Hitler didn’t want to exterminate the Jews at the time [of the meeting between the mufti and the Nazi leader]. 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 [to mandatory Palestine],’… ‘So what should I do with them?’ He [Hitler] asked. He [Husseini] said, ‘Burn them.’”

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Hitler didn’t want to exterminate the Jews at the time [of the meeting between the mufti and the Nazi leader]. 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 [to mandatory Palestine],’… ‘So what should I do with them?’ He [Hitler] asked. He [Husseini] said, ‘Burn them.’”

Benjamin Netanyahu in 2015. Accuracy of this characterization is disputed.[1]