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아래는 뉴욕타임즈 기사 (10/21/15)의 첫 부분이다.

 

JERUSALEM — Israeli historians and opposition politicians on Wednesday

joined Palestinians in denouncing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of

Israel for saying it was a Palestinian, the grand mufti of Jerusalem, who

gave Hitler the idea of annihilating European Jews during World War II.

 

Mr. Netanyahu said in a speech to the Zionist Congress on Tuesday night

that “Hitler didn’t want to exterminate the Jews at the time, he wanted to

expel the Jews,” according to a transcript provided by his office. The prime

minister said that the mufti, Haj Amin al-Husseini, protested to Hitler that

“they’ll all come here,” referring to Palestine.

 

“ ‘So what should I do with them?’ ” Mr. Netanyahu quoted as asking

Mr. Husseini. “He said, ‘Burn them.’ ”

 

Prof. Meir Litvak, a historian at Tel Aviv University, called the speech “a lie”

and “a disgrace.” Prof. Moshe Zimmermann, a specialist of German history

at Hebrew University, said, “With this, Netanyahu joins a long line of people

that we would call Holocaust deniers.”