Hi to all
This is so funny and to me
looks like that Netanyahu want rehabilitate Hitler,
like Serbia Chetnik's lieder Draza Mihajlovic.
So what is here sad that from USA no one don't say anything,
what for me means that USA government agree with Netanyahu,
or they are thinks same way like he think's.
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Painting Palestinians as Nazis, Netanyahu Incites a Wave of Vigilante
Violence
By Max Blumenthal [1] / AlterNet [2]
October 22, 2015
It is Springtime for Hitler. The genocidal dictator who presided over the
murder of millions of Jews across Europe during World War Two has been
absolved of his most heinous crime by the elected leader of the
self-proclaimed Jewish state. According to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu, the blame for the Final Solution lay not with Der Fuhrer, but
with Hajj al-Amin Husseini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem who oversaw holy
sites during the 1920's and 30's. In Netanyahu's version of Holocaust
history, Hitler was just following orders.
This seemingly surreal event occurred at a gathering in Jerusalem of the
World Zionist Congress [3], where the bigwigs of the pro-Israel world
gathered amidst a spate of Palestinian stabbing attacks and brutal Israeli
crackdowns. When he rose to address the crowd, Netanyahu was determined to
project defiance. He would let no one accuse Israel of provoking violence
with its brutal, half-century-long military occupation. His security forces
were facing down a terror wave rooted in a culture of Arab anti-Semitism
that pre-dated the country's establishment, he insisted. Jewish citizens of
Israel were being attacked as Jews, not as occupiers or settlers, and anyone
who said otherwise was a liar.
In a long-winded [4] disquisition peppered with tales of his grandfather's
close encounters with Arab "marauders," Netanyahu painted the Palestinian
national movement as a collection of irrational extremists united by a
singular goal of exterminating the Jews. To illustrate his point, he
summoned the ghost of the Mufti.
"Hitler didn't want to exterminate the Jews at the time, he wanted to expel
the Jews," Netanyahu declared. "And Hajj Amin al-Husseini [the Mufti] 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.' And he was sought
in, during the Nuremberg trials for prosecution."
Netanyahu had written feverishly on the Mufti's collaboration with Nazi
Germany in his 1993 book, A Durable Peace, citing dubious testimony by one
of Adolph Eichmann's underlings that the "Mufti was one of the initiators of
the systematic extermination of European Jewry." (In his 1961 trial in
Jerusalem, Eichmann denied that Husseini played any such role or that he
knew him well). The long dead Palestinian patriarch has been one of
Netanyahu's favorite boogeymen ever since, helping him implicate the
Palestinians in crimes that had nothing to do with the occupation or
settler-colonial domination. Back in 2012, in fact, in a speech before the
Israeli Knesset, Netanyahu claimed [5] the Mufti was "one of the leading
architects of the Final Solution." And a year later, at Bar Ilan University,
Netanyahu attempted to draw a direct line [6] between Nazi Germany and the
Palestinian national struggle.
There is no evidence to support Netanyahu's statements about the Mufti's
malignant influence over Hitler. According to a full readout of the November
28, 1941 meeting between the two, the Mufti never urged Hitler to "burn [the
Jews]," as Netanyahu alleged. Hitler's discussion with the Mufti occurred
months after the liquidation of nearly the entire Jewish population of
Lithuania and weeks after the slaughter at Babi Yar, where over 34,000
Ukrainian Jews were killed in one of the largest massacres of World War Two.
Contrary to Netanyahu's claims, the engines of genocide were roaring by the
time the Mufti and Hitler met.
Almost every aspect of Netanyahu's screed was false, down to his claim that
Husseini died in Cairo before he could be summoned to testify at the
Nuremberg Tribunal. (He died in Beirut in 1974). In absolving Hitler of
overseeing the Jewish genocide, Netanyahu dabbled in Holocaust denial, a
crime in several European countries. The Holocaust revisionist David Irving
lost his libel case against historian Deborah Lipstadt in part because
hemade [7] the same false claim as Netanyahu: Irving wrote that Hitler was
"inactive" in 1941, with no involvement at the time in the extermination of
Germany's Jews.
Unlike Irving, who eventually went to jail [8] for Holocaust denial,
Netanyahu has escaped with little more than a slap on the wrist. The New
York Times reported his remarks and collected critical quotes by high
profile Holocaust scholars, however, it described his claims about Hitler
and the Mufti as "disputed" [9] - the same language it uses to describe
Palestinian territory illegally occupied by Israel. And the Anti-Defamation
League, a pro-Israel organization that declares battling worldwide
anti-Semitism as its mission, kindly urged [10] Netanyahu to "be careful in
talking about the Holocaust" and thanked him for "his clarification on the
point." Yet Netanyahu had only doubled down on his remarks, proclaiming that
"it is absurd to disregard the Mufti's role in encouraging Hitler to
exterminate the Jews."
