Netanyahu Links Palestinians, Nazis

In a surprisingly powerful and frank speech at Bar Ilan University, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has tied between the Palestinian national movement and the Nazi regime in Germany.

He claimed that the “territories” and “settlements” are not the heart of the territorial conflict between Jews and Palestinians – but that the conflict stems from the historic refusal of the Arabs to accept a Jewish state.

Netanyahu then alleged that Palestinian figure in the first half of the 20th century, Mufti Hajj Amin al-Husseini, was actively involved in encouraging Adolf Hitler and his henchmen in their project of killing the Jewish people.

Netanyahu said the Jewish-Palestinian conflict began in 1921, when Arabs attacked Beit Haolim in Jaffa, which housed new Jewish immigrants.

“This attack was not against territories or settlements,” he noted. “It was against the immigration of Jews" to Israel. 

The prime minister went on to list wjat he called 'Arab pogroms against Jews' in 1929 and later in 1936-39.

In 1947, the Arabs refused to accept a partition plan that gave the Jews a state, he said.

In 1967, again, Arab nations formed “a ring of strangulation” around Israel – but then, too, “there were no territories. There was no occupation. Unless Tel Aviv and Yafo are occupied.”