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By: Vered Weiss–World Israel News
Israel’s Ambassador to the UN Gilad Erdan held up a picture of Hitler meeting with the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem during a UN Security Council debate on Palestinian statehood.
Erdan produced the photo to indicate that the roots of Palestinian nationalism were based on Nazism and the destruction of Jews.
He said Haj Amin Al-Husseini the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem during WWII was “one of the founding fathers of Palestinian nationalism,” and supported Nazism and anti-Semitism.
The Grand Mufti met with Hitler to ask for his assistance in getting rid of the British Mandate and Jewish immigrants coming to the Holy Land.
Erdan made the case that the objective of Palestinian nationalism from the Grand Mufti’s time was to eliminate Jews.
“From then until today, the root of this conflict has not changed. It is not a political conflict or about partitioning land,” Erdan said. “It is solely about the destruction of Israel and the murder of Jews.”
Erdan said the UN was making the mistake of “reinforcing modern-day Nazi Jihadists [by] considering forcing the establishment of a Palestinian terror state.”
“This won’t be a regular state – it will be a Palesti-Nazi state. An entity that achieved statehood despite being committed to terror and Israel’s annihilation. If Hitler was alive today, he would be singing the U.N.’s praises,” he said.
The purpose of the meeting was to discuss a request filed by the Palestinian Authority that the United Nations official recognize it as a state and to become a full member of the UN.
The Palestinian Authority currently controls territories within Judea and Samaria and although it once ruled Gaza, the PA was driven out by Hamas in 2007.
Supporters of the recognition of a Palestinian State urged the UN to reconsider a petition for statehood filed in 2011.
Although the US has pushed for a proposal that a “revitalized” Palestinian Authority rule Gaza as a step towards a Palestinian State, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected the PA’s rule of Gaza given their refusal to condemn Hamas’s invasion of Israel on October 7th.
In other news, WIN also reported on Tuesday that Israel will launch devastating strikes against Iran’s sensitive nuclear development sites, should Tehran directly attack Israel, according to media reports.
Last week, an airstrike widely attributed to Israel killed a senior Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps general in Damascus, the assassination of the highest-ranking Iranian military official since Qassem Soleymani’s killing in 2020.
Iran is thought to be gearing up for a retaliatory strike against Israel, with the IDF cancelling leave for combat units and the Iranian army put on high alert.
Elaph News reported that the Israeli air force has been carrying out drills in recent days aimed at simulating strikes on Iranian nuclear sites and infrastructure.
However, U.S. intelligence indicated that the likelihood of Iran directly attacking Israel is low, because such a move would lead to a dramatic escalation in the ongoing shadow conflict between the two countries and possibly trigger U.S. intervention.
Tehran will likely activate its proxies, including Hezbollah in Lebanon and the Houthis in Yemen, to attack Israel.
According to a recent CNN report, both Jerusalem and Washington expect that Iran will launch a number of drone and rocket strikes on the Jewish State.
