Israeli PM Netanyahu Blames Palestinians for the Holocaust
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| Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu Blames Holocaust on Arabs |
"Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu provoked a Holocaust controversy on Wednesday, hours before a visit to Germany, by saying that the Muslim elder in Jerusalem during the 1940s convinced Adolf Hitler to exterminate the Jews."
To hear Netanyahu talk, it was the Arabs not the Nazis who instigated the Holocaust. Maybe that narrative is helped by the fact that the reparations Germany has been paying have been essential in keeping Israel afloat economically.
But even so, what is the moral difference between people who deny the Holocaust ever happened, and those who purposefully blame it on the wrong people in order to justify the occupation of the Arab territories?
Netanyahu is actually just parroting the far-right Zionist revision of Holocaust history. It appears in books that bear titles like Icon of Evil: Hitler's Mufti and the Rise of Radical Islam (Dalin & Rothmann) and The Nazi Connection to Islamic Terrorism: Adolf Hitler and Haj Amin Al-Husseini (Morse). The latest book in this genre of pseudo-history is a bestseller by Zionist author, Edwin Black, entitled: The Farhud: Roots of the Arab-Nazi Alliance in the Holocaust. The title itself exposes its not altogether subtle goal of pinning much of European anti-Semitism and the Holocaust on a Palestinian Arab nationalist and a Muslim religious leader, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem named Haj Amin al-Husseini. This man worked for Nazi Germany as a propagandist and a recruiter of Bosnian Muslim volunteers for the Waffen SS and other units in the Balkans. But surely that is evidence. . . evidence of what? Let's put this man's involvement on the battlefield at the far margins of this war in perspective.
The Holocaust was carried out by German soldiers, officials, and civilians, from clerks and officials in the government to units of the army, the police, and the SS. In fact, Arab immigrants from North Africa were rounded up as well and killed in the gas chambers. The Nazis also sought to enlist the support of all the states they occupied in rounding up the undesirables for the gas chambers. This chart offers the actual figures for what countries bore responsibility for sending Jews to their deaths in the Holocaust.
Country Pre-war Jewish Population Estimated Murdered
Austria 185,000 50,000
Belgium 66,000 25,000
Bohemia/Moravia 118,000 78,000
Bulgaria 50,000 0
Denmark 8,000 60
Estonia 4,500 2,000
Finland 2,000 7
France 350,000 77,000
Germany 565,000 142,000
Greece 75,000 65,000
Hungary 825,000 550,000
Italy 44,500 7,500
Latvia 91,500 70,000
Lithuania 168,000 140,000
Luxembourg 3,500 1,000
Netherlands 140,000 100,000
Norway 1,700 762
Poland 3,300,000 3,000,000
Romania 609,000 270,000
Slovakia 89,000 71,000
Soviet Union 3,020,000 1,000,000
Yugoslavia 78,000 60,000
Total: 9,793,700 5,709,329
"The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem's total was zero. So if any group is to be hated and held morally responsible for the Holocaust, why search the margins of the Nazi German coalition for a culprit, when all the world knows what really happened. The reason the Europeans were so readily forgiven is a matter of finances. Israel desperately needed the reparations coming from Germany after the war to establish itself on a sound economic footing. It's amazing how quickly the Zionists forgave the actual perpetrators of the Holocaust, and projected their rage onto the people that they are doing everything in their power to get rid of."
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