Netanyahu Doubles Down on Hitler Comments

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu doubled down on the claim he made Tuesday in a speech, according to which Adolf Hitler did not want to annihilate the Jews but to expel them, and it was Mufti Hajj Amin Al Husseini who convinced him to murder them. Accusations by leftist politicians, that he had absolved Hitler from blame for the Holocaust, were "absurd," he said. "I had no intention of absolving Hitler for his diabolical responsibility for the annihilation of the Jews of Europe," Netanyahu told reporters before flying to Germany. "Hitler is responsible for the Final Solution for annihilating the Six Millions; he made the decision. "By the same token," he argued, "it is absurd to ignore the role that the Mufti Hajj Amin al-Husseini, a war criminal, played in encouraging Hitler, Ribbentrop, Himmler and others, to annihilate the Jews of Europe.