You accused Derec of saying the Palestanians were responsible even though he said this one guy may be responsible. Why did you do that?
...Is the wrong question.
The question is, why does
Netanyahu say that the Grand Muftii had a "central role in fomenting the final solution?"
The more interesting question is, why does Derec think that assertion is worth defending?
Do I REALLY have to
spell it out for you? Bibi is attempting the mother of all Godwin Fallacies, effectively claiming that the Grand Mufti hated Jews more than Hitler did. He then follows up by associating this hatred with the "Al Aqsa Mosque" to complete his guilt-by-association tripple-decker bullshit sandwich.
You are perfectly welcome to go on pretending not to understand how that argument works, thereby removing yourself from the discussion altogether.
Interesting. I think it equally interesting that one could ask dozens of self-appointed critics about the whole of the speech's points, and most don't have a clue what was even said. The hysteria over Neti's exaggeration based on his speculation contains its own fallacy, and the controversy serves as its own RED HERRING...distracting attention from the Mufti's historical role that most people are ignorant of.
No one knows when and how Hitler backed the final solution. The Wannsee Conference that officially approved the FS was two months after the Mufti met with Hitler. However, by then the execution of Jews by firing squads of SS units in Russia had already begun. There is little or no evidence that the Mufti gave Hitler either the original idea, nor that Hitler had not harbored that idea for many years.
But Neti's historical point survives exaggeration. It is an undisputed fact that the Mufti embraced the idea of exterminating the Jews, and that he pressed his view on the Nazi leadership repeatedly. Inotherword, the Mufti was not the likely source of the idea, but he was the prime foreign cheerleader advocating for it.
So is that supposed to make the Mufti look better?
Moreover, I don't see any of these quoted "experts" stepping forward to denounce Neti's factual response to the hysterics. In sum, Neti stated:
1. Mufti, Haj Amin al-Husseini, was a war criminal and played a central role in encouraging and goading Hitler, Ribbentrop, Himmler and others to exterminate European Jewry.
2.There are many testimonies to this, including the testimony of Eichmann’s deputy at Nuremberg – not now, but after the Second World War. He said:
"The Mufti played a role in the decision of the German government to exterminate the European Jews, the importance of which must not be disregarded. He has repeatedly suggested to the various authorities with whom he has been in contact, above all before Hitler, Ribbentrop and Himmler, the extermination of European Jewry. He considered this as a comfortable solution for the Palestine problem."
Eichmann’s deputy added: “The Mufti was one of the initiators of the diabolical extermination of European Jewry and was a partner and advisor to Eichmann and Hitler in the carrying-out of this plan.”
3. Clearly certain critics seek to provide an apologetic to the important role Hajj Amin al-Husseini, 'the father of the Palestinian nation", played.
Neti's response spoke plainly to his purpose, it was to "show that the father of the Palestinian nation at that time, without a state and without what they call “the occupation”, without Palestinian territories and without settlements, already aspired to destroy the Jews through systematic incitement."
One does not retreat to the overused Godwin criticism, one steps forward and embraces the truth. The Mufti was no better than the NAZI's he supported, and the Palistinian leaders desire for Jewish genocide pre-dates the creation of Israel.
