Captain Allen
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Lawyer & Historian with Passion for Jewish History/Identity Seeking to Empower Jews and the Curious from all Backgrounds with Knowledge and Analytical Skills
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Khomeini’s fateful 1979 flight from Paris to Tehran that unleashed 47 years of oppression and terror. France gave him asylum and a place to run the revolution to overthrow the Shah. When the time came, the French chartered this Air France flight for him and his entourage.
Captain Allen3,630,999 次观看 • 8 个月前
Listen to Saudi Prince Bandar give the WHOLE STORY of being with Arafat as he refused the post-Camp David Clinton Parameters (accepted by Israel) for a Palestinian state. “I wanted to cry. My heart was burning at how the opportunity was lost again … this is what happened.”
Captain Allen1,638,762 次观看 • 8 个月前
When Bill Clinton tells young people that Yasser Arafat walked away from a Palestinian state with a capital in East Jerusalem, “they can’t believe it … it’s not even on their radar screen. They can’t even imagine that happened.” Be informed. Learn some basic history 🙏
Captain Allen1,313,736 次观看 • 8 个月前
On this day—October 3, 1944 The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem wrote to Heinrich Himmler and asked for an Arab-Muslim army to fight the Jews beside the Reich. He had already know the Holocaust architect well. In his memoirs, the Mufti called Himmler his “close friend,” and described taking tea with the Reichsführer-SS. On one such occasion, Himmler signed a photo of the two of them together: “To his eminence the Grand Mufti, a memento.” Germany was losing. The Red Army was already in Poland. Meanwhile, the Nazis kept the gas chambers running. The Mufti had been in Berlin since 1941, on the German payroll, broadcasting for the Nazis in Arabic, and pleading with European leaders to send Jewish children to Poland where they could be murdered rather than allowing them passage to British Mandate Palestine. The Mufti had already helped recruit the 13th SS Mountain Division, Handschar. Now he wrote to Himmler asking for an Arab-Islamic army in Germany where volunteers would be merged with the units already in existence. All, of course, to be trained and armed by the Reich. He wrote that the effect in the Arab and Islamic countries would be “the most favorable.” That same month, the SS dropped a five-man German-Arab commando into the Jordan Valley with weapons, explosives, and German-Arabic dictionaries. The British caught them. Under interrogation, they said the Mufti had briefed each of them, compared Islam with National Socialism, and told them the fight in Mandate Palestine would help Germany. On November 2, the German Foreign Office issued a statement. Al-Husseini complained to Ribbentrop that it was not enough. They had cut the word “Muslim.” The Nazis were happy to use Muslim volunteers, but would not endorse the Mufti’s army. He flew out of Germany on May 7, 1945, the day of the surrender. Yugoslavia listed him as a war criminal for the SS recruitment, but he was never tried. The Arab Higher Committee took him back as its leader just in time to work to continue the Holocaust by annihilating the Jews of Mandate Palestine who were getting ready to declare their state. He lost there too.
Captain Allen84,255 次观看 • 1 个月前
Why do your college professors leave out the part where the Arabs used starvation as a method of war against the Jews in 1948 to murder or expel them from Jerusalem? The Arabs sealed the Jewish Quarter, cut off their water supply, and attacked every supply convoy attempting to bring food and water. Rations ran out, and the Old City was surrendered on May 28.
Captain Allen29,126 次观看 • 11 天前
On This Day — May 25, 1948 They put a bullet in the back of his head. The man they executed that day was Witold Pilecki — the only person in history who voluntarily walked into Auschwitz. In 1940, this Polish cavalry officer deliberately got himself arrested during a Nazi roundup in Warsaw. Using a false identity, he entered hell as prisoner #4859. For two and a half years, Pilecki lived as a starving skeleton in striped rags while secretly building a resistance network inside the camp. He smuggled out the first detailed eyewitness reports of the Nazi death machine to the Allies — gas chambers, selections, medical experiments, and the systematic murder of Jews. While he was there, more than 1,000 Jews per day were being gassed and burned. At its peak in 1944, the killing rate reached more than 6,000 per day. He saw it all. He documented it all. He risked everything so the world would know. In April 1943, Pilecki escaped by overpowering a guard at a bakery outside the wire. He rejoined the fight, battled in the Warsaw Uprising, and later resisted the Soviet occupation of Poland. For his courage, the communist regime tortured him, staged a show trial, and executed him on May 25, 1948. One of the great heroes of the 20th century. Remember his name: Witold Pilecki.
Captain Allen307,048 次观看 • 5 个月前
On this day — October 6, 1943 400-500 rabbis stood on the Capitol steps and prayed that Roosevelt would save what was left of the Jews of Europe. Then they walked to the White House, and he would not see them. It was three days before Yom Kippur, and the only march of its kind in Washington during the Holocaust. Hillel Kook had brought them, most from the Union of Orthodox Rabbis. On the steps, their leaders read a petition and prayed, by name, that the president would recognize the hour and save the remnant of the people of the book, the people of Israel. Men wept. They had asked for weeks for the appointment. At the gate, a secretary took the petition, and Vice President Wallace received the delegation. Roosevelt did not come out. The Washington Times-Herald printed what the afternoon looked like from the pavement: “Rabbis Report ‘Cold Welcome’ at the White House.” The Forward asked the question the cold welcome invited: would 500 Catholic priests have been treated that way? The prayer named Roosevelt and the petition reached his secretary’s hands. But the extermination of the Jews went on without so much as a meeting with the president.
