まずは、昨日付のパイプス先生のツィッター（https://twitter.com/DanielPipes）から。
Book co-authored by @MEForum fellow @WolfgGSchwanitz validates #Netanyahu's statement about the #Mufti & #Hitler: http://www.prweb.com/releases/2015/10/prweb13036296.htm …
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ぬっと思ったところ、中東フォーラムのウェブサイトには、早速、こんな記事が掲載されていた。さすがに抜け目なく、敏いのはいつものことだ。
Middle East Forum（http://www.meforum.org/5574/schwanitz-husaini）
Mufti Advised Hitler on Holocaust, Says Middle East Forum Scholar
October 21, 2015
Noted Middle East Forum scholar Dr. Wolfgang G. Schwanitz responds to criticism of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Schwanitz, a leading expert on ties between Nazis and Islamists, says al-Hajj Amin al-Husaini was instrumental in the decision to exterminate the Jews of Europe.
"The Mufti of Jerusalem al-Hajj Amin al-Husaini was a war criminal whose collaboration with Adolf Hitler played a key role in the Holocaust," says Dr. Wolfgang G. Schwanitz, the Hochberg Family Writing Fellow at the Middle East Forum.
Philadelphia, PA – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has drawn criticism for comments about the role of al-Hajj Amin al-Husaini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, in conceiving and perpetrating the Holocaust. Indeed, leading Nazi aides testified that al-Husaini was one of the instigators of the genocide. In his Damascus memoirs, the mufti admitted how he advised Hitler and other leading Nazis, and that he acquired full knowledge of the ongoing mass murder.
Middle East Forum scholar, historian, and author Wolfgang G. Schwanitz added, "It is a historical fact that the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem al-Hajj Amin al-Husaini was an accomplice whose collaboration with Adolf Hitler played an important role in the Holocaust. He was the foremost extra-European adviser in the process to destroy the Jews of Europe."
Although Schwanitz hadn't previously heard the dialogue between Hitler and al-Husaini as told by Netanyahu, he says it is absurd to ignore the role played by al-Hajj Amin al-Husaini, a war criminal, in encouraging and urging Hitler and other leading Nazis to exterminate European Jewry.
According to the foremost expert on the ties between Nazis and Islamists, there is much evidence that al-Husaini's primary goal was blocking all of the ways out of Europe. He pushed Hitler to slam the last doors of a burning house shut.
In their 2014 book Nazis, Islamists, and the Making of the Modern Middle East, published by Yale University Press, Schwanitz and co-author Barry Rubin delve into the deep ties between Hitler and the Grand Mufti:
At their meeting [on November 28, 1941, Hitler and al-Husaini] concluded the pact of Jewish genocide in Europe and the Middle East, and immediately afterward, Hitler gave the order to prepare for the Holocaust. The next day invitations went out to thirteen Nazis for the Wannsee Conference to begin organizing the logistics of this mass murder.
The highly acclaimed book also examined the Grand Mufti's efforts to prevent Europe's Jews from finding refuge in the land that would become Israel:
And since any European Jews let out of Europe might later go to Palestine, al-Husaini made it clear that if Hitler wanted Muslims and Arabs as allies he must close Europe's exits to Jews. At the same time, al-Husaini and Arab rulers also told Britain that if it wanted to keep Arabs and Muslims from being enemies, it must close entrance to Palestine to all Jews. By succeeding on both fronts, al-Husaini contributed to the Holocaust doubly, directly, and from the start.
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ふむふむ。イェール大学出版のヴォルフガング・G・シュヴァニッツ博士と故バリー・ルビン先生の共著は、私も自宅に持っている（http://d.hatena.ne.jp/itunalily/20140227）（http://d.hatena.ne.jp/itunalily/20150204）。その本は、中東フォーラムが部分的に助成したと、2014年7月1日付のメーリング・リストに書いてあった。シュヴァニッツ博士は、確か東独出身ではなかったかと記憶している。
