Tibi: Holocaust denial immoral
Arab MK criticizes Iranian president's remarks, says Palestinians have greatest interest to condemn Shoah 'since they were its second victim'
The article, published by the independent Israeli news website "al-Arabiya," is also expected to be published in a series of Arab newspapers Thursday.
Under the title "The victim's victim," MK Tibi went on to say that "the Nazi enemy lost its humanity through a series of various racist acts against the Jews and others by treating them out of superiority and viewing them as inferior people who do not reach the status of the Aryan race."
"We cannot remain neutral regarding these crimes and the situation in which man lost all its values and humanity and hurt any person and group due to their racial, religious or national affiliation."
According to Tibi, "we don’t stand by idly when the Zionist movement uses the Holocaust to make up moral-like explanations for what happened with us and among us since 1948 until today. However, we must stop when some are carried away into the game of improvers and Holocaust denial, on the one hand, or regarding the Arabs' absence from the memory of the Holocaust, on the other hand, when they try to escape from the world's moral responsibility for what happened."
"We ask what is the interest of some people to deny the numbers and say that the number is not six million? If it were a million, would the moral stance change? Are there those who cannot bear the number six million but can deal with 100,000? Can we accept the idea of manslaughter only because he it was a Jew or a Slav?" Tibi asked.
'Denial an immoral act'
"We mustn't deny the fact that the Jews were victims of the Nazis. Denial is an immoral act. We need to understand the other and its distress, and recognize its sacrifice. This is how we, the victims of victims, become more moral, by telling the entire world we stand by those whom the Arian enemy led to the incinerators and deprived of their dignity," Tibi added.
He went on to say that "the world established Israel based on the Partition Plan for colonialist-political reasons and not because of global-moral reasons or the Western world's conscience. We mustn't link between the Zionist plan and the Holocaust. In light of all this, the Palestinians have the greatest interest for opposing Holocaust denial and these crimes, because they were its second victim."
"We have to tell the world from this moral position that its must cease from setting a double moral and political standard. The victim's victim is the first to identify with the cries of the women, the children and the elderly who marched behind barb wire fences. Their cries must be answered by the cries of the Palestinian women and old people that die each day for freedom and life," Tibi concluded.
