Thursday, October 10, 2013  Netanyahu takes gloves off  The
gloves are off. The recent speech made by Israel's Prime
Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, at Bar Ilan university marks a
new, less politically-correct approach:  it places Palestinian
rejectionism in its pro-Nazi, historical context, after Israel
had for years downplayed discussion of the Mufti’s role in the
extermination of the Jews.  It is only a shame that Netanyahu's
speech did not include the Mufti's  agitation against Jews in
the Arab world and the part he played in inciting the Farhud
pogrom. His extermination plans targeted all Jews - not just
those of Europe. Here are extracts from the speech in the Times
of Israel:  "The undisputed leader of the Palestinian national
movement in the first half of the 20th century was Mufti Haj
Amin al-Husseini. The Mufti was the living spirit behind those
same attacks I described, from 1921 in Jaffa through the Second
World War. All this is known, but here are some facts about the
Mufti’s activities that are le