Shameful, shameful! How shameless can one be, declaring Hitler only wanted to evict the Jews and putting blame on Mufti Haj Amin al-Husseini and today’s Palestinians ar the root cause for the extinction of Jews. How morally corrupt must one be to publicly make these statements in a speech in 2015! Netanyahu is not a leader, he has always been competing with his brother Yonathan. Bibi just destroyed his own legacy as Prime Minister of Israel. This should lead to his political downfall and a pariah statesman in the world … unless that world is just as corrupt and morally void as Israel has become.
The Zionist spirit of socialism and kibbutz movement has turned the corner to settler violence and the ways of Meir Kahane in political discourse in the US, Canada and Europe. The spirit of pioneers and communal service has evaporated into hatred, superiority and criminal occupation of the Palestinian land and oppression of its people for over six decades. The world watches as the United Stated condones and gives necessary military support for the crimes to continue.
Israel does not need Benyamin Netanyahu, he should be voted out of office the sooner rather than later.
in the face of the criticism Netanyahu is doubling down on his contention that Palestinians incited the holocaust. Here is what he said today before leaving to Berlin:
My intention was not to absolve Hitler of his responsibility, but rather to show that the forefathers of the Palestinian nation, without a country and without the so-called ‘occupation’, without land and without settlements, even then aspired to systematic incitement to exterminate the Jews.
Meanwhile, Germany says it has no idea what Netanyahu is talking about. [Video Chancellor Merkel]
Here is the speech to the World Zionist Organization, in which Netanyahu relates the ten biggest lies told about Israel. One lie is that Israel intends to destroy the Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem. He says this lie has a long pedigree, going back to the mufti. The relevant portion begins at 2:55.
Why Holocaust historians decry analogies by Netanyahu | Christian Science Monitor |
Although al-Husseini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem at the time, was a Nazi sympathizer who supported the Final Solution, and fought unsuccessfully throughout his life to prevent a Jewish homeland in the Middle East, historians strongly rebutted Netanyahu’s claim, saying evidence of the Third Reich’s genocidal intent was in place well before Hitler met with al-Husseini.
Tel Aviv University professor Meir Litvak, for instance, told Israel’s Ynetnews that plans for the Holocaust were put in place by 1939. Al-Husseini “was an abominable person,” Dr. Litvak said, “but this must not minimize the scale of Hitler’s guilt.”
“We know that responsibility for this crime against humanity is German and very much our own,” a spokesman for German Chancellor Angela Merkel told Ynet’s Ahiya Raved.
It’s not the first time Netanyahu has come under attack for using questionable Holocaust references. In 2012, he drew controversial parallels between the threats posed by Iran’s nuclear program and Nazi Germany’s concentration camps.
When the Israeli Knesset was debating a bill to limit the use of the word “Nazi” in non-historical or educational contexts, hoping to cut down on “trivializing” political and popular usages alike, a column by former CIA analyst Paul Pillar wryly noted that the Prime Minister himself “is one of the worst abusers.”
Outrage on Twitter over Netanyahu’s Holocaust remarks | Deutsche Welle |
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Adolf Hitler had wanted to expel Jews from Europe at first, not kill them, until a conversation with Jerusalem Mufti Hajj Amin Al-Husseini changed his mind. That speech was met with outrage across Israel and the Jewish world, with many people calling for him to backtrack from these claims.
Opposition leader Yitzhak Herzog posted a message on his facebook page calling the speech a “distortion of history,” and added that it could be used by Holocaust deniers. Meretz party leader Zehava Galon wrote that her own family members had been persecuted and killed in Lithuania and said she was “ashamed” for Netanyahu.
Palestinians in particular were quite angry.
Many Israelis, too, took to social media to mock their prime minister’s remarks, while others expressed their anger, with many criticizing Netanyahu for using the memory of the Holocaust as a political tool. Other users, like the popular parody account God, found more comfort in humor.
Netanyahu under fire after linking Palestinian leader to Holocaust
