Outcry as Netanyahu blames Holocaust on Palestinians

One could argue that Prime Minister Netanyahu’s insistence on a narrative that blames a Palestinian leader for the Holocaust has a clear ideological underpinning as well.

While it is true that the former Palestinian leader met with Hitler and was a Nazi supporter, most reputable historians insist that al-Husseini did not inspire the Holocaust. At the same time, the Palestinian Liberation Organisation issued a statement of condemnation.

The leader of the Israeli opposition, Isaac Herzog, said on his Facebook page that “even the son of a historian must be precise when it comes to history”, referring to the premier’s late father, Benzion, who specialized in Jewish history.

Husseini famously flew to visit Hitler in Berlin in 1941, and Netanyahu said that meeting was instrumental in the Nazi leader’s decision to launch a campaign to annihilate the Jews. Hitler didn’t want to exterminate the Jews at the time, he wanted to expel the Jews. He said: “‘Burn them'”. The Nazis released a grainy propaganda video showing the mufti making a Nazi salute before a warm handshake. He has repeatedly suggested to the various authorities with whom he has been in contact, above all before Hitler, Ribbentrop and Himmler, the extermination of European Jewry.

By then, Hitler’s plans to exterminate the Jews were already well under way. Time is overdue for the Jews to move on and invent a new phantasmic promised land.

According to Netanyahu, Hitler then asked: “What should I do with them?” and the Mufti replied: “Burn them”. “The Jews lived among us for 13 centuries as a minority, and we protected them”. German Chancellor Angela Merkel even stepped into the fray to correct Netanyahu and insist that responsibility for the Holocaust lay with Germany.

“Any attempt to deflect the burden from Hitler to others is a form of Holocaust denial”, he told AP. “It cheapens the Holocaust”. But Zimmermann called him a “lightweight” who was pleading with Hitler for assistance in getting rid of the British Mandate and the Jewish immigrants coming to the Holy Land.

Al-Husseini had despicable views concerning Jews and Nazis. “He didn’t need the mufti in order to have the idea”. For Netanyahu and his followers, there was no better argument against Iran’s nuclear program. The experts have an opinion, and even though they are all supposed to be professional historians, the views of a few of them concerning this matter suspiciously correspond with their general views of Netanyahu and their general views on politics.

Netanyahu and Merkel met prior to the news conference. “Unfortunately, Haj Amin al-Husseini is still an admired figure in Palestinian society”. “We know that responsibility for this crime against humanity is Germany and very much our own”, Seibert added.

The so-called Transfer Agreement facilitated the emigration of German Jews to Palestine and broke the worldwide boycott of German goods launched by American Jews. They have also accused Israel of plotting to destroy the mosque.

MK Itzik Shmuli called on Netanyahu to apologise to Holocaust victims.

While there is no dispute that the mufti did indeed meet Hitler, historians say it was well after the Final Solution began. Galon said. “He who can’t act to change the future, all he has left is to rewrite the past”.

Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas said the comments showed “how history is distorted and used against us”.

There is no question that there was a relationship between Husseini and Hitler.

The “Wisliceny hearsay is not merely uncorroborated, but conflicts with everything else that is known about the origins of the Final Solution”, Rafael Medoff, the head of the Washington, DC-based David Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies, wrote in a 1996 article for the Journal of Israeli History.

He sidestepped the Palestinian role in World War II, claiming that “Palestinian efforts against the Nazi regime are a deep-rooted part of our history”.