T. Belman. What is important here is not whether or not the Mufti was responsible for Hitler’s decision to exterminate the Jews but the influence the Mufti has had on the Palestinian movement.

In his defense, Netanyahu added the following:

Unfortunately, Haj Amin al-Husseini is still a revered figure in Palestinian society. He appears in textbooks and it is taught that he is one of the founding fathers of the nation, and this incitement that started then with him, inciting the murder of Jews – continues. Not in the same format, but in a different one, and this is the root of the problem. To stop the murders, it is necessary to stop the incitement. What is important is to recognize the historical facts and not ignore them, not then and not today.”

The Mufti spent his whole life dedicated to the killing the Jewish National Home and to killing Jews everywhere. The Palestinian movement is carrying on his legacy.

Israel would have to be insane to create a Palestinian state which would strengthen their ability to do so.

By Jeffery Herf, TOI

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Though Netanyahu is thus wrong about Husseini’s role in the decisions that led to the Holocaust of the Jews in Europe, he is right to draw attention to Husseini’s disastrous impact on Palestinian politics and society. In response to the storm of criticism that greeted his remarks, Netanyahu replied:

My intention was not to absolve Hitler of his responsibility, but rather to show that the forefathers of the Palestinian nation, without a country and without the so-called ‘occupation’, without land and without settlements, even then aspired to systematic incitement to exterminate the Jews.”

Husseini absolutely wanted to exterminate the Jews, above all, the Jews of pre-state Palestine, and then the Jews of Israel. The evidence of Husseini’s pleas to kill the Jews, of his boundless hatred of Judaism as a religion and the Jews as a people is well documented in Nazi Propaganda for the Arab World. He embedded his Jew-hatred in his understanding of Islam as early as a 1937 speech in Syria that the Germans published in German the following year. In the midst of the terrorist attacks he led and incited from 1936 to 1939 in Palestine, it was Husseini who claimed that the Zionists wanted to seize or destroy the Al Aksa Mosque. This lie became a central element of Palestinian propaganda over the decades until recent weeks.
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By Caroline Glick, JPOST

US Senator Ted Cruz, the conservative Republican firebrand from Texas, is running for president. Up until a few weeks ago, his candidacy was met with indifference as the media and political operatives all dismissed the viability of his candidacy. But that is beginning to change. The voices arguing that Cruz, the favorite of Tea Party fiscal conservatives and Evangelical Christians may have what it takes to win the Republican nomination have multiplied.

Since arriving in Washington four years ago, Cruz has arguably been Israel’s most avid defender in the Senate. During Operation Protective Edge in July 2014, Cruz used his authority as a member of the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee to force the Obama administration to end the Federal Aviation Commission’s ban on US flights to Ben-Gurion Airport. Cruz announced at the time that he would put a hold on all State Department appointments until the administration justified the flight ban.
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By Ben Cohen, ALGEMEINER

JNS.org – “If a man was a Jew, it was good enough for him to be killed or stamped out,” wrote a senior British official serving abroad to his superiors in London in 1929.

From where was this gentleman—Major Alan Saunders—writing his dispatch? From Munich or Berlin or any of the other German cities where Hitler’s Nazi Party was gaining supporters and street thugs? In fact, no. Major Saunders was the head of the British Police in Palestine during the mandate period, and his statement concerned the massacre by Arabs, in August 1929, of 69 Jews in Hebron, a city where their community had been a consistent presence for at least two millennia.

I was reminded of Major Saunders’s pithy summary of the motive behind the Hebron pogrom when news broke of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to the World Zionist Congress in Jerusalem, in which he essentially argued that it was the Mufti of Jerusalem, Hajj Amin al-Husseini, who crystallized the idea of the mass extermination of the Jews in Adolf Hitler’s mind. But before I talk about the controversy that followed these comments, I want to make a couple of more general observations by way of introduction.

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Those who stand by the Oslo process rehash arguments ad nauseum that have been disproven.

