Did you know that once upon a time, other Arabs sought to sneak
into the area, when there was a British Mandate of Palestine.
But they had a different goal: sabotage. And they were advancing
Nazi interests. ...a German wartime plan for subversion in
Palestine, when the territory was administered by
Britain....involved parachute landings, thousands of gold coins
and the Arab Muslim leader, Mohammed Amin el-Hussaini, the Grand
Mufti of Jerusalem, who was then living in exile in Berlin. It
also had the approval of Hitler's security chief, Heinrich
Himmler. But the project ended in fiasco. ...The Germans, on the
other hand, wanted to make things a great deal worse and planned
- with the support of the Grand Mufti - to arm Palestinian
villagers and incite them to rise up against the Jews. A small
commando team of two German officers and three Arabs was formed
in Berlin in early 1944. ...when they were on their way, in
October 1944, the pilot lost his way and flew too high when they
began their jump. They had plann