Holocaust experts to Netanyahu: No, a Palestinian did not convince Hitler to kill Jews
Oct 21, 2015 @ 10:45 PM
http://www.globalpost.com/article/6672849/2015/10/21/netanyahu-under-fire-suggesting-idea-holocaust-came-palestinian
JERUSALEM
— Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has stirred controversy by
intimating the Holocaust may not have been Adolf Hitler’s idea, and that in
fact, he had been led down the garden path by the then Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, a Palestinian.
Germany’s
response: No, no, it was us.
“Hitler
didn’t want to exterminate the Jews at the time, he wanted to expel the Jews
and Hajj Amin al-Husseini went to him and said if you expel them they’ll all
come here. So what should I do with them? He asked. Burn them, he said.” These
were Netanyahu’s words before the World Zionist Congress on Tuesday night.
If
such a sentence were uttered by anyone but the leader of the Jewish state, one
might be tempted to call it Holocaust denying, or at least a radically
revisionist narrative of what happened.
But,
Holocaust experts say, the interaction the prime minister described is a
fiction.
“This
conversation never took place,” said Dr. David Motadel, a historian and author
of "Islam and Nazi Germany's War."
"The
mufti was not involved in the planning of the Holocaust."
"The
Nazis had started to murder Jews on the eastern front in the late summer of
1941, long before the mufti
arrived in Germany. The Holocaust had already
started.”
The
only time Mufti Husseini was received by Hitler was on Nov. 28 1941, Motadel
points out, when the
Holocaust was already underway. The dynamics were
also different from those Netanyahu alluded to. “There was of course a power
imbalance. Hitler did not accept the mufti as an equal. The Germans had in fact
a very patronizing attitude toward Amin al-Husayni. They used him as a
propaganda tool in the hope to win over the Muslim world. But his influence in Berlin was limited.”
The
German government was equally adamant that Netanyahu was mistaken.
“We
know that responsibility for this crime against humanity is German and very
much our own,” said Chancellor Angela Merkel's spokesman Steffen Seibert when
asked about the remarks. “This is taught in German schools for good reason, it
must never be forgotten. And I see no reason to change our view of history in
any way.”
This
is not Netanyahu’s first such claim. During a 2012 Knesset speech he
referred to Husseini as “one of the
leading architects” of the Final Solution.
Experts on the Holocaust disagree.
“Netanyahu
said incorrect things,” said Dina Porat, a professor at the Department of
Jewish History at Tel
Aviv University
and the chief historian of Yad Vashem, the Israeli memorial to victims of the
Holocaust.
“These things did not have to be said. I am waiting and calling on
the Prime Minister to come and explain himself in an organized fashion, not to
just toss out a sentence, and to clarify what he meant and to recant if he can,
because his words can absolutely cause damage,” she said on Israeli army radio.
Others
were even more blunt.
“I
would prefer not to comment other than to say that he is as bad a historian as
he is a politician,” said Tony Kushner, a professor of history at the University of Southampton and the author of a number
of books on the Holocaust. “If there was any justice in the world, he
would leave both professions alone and do something useful with his life.”
Netanyahu
is not alone in seeking to use the history of the mufti's collaboration to
connect Palestinians to the Nazis. Right-wing Israeli politician Avigdor
Lieberman made a similar claim in 2009.
“The
attempt to connect your political enemies to Nazism, the synonym for the
ultimate evil, with the aim to defame and disqualify them, is not new,” said
Motadel. “The entire debate about “Islamo-faschism” is part of this
discourse.”
“These
attempts are meant to defame Palestinians or Muslims more generally by connecting
them to Nazism, as the synonym of ultimate evil.”
The
incident comes in the middle of a wave of violence that has shaken the Holy Land in recent weeks. On the same evening that he
spoke at the Congress, Netanyahu met with United Nations Secretary-General Ban
Ki-Moon, who had come to Israel
in hopes of calming the ongoing bloodshed. He said he understood Palestinian
frustration but called on them to put down their weapons while saying to the
Israelis that a crackdown will not end the bloodletting.
“The
status quo is only making things worse. This conflict has gone on for far too
long. We must, for the future of our children, turn back from this dangerous
abyss, safeguard the two-state solution and lead people back onto the road
towards peace,” said
Secretary Ban on Tuesday.
COMMENT:
HEY! You idiot, are you in your bloody sense or you are drunk talking through your mouth or your bloody fucken ass holes,
you international Liar son of a NAZI.
International Community of Nations knew that you are an
indicted veteran Assassin and also a
motherfucker and a daughter fucker but that you are imbalanced and mad dog we came
to know only today after your statement on Holocaust..
Friends, he
needs to be admitted in the mental hospital immediately for a check up.
But before that he has to suck
his own stool from the International floor that he shitted by delivering latest
statement on Holocaust involving Palestine.
He must be made to
leave the International floor clean. How could such idiot become a Prime Minister of a
state.
May be and could be because it is
a lone terrorist state of the world that is why a criminal of International indictment could
become the PM of that state and the US lawmakers kiss his ass to the entire heart's satisfaction.
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