President Idi Amin of Uganda praised Hitler for killing six million Jews in a telegram he sent today to United Nations Secretary General Kurt Waldheim and claimed that Britain should solve the Middle East problem by settling Israelis in Britain and leaving Palestine to the Palestinians. The vitriolic message was handed to Robert Gardiner, executive secretary of the UN Economic Commission for Africa, in Kampala and copies were sent to Premier Golda Meir of Israel and El Fatah leader Yassir Arafat.
Amin, who expelled Israeli diplomats and advisors from Uganda last spring and more recently ousted Asian non-citizens, said the Israelis should be condemned rather than the terrorists who murdered II Israeli athletes in Munich last week. He added, “Germany was the right place where, when Hitler was the Prime Minister and supreme commander he burnt over six million Jews because Hitler and all German people knew that the Israelis are not people who are working in the interests of the people of the world.”
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