Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is a right-wing extremist, a politician without vision, a hedonist and a prevaricator (it’s not nice to call a prime minister a liar), but he’s by no means dumb. It’s hard to believe that he didn't anticipate the political storm that ensued from his decision to deny Adolf Hitler credit for the annihilation of the Jews in a speech he gave at the World Zionist Congress in Jerusalem. We should assume that Netanyahu was not surprised at the harsh responses to his attribution of the initiative to kill the Jews to Haj Amin Al-Husseini, the mufti of Jerusalem. He was most likely aware of the fact that he’s rewriting the most terrible chapter in the history of the Jewish people. But Netanyahu isn’t interested in revising history, he’s too busy revising reality.

This was the case when Netanyahu declared on election day that "Arab voters are coming out in droves to the polls,” adding, “Left-wing organizations are busing them out.” While this was a racist lie, it certainly helped the prime minister win re-election. After this lie helped him stay at Balfour Street, Netanyahu invited a group of Arab sycophants and made them a weak apology.

As far as Netanyahu is concerned, the media can bark and howl about the disgusting lie regarding the Final Solution. What does it matter if Husseini suggested to Hitler to burn the Jews, or only to expel them? As always, the next day he’ll publicize a clarification, and his home paper, Israel Hayom, will make him into a victim of the left. The point is that in the process, newspapers will pull out of the archives the photo of a Palestinian leader sitting comfortably beside the hateful Nazi.

Netanyahu doesn’t even bother to hide that the mention of the mufti was meant to hammer another nail in the coffin of the two-state solution. At the foot of the stairs to the plane that would take him to Berlin Oct. 20, Netanyahu admitted that his statement was meant “to show that the forefathers of the Palestinian nation, without a country and without the so-called ‘occupation,’ without land and without settlements, even then aspired to systematic incitement to exterminate the Jews.” There’s no better proof, according to Netanyahu, that “the root of the problem” was and is still “inciting to murder Jews.” From 1941, seven years before the establishment of the Jewish state, Netanyahu skips light-footed to 2015, when the State of Israel has the most powerful military in the Middle East and hundreds of nuclear weapons, according to foreign sources. From the Nazi collaborator, it’s an easy leap to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas — the same Abbas who risked his life by signing the Oslo Accord. Furthermore, Netanyahu took advantage of the special Knesset plenary session in memory of late Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin on Oct. 26 to tell a lie about Abbas, accusing him of ''refusing to give up the dream of returning to Haifa and Jaffa.''