I just want to say that as much as i want to believe this article and as much as i am not a fan of assad, the writer is taking what he said out of context. What assad meant was that killing is killing and it did not matter if it was the holocaust, israel, territories,darfur, it doesnt matter. I thought assad did handle himself well and was explaining that ahmadinjad and the perception in the middle east is this. He did say the holocaust happened, but he said that palestinians have had to suffer because then the Jews got israel and they were pushed off their land. He was saying that he thoguht that the holocaust was politicized. I do not agree with assad with almost everything he said in the interview, but at the same time, i think that this article is not portaying the whole interview and in the accurate.

It's incredible that these people run countries. It is good that they come out and say these things though, because it shows the whole world who we are dealing with. This also makes people choose sides. Are you with the fanatic, brainwashed loonies or against them???

Or a complete fool! Of course "the same thing is happening in 'Palestine'"...even in Israel, evil, blood-thirsty people are trying to systematically wipe out the Jews. Assad -here this very clearly -no one and no culture who has ever tried to destroy us has lived through history, but we have. THink about that.

i hope he keeps talking and keeps making himself look more and more like the terrorist arafat etc.

Why should this Hapsburgian fool have yet another forum for his stupidity? He clearly has very limited knowledge of all things consequential, namely world history. Why is there even a dialogue with this inbred? He and Ahmedinejad are transparently moronic and serve only to remind the world at large that it is possible of the mentally-challenged to obtain power - and that they must be stopped and silenced.

Strange how the "palestinians" seem to be suffering the only genocide in history where their population actually increases. oh, and before assad jumps on the "why are we suffering for europes crimes" bandwagon, maybe he should research the support al husseini gave to hitler during the holocaust, where he asked for hitler to speed up the gassing of jews, and demanded the british restrict fleeing jews from entering the mandate. HE ALSO REQUESTED THAT HITLER BUILD A DEATH CAMP IN THE MIDDLE EAST SO THE MUSLIMS COULD DEAL WITH THEIR "JEWISH PROBLEM". Oh, and lastly the riots in 1929? Instigated by none other than the "palestinian" mufti. don't worry assad, the more muslims deny their role in the genocide against jews, the more people will look into it and discover the truth.

It's true, he didn't live in Europe at that time. Since he in lived Syria during the summer of 1982 and his father was in charge then maybe he could clarify if it was 20,000 or 40,000 civilians that were murdered in the town of Hama in Syria.

However... What he does about it, is another story.

10,000 Jews were punished for not being Muslim. The land and businesses of Gaza's hated infidel Jews were confiscated and given to Muslims. Muslim mobs destroyed Jewish synagogues where G-D was honored and exalted. Jobless and homeless Jewish refugees are forced to pay mortgages on their destroyed homes! This CRUEL and FRIGHTENING IDEOLOGY that PUNISHES PEOPLE for NOT BEING MUSLIM MUST STOP! An Islamic terror state in Israel is the international approval for over 26,000 terror attacks against Israel in the last five years and the maiming and murder of thousands of Jews. Rewarding those from many nations who finance the terrorists, and those who arm and train them. Rewarding Palestinian Authority Minister Mohammed Dahlan who was in charge of coordinating the withdrawal with Israel-terror master who is responsible for the bomb attack on the Israeli school bus in November 2000 in which two school teachers were killed and three children from the Cohen family lost their legs. Rewarding Islamic human bombers for blowing up Jews and destroying the lives of survivors who have nails from the bombs embedded in their bodies. The bombs are filled with metallic objects to maximize the suffering of survivors. Rewarding Palestinian Authority Muslim society who celebrate by the thousands in the streets when innocent Jews are murdered by homicide bombers. Rewarding the Palestinian Authority for teaching through their mosques, media and public education system that murdering Jews is a religious obligation. Rewarding the Palestinian Authority for hailing as heroes the savage murderers of defenseless 8 months pregnant Jewish Gaza mother, Tali Hatuel, and four little daughters in Gush Katif in May 2004. Rewarding the sermon (and many similar) of Oct 13 2000 broadcast from Gaza mosque, Dr. Ahmad Abu Halabiya, on Palestinian Authority TV (transcribed by Memri): "Have no mercy on the Jews, no matter where they are, in any country. Fight them, wherever you are. Wherever you meet them, kill them. Wherever you are, kill those Jews and those Americans who are like them..." Genocide and/or planned genocide breaks international law.

What, does Ben-Horin work for Fox News now?

Definitely this will not improve Assad Junior 's pitiful image among Americans! It shows how "shallow" Dr. Assad's knowledge is. Zionism as a liberation movement started way before Holocaust & it was highly regarded by prominent national figures all over the world including some in the Middle East such as Mustapha Kamel in Egypt in early twenties of last century. Holocaust is a historical fact & Sadat, the former President of Egypt paid his respect to the victims & survivors thirty years ago when he visited Israel! After all, President Assad is harboring terrorist groups & still lives in illusions torturing his own people! That’s why Golan Height’s Druze Arabs rather stay Israelis than Syrians.

As long as the Shoah is used as justification for the found if Israel, it can be expected that the other side will attack it. That's politics. That's one reason we in America -- many of us at leat -- try to avoid mixing religion and politics. if you don't want something to be attacked, you can't drag it into the mud of politics.

