1941.

Erdan told the UN General Assembly that Husseini was “one of the founding fathers of Palestinian nationalism.” Husseini was an enthusiastic Nazi supporter and wanted the Nazis’ help to kick Britain out of the Holy Land, making it harder for Jews to emigrate.

According to Erdan, the Palestinian movement was inspired by people who wanted to annihilate the Jews. “And from then until today, the root of this conflict has not changed. It is not a political conflict or about partitioning land,” Erdan said. “It is solely about the destruction of Israel and the murder of Jews.”

The UN is strengthening “modern-day Nazi jihadists [by] considering forcing the establishment of a Palestinian terror state,” Erdan noted. “This won’t be a regular state—it will be a Palesti-Nazi state. An entity that achieved statehood despite being committed to terror and Israel’s annihilation. If Hitler [were] alive today, he would be singing the UN’s praises.”

Nazi Germany spread its propaganda to the Middle East through radio and printed materials translated into Arabic. While Hitler did not support all of Husseini’s goals, they had a common hatred of Jews. The Nazis used Husseini to further their own goals. SS leader Heinrich Himmler wrote in a telegram:

To Grand Mufti Amin al-Husseini:

From the outset, the National Socialist [Nazi] movement of greater Germany has been a standard-bearer in the battle against world Jewry. For this reason, it is closely following the battle of freedom-seeking Arabs, particularly in Palestine, against the Jewish invaders. The shared recognition of the enemy and the joint fight against it are creating the strong base [uniting] Germany and freedom-seeking Arabs around the world. In this spirit, I am pleased to wish you, on the anniversary of the wretched Balfour Declaration, warm wishes on your continued fight until the great victory.

Many have adopted Himmler’s language, referring to Hamas terrorists as “freedom-seeking Arabs.”

After World War ii ended, Nazi propaganda lived on in the Middle East. German professor Dr. Michael Kiefer from the Institute for Islamic Theology of the University of Osnabrück wrote:

The anti-Semitic propaganda that flooded the Arab world from the second half of the 1950s onward was largely carried by proven experts. Amin al-Husseini reactivated his relations with former Nazi founders and brought Johann von Leers—one of the most radical anti-Semitic publicists of the Nazi regime—to Cairo ….

Husseini died in 1974, but Palestinian leaders followed in his footsteps. Yasser Arafat and Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah, the dominant force in the Palestine Liberation Organization, “was founded by members of Husseini’s Arab Higher Committee and has embraced the same goal of annihilating the Jews,” the Algemeiner noted (Dec. 4, 2023).

Hitler’s cooperation with Husseini shaped the Middle East.

Alliance Prophesied

In “As You Watch Gaza—Watch Germany,” Trumpet editor in chief Gerald Flurry wrote:

As recently as World War ii, the Nazi regime had varying degrees of relations with Yemen, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan, as well as Turkey. And through military conquest, the Axis powers made inroads into Libya, Egypt, Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia.

In a Key of David program following the October 7 terrorist attack, he asked a potent question: “[I]n World War ii the Arab nations allied themselves with Germany. Could that happen again? Well, Bible prophecy says it could and will. We need to watch that very closely.”

He was referencing Psalm 83, which refers to an alliance that never happened in history. The members of this alliance say: “Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance” (verse 4).

This prophecy is explained in Chapter 4 of The King of the South, titled “Another, More Mysterious Alliance.”