Over the course of his career, Netanyahu's seemingly outlandish behavior has
always been animated by a cynical logic. By projecting the phantasms of the
Holocaust onto the stark tableau of the Arab Muslim world, he has expertly
exploited the psychological vulnerabilities of Jewish Israelis. His
perseverance is perhaps the best validation of the phenomenon known as
Terror Management Theory [11], in which average people turn to militaristic
and authoritarian political leadership to cope with frightening encounters
with mortality.
Just over twenty years ago, Netanyahu addressed a right-wing rally in
central Jerusalem, speaking from a balcony "in a Mussolinian posture," as
the Israeli authors of "Lords of the Land," Akiva Eldar and Idith Zertal,
recalled. After egging on settlers bearing portraits of Rabin dressed as a
Nazi SS officer, Netanyahu marched [12] alongside a mock coffin marked,
"Rabin." Exactly one month later, Rabin was gunned down by a right-wing
fanatic. And Netanyahu was on his way to winning a first term.
When he returned to the Prime Minister's office in 2009, Netanyahu revamped
his signature tactic, this time to brand Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, then the
president of Iran, as a "modern Hitler" planning a second Holocaust. When he
spoke [13] in Washington before the American Israel Public Affairs Committee
in 2012, Netanyahu waved a 1944 letter from the US Department of War
supposedly relaying America's refusal to bomb the railways that carried Jews
to their destruction at Auschwitz. Likening Iran's nuclear facilities to the
gas chambers of the Holocaust, Netanyahu roared, "My friends, 2012 is not
1944. Never again!" His message to the Obama administration was clear: Bomb
Iran, or we will.
Netanyahu's titanic struggle had come to a sputtering end by the time he
arrived at the UN General Assembly earlier this month. His humiliating
failure to stop the Iran nuclear deal had deprived him of the external enemy
- the "modern Hitler" - that had assured him international relevancy and
domestic support. For a full 45 seconds, Netanyahu silently glowered at the
room full of stone-faced diplomats as though they were impudent children. It
was one of the most bizarre displays in United Nations history.
As he returned to Jerusalem, Netanyahu turned his sights away from the
Iranian nuclear threat and trained them on Palestinian kids with potato
peelers. "Anyone who tries to harm us, we cut off his arm," he rumbled [14]
during a memorial ceremony for Rehavam Ze'evi, the late right-wing
politician who helped popularize the idea of forcibly transferring the
Palestinian population from the West Bank to Jordan.
Paranoia was spreading peripatetically across the country, with commando
units bursting [15] into shopping malls during false alarms while Jews
assaulted Jews who resembled Palestinians. As units of the Israeli army
poured into Jerusalem for the first time since 1967, riot police took full
advantage of authorization to shoot teenage stone throwers with live
bullets. Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat, an architect of the wave of evictions
inflaming [16] Palestinians in the east of the city, instructed all Jewish
residents who owned weapons to stage armed vigilante patrols, and even
embarked on one himself. "Don't hesitate. If someone is brandishing a knife,
shoot him," urged [17] Yair Lapid, the leader of the Yesh Atid Party.
As the violence intensified, a sub-genre of viral snuff films emerged. In
one grainy clip, a settler draped [18] a Palestinian corpse with pork as
paramedics stood by impassively. Another showed an Israeli man taunting [19]
a Palestinian boy as blood poured from his head and he panted for breath
after being shot during a stabbing attack. Perhaps the most gut wrenching
video captured crowds trouncing [20] on the lifeless body of Haftom Zarhum,
an Eritrean refugee who had been riddled with bullets after being mistaken
for a Palestinian gunman. "Break his head! Break his head! Son of a whore!"
shouted one man as he abused Zarhum's body.
By blaming a Palestinian for the Final Solution, Netanyahu has helped his
countrymen adjust to the macabre reality. He reassured them that they were
not settler overlords or vigilante brutes, but Inglorious Bastards curb
stomping SS officers in the woods outside Krakow. And he sent them the
message that those Palestinians lurking behind concrete walls and under
siege in ghettoes were not an occupied, dispossessed people, but a new breed
of Nazis hellbent on Jewish extermination. Netanyahu's comments about the
Mufti were much more than a hysterical lie; they were an invitation to act
out a blood soaked fantasy of righteous revenge.
Max Blumenthal is a senior writer for AlterNet, and the award-winning author
of Goliath [21] and Republican Gomorrah [22]. Find him on Twitter at
@MaxBlumenthal [23].
