COMMENT Dr Mahathir Mohamad has the dubious distinction of joining Benjamin Netanyahu in presently fraught times in airing shaky theories about causal factors behind not-so-recent and recent history's mass murders.

The Israel Prime Minister told a Zionist conference in Jerusalem on Oct 21 that the longtime mufti of Jerusalem Haj Faisal al-Husseni had urged the Holocaust on Adolf Hitler at a meeting in Berlin in November 1941.