Abbas says Netanyahu ‘trying to change history’

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas slams Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s comments regarding the Nazi final solution, and says Netanyahu tried in his address to change history.

“He made Hitler innocent and tried to make al-Husseini guilty for the horrible crime against the Jews,” Abbas said, according to a report on the Hebrew-language website Walla.

“In order to hit against us and our position he changes the history of the Jews in a despicable way,” Abbas said.

Netanyahu came under fire from the opposition, Holocaust scholars and others for saying during a speech at the World Zionist Congress in Jerusalem yesterday that German dictator Adolf Hitler did not seek to annihilate the Jews but was content to have them evicted from Europe. Netanyahu said Hajj Amin al-Husseini, who was the grand mufti of Jerusalem during World War II and an ally of the Nazis, was the person to suggest to Hitler that to solve the so-called “Jewish problem” Hitler would need not to expel the Jews but to kill them.