Category: Commentary, Critique, and Response

“Netanyahu: Hitler Didn’t Want to Exterminate the Jews” (As far as I know it’s true. the original plans were relocation. I do not know what altered that plan other than the economics of warehousing and resettlement. Hitler often took the lead from Stalin, and Stalin had been extremely successful with the use of relocation. I am not really interested in this topic so much as interested in how to expel large numbers of invaders as have others, including the spanish, germans, and russians, over the centuries.) link: https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/netanyahu-absolves-hitler-of-guilt-1.5411578 Netanyahu: Hitler Didn’t Want to Exterminate the Jews Prime minister tells World Zionist Congress that Hitler only wanted to expel the Jews, but Jerusalem’s Grand Mufti convinced him to exterminate them, a claim that was rejected by most accepted Holocaust scholars. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sparked public uproar when on Tuesday he claimed that the Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al-Husseini, was the one who planted the idea of the extermination of European Jewry in Adolf Hitler’s mind. The Nazi ruler, Netanyahu said, had no intention of killing the Jews, but only to expel them. In a speech before the World Zionist Congress in Jerusalem, Netanyahu described a meeting between Husseini and Hitler in November, 1941: “Hitler didn’t want to exterminate the Jews at the time, he wanted to expel the Jew. And Haj Amin al-Husseini went to Hitler and said, ‘If you expel them, they’ll all come here (to Palestine).’ According to Netanyahu, Hitler then asked: “What should I do with them?” and the mufti replied: “Burn them.” Netanyahu’s remarks were quick to spark a social media storm, though Netanyahu made a similar claim during a Knesset speech in 2012, where he described the Husseini as “one of the leading architects” of the final solution.