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[7] http://www.hdot.org/en/trial/defense/evans/430diiC.html
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[10] https://twitter.com/JGreenblattADL/status/656826336099594240
[11] http://www.newrepublic.com/article/death-grip
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By Max Blumenthal [1] / AlterNet [2]
October 22, 2015
It is Springtime for Hitler. The genocidal dictator who presided over the
murder of millions of Jews across Europe during World War Two has been
absolved of his most heinous crime by the elected leader of the
self-proclaimed Jewish state. According to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu, the blame for the Final Solution lay not with Der Fuhrer, but
with Hajj al-Amin Husseini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem who oversaw holy
sites during the 1920's and 30's. In Netanyahu's version of Holocaust
history, Hitler was just following orders.
This seemingly surreal event occurred at a gathering in Jerusalem of the
World Zionist Congress [3], where the bigwigs of the pro-Israel world
gathered amidst a spate of Palestinian stabbing attacks and brutal Israeli
crackdowns. When he rose to address the crowd, Netanyahu was determined to
project defiance. He would let no one accuse Israel of provoking violence
with its brutal, half-century-long military occupation. His security forces
were facing down a terror wave rooted in a culture of Arab anti-Semitism
that pre-dated the country's establishment, he insisted. Jewish citizens of
Israel were being attacked as Jews, not as occupiers or settlers, and anyone
who said otherwise was a liar.
In a long-winded [4] disquisition peppered with tales of his grandfather's
close encounters with Arab "marauders," Netanyahu painted the Palestinian
national movement as a collection of irrational extremists united by a
singular goal of exterminating the Jews. To illustrate his point, he
summoned the ghost of the Mufti.
"Hitler didn't want to exterminate the Jews at the time, he wanted to expel
the Jews," Netanyahu declared. "And Hajj Amin al-Husseini [the Mufti] 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.' And he was sought
in, during the Nuremberg trials for prosecution."
Netanyahu had written feverishly on the Mufti's collaboration with Nazi
Germany in his 1993 book, A Durable Peace, citing dubious testimony by one
of Adolph Eichmann's underlings that the "Mufti was one of the initiators of
the systematic extermination of European Jewry." (In his 1961 trial in
Jerusalem, Eichmann denied that Husseini played any such role or that he
knew him well). The long dead Palestinian patriarch has been one of
Netanyahu's favorite boogeymen ever since, helping him implicate the
Palestinians in crimes that had nothing to do with the occupation or
settler-colonial domination. Back in 2012, in fact, in a speech before the
Israeli Knesset, Netanyahu claimed [5] the Mufti was "one of the leading
architects of the Final Solution." And a year later, at Bar Ilan University,
Netanyahu attempted to draw a direct line [6] between Nazi Germany and the
Palestinian national struggle.
There is no evidence to support Netanyahu's statements about the Mufti's
malignant influence over Hitler. According to a full readout of the November
28, 1941 meeting between the two, the Mufti never urged Hitler to "burn [the
Jews]," as Netanyahu alleged. Hitler's discussion with the Mufti occurred
months after the liquidation of nearly the entire Jewish population of
Lithuania and weeks after the slaughter at Babi Yar, where over 34,000
Ukrainian Jews were killed in one of the largest massacres of World War Two.
Contrary to Netanyahu's claims, the engines of genocide were roaring by the
time the Mufti and Hitler met.
Almost every aspect of Netanyahu's screed was false, down to his claim that
Husseini died in Cairo before he could be summoned to testify at the
Nuremberg Tribunal. (He died in Beirut in 1974). In absolving Hitler of
overseeing the Jewish genocide, Netanyahu dabbled in Holocaust denial, a
crime in several European countries. The Holocaust revisionist David Irving
lost his libel case against historian Deborah Lipstadt in part because
hemade [7] the same false claim as Netanyahu: Irving wrote that Hitler was
"inactive" in 1941, with no involvement at the time in the extermination of
Germany's Jews.
Unlike Irving, who eventually went to jail [8] for Holocaust denial,
Netanyahu has escaped with little more than a slap on the wrist. The New
York Times reported his remarks and collected critical quotes by high
profile Holocaust scholars, however, it described his claims about Hitler
and the Mufti as "disputed" [9] - the same language it uses to describe
Palestinian territory illegally occupied by Israel. And the Anti-Defamation
League, a pro-Israel organization that declares battling worldwide
anti-Semitism as its mission, kindly urged [10] Netanyahu to "be careful in
talking about the Holocaust" and thanked him for "his clarification on the
point." Yet Netanyahu had only doubled down on his remarks, proclaiming that
"it is absurd to disregard the Mufti's role in encouraging Hitler to
exterminate the Jews."
