Posted on 12/16/2006 1:42:21 AM PST by Zakeet
"Not acceptable," says Ban Ki Moon, new Secretary-General of the United Nations. "Repulsive," say the editors of Britain's Guardian newspaper. "An insult . . . to the memory of millions of Jews," says Hillary Rodham Clinton. Global polite society is in an uproar over the Holocaust conference organized this week in Tehran under the auspices of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Moral denunciation is what reasonable people do--what they must do--when a regime that avows the future extermination of six million Jews in Israel denies the past extermination of six million Jews in Europe. But let's be frank: Global polite society has been blazing its own merry trail toward this occasion for decades.
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The scholar Gregory Stanton has observed that genocides happen in eight stages, beginning with classification, symbolization and dehumanization, and ending in extermination and denial. What has happened in Tehran--denial--may seem to have turned that order on its head. It hasn't. The road to Tehran is a well-traveled one, and among those who denounce it now are some who have already walked some part of it.
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This Oped is highly recommended to anybody interested in the topic.
"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
It should be called Iran's pro genocide conference.
But somehow the Deat to Israel, Death to America chants seem to warm her heart.
The active nuclear weapons program with the stated goal of obliterating Israel is just the Is-slimeic way of saying hello.
But let the public record show, she is against their denial of the German atrocities. Just not any future ones.
>""An insult . . . to the memory of millions of Jews," says Hillary Rodham Clinton."
Yet this wasn't? Hillary Rodham Clinton to WH staff: "You Jew B@stard!"
sic!
The Left and the Islamofacists are together, united, in a global orgy of anti-Western and antisemitic carnal love. The orgy-room is so free-wheeling that cadavers are now welcome, hence Baker, Hamilton and Carter, stripping down, greasing up and piling on.
You know what? Ahmedinejad doesn't give a fart in hurricane what anybody says about his pronouncements. He's daring us to shut him up, and until we do, he will just keep poking us with that pointy stick he's gotten hold of.
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