I can't believe someone would deny the very existence of the Holocaust. There is so much evidence supporting this tragic event that you can't ignore it.... yet to denial it speaks much on his part. Bleh. The world needs more lovers, not haters.
Iranian's Holocaust denial advances another agenda Evidence that the Holocaust occurred is overwhelming and incontrovertible. The Nazis kept meticulous records. Films and photographs from the death camps, combined with survivors' testimonials, prove beyond any doubt that Adolf Hitler's Germany exterminated 6 million European Jews during World War II.
So it's tempting to dismiss this week's conference in [SPAN class=yqlink][A class=yqimgins title="Related information on Iran" onclick="activateYQinl(this);return false;" href="vny!://search.news.yahoo.com/search/news/?p=Iran"]
[FONT color=#003399]Iran[/FONT][/A][/SPAN], where "scholars" denied or minimized the Holocaust, as unworthy of rebuttal or of being taken seriously. Certainly, the presence of haters such as former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke told Americans everything they needed to know about the quality of the scholarship and integrity of the participants.
But to ignore the proceedings, sponsored by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, would repeat a tragic mistake. Many in Germany had considered Hitler to be a kook with little support before he came to power.
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[FONT color=#003399]United Nations[/FONT][/A][/SPAN] after WWII. Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki was candid about the motivation: "If the official version of the Holocaust is thrown into doubt, then the identity and nature of Israel will be thrown into doubt," he said.
Ahmadinejad took it a step further in a meeting in his offices Tuesday with participants in the two-day conference. "The Zionist regime will be wiped out soon the same way the Soviet Union was," the official IRNA news agency quoted him as saying, to the approval of his audience.
Is Ahmadinejad questioning the Holocaust for cynical political gain, or is he laying the groundwork to resume Hitler's mission?
That's still not clear. But the thought of nuclear weapons in the hands of a man with so little grasp of reality - or such determination to deny it in a genocidal quest - ought to give pause to nations that have been reluctant to impose sanctions through the U.N. on Iran's nuclear program.
Whatever Ahmadinejad's motives, the White House was correct to call his warped conference "an affront to the entire civilized world." And the response from the civilized world must be clear: Never again.
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