Over the course of his career, Netanyahu's seemingly outlandish behavior has
always been animated by a cynical logic. By projecting the phantasms of the
Holocaust onto the stark tableau of the Arab Muslim world, he has expertly
exploited the psychological vulnerabilities of Jewish Israelis. His
perseverance is perhaps the best validation of the phenomenon known as
Terror Management Theory [11], in which average people turn to militaristic
and authoritarian political leadership to cope with frightening encounters
with mortality.
Just over twenty years ago, Netanyahu addressed a right-wing rally in
central Jerusalem, speaking from a balcony "in a Mussolinian posture," as
the Israeli authors of "Lords of the Land," Akiva Eldar and Idith Zertal,
recalled. After egging on settlers bearing portraits of Rabin dressed as a
Nazi SS officer, Netanyahu marched [12] alongside a mock coffin marked,
"Rabin." Exactly one month later, Rabin was gunned down by a right-wing
fanatic. And Netanyahu was on his way to winning a first term.
When he returned to the Prime Minister's office in 2009, Netanyahu revamped
his signature tactic, this time to brand Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, then the
president of Iran, as a "modern Hitler" planning a second Holocaust. When he
spoke [13] in Washington before the American Israel Public Affairs Committee
in 2012, Netanyahu waved a 1944 letter from the US Department of War
supposedly relaying America's refusal to bomb the railways that carried Jews
to their destruction at Auschwitz. Likening Iran's nuclear facilities to the
gas chambers of the Holocaust, Netanyahu roared, "My friends, 2012 is not
1944. Never again!" His message to the Obama administration was clear: Bomb
Iran, or we will.
Netanyahu's titanic struggle had come to a sputtering end by the time he
arrived at the UN General Assembly earlier this month. His humiliating
failure to stop the Iran nuclear deal had deprived him of the external enemy
- the "modern Hitler" - that had assured him international relevancy and
domestic support. For a full 45 seconds, Netanyahu silently glowered at the
room full of stone-faced diplomats as though they were impudent children. It
was one of the most bizarre displays in United Nations history.
As he returned to Jerusalem, Netanyahu turned his sights away from the
Iranian nuclear threat and trained them on Palestinian kids with potato
peelers. "Anyone who tries to harm us, we cut off his arm," he rumbled [14]
during a memorial ceremony for Rehavam Ze'evi, the late right-wing
politician who helped popularize the idea of forcibly transferring the
Palestinian population from the West Bank to Jordan.
Paranoia was spreading peripatetically across the country, with commando
units bursting [15] into shopping malls during false alarms while Jews
assaulted Jews who resembled Palestinians. As units of the Israeli army
poured into Jerusalem for the first time since 1967, riot police took full
advantage of authorization to shoot teenage stone throwers with live
bullets. Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat, an architect of the wave of evictions
inflaming [16] Palestinians in the east of the city, instructed all Jewish
residents who owned weapons to stage armed vigilante patrols, and even
embarked on one himself. "Don't hesitate. If someone is brandishing a knife,
shoot him," urged [17] Yair Lapid, the leader of the Yesh Atid Party.
As the violence intensified, a sub-genre of viral snuff films emerged. In
one grainy clip, a settler draped [18] a Palestinian corpse with pork as
paramedics stood by impassively. Another showed an Israeli man taunting [19]
a Palestinian boy as blood poured from his head and he panted for breath
after being shot during a stabbing attack. Perhaps the most gut wrenching
video captured crowds trouncing [20] on the lifeless body of Haftom Zarhum,
an Eritrean refugee who had been riddled with bullets after being mistaken
for a Palestinian gunman. "Break his head! Break his head! Son of a whore!"
shouted one man as he abused Zarhum's body.
By blaming a Palestinian for the Final Solution, Netanyahu has helped his
countrymen adjust to the macabre reality. He reassured them that they were
not settler overlords or vigilante brutes, but Inglorious Bastards curb
stomping SS officers in the woods outside Krakow. And he sent them the
message that those Palestinians lurking behind concrete walls and under
siege in ghettoes were not an occupied, dispossessed people, but a new breed
of Nazis hellbent on Jewish extermination. Netanyahu's comments about the
Mufti were much more than a hysterical lie; they were an invitation to act
out a blood soaked fantasy of righteous revenge.
Max Blumenthal is a senior writer for AlterNet, and the award-winning author
of Goliath [21] and Republican Gomorrah [22]. Find him on Twitter at
@MaxBlumenthal [23].
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[10] https://twitter.com/JGreenblattADL/status/656826336099594240
[11] http://www.newrepublic.com/article/death-grip
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rowing-pork-body-palestinian
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eritrean-refugee-after-soldier-killed
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