Netanyahu: Grand Mufti Responsible For The Holocaust

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Benjamin Netanyahu claims the Grand Mufti was responsible for the Holocaust, not Hitler

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has sparked public outrage after claiming that the Grand Mufti was responsible for the Holocaust, not Hitler. 

Speaking at the World Zionist Congress on Tuesday, Netanyahu said the Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al-Husseini, was the one who planted the idea of exterminating millions of Jews in Adolf Hitler’s mind.

The Nazi ruler had no intention of killing Jews before the idea was given to him, Netanyahu said.

Haaretz.com reports: In a speech before the World Zionist Congress in Jerusalem, Netanyahu described a meeting between Husseini and Hitler in November, 1941: “Hitler didn’t want to exterminate the Jews at the time, he wanted to expel the Jew. And Haj Amin al-Husseini went to Hitler and said, ‘If you expel them, they’ll all come here (to Palestine).’ According to Netanyahu, Hitler then asked: “What should I do with them?” and the mufti replied: “Burn them.”

Netanyahu’s remarks were quick to spark a social media storm, though Netanyahu made a similar claim during a Knesset speech in 2012, where he described the Husseini as “one of the leading architects” of the final solution.

The claim that Husseini was the one to initiate the extermination of European Jewry had been suggested by a number of historians at the fringes of Holocaust research, but was rejected by most accepted scholars.




The argument concerning Husseini’s role was recently mentioned in a book by Barry Rubin and Wolfgang G. Schwanitz, “Nazis, Islamists, and the Making of the Modern Middle East.” The authors, like Netanyahu, draw a straight line between the mufti’s support of Hitler and the policy of the Palestinian Liberation Organization under Yasser Arafat.

But even these two researchers do not claim that the dialogue described by Netanyahu ever took place. They say Hitler reached the conclusion to exterminate the Jews because of his desire to nurture Husseini, who opposed the transfer of Jews to pre-state Israel.

4 Comments

  1. Perhaps, Bibi Netanyahu (real family name Mileikowsky) can be right.
    Bibi’s father, Benzion Mileikoesky, was Vladimir Ze’ev Jabotinsky’s personal secretary.
    Who was Jabotinsky? He was the founder of the Revisionist movement, a far right wing sionist political party, whose principal aim was the creation of a sionist state which has the full sovereignty over the whole territory of Eretz Yisrael, denying all rights to Palestinian people.
    The Revisionist movement, literally, was a fascist party. Ben Gurion used to call Vladimir Jabotinsky “Vladimir Hitler”, because of the strict linkages, during the ’30s, between European fascist parties and Revisionist movement in Palestine.
    It has been at least the second time that Netanyahu has said that the Grand Mufti was the real responsible of “the Final Solution”. Does Bibi know, thanks to his father’s job as Jabotinsky’s personal Secretary, something that we ignore?

  2. ” With regard to Israel, the holocaust hoax may be used to forestall political criticism and suppress debate about Israeli War Crimes. It reinforces the sense of Jews as a beleaguered people who can rely for their defense only upon themselves. The invocation of the suffering endured by the Jew’s under the Nazis often takes the place of rational argument, and is expected to convince doubters of the legitimacy of current Israeli policy. The Holocaust Myth is maintained not because it has rigorous historical backbone, because it is used for ideological purposes.” Jewish Historian Paul Hyman: 1980 N.Y. Times

  3. hmm clever .And so since Prince Philips two brother in laws were senior nazi members of the SS too then now its a best to start disseminating the other stories for historical sake of replacing the old worn out , the meanest man alive stories with the new more fashionable and politically correct history of the events.You understand that it wont do to have people thinking the Queens children and grandchildren are all related to senior servants of a Historical Monstrous Dictator , eh Harry?I never beleived the English history lessons anyway Did you ?

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