Iran to Certify, or Reject The Fact of The Holocaust

Hey folks,

Good Monday morning to you. This story is just ridiculous if you want my honest opinion. I do not truly believe that this really warrants too much credibility. It appears that Iran will be hosting a two-day conference exploring the validity of the Nazi Holocaust.

So why does this not deserve credibility? Why should we not be happy and proud that they are taking steps to better understand this dark event in history? Because this conference is a farce. I have a theory why they are doing this, I’ll share later. First, according to CNN,

"TEHRAN, Iran (CNN) -- Iran on Monday opened a two-day conference exploring the validity of the Nazi Holocaust, a move that has sparked outrage among Jewish groups.

One such group, the Simon Wiesenthal Center, planned to counter the event with a teleconference showcasing stories from Holocaust survivors.

Manouchehr Mohammadi, Iran's deputy foreign minister for research, told Iran's state-run news agency, IRNA, that Tehran's leaders would accept that the Holocaust occurred if scholars attending the conference could prove that the Nazi regime exterminated 6 million Jews during World War II."

They will accept that it happened if scholars can prove it? I doubt it folks.

""If the Holocaust is a historical event, then is it not warranted to be looked into and researched?" Mohammadi asked rhetorically.

Because of the negative reactions to the nature of the conference, Iran has not announced the names of the participants, but said it would include Jewish scholars and rabbis, IRNA reported.

No one from Israel will attend the conference, which began at 9:30 a.m. (1 a.m. ET), Mohammadi said.

The Simon Wiesenthal Center announced on its Web site that it would convene a videoconference of 70 Holocaust survivors whose personal accounts are intended to counter the Tehran conference.

The center said the conference will be attended by "close to 70 Holocaust revisionists and deniers.""

So it’s going on right now as we speak. But read that last paragraph again.

"The center said the conference will be attended by "close to 70 Holocaust revisionists and deniers.""

Then, just incase you may have forgotten, or just didn’t know, CNN reminded us of an article they printed back on Wednesday, December 14, 2005; Posted: 7:30 p.m. EST (00:30 GMT)

Here are some of the highlights

"TEHRAN, Iran (CNN) -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has described the Holocaust as "a myth" and suggested that Israel be moved to Europe, the United States, Canada or Alaska."

Break,

"Ahmadinejad sparked widespread international condemnation in October when he called for Israel to be "wiped off the map."

Last week, he also expressed doubt about the killing by the Nazis of six million Jews during World War II, but Wednesday was the first occasion when he said in public that the Holocaust was a myth.

"They have invented a myth that Jews were massacred and place this above God, religions and the prophets," Ahmadinejad said in a speech to thousands of people in the Iranian city of Zahedan, according to a report on Wednesday from Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting."

STOP! He said, "They have invented a myth that Jews were massacred,"

""The West has given more significance to the myth of the genocide of the Jews, even more significant than God, religion, and the prophets," he said. "(It) deals very severely with those who deny this myth but does not do anything to those who deny God, religion, and the prophet."

"If you have burned the Jews, why don't you give a piece of Europe, the United States, Canada or Alaska to Israel," Ahmadinejad said.

"Our question is, if you have committed this huge crime, why should the innocent nation of Palestine pay for this crime?"

Mark Regev, spokesman for Israel's Foreign Ministry, said: "The combination of a regime with a radical agenda, together with a distorted sense of reality that is clearly indicated by the statements we heard today, put together with nuclear weapons -- I think that's a dangerous combination that no one in the international community can accept."

"What the Iranian president has shown us today is that he is clearly outside the international consensus, he is clearly outside international norms and international legitimacy, and in so doing he has shown the Iranian government for what it is -- a rogue regime opposed to peace and stability and a threat to all its neighboring countries," Regev said."

It goes on to talk about their nuclear program.

It’s simple folks. He denied it then. They will deny it again AFTER the conference. They have the SAME goal! THEY want Israel, hold on a second, translation time, THEY WANT JEWS DEAD, wiped of the face of the map. Someone said to me they other day, you can be anti-Israel, and not anti-Jew. No you can’t. Israel is Jew. Plain and simple. So they are now holding this conference?

You know folks, the more I think about this, the more it reminds me of something else. Let’s see, they do not believe it. They want mass consensus that they were trying to understand. They will "find" what they already believe and put it in writing announcing that this is now fact. Sound familiar? Hey, maybe they took the play out of the LWL hand book.
Peter

Sources;
CNN-"Iran hosts Holocaust conference"
CNN-"Iranian leader: Holocaust a 'myth'"