Ed Husain

And I find Muslims there much more interesting than Muslims in other parts of the world for a whole range of reasons.

But just there, the Sharif of Mecca,

who's a descendant of the Prophet Muhammad, who's governing Mecca.

At the same time, the true Arab, the real Arab in Mecca, in the Arabian Peninsula, is in discussions with Chaim Weizmann, the head of the World Zionist Organization, saying to him, Jewish people are welcome to come back to the region.

You are from this region, you know, as Arabs say, you know, you're from us, you're among us, come back and let's build a civilization together.

And that was going on at the same time as the Nazism in Egypt, but the Arabian Peninsula, which didn't come under occupation and had a kind of freer, more authentic expression of Islam, welcomes the Jewish people back.

You can see the correspondence between Weizmann and the Sharif of Mecca.

What then happens in 1919 with the peace agreement in France complicates matters, and then there's a turn against Zionism.

But before we get to that point, we have to accept and admit that

There are two narratives here.

There's the Muslim Brotherhood narrative of being Nazi sympathizers, and there's the Arabian narrative of the Sharif of Mecca that is welcoming Jewish people back to the region.

And I think where we're seeing with the Abraham Accords and what's going on in the UAE is that narrative being amplified.

that these are people from us, they're welcome back to the region.

And what we have to find is a way how Palestinians and Israelis learn to live side by side together.

But that is not what the Muslim Brotherhood's Nazis wanted.

They wanted the German agenda of obliteration, of killings, and therefore the participating in the 1947 war led by the Muslim Brotherhood, where they cross borders and go and fight the Jewish population that's trying to settle in then Palestine, now Israel.

Correct.

Correct.

It's going back to a glorious past when things were greater.

You know, when there was a great German identity, then the Germans were great.