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Hamas TV says Holocaust was Jews' idea

A TV station run by the Palestinian militant group Hamas aired a program saying Jews organized the Holocaust to get rid of the weak, a media watch group said.

The Al-Aqsa TV program features recordings from the World War II Nazi Genocide in conjunction with images of former Israeli prime ministers David Ben Gurion and Golda Meir, Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported in its Friday edition.

The newspaper reported the program alleges Gurion and "the Satanic Jews thought up an evil plot to be rid of the burden of disabled and handicapped in twisted criminal ways."

Read entire article at UPI