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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