Outrage Over Holocaust Comments Intensifies As Netanyahu Meets Kerry

Source: Guardian UK

Israeli PM and US secretary of state meet in Berlin to call for end to violence as row continues over Netanyahu linking Palestinian grand mufti to Holocaust

Peter Beaumont
Thursday 22 October 2015 08.24 EDT

Binyamin Netanyahu has met the US secretary of state, John Kerry, in Berlin amid a continuing storm of criticism over remarks by the Israeli prime minister claiming that the Palestinian grand mufti of Jerusalem had suggested the genocide of the Jews to Adolf Hitler.

Although Netanyahu tried to row back on his remarks that Hitler had been persuaded to initiate the Holocaust by the second world war Palestinian leader – made in a speech on Tuesday to the World Zionist Congress – historians and media commentators continued to weigh in, accusing him of everything from fabrication to helping the cause of Holocaust deniers.

The continuing row came as Kerry and Netanyahu called for an immediate end to incitement, blamed for a recent deadly wave of Palestinian attacks against Israelis, ahead of their meeting on Thursday.

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Kerry was more circumspect and did not single out Abbas for blame. But he also did not address the Israeli prime minister’s Holocaust comments, saying only: “We have to stop the incitement, we have to stop the violence.”

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