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Originally Posted by VtwinVince
I visited Egypt in 1984 on a German passport, and the pro-German sentiments amongst the local population were very evident. A taxi driver made no bones about his reverential feelings for Hitler. I don't think there is any issue of 'anti-infidel' sentiment, or whatever you want to call it.
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Yes, I spent some time in the Middle East and they are really fond of Germans, which I find somewhat surprising.
They either do not know, or choose to conveniently ignore the fact that the birth of Israel as the Jewish state owes a lot to the German racial laws of 1930's, whereby between 1933 and 1939, about half of the German-Jewish population and more than two-thirds of Austrian Jews (1938-1939) fled Nazi persecution. They emigrated mainly to the United States, Palestine, elsewhere in Europe (where many would be later trapped by Nazi conquests during the war), Latin America, and Japanese-occupied Shanghai (which required no visas for entry).... The local Palestinian Arabs could only watch in despair the unchecked build up of the mainly young Jewish population, which gradually pushed them out of their land.
This was eventually sanctioned by the UN (i.e., birth of the state of Israel) in 1948, especially on the account of the atrocities committed in the period 1939 - 1945.
Thus, somewhat misplaced sympathies indeed.