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Historians, politicians slam PM's 'distortion of history'
Holocaust scholars refute prime minister's assertion that Muslim religious leader first suggested the Final Solution.
Ahiya Raved
Published:
10.21.15, 10:10 / Israel News
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday at the 37th Zionist Congress that Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler did not initially plan to exterminate the Jews and was convinced by the grand mufti of Jerusalem – but renowned historians said definitively on Wednesday that this was not the case.
Professor Dan Michman, a world-renowned expert who is the head of the Institute of Holocaust Research at Bar-Ilan University and Head of the International Institute for Holocaust Research at Yad Vashem said Hitler did indeed meet the mufti – but this only occurred after the Final Solution began.
"He flew to Berlin," Netanyahu said of the mufti. "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 also said that the mufti was sought during the Nuremberg trials but managed to evade them.
He further noted that the mufti claimed Jews wanted to destroy Al-Aqsa Mosque before the war, and "this lie is about a hundred years old."
Yad Vashem's chief historian, Professor Dina Porat, told Ynet that Netanyahu's statements were factually incorrect. "You cannot say that it was the mufti who gave Hitler the idea to kill or burn Jews," she said. "It's not true. Their meeting occurred after a series of events that point to this."
The PLO made its own statement on its Twitter page. "Netanyahu hates Palestinians so much that he is willing to absolve Hitler for the murder of 6 million Jews," the account quoted Saeb Erekat, former chief negotiator in Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, as saying. "On behalf of the thousands of Palestinians that fought alongside the Allied Troops in defense of international justice, the State of Palestine denounces these morally indefensible and inflammatory statements."
The prime minister made similar statements three years ago in the Knesset, claiming that the mufti was "one of the leading architects of the Final Solution".
(This is so funny, the Zionist movement begun in 1860's and well the German Jews got out of Germany before the WWII and cared less about helping any Polish Jews , unless they were young able men fit to fight), everything about the WWII story is fabrication. Who really got exterminated and sent off to flee were the Arabs of Palestine) . Those Polish Jews who died in the war, were casualties of war, and it was not 6 million, and most died due to typhus and starvation. Your story is falling apart.)
Holocaust scholars refute prime minister's assertion that Muslim religious leader first suggested the Final Solution.
Ahiya Raved
Published:
10.21.15, 10:10 / Israel News
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday at the 37th Zionist Congress that Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler did not initially plan to exterminate the Jews and was convinced by the grand mufti of Jerusalem – but renowned historians said definitively on Wednesday that this was not the case.
Professor Dan Michman, a world-renowned expert who is the head of the Institute of Holocaust Research at Bar-Ilan University and Head of the International Institute for Holocaust Research at Yad Vashem said Hitler did indeed meet the mufti – but this only occurred after the Final Solution began.
"He flew to Berlin," Netanyahu said of the mufti. "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 also said that the mufti was sought during the Nuremberg trials but managed to evade them.
He further noted that the mufti claimed Jews wanted to destroy Al-Aqsa Mosque before the war, and "this lie is about a hundred years old."
Yad Vashem's chief historian, Professor Dina Porat, told Ynet that Netanyahu's statements were factually incorrect. "You cannot say that it was the mufti who gave Hitler the idea to kill or burn Jews," she said. "It's not true. Their meeting occurred after a series of events that point to this."
The PLO made its own statement on its Twitter page. "Netanyahu hates Palestinians so much that he is willing to absolve Hitler for the murder of 6 million Jews," the account quoted Saeb Erekat, former chief negotiator in Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, as saying. "On behalf of the thousands of Palestinians that fought alongside the Allied Troops in defense of international justice, the State of Palestine denounces these morally indefensible and inflammatory statements."
The prime minister made similar statements three years ago in the Knesset, claiming that the mufti was "one of the leading architects of the Final Solution".
(This is so funny, the Zionist movement begun in 1860's and well the German Jews got out of Germany before the WWII and cared less about helping any Polish Jews , unless they were young able men fit to fight), everything about the WWII story is fabrication. Who really got exterminated and sent off to flee were the Arabs of Palestine) . Those Polish Jews who died in the war, were casualties of war, and it was not 6 million, and most died due to typhus and starvation. Your story is falling apart.)
