Saturday, October 24, 2015

Netanyahu’s Blood Libel Against Palestinians (from @Truthdig)

Netanyahu’s Blood Libel Against Palestinians (from @Truthdig)
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Tim Nolan said...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in remarks in Jerusalem at the World Zionist Conference, blamed the former mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al-Husseini, for putting Hitler up to the Holocaust. Netanyahu is, of course, wrong on the history. But the real intent of his outrageous assertion is to create a blood libel that all Palestinians bear responsibility for the killing of 6 million Jews by the National Socialist state. He asserted that al-Husseini’s animus was rooted simply in irrational Jew-hatred, which he alleged characterized the Palestinian masses then and now, without regard to the issues of the Jewish ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians or of occupation.

October 24, 2015 at 7:26 AM
Tim Nolan said...

In other words, Palestinians, in his view, are genetically disposed to want Jews dead regardless of context. This essentialization of Palestinians as mass murderers mirrors the false mythology of medieval and early modern European Christianity that Jews stole Christian babies and used their blood in their rites—a myth that lay in part behind the Holocaust.

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October 24, 2015 at 7:27 AM
Tim Nolan said...

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 [Hitler] asked. He [al-Husseini] said, “Burn them.” And he was sought in, during the Nuremberg trials for prosecution. He escaped it and later died of cancer, after the war, died of cancer in Cairo. But this is what Haj Amin al-Husseini said. He said, “The Jews seek to destroy the Temple Mount.” My grandfather in 1920 seeks to destroy… ? Sorry, the al-Aqsa Mosque.

October 24, 2015 at 7:28 AM

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