Iran adopts willful ignorance of history as state policy
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What is really sick about this exercise in willful ignorance is the belief that by ignoring this atrocity they can somehow delegitimize Israel. Israel was not created by the holocaust. While some of the survivors of the holocaust may have settled in Israel, it is a state that was in the process of being formed well before the events in Germany during World War II. Officially, it was Balfour declaration after World War I that set much of the restoration of Israel in motion.
This conference promoting the willful ignorance of history is really about Muslim religious bigotry and an illegitimate attempt to hold onto a conquest of the area over 1400 years ago. Many Muslims have this weird belief that their conquests are eternal and everyone else's are not worth of recognition. This is also a denial of history and reality and it is why they have engaged in numerous futile attempts to destroy Israel.
Germany condemned a planned Iranian conference on the Holocaust and summoned Iran's charge d'affaires to the Foreign Ministry, saying that attempts to question the Nazis' murder of Jews were "shocking and unacceptable."This last statement is preposterous on its face. All one has to do is read history and if that is not enough do a tour of the death camps. Books that are focused on the military history of the war also document the atrocities and what was found by the troops as they liberated these camps. In one instance Gen. Eisenhower made the German citizens come out and bury the dead stacked in one camp so that they could never deny that it occurred.
The conference, scheduled for Sunday and Monday, was organized by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who has called the systematic killing of some 6 million Jews a "myth" and "exaggerated." Some 67 foreign researchers from 30 countries are scheduled to attend the two-day meeting.
"We condemn all past and future attempts of anyone who gives a platform to those who relativize or question the Holocaust," Foreign Ministry spokesman Jens Ploetner said.
The Iranian president has called for Israel to be "wiped off the map," and the Tehran conference appeared to be part of Ahmadinejad's public campaign against the Jewish state.
"The president simply asked whether an event called the Holocaust has actually taken place," Iran's official Islamic Republic News Agency quoted Deputy Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mohammadi as saying. "No rational response was ever given to Ahmadinejad's questions," he added, explaining the rationale for the conference.
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What is really sick about this exercise in willful ignorance is the belief that by ignoring this atrocity they can somehow delegitimize Israel. Israel was not created by the holocaust. While some of the survivors of the holocaust may have settled in Israel, it is a state that was in the process of being formed well before the events in Germany during World War II. Officially, it was Balfour declaration after World War I that set much of the restoration of Israel in motion.
This conference promoting the willful ignorance of history is really about Muslim religious bigotry and an illegitimate attempt to hold onto a conquest of the area over 1400 years ago. Many Muslims have this weird belief that their conquests are eternal and everyone else's are not worth of recognition. This is also a denial of history and reality and it is why they have engaged in numerous futile attempts to destroy Israel.
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