故バリー・ルビン先生に関しては、今年の4月24日に一人でテル・アヴィヴのお墓参りに行き、写真を撮ってパイプス先生にお渡しした（http://d.hatena.ne.jp/itunalily/20150830）。ルビン先生については、日本語と英語の過去ブログをどうぞ（http://d.hatena.ne.jp/itunalily/20130503）（http://d.hatena.ne.jp/itunalily/20130925）（http://d.hatena.ne.jp/itunalily/20140204）（http://d.hatena.ne.jp/itunalily/20140205）（http://d.hatena.ne.jp/itunalily/20140214）（http://d.hatena.ne.jp/itunalily/20140219）（http://d.hatena.ne.jp/itunalily/20140306）（http://d.hatena.ne.jp/itunalily/20140626）（http://d.hatena.ne.jp/itunalily/20150204）（http://d.hatena.ne.jp/itunalily2/archive?word=%22Barry+Rubin%22）。
ここで突然ながら、産経の記事を。
産経（http://www.sankei.com/.../news/151022/wor1510220024-n1.html）
2015.10.22
「ホロコースト進言はパレスチナ人」 イスラエル首相が発言、批判浴びる
イスラエルのネタニヤフ首相が、第２次大戦中のホロコースト（ユダヤ人大量虐殺）はパレスチナ人がナチス・ドイツの指導者ヒトラーに進言したものだと発言し、裏付けに乏しい主張だとして批判を浴びている。
イスラエルメディアによると、ネタニヤフ氏は２０日にエルサレムで開かれたユダヤ人団体の会合で、ヒトラーは１９４１年にパレスチナ人の宗教指導者に会うまで、ユダヤ人を滅ぼす考えを持っていなかったと強調。「当時ヒトラーはユダヤ人を追い出したかっただけだが、宗教指導者が『焼く』よう助言した」と述べた。
ネタニヤフ氏は２１日、ドイツの首都ベルリンでメルケル首相と会談した後の記者会見でも、ヒトラーにホロコーストを進言したのはパレスチナ人指導者だと述べた。（共同）
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日本語でいきなり簡潔に読むと、（なんじゃこれ？）という反応が自然かと思われる。NHKニュースは少し長めなので、ここで引用を。
（http://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/20151022/k10010278501000.html）
ネタニヤフ首相「パレスチナ人がホロコースト進言」に批判
10月22日 6時57分
イスラエルのネタニヤフ首相が演説で、ナチス・ドイツによるユダヤ人の大量虐殺、ホロコーストについて、イスラム教の宗教指導者だったパレスチナ人がヒトラーに進言したのがきっかけだったとする持論を展開し、内外から「歴史をゆがめる発言だ」などと批判の声が上がっています。
イスラエルのネタニヤフ首相は、今月２０日にエルサレムで開かれた会議で、ナチス・ドイツによるユダヤ人の大量虐殺、ホロコーストについて、１９４１年にヒトラーとエルサレムのイスラム教の宗教指導者が面会した史実に触れました。
この中でネタニヤフ首相は、「当時、ヒトラーにはユダヤ人を全滅させる意図はなく、追い出すつもりだった」と述べたうえで、宗教指導者が大量虐殺をヒトラーに進言したとする持論を展開しました。
この宗教指導者はパレスチナ人であるため、ネタニヤフ首相の発言を受けて、パレスチナ側からは、ホロコーストの責任をパレスチナ人に押しつけようとするものだと、強い反発の声が上がっています。
また、イスラエルの歴史家からも「ヒトラーと宗教指導者が会談する前からユダヤ人の虐殺は始まっていた」として、首相の発言は誤りだとする指摘が相次いでいるほか、野党からも「ヒトラーの責任を軽くする歴史をゆがめる発言だ」と批判の声が上がり、ネタニヤフ首相は事態の収拾に追われています。
・国連も厳しく批判
ネタニヤフ首相の発言について、国連のハク報道官は２１日の記者会見で、「ホロコーストがナチス以外のパレスチナ人やイスラム教徒に触発されたものだという主張は全く論外だ」と述べ、厳しく批判しました。
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だが、本ブログの冒頭の記述を踏まえれば、実は伏線があり、根拠なきわけではないことが判明する。このネタニヤフ首相も、ご本人は真剣そのものなのだが、文脈の共有なしに突然言い出すところが何となく微笑ましくて、その点では似た性格のパイプス先生のことが思い出され（http://d.hatena.ne.jp/itunalily/20130516）、つい笑いそうになる。ユダヤ人って唐突に物を言うので、何かと物議を醸し出しやすいのではないか、と。
ハジ・アミン・アル＝フサイニについては、パイプス拙訳をどうぞ（http://www.danielpipes.org/11572/）（http://www.danielpipes.org/12220/）（http://www.danielpipes.org/13262/）（http://www.danielpipes.org/13271/）（http://www.danielpipes.org/13833/）（http://www.danielpipes.org/16130/）。
驚くべきことに、拙訳した中で、このエルサレムのムフティにパイプス先生が初めて言及されたのは、1980年8月の玉稿である。その頃、私はまだ中学生だった。つまり、日本文脈では唐突なようでも、パイプス＝ネタニヤフ文脈では、年季の入った話題だったのであろう。というのは、以下の記事からもうかがえる。
Tablet（http://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/194431/）
Bibi: Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Told Hitler to Burn Jews in 1941
The Israeli Prime Minister’s calculated claim at the 37th Zionist Congress in Jerusalem on Tuesday has been widely denounced and debunked. But it overshadows Haj Amin el-Husseini’s actual participation in the Holocaust.
by Jonathan Zalman
During World War II, the Nazis, in need of an ally, sought one in the Muslim world. The Germans had hoped to be seen as a potential liberator—”to pose to the Arabs as a champion of native peoples against foreign rule,” wrote Tablet contributing editor Adam Kirsch in a report of Jeffrey Herf’s Nazi Propaganda in the Arab World—despite they fact that they occupied nearly every country in Europe. At the time, however, Arab resentment of Britain was high.
In November 1941, Haj Amin el-Husseini, the grand mufti of Jerusalem, met with Adolf Hitler in Berlin, where the mufti’s influence would be heard in years to come.
