Donate to a charity working in Iraq
CARE International UK (Registered Charity No. 292506 )
Works with local communities in 64 countries to end poverty through disaster relief and sustainable development programmes. Currently distributes food to children in Iraqi hospitals and refurbishes and maintains water systems throughout central and southern Iraq. Over two million people directly benefit from their refurbishment of water plants and pumping stations.
10-13 Rushworth St
London
SE1 0RB
tel 020 7934 9334
fax 020 7934 9335
www.careinternational.org.uk
Launched in 1992, it focuses on relief work in Iraq. Supports and supervises a number of projects in the North, South and Centre, including sponsoring orphans, students, and poor families, and distributing food and clothing. Also funds medical supplies and treatment for long-term diseases such as heart problems and diabetes. Managed by volunteers.
Help the Needy
PO Box 6074
Birmingham
B10 0TR
tel 0800 02 73 110
fax 020 8961 1861
htnuk@yahoo.co.uk
Human Relief Foundation (Registered Charity No. 1043676)
Established in 1991, it has over ten years of experience of relief distribution, management and development in all parts of Iraq. In 2001 raised over million for relief work in Iraq and other countries affected by conflicts and natural disasters. Work in Iraq includes renovating damaged schools, rebuilding community centres and developing a project to improve domestic water supplies and sanitation.
Human Relief Foundation
Suite 200
The Aberdeen House
22-24 Highbury Grove
London N5 2EA
tel 01274 392727
fax 01274 739992
www.hrf.co.uk
Medical Aid for Iraqi Children (Registered Charity No. 1044222)
Registered in 1995, it concentrates on donating medicines, including specialised anti-cancer drugs, and medical equipment, such as ventilators and radiometers, to paediatric hospitals in Iraq. To date it has delivered 18 shipments to the value of .75 million to 23 hospitals across Iraq, many of them on a regular basis.
Medical Aid for Iraqi Children
26 Old Brompton Rd
London
SW7 3DL
tel. 020 7581 2727
fax. 020 7581 2767
www.maic.org.uk
Save the Children UK (Registered Charity No. 213890)
Works in 70 countries to help children in the world’s most impoverished communities. Lobbies the international community about the harmful effect on children of general economic sanctions and other forms of international intervention. Its work in Northern Iraq covers all aspects of child protection, with a strong emphasis on building the capacity of national NGOs and the Kurdish administration to implement this programme.
Public Enquiry Team
Save the Children
17 Grove Lane
London
SE5 8RD
tel. 020 7703 5400
fax. 020 7703 2278
www.savethechildren.org.uk
In 1941, Haj Amin al-Husseini fled to Germany and met with Adolf Hitler, Heinrich Himmler, Joachim Von Ribbentrop and other Nazi leaders. He wanted to persuade them to extend the Nazis?anti-Jewish program to the Arab world.
The Mufti sent Hitler 15 drafts of declarations he wanted Germany and Italy to make concerning the Middle East. One called on the two countries to declare the illegality of the Jewish home in Palestine. Furthermore, they accord to Palestine and to other Arab countries the right to solve the problem of the Jewish elements in Palestine and other Arab countries, in accordance with the interest of the Arabs and, by the same method, that the question is now being settled in the Axis countries.?
In November 1941, the Mufti met with Hitler, who told him the Jews were his foremost enemy. The Nazi dictator rebuffed the Mufti's requests for a declaration in support of the Arabs, however, telling him the time was not right. The Mufti offered Hitler his thanks for the sympathy which he had always shown fortheArab and especially Palestinian cause, and to which he had given clear expression in his public speeches....The Arabs were Germany's naturalfriends because they had the same enemiesas had Germany, namely....the Jews....?Hitler replied:
Germany stood for uncompromising war against the Jews. That naturally included active opposition to the Jewish nationalhomein Palestine....Germany would furnish positive and practical aid to the Arabs involved in thesame struggle....Germany's objective [is]...solely the destruction of the Jewish element residing in the Arab sphere....In that hour the Mufti would be the most authoritative spokesman for the Arab world. The Mufti thanked Hitler profusely.2
In 1945, Yugoslavia sought to indict the Mufti as a war criminal for his role in recruiting 20,000 Muslim volunteers for the SS, who participated in the killing of Jews in Croatia and Hungary. He escaped from French detention in 1946, however, and continued his fight against the Jews from Cairo and later Beirut. He died in 1974.
The Husseini family continued to play a role in Palestinian affairs, with Faisal Husseini, whose father was the Mufti's nephew, regarded until his death in 2001 as one of their leading spokesmen in the territories.
Who do you think is this Mufti's nephew? The Egyptian born Palestinian leader: Yasser Arafat is a nephew of Haj Amin al-Husseini. I found this quote: Haj Amin al-Husseini eventually died in exile in 1974. He never returned to Jerusalem after his 1937 departure. His place as leader of the radical, nationalist Palestinian Arabs was taken by his nephew Mohammed Abdel-Raouf Arafat As Qudwa al-Hussaeini, better known as Yasser Arafat. In August 2002, Arafat gave an interview in which he referred to "our hero al-Husseini" as a symbol of Palestinian Arab resistance.)
