In a new outburst of brash lying Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has claimed that it was Haj Amin Husseini the Mufti of Jerusalem who convinced Nazi leader Adolph Hitler to exterminate Jews during the Second World War.
“Hitler didn’t want to exterminate the Jews at the time; he only wanted to expel the Jews. And Haj Amin al-Husseini went to Hitler and said ‘If you expel them they’ll all come here (to Palestine)'” Netanyahu claimed in a speech before the World Zionist Congress in Jerusalem.
According to Netanyahu Hitler then asked: “What should I do with them?” and the mufti replied: “Burn them.”
The vast majority of historians Jewish German and others alike reject Netanyahu’s claims out of hand.
According to Uri Avnery Hitler and Husseini didn’t have a particularly good chemistry.
“Adolph Hitler who took his racism seriously applied it to all Semites. He could not stand Arabs either. Contrary to legend he disliked the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Haj Amin al-Husseini who had fled to Germany. After meeting him once for a photo-opportunity arranged by the Nazi propaganda machine he never agreed to meet him again.”
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Netanyahu’s remarks are viewed as a kind of exoneration of the Fuhrer of having sought and planned “the final solution” by shifting responsibility for the holocaust to the Palestinians.
According to Haaretz Netanyahu’s remarks were quick to spark a social media storm.
In 2012 Netanyahu made a similar claim during a Knesset speech where he described Husseini as “one of the leading architects” of the final solution.
Ignorant lies
In an article published Wednesday on the Electronic Intifada website on Netanyahu’s latest remarks https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/why-benjamin-netanyahu-trying-whitewash-hitler Palestinian writer and intellectual Ali Abu Ni’ama cited several Jewish sources belying and refuting Netanyahu’s allegations.
For example in The War Against the Jews by Lucy Davidowicz the author writes about the preparations among Hitler’s top lieutenants to carry out the genocide: “Sometime during that eventful summer of 1941 perhaps even as early as May Himmler summoned Höss to Berlin and in privacy told him ‘that the Führer had given the order for a Final Solution of the Jewish Question’ and that ‘we the SS must carry out the order.’”
She adds: “In the late summer of 1941 addressing the assembled men of the Einsatzkommandos at Nikolayev he [Himmler] ‘repeated to them the liquidation order and pointed out that the leaders and men who were taking part in the liquidation bore no personal responsibility for the execution of this order. The responsibility was his alone and the Führer’s.’”
