Hint: A few years before the election, the same people turned Mein Kampf into a national best-seller.
Additional hint: After the election of Hitler, many people in the West hoped that Hitler’s party, faced with the responsibility of governing, would moderate itself, and turn away from its promise to make everyone, particularly Jews, submit to its totalitarian ideology. These same people hope that although Hitler’s party is explicitly founded on the promise of total war until total victory, the party in power will recognize the rights of its enemies to peaceful co-existence and to control of areas which Hitler’s party claims as its national birthright.
Extra hint: many of the apologists for Hitler’s party blame the rise of the party on the provocations of Jews.
Answer: Greg Myre’s International Herald Tribune article on Hitler is here.
UPDATE: Some people were having trouble opening the link. The person in question is Jamal Abu Roub, who goes by the nickname “Hitler.” He was recently elected to the Palestinian parliament on the Fatah slate. He is part of the explicitly terrorist Al Aksa Martyrs brigade, which, unlike some other Fatah components, does not attempt to disguise its terrorist nature. Fatah (a renamed version of the terrorist Palestine Liberation Organization) has been governing, more or less, the so-called Palestinian territories as a result of the failed Oslo peace agreement, and has proven that being given the authority to govern does not necessarily reduce an organization’s terrorist inclinations. I had mistakenly thought that Hitler was part of Hamas. In any case, Fatah’s record provides one more reason to be skeptical that terrorist Palestinians will stop being terrorists once they achieve political power.
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