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Purveyor

(29,876 posts) Wed Oct 21, 2015, 03:17 PM Oct 2015

Netanyahu Criticized For Saying Holocaust Was Mufti's Idea, Not Hitler's

By Greg Botelho, CNN
Updated 2:54 PM ET, Wed October 21, 2015

(CNN)There's no question Adolf Hitler led Nazi Germany when it implemented the "final solution" in an effort to kill all Jews.

But, in a speech this week, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu suggested it wasn't Hitler's idea.

Rather, he pointed to Jerusalem's then-grand mufti, Haj Amin al-Husseini, who met with the Nazi leader in Germany in the early 1940s.

"Hitler didn't want to exterminate the Jews at the time, he wanted to expel the Jews," Netanyahu said Tuesday at the 37th Zionist Congress, according to a transcript on his website. "And Haj Amin al-Husseini went to Hitler and said, 'If you expel them, they'll all come here.'

"'So what should I do with them?' (Hitler) asked. (Husseini) said, 'Burn them.'"

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http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/21/middleeast/netanyahu-hitler-grand-mufti-holocaust/

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Netanyahu Criticized For Saying Holocaust Was Mufti's Idea, Not Hitler's (Original Post) Purveyor Oct 2015 OP

Bizzaro Khomeini speaks MattP Oct 2015 #1

there is some history here 6chars Oct 2015 #2

Jebus! What's Netanyahoo's name in the Creative Speculation group? KamaAina Oct 2015 #3

The leader of Israel is a Hitler apologist. Iggo Oct 2015 #4

Can't get any stranger than that. Rex Oct 2015 #5

Netanyahu is terrible, but I never thought he'd be a Hitler apologist. Bucky Oct 2015 #6

Actually it was born in the USA loyalsister Oct 2015 #7

MattP

(3,304 posts)

1. Bizzaro Khomeini speaks

Reply to Purveyor (Original post)

Wed Oct 21, 2015, 03:19 PM

Oct 2015

6chars

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2. there is some history here

Reply to MattP (Reply #1)

Wed Oct 21, 2015, 03:39 PM

Oct 2015

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haj_Amin_al-Husseini#Al-Husseini_and_the_Holocaust
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/muftihit.html
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/mufti2.html
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007667

We can't know exactly what was said, and which accounts are most accurate. It seems clear there were some discussions relating to the status of European Jews, whether they might immigrate to the Palestine Mandate, and if not, how could Hitler rid Europe of them. It certainly seems that al-Husseini was close with Hitler and was in general sympatico with whatever Hitler did as long as Jews were kept out of Palestine. This is already not good. The question is how much he influenced Hitler beyond that. He certainly set the tone for a lot of the Arab discourse about Jews.