Israeli PM Netanyahu Has Officially Crossed The Line Into Insanity

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would fit in so well with the conservative caucuses of the United States Congress. He’s a rabid conservative with xenophobic philosophies who at times says some of the most disgusting things any human can say, like recently, when he made the claim that Palestinians shoulder responsibility in one of the greatest tragedies of the 20th century.

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Israeli Prime Minister Bejamin Netanyahu (Photo Credit: Public Domain/Wikimedia Commons)

According to the Republican Party’s BFF, Hitler did not come to the Final Solution without a little help from Israel’s perceived greatest enemy:

“My grandfather came to this land in 1920 and he landed in Jaffa, and very shortly after he landed he went to the immigration office in Jaffa. And a few months later it was burned down by marauders. These attackers, Arab attackers, murdered several Jews, including our celebrated writer Brenner.

And this attack and other attacks on the Jewish community in 1920, 1921, 1929, were instigated by a call of the Mufti of Jerusalem Haj Amin al-Husseini, who was later sought for war crimes in the Nuremberg trials because he had a central role in fomenting the final solution. He flew to Berlin. 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.’

According to the Prime Minister of Israel, a powerful world leader who has the United States by the short-hairs, Hitler didn’t want to kill off all the Jews until a Palestinian leader flew to Berlin and convinced him otherwise. Even though Netanyahu is not known for tact and historical accuracy, I would assume an absurd claim like this would come out of the mouth of someone like Jeb Bush or Rand Paul, not the leader of a group of people who lost about 67 percent of their population due to the appalling prejudices of a sociopath German Chancellor.

Aside from the paralyzing absurdity of Netanyahu’s claim, he’s just dead wrong.

Haj Amin al-Husseini met with Hitler on November 28, 1941, but the first known utterances of what would become known as Hitler’s Final Solution occurred in March of that year. Even though the origins of the Final Solution are hotly debated by historians, we know that in March, 1941, Hitler was openly discussing a need to make sure the “Jewish-Bolshevik elite” were exterminated, as well as all “Jews and card-carrying Communists” in areas Germany sought to take from the Soviet Union. Heinrich Himmler carried out the order, giving Hitler’s instructions to the Einsatzgruppen on March 13, 1941. Nazi leader Hermann Goering first commented on a complete solution to the Jewish question” while giving the task to SS General Reinhardt Heydrich on July 31, 1941. The killing centers in Poland began to be organized in October, 1941, a month before Haj Amin al-Husseini visited Hitler in Berlin.

Netanyahu’s claim is solely for the purpose of fueling anti-Palestinian sentiment in Israel. It’s his M.O., albeit an extreme example.

In America, historical revisionism is a real problem. Our political leaders make claim after claim that history happened this way instead of the way it has been taught to millions. Even though history is subjective — as they say “written by the winners” — there are historical aspects that are irrefutable. Yet, in America, claim after claim is made that not only cannot be backed up, but also border on the insane. American politicians and pundits claim that slavery’s influence on the Civil War is negligible, that America was founded as a Christian nation, or that the War on Terrorism has been anything other than a clusterf*ck of the most epic of proportions.

Considering that Prime Minister Netanyahu would be an easy ideological fit into the American tea party caucuses, I suppose it shouldn’t be too crazy to think that he would spout off at the mouth similarly. Of course, there is a monumental difference between making a claim that promotes a specific national religious identity and shitting on the charred corpses of six million fellow countrymen.

Can we please be done with Israel now?

Featured image by Jochen Zimmerman, available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.o Austria license.

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