Germany’s Arabic-language radio made great use of Husseini’s speeches, such as the one he delivered in Berlin in 1943, explaining that the Jews “lived like a sponge among peoples, sucked their blood, seized their property, undermined their morals…. All this has brought the hostility of the world down on them and nourished the Jew’s hatred against all the peoples that had been burning for two thousand years.”
“One of the things Husseini and Hitler talked about…was their plans for the Jews in Palestine and throughout the Middle East,” wrote Kirsh. On Tuesday, in a speech at the 37th Zionist conference in Jerusalem, Israeli Prime Minister told the world a snippet of their conversation:
These attackers, Arab attackers, murdered several Jews, including our celebrated writer Brenner. And this attack and other attacks on the Jewish community in 1920, 1921, 1929, were instigated by a call of the Mufti of Jerusalem Haj Amin al-Husseini, who was later sought for war crimes in the Nuremberg trials because he had a central role in fomenting the final solution. He flew to Berlin. Hitler didn’t want to exterminate the Jews at the time, he wanted to expel the Jews. And Haj Amin al-Husseini went to Hitler and said, “If you expel them, they’ll all come here.” “So what should I do with them?” he asked. He said, “Burn them.”
In essence, Netanyahu stated that Husseini gave Hitler the idea of the Final Solution—the systematic mass extermination of Jews—which was implemented in 1942. Netanyahu has since come under harsh scrutiny, and Germany has since come out to “recognize that the murderous racial fanaticism of the Nazis was the historical origin of…the Shoah.”
・Haj Amin al-Husseini and Adolf Hitler in Berlin, 1941. (Wikipedia)
“But [Husseini] pushed the Nazis ahead,” wrote Wolfgang G. Schwanitz in Tablet last year, in response to David Mikics’s review of his book, Nazis, Islamists, and the Making of the Modern Middle East, which he co-authored with Barry Rubin.
Hitler had published his goal in his book of 1925: gassing Jews, destroying the “Judeo-Communist Empire.” The chief Nazis—Adolf Hitler, Heinrich Himmler, and Adolf Eichmann—remain the key perpetrators. Hitler is most responsible for the Holocaust, though al-Husaini swayed him along the way and made no secret of his four years of interventions with the Nazi leaders as soon as exchange projects of Jews for German civilians or prisoners of war came up… Himmler promised him to not let Jews go to the Middle East. Mikics missed this. Al-Husaini slammed shut the last exit doors of a burning house to keep the Jews inside.
In addition, the grand mufti got them killed by his Muslim SS troops in the Balkans and in Soviet Asia. He trained imams and mullahs for Nazi troops, spied for them, sent terror units to Palestine, and incited hatred against North African Jews and resistance against the Allies, especially America. In late 1941, he put America also on his target list. Only five decades later Osama bin Laden did the same. We have shown how their ideology of Islamism remained alive throughout those decades and served in today’s trouble as well.
・Haj Amin al-Husseini and Heinrich Himmler. (Wikipedia)
In his memoirs, al-Husaini admitted that Himmler told him of having killed three million Jews by mid-1943. Yearly, he met with SS mass murderers and visited death camps. As a revered leader, he aroused many Islamists through broadcasts, prepared for and started the Middle Eastern genocide. At the same time, he blocked all British proposals for liberal compromises. As historians, we showed the missed opportunities and alternatives. This does not mean at all that “Rubin and Schwanitz make the astonishing claim that al-Husaini is nothing less than the architect of the Final Solution.” This would be wrong.
On Wednesday, Sam Sokol of The Jerusalem Post spoke with Yad Vashem Dina Porat who told Sokol “while the mufti ‘definitely’ played a role in the Holocaust, he was in no way one of the primary movers behind the adoption of the Final Solution and such comments are likely to ’cause some damage unless they are urgently clarified.’
The destruction of European Jewry had been on Hitler’s mind since the First World War and it was “his obsession,” Porat said. “The mufti had nothing to do with fomenting or developing the Final Solution.”
In 1939, years before Hitler and the mufti met in Berlin, the Nazi leader had already publicly stated that should the Jews “succeed in plunging the nations into a world war yet again, then the outcome will not be the victory of Jewry, but rather the annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe,” Porat said.
She said further that the process of putting Jews into ghettos and the beginning of the mass murder of Jews in the Soviet Union occurred before the pair’s November 1941 meeting in Berlin.
You can read Netanyahu’s entire speech—in which he outlines “ten big lies hurled at us”—here, and watch it here.
Netanyahu was in Germany on Wednesday to meet with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
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...なので、今日の結論は、フェイスブック（https://www.facebook.com/ikuko.tsunashima）にも書いたように、
「ニュースの発信源の一つは、中東フォーラムかもしれないですねって人ごとのように...」。
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後注：バリー・ルビン先生のご遺族宛にネタニヤフ首相からお悔やみ状が届いた（http://d.hatena.ne.jp/itunalily/20140219）ことにも留意。
