Posted on 12/05/2006 1:24:08 AM PST by goldstategop
Iran, which has often proclaimed its intent to carry out a second Holocaust, this time against the Jews concentrated in Israel, will be holding a Holocaust-denial conference on December 11-12.
A certain illogic is evident: if you yourself find Jews so loathsome that you seek to exterminate them, why is it implausible that someone else should have had the same idea and acted on it, especially when so many people including all reputable historians say that is exactly what happened just six decades ago?
The illogic is compounded by the fact that just last August Teheran held an international Holocaust-cartoon contest in which the allegedly fictitious event served as material for the cartoonists’ creations.
Nevertheless, the website of Iran’s Foreign Ministry announces that the conference, to be called “Study of Holocaust: A Global Perspective,” aims to “create opportunities...for a suitable scientific research so the hidden and unhidden angles of this most important political issue of the 20th century become more transparent.” The ministry’s Institute for Political and International Studies is organizing the conference and calling on “researchers” to participate.
Topics will include “anti-Semitism, Nazism and Zionism: collaboration or animosity; the concept of Holocaust and its roots; views of revisionists; denial or admittance of gas chambers” as well as “the laws against those who deny Holocaust and killing of the Palestinians.”
A psychological issue is whether the seekers of a new Holocaust really disbelieve in the old one or just want to divest today’s Jews of the moral, political, and financial power they think the old Holocaust confers on them. On a more emotional level, the Iranian (and other) Holocaust deniers could be motivated by aggression toward the victims of Hitler’s Holocaust, seeking both to “murder” them a second time by denying their deaths while also mocking those deaths in cartoons and the like. This sense of aggression toward long-dead victims would only underline the severity of the hatred toward the still-living, somewhat-militarily-powerful Jews of Israel.
Teheran may now be the epicenter of such attitudes, but they radiate extensively from it to the Arab and Muslim worlds and beyond. In Europe, where Holocaust denial is still mostly considered in poor taste, the impatience with Israel’s continued existence is very much in vogue as seen, for instance, in a recent BBC symposium on whether Israel will continue to exist in fifty years, or in the poll of EU countries three years ago that ranked Israel “the greatest danger to world peace.” In America, prestigious scholars and former top officials push the view that Israel is (with its supporters) the crux of America’s foreign policy problems and the cause of the world jihad movement.
In such a climate, it is no surprise that neither Teheran’s cartoon contest in August nor its upcoming denial convocation have drawn much attention. It also makes sense that the current leading second-Holocaust proponent, Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has not only not been charged or penalized for his repeated calls for politicide and genocide—manifestly illegal under the UN Charter—but was received as an honored guest at the UN itself and the Council on Foreign Relations and granted a chummy Mike Wallace interview by CBS.
After not-quite six decades, the world, apart from still-substantial support in America and a few pockets of it elsewhere, has pretty much had it with the Jewish State and is content to trade or endlessly negotiate with Iran as it quite openly and brazenly pursues that state’s destruction. The depth of such animosity lies beyond psychological conjecture.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus
Fixed it.
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Netanyahu: It's 1938 and Iran is Germany; Ahmadinejad is preparing another Holocaust.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/787766.html
And we will make the right decision and help them, regardless of the day, year or era. To hell with the fascists, socialists, democrats...aw heck...who can tell the difference anyways?
I can understand why the mewling pukes in the US Congress don't want the US to have nuclear bunker busters... because they never saw an enemy they didn't want to surrender to.
But what about Israel? Do they have them? They definitely should. And they should make it clear to a long list of Islamic Dictators that when Israel goes down, they're not only taking Mecca down with them, they're definitely taking the world's supply of Islamic Dictators with them too.
Olmert?
He'll let the country get blown to hell.
They are genocidal racist monsters, and all who appease them are genocidal racists.
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This is long term propaganda. Holocaust revisionism will spread as a result of this in coming years. In particular, it is intended to isolate Israel further internationally to the point where no one will speak in their defense. You'll see the neo-Nazi types quoting these 'experts' and their 'scientific studies' to deny the Holocaust, both in Europe and here in the States.
i don't think Olmert has any backbone,but there are military people in Israel who will probably act if Iran tries to use a WMD-i'm not thinking nuclear bomb right now-more like missiles with nerve gas or biological warheads-the Israelis would probably use nuclear weapons against Iran and possibly Syria,although Damascus is pretty close to Israel-they'd have to consider fallout-a better solution would be for Israel to launch a non-nuclear MOAB type attack on the ruling group in Iran,thereby eliminating the need to incinerate millions of Iranians who probably don't like Ahmedinajad all that much
I've wondered if the Israelis have military coup in them?
Olmert is killing the country.
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