By Federica Fanuli
While
Palestinian attacks continue, Hamas announces that "the Intifada for
Jerusalem will continue" and the international diplomacy acts to appease
the violence in the Middle East, Netanyahu goofs up on the responsibility of
Adolf Hitler and the Palestinian complicity in the Holocaust.
The Israeli
Prime Minister has chosen to mystify the history of the Holocaust. He does it,
tries to correct the meaning of his words, but the damage is done. In front of
the audience of the World Zionist Congress, Netanyahu has said that during the
meeting with Hitler in 1941 the Mufti Haj Amin al-Husseini, suggested the
extermination of the Jews to the Nazi. Although the two characters shared the
hate for the Jews, the Fuhrer had already planned the genocide, just read Mein
Kampf. The Nazis did not have in their mind an expulsion, the Diaspora of Jews,
their inhuman project was much more refined and diabolical. The Nazis have
reached the goal of the extermination of the European Jews and it must be said
that six million of died Jews - those we can count - is a sum that looks like
they are almost succeeded. The aim was the genocide, to erase all traces of the
people of Israel. They have not planned a land for the Jews, as it was rather
for the genocide of the Armenians deported to the Syrian Desert. The only
place, provisional, was the concentration camps.
The most spectral aspect is
that Netanyahu could have underestimated the power of his statements, an impact
that suggests the Premier does not know or does not want to understand what
Auschwitz means, it suggests that perhaps every man once in his life should
cross that gate, whatever his political orientation. The exploitation of the
Holocaust during a public speech to win acclaim and then apologizing is not
good. This is an attitude that perhaps irritates and offends more than the
falsification of history.
The Jewish world is unlikely to forget those claims
that arrive, moreover, in a critical moment for the State of Israel. In a few
hours, criticism has rained from all sides of Israel, disputes that border the
accusation of the Negationism. It could expect these utterances from a cynic like
Ahmadinejad, ex-President of Iran, who has promoted the destruction of Israel
denying the existence of the Holocaust, but not from the Israeli Prime
Minister. "The Prime Minister shows to hate Palestinians to the point of
fulfilling the most famous criminal in history," said Saeb Erakat, the
Palestinian negotiator.
Netanyahu goofs up on a historic false and opens the
way to his "enemies", but he has defended himself in Berlin, where it
was been the top international diplomat to shut down the tensions between
Israel and Palestine, where those words weigh a ton, but it is the time
Israelis and Palestinians work together to stop the spiral of anger and
violence that is hitting the two people.
This is the message of John Kerry to
Netanyahu because it is necessary to reopen the dialogue between the parties,
with the support of Jordan's King Abdullah II, and calm the situation in the
Middle East. Netanyahu is very in-confident and he has not missed the chance to
accuse his political antagonist, the leader of the Palestinian National
Authority (PNA), Mahmoud Abbas, to lie about the military force used by Israel.
An invective that does not favor the dialogue.
After Kerry, Netanyahu also has
met the European Union High Representative for Foreign Affairs, Federica Mogherini.
They have discussed about the steps that could be done to clear the violence in
the Holy Land. Finally, the Mogherini suggested to Netanyahu to temper the tone
and, at this point, the hope is that the Israeli Prime Minister follows the
advice of the Head of European diplomacy and learns the lesson, as well as that
of History.
About The Author:
About The Author:
Federica Fanuli
was graduated with honours in Political Science and International Relations
from the University of Salento and she has obtained a Master’s Degree in
Political Science, European Studies and International Relations at the same
University. Foreign Affairs analyst, she is Editorial Manager of Mediterranean
Affairs, a project aiming to provide analyses that cover the Mediterranean
area. Columnist of the Sunday Sentinel, she is Editorial Board Member of
Cosmopolismedia.it and Editor-at-large of IndraStra Global. She can be reached
at her LinkedIn profile. / Thomson Reuters ResearcherID : M-9093-2015