Preamble to the Mufti's speech
When someone in clergy is seen in a lie, you instinctively protect him, but when he is say, Muhammad Ahmad Hussein, the Grand Mufti of the Palestinians, you expect him to come clean, to explain, to apologise, to recant if necessary.
Hussein’s voluble rendition at the Yad Vashem memorial in Jerusalem in May 2009, without mentioning the role of his predecessor, prompts me to step into the shoes of his speechwriter and pen a Preamble to the Mufti's speech : -
"Dear all, before I talk of the tragedy of the Shoah, let me quote Dieter Wisliceny, Eichmann’s deputy, at the Nuremberg Trials.
Wisliceny testified :- ("The Mufti was one of the initiators of the systematic extermination of European Jewry and had been a collaborator and adviser of Eichmann and Himmler in the execution of this plan.... He was one of Eichmann's best friends and had constantly incited him to accelerate the extermination measures. I heard him say, accompanied by Eichmann, that he had visited incognito the gas chambers of Auschwitz")
The Mufti in question cavorted with Hitler and is said to have offered valuable advice to the ‘Final Solution’. His request to the Axis to (quote unquote) ("settle the question of Jewish elements in Palestine and other Arab countries in accordance with the national and racial interests of the Arabs and along the lines similar to those used to solve the Jewish question in Germany and Italy") places me, as well as the Pontiff if I may add, in an awkward position in your presence. The Mufti in question was a disgrace and epitomizes the ultimate embarrassment in the reasoned Palestinian psyche.
The Mufti in question is my predecessor, Mohammad Amin al-Husayni, peace be upon him"
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