By Israel Harel, HAARETZ

In Israel, there is no culture of intellectual debate when it comes to politics. If there were, we would have been witness to the admission by opinion leaders or a gesture on their part to their opponents, stating: You were right. Thousands of victims of the Oslo Accords are not bringing the erroneous side to admit its responsibility for its mistakes. It is digging in to its positions, even during a period like the one we are currently experiencing, instead placing blame on those who foresaw almost exactly the results of the untenable political process. The “peace camp” is paying a heavy price for this. And the more it insists on sticking with its mistakes, and its deceptions, mainly its hatreds, it will continue to pay the price. And this, until it is marginalized in the debate and in its political power. It is already on the verge.
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Yisrael Medad

After these blogs, here and here, I bring you something Gadi Dot found:

“The mufti made his first approach to the German consul in Jerusalem in 1933 soon after Hitler’s accession to power. His objectives as he explained on numerous occasions to German officials … to accomplish the final solution of the Jewish problem everywhere.”

The “Final Solution”?

Rather than reach out to the increasingly irrelevant Mahmoud Abbas, Israel should cut all ties with him.

By Martin Sherman, JPOST

Dr. Sherman… I hope to see a higher degree of specificity in your policy prescriptions than what you have written in the past. – Mtown Quaker in a talkback to my last column, “What must be done: Part 1 – Back to basics,” October 15, 2015

There is nothing so practical as a good theory – Kurt Lewin (1890-1947), widely considered the ‘father of social psychology.’

The implied rebuke by the impatient talkbacker reflects a common misperception, particularly among those of a right-wing/hawkish predilection, as how to approach the over-all confrontation with the Arabs in general, and the violence of Palestinian Arabs in particular.
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No, the Holocaust was not Husseini’s idea. But he was a partner in perpetrating and promoting it. He also made it inevitable.

By Caroline Glick, JPOST

PM Nertanyahu is crazy like a fox.

Netanyahu’s assertion on Tuesday before the World Zionist Congress that the founder of the Palestinian people, Haj Amin al-Husseini, convinced Adolf Hitler to eradicate rather than expel the Jews of Europe was an overstatement of Husseini’s role.

No, the Holocaust was not Husseini’s idea.

But he was a partner in perpetrating and promoting it. He also made it inevitable.
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The situation of equating terrorist and victim is totally insane.

By Giulio Meotti, INN

The Palestinian jihad has a very evocative expression with regard to the act of slaughtering an Israeli Jew by a knife: “When we will slit your throat, we will slit it for Netanya”. That seaside city is the most fragile border of the Jewish State, with only 5 kilometers separating Netanya from the Palestinian Arab town of Tulkarem. Israel’s retreat to those 5 km would be the world’s dream come true.

Open any European newspaper these days and you will not understand who is stabbing whom in Jerusalem. The knives used by the Islamic State to behead “infidels” have been turned into a symbol of evil but the Palestinian Arab knives are always justified and even deleted from the news headlines. As if the blades of Palestinian Arabs are less sharp. As if the blood of Israeli Jews is less red. As if the Jewish State has to offer the world its throat.
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By Elli Fisher, TOI

Scene: Bibi’s office. In attendance are Prime Minister Netanyahu and everyone who would be played by a main character in an Israeli version of West Wing (to be called The Aquarium): media advisers, speechwriters, PR gurus, pollsters, etc.

Bibi: We’re three weeks into this new uprising and the world media narrative is all about how Palestinian violence is terrible but understandable given the Occupation™. We need to show that the occupation is the result of violence, not the other way around. How do we do it?

Speechwriter: We tell the truth. The truth is on our side. Their leaders lie about Jewish connection to holy sites. They lie about Ashkenazic Jews coming here as colonialist occupiers. They lie about and deny the Holocaust. About poisoning the wells. About defiling the Temple Mount with our filthy feet. They say Jesus was a Palestinian. Let them bury themselves with lies. We need to stay on message with the truth. Haters will hate.
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By Yisrael Medad, TOI

Out of Berlin we learn:

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told United States Secretary of State John Kerry and European Union foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini in Berlin Thursday that Jordan and the Palestinian Authority must issue a statement making it clear that the status quo on the Temple Mount has not been violated.

It was reported that, in addition,

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told United States Secretary of State John Kerry and European Union foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini in Berlin Thursday that Jordan and the Palestinian Authority must issue a statement making it clear that the status quo on the Temple Mount has not been violated.

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Justin Trudeau is a younger Barack Obama.

He loves the Muslims.

Watch video and weep.

Abbas claims he doesn’t support violence – yet his Fatah and PA have been openly calling nonstop to murder Jews with knives and rocks.

