Posted on 10/21/2015 6:26:33 PM PDT by markomalley
Netanyahu was right, and it is good to see that he is not backing down. He called the criticism of his remarks “absurd,” which it is: he’s now a Holocaust denier because he noted the Mufti of Jerusalem’s role in the Holocaust? Prof. Moshe Zimmermann teaches at Hebrew University, but clearly he can’t think straight.
Netanyahu also said: “Hitler was responsible for the Final Solution to exterminate six million Jews; he made the decision. It is equally absurd to ignore the role played by the mufti, Haj Amin al -Husseini, a war criminal, for encouraging and urging Hitler.”
Exactly. Here at Atlas I have been calling attention to this for years. SS Hauptsturmfuehrer Dieter Wisliceny, a close collaborator of Adolf Eichmann, testified that “the grand mufti, who had been in Berlin since 1938, played a role in the decision of the German government to exterminate the European Jews the importance of which must not be disregarded. He had repeatedly suggested to the various authorities with whom he had been in contact, above all before Hitler, Ribbentrop and Himmler, the extermination of European jury. He considers this as a comfortable solution of the Palestine problem. In his messages broadcast from Berlin, he surpassed us in anti-Jewish attacks. He was one of Eichmann’s best friends and has constantly been cited him to accelerate the extermination measures. I heard say that, accompanied by Eichmann, he has visited incognito the gas chamber it Auschwitz.” The statement referred to in the affidavit was made by Eichmann in his office in Budapest on June 4, 1944; the confirmation by Wisliceny was given some days later also in Budapest.
Further, according to testimony at the Nurenberg trials, “[T]he mufti was a bitter arch enemy of the Jews and had always been the protagonist of the idea of their annihilation. This idea the mufti had always advanced in his conversations with Eichmann.”
Here is a letter from the Mufti to Ribbentrop, urging that Jews not be deported to Palestine — just as Netanyahu said:
“Netanyahu Draws Broad Criticism After Saying a Palestinian Inspired Holocaust,” by Jodi Rudoren, New York Times, October 21, 2015:
JERUSALEM — Israeli historians and opposition politicians on Wednesday joined Palestinians in denouncing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel for saying it was a Palestinian, the grand mufti of Jerusalem, who gave Hitler the idea of annihilating European Jews during World War II.
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Mr. Netanyahu said in a speech to the Zionist Congress on Tuesday night that “Hitler didn’t want to exterminate the Jews at the time, he wanted to expel the Jews.” The prime minister said that the mufti, Haj Amin al-Husseini, had protested to Hitler that “they’ll all come here,” referring to Palestine.
“ ‘So what should I do with them?’ ” Mr. Netanyahu quoted Hitler as asking Mr. Husseini. “He said, ‘Burn them.’ ”
Prof. Meir Litvak, a historian at Tel Aviv University, called the speech “a lie” and “a disgrace.” Prof. Moshe Zimmermann, a specialist of German history at Hebrew University, said, “With this, Netanyahu joins a long line of people that we would call Holocaust deniers.”
Isaac Herzog, leader of the opposition in the Israeli Parliament, said the accusation was “a dangerous historical distortion,” and he demanded that Mr. Netanyahu “correct it immediately.”
Even Moshe Yaalon, the defense minister and a senior member of Mr. Netanyahu’s Likud Party, said in a radio interview that “history is actually very, very clear.”
“Hitler initiated it,” he said. “Haj Amin al-Husseini joined him.”
(remainder of NYT article snipped per FR rules)
Ping to # 19.
Thanks, KC_Lion.
The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem really hated Jews. I read about him in the late 1960s from a book, O Jerusalem, and I still have that book.
I think I remember reading about Saddam Hussein’s daddy being trained by the Nazi’s.
SS Edelweiss Division
Hitler had more than one Muslim Waffen SS dvision. There was also the 21st Waffen SS Mountain division, which was an Albanian Muslim division, and the 23rd Mountain division, a Croatian Muslim outfit, as was the 13th.
LOL!
Not only snappy dressers, but also sang in perfect pitch...
Does anyone have a source for this statement? Is it in the Nuremberg files or some other reference?
In January 1939, Hitler had addressed the Reichstag and spoke clearly about his determination to exterminate the Jewish race.
The corpses of the 33,771 Jews murdered in Babi Yar in September 1941, two months before the Mufti and Hitler met, would seem to be facts to refute Netanyahu's claims. This is why I am questioning them.
The important thing to remember is that calling the Grand Mufti a Nazi is a plus in the eyes of the Palis. They regard it as a good thing.
It was formally discussed in secret and adopted as policy in the Wansee suburb of Berlin in 1942. Even then, the actual extermination program implemented differed from the minutes of the Wansee conference.
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