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Showing Original Post only (View all)The real problem with Netanyahu's mufti speech [View all]
http://972mag.com/the-real-problem-with-netanyahus-mufti-speech/113138/
By calling the Palestinians Nazis, the Israeli prime minister was saying they can never be negotiated with that Israel must fight them to the bloody end.
Despite the festival of mockery taking place on social media, Benjamin Netanyahu clearly does not believe that Grand Mufti Haj Amin al-Husseini is more responsible than Hitler for the Holocaust. (Although that is exactly what the prime minister said in his speech at the World Zionist Conference on Tuesday.) Netanyahu is a smart guy who knows World War II history better than most of his critics. The idea that the mufti is responsible for the extermination of European Jewry is completely absurd, and Netanyahu knows that. Just like he explained the next day, he wasnt even talking about the Nazis, and he certainly never meant to absolve them for the Holocaust. The prime minister was trying to make a statement about the Palestinians and thats the real problem.
Saying that the Palestinians are Nazis very much like the comparison between Israel and the Nazis has no place in a fact-based or historically accurate discourse. That should go without saying. The only reason to do so would be to illustrate that it is impossible to negotiate, or even speak with, the other side that they must be fought to the bloody end. That is the historical historical context and significance of comparing somebody to the Nazis. They are one of the few regimes in all of history whose illegitimacy is absolute to everyone in the world. Even those who had the most remote ties with the Nazis, even those who tried to make deals with them to save Jews, were later classified as traitors. Because one wages only war against Nazis. Look at every WWII film ever made there is no such thing as a good Nazi.
By calling the Palestinians Nazis, the Israeli prime minister was saying they can never be negotiated with that Israel must fight them to the bloody end.
Despite the festival of mockery taking place on social media, Benjamin Netanyahu clearly does not believe that Grand Mufti Haj Amin al-Husseini is more responsible than Hitler for the Holocaust. (Although that is exactly what the prime minister said in his speech at the World Zionist Conference on Tuesday.) Netanyahu is a smart guy who knows World War II history better than most of his critics. The idea that the mufti is responsible for the extermination of European Jewry is completely absurd, and Netanyahu knows that. Just like he explained the next day, he wasnt even talking about the Nazis, and he certainly never meant to absolve them for the Holocaust. The prime minister was trying to make a statement about the Palestinians and thats the real problem.
Saying that the Palestinians are Nazis very much like the comparison between Israel and the Nazis has no place in a fact-based or historically accurate discourse. That should go without saying. The only reason to do so would be to illustrate that it is impossible to negotiate, or even speak with, the other side that they must be fought to the bloody end. That is the historical historical context and significance of comparing somebody to the Nazis. They are one of the few regimes in all of history whose illegitimacy is absolute to everyone in the world. Even those who had the most remote ties with the Nazis, even those who tried to make deals with them to save Jews, were later classified as traitors. Because one wages only war against Nazis. Look at every WWII film ever made there is no such thing as a good Nazi.
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Yet, sadly, we see both such comparisons being made way too frequently, even here at DU.
R. Daneel Olivaw
Oct 2015
#2
Why not post the pertinent parts of the article instead of hyperventilating over falsehoods?
R. Daneel Olivaw
Oct 2015
#24
And again, you run from the pertinent parts of the article that I addressed.
R. Daneel Olivaw
Oct 2015
#25
Once again, since you don't want to play fair, but play the victim. I was paraphrasing Naomi Wolf.
R. Daneel Olivaw
Oct 2015
#29
She did write holocaust: which was the final solution, dear. As I said I was paraphrasing.
R. Daneel Olivaw
Oct 2015
#31
What I wrote is for everybody to read. But please stop with the dubious claims.
R. Daneel Olivaw
Oct 2015
#33
actually if you follow the thread it was not the poster you call out here that threw that example in
azurnoir
Oct 2015
#12
Where did Netanyahu call Palestinians Nazis? The Mufti sure, but Palestinians in general? n/t
shira
Oct 2015
#5
and that IMO was Bibi'shis true purpose in making the comment - incitement against Palestinians
azurnoir
Oct 2015
#13