Netanyahu Causes Uproar By Linking Palestinians To Holocaust

[Tennesseer]

This guy is more trouble than he is worth. In a sense, Netanyahu is just another Holocaust denier.

Netanyahu causes uproar by linking Palestinians to Holocaust

ERUSALEM (AP) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sparked uproar in Israel on Wednesday for suggesting that a World War II-era Palestinian leader convinced the Nazis to adopt their Final Solution to exterminate European Jews.

Holocaust experts slammed Netanyahu's comments as historically inaccurate and serving the interests of Holocaust deniers by lessening the responsibility of Adolf Hitler and the Nazis. Critics also said the statement amounts to incitement against modern-day Palestinians in the midst of a wave of violent unrest and Israeli-Palestinian tensions.

Speaking to a group of Jewish leaders Tuesday, Netanyahu tried to use a historical anecdote to illustrate his point that Palestinian incitement surrounding Jerusalem's most sensitive holy site goes back decades.

He said the World War II-era Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Nazi sympathizer Haj Amin al-Husseini, instigated Palestinian attacks on Jews over lies that they planned to destroy the Temple Mount, known to Muslims at the Noble Sanctuary.

Historians quickly noted that the Nazi Final Solution was already well underway at this point, with several concentration camps up and running. Hitler had previously repeatedly declared his lethal intentions for the Jews.

Moshe Zimmermann, a prominent Holocaust and anti-Semitism researcher at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, said Netanyahu made a "far-reaching argument" for political purposes that didn't hold water. He said the comments essentially made Netanyahu a Holocaust denier.

"Any attempt to deflect the burden from Hitler to others is a form of Holocaust denial," he told The Associated Press.

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[happyhoix]

Netanyahu just keeps poking the damn bear.

[Wisconsin Beth]

Oct 21, 2015 11:36:46 GMT -5 happyhoix said:

Netanyahu just keeps poking the damn bear.

Yes. 

[Wisconsin Beth]

You know, Trump is similar to him.  If we elect Trump to the Presidency (Please God, no) we're going to have the same kind of idiot in office - someone who can't quietly govern but is always on edge over something or other; undermining others with one hand and then likely screaming at them with the other.  Someone who just has to freaking be in the news spotlight all the damn time. 

While I feel somewhat bad for Israel for having to put up with him; they DID vote him back into office.  Too bad we suck at learning from others. 

[fishy999]

Pretty bad when Germany has to tell him he is wrong:


www.reuters.com/article/2015/10/21/us-israel-netanyahu-hitler-germany-idUSKCN0SF1OI20151021


The German government said on Wednesday that responsibility for the Holocaust lay with the Germans, after Israel's prime minister sparked controversy before a visit to Berlin by saying a Muslim elder had convinced Adolf Hitler to exterminate Jews.

"All Germans know the history of the murderous race mania of the Nazis that led to the break with civilization 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."

BOOM!