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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.
