Netanyahu: Hitler didn't want to kill the Jews, Palestinian talked him into it

[Frozen Sky Ever Why]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2015/10/21/netanyahu-says-palestinian-gave-hitler-idea-for-the-holocaust/

[quote]Referring to the current cycle of violence, Netanyahu said Jews in Israel have faced attacks in the past -- in 1920, 1921, 1929 -- instigated by the “Mufti of Jerusalem,” Haj Amin al-Husseini, who allied himself with Adolf Hitler and the Nazis during World War II.

Then Netanyahu delivered this jaw-dropping assertion:

“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.”

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Go home Bibi you're drunk.

[Beezer]

Does that mean Germany is off the hook?

[🦀🎂🦀🎂]

When the PM of Israel acts as an apologetic to Adolf Hitler, something has gone wrong.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Further proof that Netanyahu doesn't give a sh*t about the welfare of the Jewish people, but only about pushing his deranged and ultimately suicidal ideological agenda.

[Cory]

He needs to look up the Wannsee Conference to realize that that was not at all the thought process leading up to the Holocaust.

Honestly this is just shocking ignorance from someone who should know better.

[Comrade Funk]

Should help him next election. Smart political move

[Stand With Israel. Crush Hamas]

Almost comically absurd. The collaboration of the Grand Mufti with Hitler should be more than enough to shut down any "Israel is the new Nazis" scum vultures. This is just bad PR on so many levels.

Time for Bibi to go. Someone like Nir Barkat can keep Likud just as strong as it's been ever since Barak messed the bed.

[Lexii, harbinger of chaos and sexual anarchy]

Go home Bibi you're drunk.

[Blue3]

He keeps going farther than I thought he'd ever go, and continues to confirm my worst suspicions of him. Eff him.

When the PM of Israel acts as an apologetic to Adolf Hitler, something has gone wrong.

This. Seriously.

[Antonio the Sixth]

At this point, we should consider labeling any Netanyahu supporter a self-hating Jew (or an antisemite, if they aren't Jewish).

[Associate Justice PiT]

     That is totally ahistorical. Even if it weren't totally ahistorical, it doesn't make even the slightest bit of sense.

[The Last Northerner]

In other words, Hitler was falsely accused - it was the evil Palestinians!

[Angel of Death]

It's actually refreshing in a way for Netanyahu to state out loud what has always been an undercurrent in the whole Israel debate, namely that what indirectly happened to the Palestinians as a result of the Holocaust was somehow "just deserts".

[RI]

In other words, Hitler was falsely accused - it was the evil Palestinians!

Someone could literally print the headline "Israeli Prime Minister says Hitler did nothing wrong" and only be marginally sensationalist.

[ag]

Further proof that Netanyahu doesn't give a sh*t about the welfare of the Jewish people, but only about pushing his deranged and ultimately suicidal ideological agenda.

Netanyahu, most definitely, would be willing to sacrifice milliions of Jews in order to further his ideological goals.  He does not care about individual Jews - or, for that matter, any individual human being, with the possible exception of himself. It is all the ideological mirage of the Land and the State and the People. And, of course, his own ideological differences with Adolf Hitler are easy to exaggerate.

[ag]

Does that mean Germany is off the hook?

No.

But it does mean that cozying up to Israel cannot get you off the hook ever.

[SWE]

"Hitler wasn't that bad"
-Prime Minister of Israel

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Palestinians probably also talked Stalin into having the gulags, Mao into having the cultural revolution, and Pol Pot into having the killing fields.

[CapoteMonster]

The Palestinians did 9/11!

[BaconBacon96]

Lol wtf

Bibi stahp pls

[World politics is up Schmitt creek]

Disgusting. I really don't see how Bibi as an individual is defensible at this point even if one is bullheaded enough to agree with his policies.

At this point, we should consider labeling any Netanyahu supporter a self-hating Jew (or an antisemite, if they aren't Jewish).

I wouldn't go that far, and I'd be careful to separate ideological wrongness from psychological issues in this particular case.

[Antonio the Sixth]

At this point, we should consider labeling any Netanyahu supporter a self-hating Jew (or an antisemite, if they aren't Jewish).

I wouldn't go that far, and I'd be careful to separate ideological wrongness from psychological issues in this particular case.

I wasn't being serious... Just reacting to the casual use of this ridiculous concept by Bibi supporters (including on this forum).

[Mehmentum]

This is surreal.

[traininthedistance]

I think it's fair to say at this point that, if one cares about the welfare of the Jewish people and/or the safety and acceptance they enjoy as residents of the State of Israel (as I, let us be perfectly clear, do), then one is basically obligated to oppose Netanyahu and, indeed, the entire right-nationalist strain which keeps him in power.

(As I, once again, do.)

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Also this is almost too much of a cheap shot, but uh where's dead0man?  The silence is... well, you know.