Protocols of the Elders of Mecca

German politicians and pundits have been busy slapping down a noted war criminal for trying to re-write the history of the Holocaust. The prime minister of the Righteous State has preceded a trip to Berlin with a lecture about an alternate history in which Hitler had no thought of gassing the Jews before 1941, when a Palestinian put the idea into his head. It is certainly true that the Nazis considered exiling Europe's Jews, with Madagascar a possible candidate for the resulting influx of migrants; but in the history of the present planet the idea was abandoned on economic and pragmatic grounds, probably without assistance from the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem. Nevertheless, with Victory Fortnight and its Poppy Day orgasm nearly upon us, there can be little doubt that, if he could only find a way of blaming the Palestinians for the Amritsar Massacre or one or two Bloody Sundays, the prime minister of the Righteous State would meet a far more hospitable reception here in the land of Mad Tessie May and the Rothermere Daily Stürmer.