Netanyahu Blames Muslim Cleric for Holocaust

[_MissTish]

Netanyahu Blames Holocaust on Muslim Cleric; Germany Clarifies That It Committed the Holocaust

This is bizarre: Benjamin Netanyahu, in a Tuesday speech, made the historically erroneous accusation that Hitler got the idea to kill Jews from a Muslim cleric named Haj Amin al-Husseini in 1941. From the Times of Israel:

During an address Tuesday to delegates at the World Zionist Congress in Jerusalem, Netanyahu posited that the Nazi fuehrer did not initially intend to annihilate the Jews, but rather sought to expel them from Europe. According to the prime minister’s version of the events, Hitler changed his mind after meeting with Muslim leader Husseini—who was grand mufti of Jerusalem from 1921 to 1948, and president of the Supreme Muslim Council from 1922 to 1937—in Berlin near the end of 1941.

However, as the Times writes, "An overwhelming majority of Holocaust historians reject the notion that Husseini planted the idea of a 'Final Solution' for Europe’s Jews in Hitler’s mind." Hundreds of thousands of Jews had already been massacred by the Nazis and other fascist collaborators by the time the two met on Nov. 28, 1941; a systematic mass-murder operation began at Chelmno in Poland on Dec. 8, while a systematic "euthanasia" program (not specifically targeted towards Jews, but whose methods were later applied to death camps) had been operating since 1939.

Netanyahu's remarks come in the context of repeated stabbing attacks against Israelis that were initiated by a conflict involving the Temple Mount and al-Aqsa Mosque site; as the Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg wrote earlier this week, Haj Amin al-Husseini instigated deadly anti-Semitic violence in the late 1920s after alleged Jewish provocations involving the Temple Mount.

Germany has stepped in to clarify that it, not a Muslim cleric, was responsible for the Holocaust. From Reuters:

"All Germans know the history of the murderous race mania of the Nazis that led to the break with civilisation that was the Holocaust," Chancellor Angela Merkel's spokesman Steffen Seibert said when asked about Benjamin Netanyahu's remarks.

"This is taught in German schools for good reason, it must never be forgotten. And I see no reason to change our view of history in any way. We know that responsibility for this crime against humanity is German and very much our own."

Netanyahu has since said that his remarks involved "no intention to absolve Hitler of responsibility for his diabolical destruction of European Jewry."


http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/ ... ecord.html

[_cinepro]

Very weird when you've got Germany saying "No, no, the holocaust was all us!"

[_ldsfaqs]

Netanyahu and his family are well scholared/studied individuals....
Clearly he read something from the history that implied the person in quesiton DID influence Hitler.
There being some "abuse" prior to the final solution doesn't mean the person in quesiton didn't encorage the final solution.

You'll note that Net was very specific and detailed in his information. Clearly it wasn't "made up".
Why would he need to either? Islam is already f'd up enough, he doesn't have a need to make anything up, there's plenty of crap to emphasize.

[_Res Ipsa]

Netanyahu and his family are well scholared/studied individuals....
Clearly he read something from the history that implied the person in quesiton DID influence Hitler.
There being some "abuse" prior to the final solution doesn't mean the person in quesiton didn't encorage the final solution.

You'll note that Net was very specific and detailed in his information. Clearly it wasn't "made up".
Why would he need to either? Islam is already f'd up enough, he doesn't have a need to make anything up, there's plenty of crap to emphasize.

Yeah. Sure. He retracted it today, you silly faqqer.

[_Res Ipsa]

Netanyahu and his family are well scholared/studied individuals....
Clearly he read something from the history that implied the person in quesiton DID influence Hitler.
There being some "abuse" prior to the final solution doesn't mean the person in quesiton didn't encorage the final solution.

You'll note that Net was very specific and detailed in his information. Clearly it wasn't "made up".
Why would he need to either? Islam is already f'd up enough, he doesn't have a need to make anything up, there's plenty of crap to emphasize.

Yeah. Sure. He retracted it today, you silly faqqer.