In Mufti Speech, Netanyahu Showed His Obsessive Hatred of the Palestinians
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If Netanyahu can get the provenance of the Holocaust so appallingly wrong, what does it say about all the other historical “truths” that underlie and buttress his maximalist Zionism – which, it goes without saying, is the governing creed in the country today? How many other crank theories are hidden in the dark crevices of the prime ministerial mind?
The second takeaway from Tuesday night’s speech is that Netanyahu has lost it. He’s raving. His hatred of the Palestinians and his frustration at their refusal to succumb to his brutality has become an obsession in which even Hitler, the archetype of evil and Jew-hatred, has to play second fiddle to Mahmoud Abbas and his Palestinian predecessors.
Hitler had many allies in his drive to kill the Jews – Ukrainians, Romanians, Lithuanians, Hungarians etc. Al-Husseini was just one of them, neither the most dastardly nor the most influential. Like all the others, he was motivated by his own national objectives, rather than by what historian Timothy Snyder calls the “ecological” hatred of Jews which was Hitler’s alone.
To put anyone on a par with Hitler as regards the Holocaust is a form of Holocaust denial. It perverts the historical truth of the Holocaust and opens the door to all sorts of other lunatic and dangerous theories. It is something that no intelligent and aware person should do, let alone the prime minister of Israel.
Netanyahu’s outburst on Tuesday night was a watershed. Much of the western world has long considered him a little over the top and now they have proof. He has lost whatever grip he may have had and he’s gone rogue. Benjamin Netanyahu is an existential danger to Israel.
http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-1.681790
Query how much Bibi looks at the Mufti and sees his own reflection.
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