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A Response to “Netanyahu and the Truth”

Reader responds to Netanyahu and the Truth article.

Dear Editor,

While Netanyahu is no doubt using the life of Haj Amin al-Husseini for his own purposes, there is an important connection between the grand mufti and the Nazi party. Though it is unlikely that the idea of “the Final Solution” came from the Muslim cleric, there is evidence to support that he aided Hitler and the Nazis in the genocide.

In his book, Semites and Anti-Semites, Bernard Lewis documents that Haj Amin al-Husseini not only wanted to halt and terminate the Jewish settlement in Palestine, he wished to see the termination of Jews everywhere.

Or one can read in Kenneth R. Timmerman’s article “Forgotten Palestine” that the mufti sent Bosnian Muslims into Croatia and Hungary to aid the Nazis in the killing of the Jews. “Hanjar troopers” were responsible for the slaughter of 90 per cent of Bosnia’s Jews.

There were meetings between the Muslim cleric and Nazis such as Himmler. This is documented. I can understand why Netanyahu is talking about Haj Amin al-Husseini. What I cannot understand is why so many people are rushing to defend Haj Amin al-Husseini. He did contribute to the Holocaust, even if he was not its author.

Sincerely,

Timothy N. Nelson

Ponoka, AB