It would be unfortunate if the furor over Mr. Netanyahu’s remarks, which he has subsequently clarified, caused us to minimize the participation of the leader of the Palestinian Arabs at the time, Haj Amin al-Husseini, in the Holocaust.Whether he or not he influenced Hitler, al-Husseini supported the extermination of Jews in Palestine in word and deed well before the war.While Ms. Rudoren notes that “the mufti’s promotion of genocide over mass deportation of Europe’s Jews was discussed in the Nuremberg war crimes trials,” she quickly diminishes this fact with “but he was never prosecuted.”However, the mufti was arrested for war crimes by the Allies, but escaped while under French custody.Finally, as noted in the final sentence of Ms. Rodoren’s article, the mufti vigorously encouraged the Nazis to extend the Holocaust to Palestine.