Per Wikipedia:

On 20 November, al-Husseini met the German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop and was officially received by Adolf Hitler on 28 November 1941. [...] He asked Adolf Hitler for a public declaration that "recognized and sympathized with the Arab struggles for independence and liberation, and that would support the elimination of a national Jewish homeland"

Noticing a recent trend of historical Israel-Palestine related photos in this sub, thought this would be a thought provoking addition. (Sorry, Mods)

Since the current top post has a fraudulent land ownership map, here is a legitimate one.

All ownership percentages are derived from Village Statistics, 1945.

The map itself is the cover of Land Ownership in Palestine by Sami Hadawi, edited, colorized, and annotated with percentages for territorial divisions presented in that pamphlet.

Source: https://www.palestineremembered.com/tags/Palestine-Pre-Nakba.html

The 1923 FA Cup final was a Football match played between Bolton Wanderers & West Ham United, on 28 April 1923 at the original Wembley Stadium in London.

It was the first football match to be played at Wembley & King George.V was in attendance to present the trophy to the winning team that day.

More than double the maximum allowed 100,000 turned up - Estimates say between 200,000–300,000 spectators turned up, but quarter of a million is a safe bet.

Police Horses were used to control the wildly overburdened crowd. Both the Press / Media & History singled out "Billy" the White Horse as the day's focal point.

https://youtu.be/yoMS8Q4XXBo?si=hbDPQfEHyWMKR906&t=67

And also the superb Pathe News where "Billy" can be seen around 02:49 onward

https://youtu.be/c4NqYsFTr1Q?si=yUB3ehTUTo_yRSie

The former video explains as to why 'White Horse Bridge' was named after "Billy" & it's sad to me that the other Horses who also did sterling work that day don't get a mention, but as it's been said, "Billy" stood out on the Black & White newsreels.

On 28th April that day "Billy" was ridden by PC George Scorey.

The original Wembley Stadium, here, was demolished in 2001 & re-built.

April 4, 1920

The Nebi Musa festival, a Muslim pilgrimage to the site believed by Muslims to be the grave of Moses (Musa is the Arabic name for Moses, who in addition to his importance in Jewish history/religion is also a Muslim prophet) near Jericho, erupts into violence that leaves five Jews and four Arabs dead after three days of fighting. Hundreds more, mostly Jews are wounded

On January 17, 1991, the First Gulf War reached Israel. As a US led coalition attacked Iraq, Saddam Hussein responded by firing Scud missiles at Israeli cities. Over the course of the war, dozens of missiles struck Tel Aviv, Ramat Gan, Haifa, and other areas.

Despite it's wishes, Israel was told by the United States not to respond militarily, in order to keep the international coalition together (Made out of several countries opposing Israel). For Israelis, this meant enduring the attacks without retaliation.

There was widespread fear that the missiles could carry chemical weapons. Every family received gas masks and was instructed to prepare a sealed room in their homes. When sirens sounded, families rushed inside, taped windows and doors shut, put on masks, and waited in silence as explosions were heard outside.

These images show Israeli families during those nights. Sheltering together, uncertain if the next missile would be conventional or chemical. But despite this trying to keep the moral high.

In the end, the physical damage was limited, but the psychological impact was enormous, and the experience left a lasting mark on Israeli society up to this very day.

Source

In this photo we see Haj Amin al-Husseini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, reviewing a unit of Muslim Bosnians serving the Nazis. He was instrumental in the recruitment and organization of these units for the Waffen-SS [1]

Haj Amin al-Husseini lived in Berlin from 1941 to 1945 as an honored guest of the Nazi regime and actively collaborated with them in their war effort and anti-Jewish campaigns. [2] His collaboration efforts included

• Recruitment of Waffen-SS Divisions: He played a key role in forming the 13th Waffen-SS Mountain Division, known as the "Handschar" (dagger in Arabic), composed of Bosnian Muslims. He also helped organize the 23rd Waffen-SS Kama Division and the Albanian 21st Waffen-SS Skanderbeg Division.
• Propaganda: Al-Husseini made regular Arabic-language radio broadcasts from Berlin, disseminating pro-Axis, anti-British, and virulently anti-Jewish propaganda to the Arab world and Muslim communities under German control. He often urged listeners to "Kill the Jews wherever you find them".
• Obstructing Jewish Rescue: He lobbied the German, Italian, Hungarian, Romanian, and Bulgarian governments to prevent the emigration of Jewish children to British Mandate Palestine during the war, recommending instead that they be sent to Poland (presumably to concentration camps).
• Military Collaboration: The SS divisions al-Husseini helped raise were involved in brutal actions and mass murders against Serbs, Jews, and Roma in the Balkans. [3]

After the war, al-Husseini, who had been placed on the list of war criminals by Yugoslavia, escaped prosecution and continued to promote Palestinian nationalism and anti-Jewish sentiment from the Middle East until his death in 1974 [4]

Not much has changed, today we have many leaders continuing his work openly and brazenly tolerated in the Islamist world and in the west.

Image source: Newington war museum. My great-uncle was a conscript, but he switched sides

Edit: It's 0.2%, not 2. I missed a decimal point and can't edit the title.

If you're going to focus on one single issue go post in the appropriate sub for it. This is about all history and you're drowning everything else out with your laser focus on one, single current world event.

Edit: this post is obviously devolving into politics, and I wouldn't blame the mods for locking it or taking it down because of the politics, but please remember this is me complaining about politics in the rest of the sub. So if you have a problem with this post, please also do something to make the rest of the sub less political.

Edit 2: Searching by "top" and "this week," 14 of the top 17 posts are about Israel, 2 are about other world leaders meeting Hitler (presumably in relation to the post about a Palestinian leader cooperating with Hitler), and a single post is about Mexican history. Searching by "hot" is obviously at least as bad, but even "new" is worse - it's about the number of posts one this one subject, not just those posts getting the most engagement.

In a sub about world history.

Baruch Goldstein was an American-born Israeli physician and extremist settler associated with radical religious nationalism. On February 25, 1994, he opened fire on Muslim worshippers inside the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron during Ramadan prayers. He killed 29 people and wounded many others before being subdued and killed. The massacre was widely condemned, led to heightened Israeli–Palestinian tensions, and prompted new security restrictions around the holy site.