By Ari Yashar, INN

By Ted Belman

Elliott Abrams is an American diplomat, lawyer and political scientist who served in foreign policy positions for U.S. Presidents, Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush. He recently wrote a major article Rebuilding American Alliances in the Middle East that is worth reading.

Essentially he recommends that the US mobilize the Sunni countries together with Israel into an alliance headed by the US to oppose Iranian expansionism. He wants the US to have Israel’s back diplomatically and to fight the BDS.

Unfortunately he can’t extricate himself or the US from the TSS. He recommends that the US and Israel come to an agreement “to limit settlement growth and keep the “peace map” intact.”  What this means is to allow Israel to build in the areas that she is expected to keep. Something Netanyahu would love to agree to.  At the same time, build up Palestinian institutions like Bennett recently proposed.
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By BEN HARTMAN, TOVAH LAZAROFF, YAAKOV LAPPIN, JPOST

Six soldiers and a policeman were wounded in five West Bank terrorist attacks on Wednesday, as the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories Maj.-Gen. Yoav Mordechai appealed to Palestinian leaders to calm the situation.

“It is not too late to stop the deterioration [of the security situation],” Mordechai said at press conference to the foreign media. Mordechai condemned the incitement that is fueling the spate of terrorist attacks, saying that the “word is more harmful than the sword.”

At night five soldiers in their 20s were wounded when they were run down by a terrorist after their vehicle was stoned on Route 60 near the Palestinian village of Beit Umar, just outside the Etzion Bloc.
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By Jason Gold, JEWISH LEADERSHIP

“I am the landlord here, and if you (Ed. note: “you” meaning Jews, Israelis, etc.) don’t like it, you can leave” exclaimed Arab MK Ahmed Tibi from the Knesset podium approximately one week ago. Amazing that in that one sentence, Tibi encapsulated the very root of the current intifada. That is, Jews acting like squatter tenants in their own land and being subverted to the will of the landlord Arabs.

Now if you ask your average Israeli about this analysis, he/she will tell you that you are crazy, it’s our land, what is Tibi talking about, the inciter, trouble maker, blah, blah blah. Unfortunately though, Tibi is right. While the Arabs boldly assert their false claims to the land, how does the Israeli government answer? Most of the time with something like, “we have the right to defend ourselves”, or “we have the right to live in security”. When has an Israeli prime minister ever responded with something like, “Gd promised this land to us, time and time again in the Tanach”? The answer is never. Why? Very simple.
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T. Belman. A couple of years ago Jeff Daube and Arlene Kushner began a PR project to get the Levy Report accepted. They focused on educating MK’s who weren’t up to speed on the legal issues. A year ago they renamed their efforts to the Legal Grounds Campaign, the essence of which is to get MK’s to understand that the Fourth Geneva Convention does not apply, that there is no occupation and settlements are legal. Please visit their site and learn all about it. And if you can, contribute money.

By Lahav Harkov, JPOST

The Land of Israel Caucus held its inaugural meeting in the 20th Knesset on Wednesday, with members from the coalition and opposition, and support from ministers.

MK Yoav Kisch (Likud), who co-chairs the caucus with MK Bezalel Smotrich (Bayit Yehudi), began with a call to action to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Yisrael Beytenu chairman Avigdor Liberman to “put your anger and egos aside and work together in a united, right-wing government.

“Yisrael Beytenu belongs in the coalition,” he said, adding that a stable, strong right-wing coalition can help the caucus obtain its goals.
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By Ted Belman

There is no dispute that Hitler was responsible for the holocaust and the Mufti was close at hand in aiding and abetting it. Hitler’s role has been exhaustively covered. The Mufti’s role is finally getting wide exposure. Not only was he part of Hitler’s inner circle and was friends with Eichmann and Himmler, he was instrumental in infusing Hitler’s ideology of world conquest and Jew extermination into Arab culture in general and into the Muslim Brotherhood which was founded in 1928 and into Yasser Arafat who carried on the Mufti’s message in the rejection of Israel, in particular.

Here are important articles which portray this history.

THE NAZIS AND THE PALESTINIAN MOVEMENT which is supported by this video [BE SURE TO WATCH THIS POWERFUL VIDEO]
By Francisco Gil-White, HIR

The truth about Jerusalem’s grand mufti, Hitler and the Holocaust
by Abraham Cooper and Harold Brackman, Jewish Journal.