I saw the interview with Assad and walked away with an entirely different view than most of the commenters: I was impressed with this man's intellect, his poise, his gentle manners, his ability to reason and to analyze. No, he is not stupid nor is he an idiot. We like to think that of all of our enemies, that they are out of touch with reality or that they dance around at night with fur pelts. The interview displayed a very calm and collected politician who knows how to talk to the media and to manipulate the truth like an artist. In that he was not much different from George Bush, Bill Clinton, Rumsfeld, Kerry, take your pick. The fact that he has an agenda against the Jewish people reminded me a lot of Hitler and I kept thinking that if Hitler were alive and giving the exact same interview to Charlie Rose, he would have sounded similar. As Jews, we have to know our enemies and know how to defeat them -- not simply call them names and make fun of them. Giving them the evil eye will not stop them. So lets take a realistic approach.

I feel so sad for people here. They only say lies about history. Yes, why palestinians should suffer for what happened to the jews. They guy said that the numbers may be exaggerated, so what? People in the World know very well who persecuted Jews. The moron who says that Muslims asked for gas chambers to get rid of their jews is a big big lier.

around the Earth, that the Earth is flat and that the Universe is 6000 years old. He also says that he presides over a flourishing democracy and that he has placed term limits on his presidency and that freedom of the press and freedom of inquiry and freedom of speech will be instituted in Syria. His words and a subway token will get you a ride on the subway.

first of all it is an historical fact the mufty asked to kill more jews....secondly jews got isreal since we were evicted before muslims existed....its actually funny one of the most recent created religions islam 700ad needs to exist by erasing its source ....oh i forgot they think the bible is a lie and we never existed their even though there is more text about isreal and the jews that connect the jews to isreal than muslims to jerusalem which is never mentioned in the koran and furthurmore it was a jealous king of jerusalem that had a dream that tried to make jerusalem holy oh wait i forgot every city is holy according to muslims thus weakening everything they stand for which in reality is intolerance and evil you cannot deny it look at what is happening in afganistan

When can we expect -- Damascus: The Parking Lot?

Mr Assad , You should be the last person to open your mouth to talk about the palestinians or the holcaust ! when you were a little kid your father had the biggest massacar in hamah and allepo against your own people.

Just wondering We know Assad's ideas and Arabs in general in the Middle East on the Holocaust. It doesn't matter what he said this time - since he's as others a brainwashed idiot FrontPage magazine.com :: Hitler’s Heirs in Damascus http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=21610 Grand Mufti Haj Amin al-Husseini While in Baghdad, Syria al-Husseini aided the pro-Nazi revolt of 1941. He then spent the rest of World War II as Hitler's special guest in Berlin, http://www.palestinefacts.org/pf_mandate_grand_mufti.php When Hitler Became Abu Ali As soon as Hitler took power in 1933, telegrams of congratulations were ... of the Pan-Arab socialist Ba'ath party, currently ruling Syria. http://radio.weblogs.com/0109398/stories/2002/06/13/When%20Hitler%20Became.html

The daisy cutters would do just fine may be the IAF needs to make another few low flying passes over his house as before - so his eardrums unplugggggg

Holocost blah blah blah, Jews blah blah blah, Allah blah blah, Palestine blah blah. Broken records are hard to fix.

your own people,comming to take away your power. maybe they don't like the suffering and the shame you bring them.

They say a cobbler is often shoeless. In this case this british educated optician refuses to use his eyesight to read the truth. The hatred for Jews emanated by arabs is palpable, regardless of their standing in society, be they peasant or president. When politicians in Israel will admit the truth and act accordingly the situation will improve for Israelis. You can take a horse to the trough but you can't force it to drink! The same as taking an arab to the peace table. Not in our generation nor in the next will there be true peace between Jews and arabs. Where does that leave Israeli Jews then? The only logical thing is to prevent attacks by stopping our enemies pre-emptively. The Palestinians are now firing longer range rockets and are beginning to cause more serious damage. they should have never been allowed to reach this stage and it is important to reverse this progress. Israel should ignore international pressure. The west will eventually see things for what they are.

http://www.eretzyisroel.org/~jkatz/nazis.html the above link has the official documents of the MUFTI AMIN AL HUSSEINI, LEADER OF THE "PALESTINIAN" MUSLIMS and the requests he made to himmler and other nazis to speed up the extermination of jews. I have videos of him meeting with hitler, and photos that show him touring the deaths camps and assesing his muslim nazi soldiers. AND YES, HE WAS AIMING TO BUILD DEATH CAMPS FOR JEWS IN THE MIDDLE EAST. His aim was to build one preferably in Nablus. Maybe you should research about his muslim troops in Bosnia who murdered 800,000 serbs and nearly 20,000 jews. Maybe you could research the "Freies Arabien" arab nazi soldiers? Or why don't you look up other arab history with nazis? Like the fact that hitler was so loved by muslims that he was given an arabic name "Abu Ali". Muslims who adored him also had a saying, "in heaven allah, on earth hitler". maybe you should research your history a bit more thoroughly next time (and that goes for that pig assad too)

If you are so concerned about Palestians fate,why don't you protect them?Why do you leave them in such an awful situation? Speak is very easy,acts are tougher to practice. Why don't you offer them a shelter? What do you intent with your words? They are empty...at least in what concerns resolving the problem you mention. You are the same people.Bring them near you,protect them,show you are trully brothers.

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