Netanyahu compares demands to end settlements with Nazi holocaust

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The lengths that people like Netanyahu will go to to defend the settlements on the West Bank is revealed today by Haaretz. He used the Nazi term 'Judenrein" to refer to Palestinian demands for an end to Israel's land grabbing. In other words he is willing to enlist, and thereby undermine, the legacy and meaning of the holocaust in defence of the colonial project in Palestine. Shame on Netanyahu.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu used the Nazi term 'Judenrein' in a recent meeting with the German foreign minister to condemn the Palestinian demand that West Bank settlements be removed, a confidant of the premier has said.

"Judea and Samaria cannot be Judenrein," the confidant quoted the prime minister as telling Frank-Walter Steinmeier earlier this week.

Asked how Germany's top diplomat responded to hearing the term used by the Nazis to refer to areas "cleansed of Jews", the confidant said, "What could he do? He basically just nodded."

According to the confidant, Netanyahu had encouraged cabinet colleagues to deploy the term in their defense of the settlements and of Israel's insistence that Palestinians recognize it as a Jewish state. more at Haaretz

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