Giving support to deniers: Ahmadinejad
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Figment of the imagination? Holocaust victims
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The danger of silly lies
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's outbursts would be funny, if they weren't so sad
The screeching, out-of-tune choir of Holocaust deniers recently welcomed a new soloist – Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Lunacy in Tehran
Associated Press
Conference to be held following statements by Iranian President Ahmadinejad calling genocide of six million Jews 'a myth' and threatens to destroy Israel
This unbelievable man has set about inciting the entire world against him and his country because of its nuclear program, has now found a new "interest": Israel and the Jews.
Its hard to believe that any world leader in 2006 would have the gall to spout the type of crap and "evidence" against Israel in particular and the Jewish people in general that we have heard in recent weeks by the lunatic from Tehran.
There is a saying in French: "A giggle doesn't kill." Therefore, we might as well let this crazy man, the object of scorn for his outrageous remarks, carry on freely.
Dangerous joke
But this little joke is dangerous indeed, even very dangerous: Ahmadinejad's addition to the world of Holocaust denial, as well as his intention to hold a "scientific" conference to "research" the Holocaust, breathes life into the Holocaust denial movement worldwide.
For after all the sharp criticisms and rejection by the entire world and open scorn they arouse, now they can speak with more authority.
Now, here comes the lunatic from Tehran, spurring on the same chronic anti-Semites and quasi-"scientists," some of whom claim there was never a systematic slaughter of Jews, and that the gas chambers, if they existed at all, were used only to disinfect people.
Few survivors
How strange: in all the long months I spent in the shadow of the gas chambers and crematoria at Auchwitz, I saw with my own eyes how prisoners were brought alive to the chambers, and later brought as corpses to the crematoria.
All survivors, unfortunately few in number, were witness to similar scenes, not only in Auschwitz, but in Treblinka and Maidanek.
There were even fewer survivors from Sobibor, those weren't insects the Germans and Ukranians shot at Chelmno and Belzek, and it wasn't the fleas who were murdered at Babi Yar.
Preserving the memory
Film producer Steven Spielberg did a tremendous service to future generations by establishing his project to perpetuate the memories of Holocaust survivors on video, so that even when they die we will continue to have first-person testimony to a time when the Germans and their helpers from other nations murdered millions of European Jews.
Fighting words
Yitzhak Benhorin
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who recently called for Israel to be 'wiped off map,' expresses doubt that Holocaust occurs, says Europeans should give Zionists some of their provinces in Europe; PM's spokesman: Just to remind Mr. Ahmadinejad, we've been here long before his ancestors
Other deniers have done "calculations" and say the gas chambers and crematoria could not have "processed" so many Jews. That would suggest a far lower number of victims.
Even if we accept this terrible lie, even the slaughter of "only" 4-or-5 million Jews should not be happily accepted, except by those with a fanatical hatred of Jews and no moral compass to speak of.
Now, here comes the president of Iran to lend support to just these individuals by proposing a "scientific committee" of Holocaust deniers.
The conference is almost certain to happen in Tehran. It is hard to imagine any other country would agree to host such a conference.
Several dozen lunatics will travel to the enlightened capital of this enlightened country, as guests of the enlightened ruler, in order to "prove" that the Holocaust never happened.
If it wasn't so sad, it could even be funny.