Captain Allen52,355 次观看 • 29 天前
This is what making peace looks like. In 1973, Golda Meir was prime minister when Anwar Sadat launched the Yom Kippur War against Israel. Four years later, the two sat face-to-face in Jerusalem… and laughed. She smiled: “You always called me an old lady.” Then she softened: “As a grandmother to a grandfather,” and handed him a gift for his newborn granddaughter. By then, Meir was out of office. Menachem Begin was prime minister and would later sign the treaty. But this was the first time the woman who had led Israel through that war and the man who had launched it sat together as human beings. Two leaders who had commanded armies against each other. Decades of blood, rejection, and vows to destroy Israel. And here they were, bonding over their grandchildren. The peace that followed was far from perfect. But there has been no further war between the two countries. Enemies can choose: no more war. History is not destiny.
Captain Allen132,461 次观看 • 2 个月前
How Khomeini conned Iranians. He promised “freedom and independence for all” plus free electricity, water, buses, and housing. He then installed Sharia, purged all moderates, leftists, and secular “allies,” enforced veiling, executed opponents, and made himself supreme leader.
Captain Allen313,390 次观看 • 8 个月前
This Day (May 7) in 1945, Nazi Germany finally surrendered. The same day, Grand Mufti Amin al-Husseini fled Berlin by plane. Here’s how he escaped justice for his war crimes (spoiler alert: blame France again!). First, the Mufti landed his plane in Bern, Switzerland and begged for asylum. The Swiss said no. They detained him and immediately handed him over to French authorities. What happened next is one of the most brazen post-war scandals in modern history. Instead of standing trial, the Mufti was placed under “house arrest” in a luxurious villa just outside Paris. For an entire year he lived in comfort, shaved his iconic beard, wore Western suits, and moved about with virtual freedom while Britain and Yugoslavia demanded his extradition as a war criminal. France refused to hand him over. Then, on May 29, 1946, using a fake passport in the name of Ma’ruf al-Dawalibi, the Mufti simply walked out, boarded a TWA flight to Cairo ... and vanished. The French Foreign Minister didn’t even realize he was gone for more than 12 days. In Egypt, he was greeted as a conquering hero. King Farouk gave him protection and luxury. The Muslim Brotherhood hailed him as “the Arab hero and symbol of jihad.” No trial. No shame. No consequences. And his legacy, unfortunately, endured. As this documentary clip puts it: “The Grand Mufti's place as leader of the Palestinian Arabs was eventually taken by a relative ... Yasser Arafat. In August 2002, Arafat gave an interview in which he referred to al-Husseini as a symbol of Palestinian Arab resistance. He called him simply, ‘a hero.’” This is how war criminals become legends to be emulated and revered — when a likeminded ideology protects and lionizes them.
Captain Allen231,319 次观看 • 6 个月前
Four days before Israel declared independence, Golda Meir made a desperate secret trip to Amman. Disguised as an Arab woman, she met with King Abdullah of Transjordan — an Arab leader who acknowledged Jewish rights to the Land & who many hoped may choose peace. Abdullah had long kept private contacts with Zionist leaders. He dreamed of a Greater Syria under Hashemite rule and saw cooperation with the Jews as strategically useful. In their November 1947 meeting, he had hinted at possible accommodation. But by May 1948, the Arab world was locked in rejection. Abdullah told Golda he was now “one of several” — no longer free to act alone. Egypt, Syria, Iraq, and Lebanon were all committed to destroying the Jewish state the moment it was born. He still wanted peace with his Jewish neighbors. But he felt trapped. Before they parted, the King looked at Golda and said these remarkable words: “I believe with all my heart that divine providence has brought you back here, restoring you to the Semitic East which needs your knowledge and initiative. Conditions are now difficult, but be patient.” It was a poignant, almost prophetic farewell. King Abdullah paid for his pragmatism with his life. On July 20, 1951, while visiting Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, he was assassinated by a local Arab gunman acting on orders from the ex-Mufti of Jerusalem and Nazi war criminal, Amin al-Husseini. Peace with Jews was considered treason. This became a tragic pattern: moderate Arab leaders who dared acknowledge Jewish rights or seek accommodation were sidelined, exiled, or killed. From 1948 onward, maximalist rejectionism has been rewarded while moderation has been punished. Yet the Jewish state survived — and thrived anyway.
Captain Allen189,770 次观看 • 5 个月前
Yasser Arafat was the first “foreign leader” to visit Khomeini, just one week after he returned to Tehran and declared victory for the Islamic Revolution. Arafat was greeted as a hero. Khomeini kissed him on the cheek, and Arafat proclaimed, “Today Iran, tomorrow Palestine!”
Captain Allen272,730 次观看 • 8 个月前
People don't know the Arabs were the aggressors in 1948 & sought to exterminate the Jews? “50 million Arabs declared a holy war against 600,000 Jews.” Egypt's Minister of War: “This will not be a war with the Jews, it will be a parade. Within 2 weeks, we will be in Tel Aviv.”
Captain Allen607,502 次观看 • 1 年前
Awkward for the Red-Green Alliance Karl Marx visited Palestine & wrote in 1854 Jerusalem had 8k Jews and 4k Muslims, but the “Muslims are the masters … nothing equals the misery & suffering of Jews in Jerusalem. They are the constant objects of Muslim oppression & intolerance.”
Captain Allen320,592 次观看 • 10 个月前
Bill Clinton describes the incredible deal for Palestinian statehood in 2000 & he does not waver on who’s to blame for the deal’s failure - Yasser Arafat. If a state next to Israel, not instead of Israel, was acceptable, Palestine would be celebrating its 25th Independence Day.
Captain Allen439,000 次观看 • 1 年前
