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Netanyahu Makes Outrageous Claim That Palestinian Leader Told Hitler to ‘Burn’ Jews
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. (AP / Ilia Yefimovich)
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu practically exonerated Adolf Hitler in remarks made to a group of Jewish leaders on Tuesday in which he effectively tried to blame Palestine for the Holocaust.
Aside from being historically inaccurate, as experts are saying, Netanyahu’s comments can be seen as an “incitement against modern-day Palestinians” as tensions continue to rise between Israel and Palestine.
From Associated Press:
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is under fire for suggesting that a World War II-era Palestinian leader convinced the Nazis to adopt their Final Solution to exterminate European Jews. … Netanyahu told a group of Jewish leaders on Tuesday that the Mufti of Jerusalem, Nazi sympathizer Haj Amin al-Husseini, convinced Hitler to destroy the Jews.
“Hitler didn’t want to exterminate the Jews at the time, he wanted to expel the Jews,” Netanyahu said. When Hitler asked al-Husseini what to do, Netanyahu said he replied: “Burn them.”
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—Posted by Natasha Hakimi Zapata
Source: http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/netanyahu_outrageous_claim_palestinian_leader_hitler_burn_jews_20151021/
