On Tuesday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered an address to the World Zionist Congress in which he made the very controversial claim that the Holocaust was instigated by a leading Palestinian cleric.
Netanyahu cited a well-known 1941 meeting between Adolf Hitler and Haj Amin al-Husseini, the grand mufti of Jerusalem, who had fled to Germany and was colluding with the Nazis. My colleague William Booth reported on Netanyahu's speech, which hinged on this key statement:
“Hitler didn’t want to exterminate the Jews at the time, he wanted to expel the Jews. 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?’ he asked. He said, ‘Burn them.’"
Netanyahu said the Mufti of Jerusalem had “a central role in fomenting the Final Solution.”
Netanyahu cited a well-known 1941 meeting between Adolf Hitler and Haj Amin al-Husseini, the grand mufti of Jerusalem, who had fled to Germany and was colluding with the Nazis. My colleague William Booth reported on Netanyahu's speech, which hinged on this key statement:
“Hitler didn’t want to exterminate the Jews at the time, he wanted to expel the Jews. 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?’ he asked. He said, ‘Burn them.’"
Netanyahu said the Mufti of Jerusalem had “a central role in fomenting the Final Solution.” ..........
"Heinrich Wolff subsequently wrote in his annual report for that year that the Arabs' political naïvety led them to fail to recognizethe link between German Jewish policy and their problems in Palestine, and that their enthusiasm for Nazi Germany was devoid of any real understanding of the phenomenon."
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