Ahmadinejad exposes willful ignorance of history, again
BBC:
What this position also overlooks is that Israel would have legitimacy even without the holocaust. It has historical roots to the land that go back much further than those who now call themselves Palestinians. It was not by accident that Herod was called King of the Jews and not King of the Palestinians at the time of Christ's birth.
Clearly Ahmadinejad wants the history of the Nazi attempt to exterminate the Jews to be a myth, because the facts are inconvenient for his theory of the legitimacy of the State of Israel.Thousands of opposition supporters have clashed with security forces during a government-sponsored rally in Tehran.
Iran's reformists had been warned not to try to turn the pro-Palestinian Quds (Jerusalem) Day marches into anti-government protests.
Reports say opposition leaders Mir-Hossein Mousavi and former President Mohammad Khatami were attacked.
The opposition has been banned from holding rallies since the disputed presidential election in June.
As part of the Quds Day events, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad delivered a speech in which he repeated his view that the Nazi Holocaust was a myth.
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What this position also overlooks is that Israel would have legitimacy even without the holocaust. It has historical roots to the land that go back much further than those who now call themselves Palestinians. It was not by accident that Herod was called King of the Jews and not King of the Palestinians at the time of Christ's birth.
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