Germany responded to Netanyahu's ridiculous, racist and incredibly historically wrong statement that the Palestinians were responsible for the holocaust in very clear terms:
http://www.i24news.tv/...
Germany on Wednesday said that responsibility for the Holocaust lay with the Germans, after Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sparked controversy before a visit to Berlin by saying a Muslim elder had convinced Adolf Hitler to exterminate Jews.
"All Germans know the history of the murderous race mania of the Nazis that led to the break with civilization that was the Holocaust," Chancellor Angela Merkel's spokesman Steffen Seibert said when asked about Benjamin Netanyahu's remarks.
"This is taught in German schools for good reason, it must never be forgotten. And I see no reason to change our view of history in any way. We know that responsibility for this crime against humanity is German and very much our own."
Netanyahu is playing with Holocaust denial in making a claim that actually has roots in arguments put forward by Nazi apologists:
The claim that Husseini came up with the idea of the extermination of European Jewry has been proposed by some historians at the fringes of Holocaust research, but is generally rejected as a theory.
Holocaust survivors have been no less angered by this despicable distortion of history:
The umbrella organization of Israel's Holocaust survivors' groups reacted with outrage. "Netanyahu hurts the feelings of the survivors who experienced first hands Hitler's edicts, humiliation and torture. He hurts them by minimizing the role of that vile man and incites by diverting hatred toward the Arab public in Israel and its leaders, by implying that they always wanted to exterminate the Jewish people, and do to this day."
I did not think it possible for Netanyahu to sink any lower than he did after inserting himself directly into U.S. foreign affairs.
Turns out, I was sadly wrong.
This cancerous man needs to be shunned by the civilized world. If Israel will not divest itself of him; sane people need to divest themselves of Israel until it returns to reason.