Trackbacked at blonde sagacity:
OK, so I took a few days off from reality. I had a simple medical procedure done Monday, and I’ve been “offline” (both mentally and physically) for the last couple of days while this blog has been running on autopilot.
And I “come back to reality” to discover that, according to quite a number of people around the world, the Holocaust never happened.
Wow. At first I thought I simply had too many narcotics still running through my veins. But, alas, not so, for this is the state of world events today.
- The conference has 67 participants from 30 countries.
- Iran banned any dissenting voices from Holocaust conference by not issuing visas to them.
- Former US Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke attended Iran’s Holocaust conference.
- French writer Georges Thiel, who had been convicted of Holocaust denial (a crime) in France, attended.
- An Israeli Arab lawyer, Khaled Muhammed, was denied permission to attend the conference by Iran after the discovery of his holding Israeli citizenship.
An insane leader, leading a group of insane people, in an insane quest: welcome to modern Islam.
The goal of the conference was to discuss the reality of the Nazis’ extermination of Jews during the World War II. My question is “why?” Why is it so necessary for someone that detests Israel to hold a conference concerning something that happened to the Israelis 60 years ago?
David Duke gave a speech in which he said: “In Europe you can freely question, ridicule and deny Jesus Christ.” “The same is true for the prophet Muhammad, and nothing will happen to you. But offer a single question of the smallest part of the Holocaust and you face prison.” Actually this is not quite true. Sure, people have been mocking Christianity with impunity for generations. But by drawing a few cartoons about Muhammad you get riots and bloodshed across Europe and the Middle East. Just being accused of flushing a copy of the Quran down the toilet (even though the act never actually happened) and you get riots and bloodshed across Europe and the Middle East. Has anyone heard about Salman Rushdie and the accompanying death threats and fatwa by Islamic leader Ruhollah Khomeini (ironically the Big Boss of Iran for many years)? And don’t forget that Islam is the only faith that includes death as the punishment for leaving the faith.
But this conference is not simply to make headlines. Ahmadinejad does not recognize the 1967 borders - or any borders - for a Jewish state. He has said that the Holocaust was a myth and has called for the destruction of the State of Israel. He uses Holocaust denial to eradicate the moral basis for Israel’s existence, and even says so openly. That was the explicit explanation that the Iranian foreign minister gave for why it is necessary to discuss the “myth” of the Holocaust right now. Iran is helping make clear that the “Arab-Israeli conflict” is not about borders, settlements or refugees, but about the radical Islamist refusal to accept the right of a Jewish state to exist in any shape or form. The Iranian conference illustrates the linkage between Holocaust denial and Israel denial. But don’t be too angry at either Ahmadinejad or Iran - they simply have the courage to say and do openly what millions of other Arabs are saying and doing quietly, as well as millions of Europeans and Americans.
In 1922 a policy was ratified by a vote of the League of Nations, which gave the British a mandate over Palestine with the express purpose of creating a “Jewish national home.” The justice of this - decades before the Holocaust - became more obvious as the world came to recognize more than a dozen new Arab states at about the same time it accepted one Jewish state, Israel. While most of the new Arab states had no national historical antecedents, the Jewish state, of course, did. The capital of Israel became Jerusalem, the city that King David established as his capital some 3,000 years before, where the First and Second Temples had stood for approximately 1,000 years, and toward which Jews had prayed for 2,000 years. The point of Iran’s “study conference” is to argue that Israel is an alien colonial implant. Actually, the Jewish state could not be more indigenous to this area, and its revival represents perhaps the greatest example of restorationist justice in history.
And don’t forget that the League of Nations mentioned above was the precursor to today’s Turtle Bay joke: The United Nations. So what did UN boss Kofi Anan have to say about the conference?
[crickets chirping]
Hmmm, maybe they will issue a couple dozen tersely worded statements that will surely accomplish much. No, wait, this is a conference against Israel - the UN will therefore more likely send Iran another $1 billion in “humanitarian aid” while once again pushing Israel to completely surrender and go away.
In opening remarks, Manouchehr Mottaki said: “If the official version of the Holocaust is thrown into doubt, then the identity and nature of Israel will be thrown into doubt. If… it is proved that the Holocaust was a historical reality, then what is the reason for the Palestinians having to pay the cost of the Nazis’ crimes?”
Wow, what a win-win situation for the Islamists. (1) No Holocaust, then no reason for Israel to exist, or (2) If Holocaust, then OK but ship them out of the Arab area since they don’t belong there.
Let’s turn this around just a bit for all you cross-eyed anti-Israel Liberals here in the US: let’s create a a win-win situation for Americans. (1) No Slavery, then no reason for blacks to exist, or (2) If Slavery , then OK but ship them out of the US since they don’t belong here. See, we can have as much fun as Herr Ahmadinejad.
There are more historical documents describing the Holocaust than there are any existence of Muhammad. Hmmm, maybe Muhammad never really existed either? After all, the true reason the Holy Lands were conquered by Muslims was to liberate them from Scientology’s servants of Xenu, as commanded in the most sacred book of Dianetics, Surah 9:5.
Tony Blair, the prime minister of the United Kingdom, denounced the conference as “shocking beyond belief” Blair also said that is was “a symbol of sectarianism and hatred toward people of another religion. I mean, to go and invite the former head of the Ku Klux Klan to a conference in Tehran which disputes the millions of people who died in the Holocaust … what further evidence do you need that this regime is extreme?”
Extreme? Nah. More like business as usual in the Arab States.
UPDATE: Here’s your Extra Credit Question for the day:
Ahmadinejad said in 2006 that if the holocaust really happened “why don’t you give a piece of Europe, the United States, Canada or Alaska to Israel,” and, “why should the innocent nation of Palestine pay for this crime?”
Uh, maybe because the Jewish people didn’t originate in Europe, the United States, Canada, or Alaska, but instead originated in the very place they’re sitting today?
On November 29, 1947, the General Assembly of the United Nations voted with a 2/3 majority to partition an Arab area into a Jewish and an Arab state. Israel proclaimed itself a nation on May 14, 1948.
The Jews had already begun mass immigration into the Palestine area in the 1880’s in an effort to rid the land of swamps and malaria and prepare for the rebirth of Israel. This Jewish effort to revitalize the land attracted an equally large immigration of Arabs from neighboring areas who were drawn by employment opportunities and healthier living conditions. There was never any attempt to “rid” the area of what few Arabs there or those Arab masses that immigrated into this area along with the Jews.
The use of the term “Palestinian” for an Arab ethnic group is a modern political creation which has no basis in fact - and had never had any international or academic credibility before 1967.
“Palestine” has never been the name of a nation or state. It was a geographical term, used to designate the region at those times in history when there is no nation or state there. In the twelve and a half centuries between the Arab conquest in the seventh century and the beginnings of the Jewish return in the 1880’s, Palestine was barren.
The current claim that Arab-Muslim “Palestinians” are “emotionally tied” to “their own plot of land in Palestine”, based upon a “consistent presence” on “Arab” land for “thousands of years”, is nothing more than myth. So this place that is today so hotly contested was, for centuries, a wasteland with few inhabitants. This area would only become “remarkable” after Jews began settling there - such is the level of hatred that Arabs have for Jews.
Therefore what really is “the innocent nation of Palestine” that Ahmadinejad mentioned?
That’s correct: it’s a political ghost created as a nothing more than a rallying cry among those that want Israel destroyed - no matter whether those people using the word “Palestine” are Arabs, or academics, or journalists, or Americans.