Mufti Advised Hitler on Holocaust, Says Middle East Forum Scholar
Middle East Forum

The Nazi roots of Palestinian nationalism
By David Storobin

Legacy of the Mufti and Hitler: The facts that are known
By David Bedein, Behind the News

And while you are at it, look into:

PLO/Fatah and Iran: The Special Relationship
Francisco Gil-White

Israel must not create a Palestinian state because she would be inviting the final solution into her back yard.

Israel’s keyboard intelligence brigades

DEBKAfile Exclusive Report

The newest type of Israeli intelligence officer does not require expertise in hand-to-hand combat, shooting or the ability to survive in enemy territory, but rather a keyboard, screen, internet connection and a complete command of Arabic, including idioms, jargon and expressions. The officer goes online under a false name and uses social networks to connect with those about to stab, run down or shoot Israelis. Along with the undercover agents in the field, there is a new generation of Israeli “digital HUMINT” officers who are updated on the latest trends among the Arab youth and spread out in the same digital space as the users in the back alleys of Palestinian refugee camps. Posing as terrorists, they use their fluent Arabic on Facebook or Twitter to request instructions, assistance, information and direction to “carry out attacks.” Read more…

This letter will be sent to former Prime Minister Stephen Harper, with everyone’s signatures, once it reaches its goal.

Please sign and share widely
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Dear Stephen Harper,

Thank you.

Thank you for always saying it as it is, never letting political calculations cloud your moral integrity. This probably cost you your job, but it earned you our deepest respect.

Thank you for giving Canada its moral voice back on the world stage after years of moral relativism.

Thank you for your steadfast support of Israel, for your opposition to radical Islam and to all other tyranical regimes, and for your fight for freedom around the world and inside Canada.

Thank you for being the only world leader to understand that in the choice between the Islamic Republic and the Islamic State, the right choice is to oppose both of these hateful apocalyptic regimes.

Thank you for making Canada skip the worst economic crisis the world has seen since the great depression through responsible fiscal policies.

We will never forget this period of time where Canada led the free world in terms of moral clarity and moral stance. You became the moral compass of a too often immoral world.

You will be missed. No: you are already missed.

The Undersigned,

T, Belman. Bibi didn’t get it exactly right about the Mufti’s role. But there is no question that the Mufti wanted Italy and Germany to “accord to Palestine and to other Arab countries the right to solve the problem of the Jewish elements in Palestine and other Arab countries, in accordance with the interest of the Arabs and, by the same method, that the question is now being settled in the Axis countries.”. [ “Grand Mufti Plotted To Do Away With All Jews In Mideast,” Response, (Fall 1991), pp. 2-3.]

At first Hitler intended to expel all the Jews but since no one would take them in, he concluded that the nations wouldn’t stop him from killing all the Jews. Bibi was right about that. But he was wrong to suggest that the Mufti was responsible for Hitler choosing to do so. The Mufti aided Hitler in other ways such as providing Muslim troops for him from the Balkans.

I am disturbed by the rancor that critics are showing Bibi for his remarks. They are in effect protecting the Arabs from the truth by jumping on Bibi for the error. They should simply correct Bibi and then do a correct indictment of the Arab role in supporting Hitler. I am glad Bibi made his remarks because of the wide exposure the truth is getting.

Netanyahu: Hitler was responsible for Final Solution

“At the same time, it is absurd to ignore the role played by the mufti, Haj Amin al-Husseini, a war criminal who encouraged Hitler, [Joachim von] Ribbentrop, [Heinrich] Himmler and others to destroy the Jews of Europe.”

Holocaust scholars refute prime minister’s assertion that Muslim religious leader first suggested the Final Solution; Netanyahu: ‘I had absolutely no intention of absolving Hitler’

By Ahiya Raved, YNET

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday at the 37th Zionist Congress that Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler did not initially plan to exterminate the Jews and was convinced by the grand mufti of Jerusalem – but renowned historians said definitively on Wednesday that this was not the case.

Professor Dan Michman, a world-renowned expert who is the head of the Institute of Holocaust Research at Bar-Ilan University and Head of the International Institute for Holocaust Research at Yad Vashem said Hitler did indeed meet the mufti – but this only occurred after the Final Solution began.
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