Netanyahu: Hitler Didn't Want to Exterminate the Jews

Meertz party leader calls foul on Netanyahu's amazing claim that a Palestinian influenced Hitler's program to exterminate Jews.

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(TEL AVIV) - Zahava Gal-on, leader of the left-wing Meretz party, said that Netanyahu, during his address to the World Zionist Congress in Jerusalem, tried to whitewash Adolf Hitler's crimes.

Mr. Netanyahu said in a speech to the Zionist Congress on Tuesday night that “Hitler didn’t want to exterminate the Jews at the time, he wanted to expel the Jews.”

The prime minister said that the mufti, Haj Amin al-Husseini, had protested to Hitler that “they’ll all come here,” referring to Palestine, Gal-on said. “'So what should I do with them?’” Mr. Netanyahu quoted Hitler as asking Mr. Husseini. “He said, ‘Burn them.’ ”

Gal-on, also in response to the Austrian right-wing leader Jorg Haider's speech in his Facebook page wrote: "This speech is not owned by Jorg Haider who always joins to Holocaust deniers and rejects the incident occurring."

In response to Palestinian political leader Mahmoud Abbas, Gal-on said: "This speech is not a part of Abu Mazen's doctoral dissertation who is a Holocaust denier.

"The contents of a quote are from Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel's incapable and unworthy prime minister that yesterday was heard in a speech to the World Zionist Congress in Jerusalem.This is unbelievable."

Gal-on again quoted Netanyahu as saying: "Hitler didn't want to exterminate the Jews. Look how he discredits our nation, he brought shame for our nation."