White House urges against inflammatory remarks

White House urges against inflammatory remarks

The White House on Thursday urged against the use of inflammatory rhetoric following comments by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that linked a late Muslim leader to Nazi Germany’s Holocaust.

“I don’t have any reaction from the president to read out to you, but I do think that on the whole, both sides need to tamp down the rhetoric,” said White House spokesman Eric Schultz.

In a speech on Tuesday, Netanyahu said the mufti of Jerusalem during the 1940s convinced Nazi leader Adolf Hitler to exterminate the Jews.

The speech follows a recent spate of violence that has left nine Israelis dead in Palestinian stabbings, shootings and vehicle attacks since the start of October. Forty-nine Palestinians, including 25 assailants, among them children, have been killed in attacks and during anti-Israeli protests.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, who is in Berlin for talks with the Israeli leader Thursday, expressed cautious hope to reporters saying there may be a way to defuse Israeli-Palestinian violence that has killed nearly 60 people this month.

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