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  1. Some findings of this paper were first presented in my Keynote Address at the conference on "Genocide and Terrorism - Probing the Mind of the Perpetrator", April 11, 2003 at Yale University, New Haven. This conference was organized by the Genocide Studies Program of the Yale Center for International and Area Studies. I would like to offer my profound gratitude to Ursula Duba, New Haven, CT, USA and to R. Range Cloyd Jr., Hamburg, Germany for their dedication and for the time they were willing to give to make the English translation of this paper clear and concise.
  2. Christian Eggers, Aussagen in dem Prozess vor dem Hamburger Landgericht gegen Mounir El Motassadeq wegen Beihilfe zum Mord in über 3000 Fällen und Mitgliedschaft in einer terroristischen Vereinigung. (Unpublished) Fortunately, this journalist who works for Reuters took notes on all the witnesses statements.
  3. Quoted from: Abd Al-Fattah Muhammad El-Awaisi, "The Muslim Brothers and the Palestine Question 1928-1947", London 1998, p. 125.
  4. El-Awaisi, p.98.
  5. Gudrun Krämer, "Minderheit, Millet, Nation? Die Juden in Ägypten 1914-1952", Wiesbaden 1982, p. 282; El-Awaisi, pp.70-71.
  6. David Th. Schiller, "Palästinenser zwischen Terrorismus und Diplomatie. Die paramilitärische palästinensische Nationalbewegung von 1918 bis 1981", München 1982, pp.91-95.
  7. Aaron S. Klieman, "The Arab States and Palestine", in: Elie Kedourie and Sylvia G. Haim (eds.), "Zionism and Arabism in Palestine and Israel", Frank Cass, London 1982, p.118.
  8. A. Ashkenasi in: Klaus Genicke, "Der Mufti von Jerusalem Amin el-Husseini, und die Nationalsozialisten", Frankfurt/M. 1988, S. 7.
  9. Kurth Fischer-Weth, "Amin el-Husseini. Großmufti von Palästina", Berlin 1943, pp.81-82; Schiller, pp.145-148.
  10. Letter of January 20, 1941, see: Gerhard Höpp (ed.), "Mufti-Papiere. Briefe, Memoranden, Reden und Aufrufe Amin al-Husseinis aus dem Exil, 1940-1945", Berlin 2001, p.18.
  11. Ralf Paul Gerhard Balke, Die Landesgruppe der NSDAP in Palästina, Düsseldorf 1997, p. 260; Iwo Jordan, Araberaufstand. Erlebnisse und Dokumente aus Palästina, Wien-Leipzig 1943, p. 3, p.97, p. 187.
  12. Klaus Gensicke, Der Mufti von Jerusalem Amin el-Husseini, und die Nationalsozialisten, Frankfurt/M. 1988, S. 234.
  13. Krämer, p.320, p.408.
  14. Thomas Mayer, "The Military Force of Islam. The Society of the Muslim Brethren and the Palestine Question, 1945-48", in: Elie Kedurie and Sylvia G. Haim (eds.), p. 103.
  15. Bernard Lewis, "Semites and Anti-Semites", Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London 1986, p.160.
  16. El-Awaisi, p. 195.
  17. Concerning the relationship between Nasser, Sadat, and the Muslim Brotherhood, see: Kirk J. Beattie, Egypt during the Nasser Years. Ideology, Politics and Civil Society, New York 1994, pp.47-49, p.57.
  18. See the English translation of the Charta: www.palestinecenter.org/cpap/documents/charter.html
  19. Jehuda Bauer, Hitlers islamistische Erben. Spätestens seit dem 11. September 2001 wissen wir: Die Schoa ist nicht Geschichte, sondern Gegenwart, in: Jüdische Allgemeine Nr. 24/02, p. 8.
  20. Khalid Duran, "Der einen Teufel, der anderen Held", in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 20. September 2001.
  21. F. H. Kisch, "Palestine Diary", Victor Gollancz Ltd, London 1938, p.110.
  22. Giselher Wirsing, "Engländer Juden Araber in Palästina", Jena 1939, quoted according to the 5th edition, Jena 1942, p. 132 and 136.
  23. The German translation of the Protocols is published in: Jeffrey L. Sammons, Die Protokolle der Weisen von Zion - eine Fälschung. Text und Kommentar. Göttingen 1998.
  24. The full text of Osama bin Laden's letter was published in the British newspaper The Observer, November 24, 2002.
  25. "Why we fight America": Al-Qa'ida Spokesman Explains September 11 and Declares Intentions to Kill 4 Mllion Americans with Weapons of Mass Destruction, in: Special Dispatch of "The Middle East Media Research Institute" (MEMRI), June 18, 2002.
  26. In October 2002, the number of Islamists in Pakistan's parliament increased from three to fifty and they gained a majority of votes in two local states bordering on Afghanistan. In May 2002, Islamists in Bahrain won all parliamentary seats in local elections, in September 2002, Islamists in Morocco were more successful than any other political party. (See Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, September 30, 2002 and October 25, 2002.
  27. Brian Knowlton, "A rising anti-American tide", in: International Herald Tribune, December 5, 2002.
  28. Daniel Johah Goldhagen, The Globalization of Antisemitism, in: Forward, May 2003.
  29. See Gabriel Schoenfeld, "Israel and the Anti-Semites" in: Commentary, June 2002.
  30. Melanie Phillips, "The new nexus of antisemitism", first published in the Spectator, March 22, 2003 and Jonathan Sacks, "A New Antisemitism?": www.axt.org.uk/essays/sacks1.htm
  31. Mathias Bröckers, "Verschwörungen, Verschwörungstheorien und die Geheimnisse des 11. 9.", 2001-Verlag, Frankfurt/M. 2002, p. 106.
  32. Melissa Radler, "Anti-Semitic riot at San Francisco State University", in: Jerusalem Post, May 16, 2002; Michael A. Fletcher, "U.S. campuses divided by anti-Israel campaign", in: International Herald Tribune, October 14, 2002.