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So why can we say that Netanyahu is engaging in the most blatant revisionism here?
First, because of the timeline. The famous meeting between the Mufti of Jerusalem and Hitler took place on November 28, 1941.
The following day, Heydrich convened a conference in January 1942, the Wannsee Conference, where the "Final Solution" was formalized. A simplistic conclusion to this rapid chain of events would be that one was the consequence of the other.
Except that in November 1941, the Holocaust had already begun! On July 31, 1941, four months earlier, Göring signed a letter tasking Heydrich with "bringing to completion the desired Final Solution to the Jewish question."
The Nazis didn't wait for the Mufti to conceive of it, nor to put it into practice.
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The idea of exterminating Jews by gassing in an industrialized process predates the Wannsee Conference.
The creation of the first extermination camp at Belzec was decided by Himmler on October 13, 1941, and construction began 28 days before the meeting.
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Conclusion: al-Hussaini did indeed play a role. As historian Wolfgang G. Schwanitz says, "The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem was the most important non-European advisor in the destruction of the Jews of Europe."
But "advisor" doesn't mean he conceived the idea, and even less that without him, the Nazis wouldn't have had it. To suggest otherwise is extremely problematic.
For your information, Netanyahu had already written similar statements in 1993 with a clear objective: "To demonize the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem in order to, by extension, demonize Yasser Arafat, (...)".
P.S. by the historian : Beware of all distortions of the past by political leaders because they often serve to justify present or future actions.
« Hitler ne voulait pas exterminer les Juifs » : NETANYAHU DIT VRAI ? (« Hitler didn’t want to exterminate the Jews » : Is Netanyahu saying the truth ?) by YannToutCourt (Yann Bouvier)
37th World Zionist Congress on 30th of October 2015, Bibi : Hitler didn’t want to exterminate the Jews of the time, he wanted to expel the Jews. And Haj Al-Hussaini went to Hitler and said : « If you expel them, they will come here. » « So what should I do with them ? » Hitler asked. (Al-Hussaini) He said « Burn them ».
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Yann Bouvier : Haj Amin al-Husseini, Grand Mufti of Jerusalem in the 1920s and 1930s, which made him the most powerful Arab official in British Mandate Palestine, was openly antisemitic and sympathetic to Nazism.
It appears that he initially inspired the massacre of 67 Jews in Hebron in 1929 by spreading false rumors of Muslims being murdered by Jews.
(Other examples of his anti-semitism)
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Sidenote by the historian : (In Palestine, he has a little following. According to Gilbert Achcar, whose work is controversial but who produced serious statistical analysis, fewer than 10,000 Arabs fought on the Nazi side against more than 250,000 Muslims who served in the Allied armies. (...))
So what’s the problem with Netanyahu's remarks? Pretty much everything.
It's a rewriting of history that exonerates the Nazis of their responsibility, attributing the Holocaust to an Arab, Muslim actor.
Btw the trolling you did on the Pro-Israel server was hilarious. Just an advice to you : Don’t waste your time with them. Their sh*tposts (and arguments) have gotten worse over time (they did have some sort of self-respect back in the day, though not anymore).
