Iran's
Foreign Ministry recently sponsored a two-day
conference in Tehran to examine whether the Holocaust
actually happened.
The catalyst for this despicable conference is
undoubtedly the fact that the Iranian President,
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has repeatedly downplayed
the extent of the Holocaust, describing it as
a myth used to justify the existence of Israel
and oppression of the Palestinians.
It is thought he may have addressed the conference
via video link, which if true I find both heartbreaking
and extremely dangerous. For what the Iranian
organizers of the conference are doing is playing
into the hands of the world's Zionists, in that
they are equating Israel with the Jewish race
as a whole, which is exactly what the Zionists
have always attempted to do. Whereas in reality
millions of Jews, both around the world and within
Israel, oppose the violence perpetrated by that
State against the Palestinian people.
It
should also not be overlooked that a majority
of the world's Jews are not citizens of the state
of Israel and the overwhelming majority of the
Jewish victims of the Holocaust were not Zionists,
but ordinary citizens of a host of European Nations
— not least Germany itself.
That
the Israeli State treats the Palestinian people
in the most disgraceful manner has nothing directly
to do with the Holocaust, nor is this mistreatment
the responsibility of the Jewish people en-mass,
although due to their own horrendous treatment
during the Nazi Holocaust, there is a responsibility
for the Jewish people to argue against the occupation
of the West Bank and the Israel incursions into
the Gaza Strip and the brutality that accompanies
it.
One only has to read the statement by President
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on this conference and on
the Holocaust in general to understand that arrogance
and ignorance is a dangerous combination. What
he is doing here is an abuse of power, and an
insult to the Iranian people, who have a proud
record of struggle against satraps and invaders.
Plus, President Ahmadinejad's words are also a
rejection of and a provocation against those peace
loving people around the world who have argued
so vigorously against US President G. W. Bush's
saber rattling against the Iranian people. By
inviting some of the most despicable bigots on
earth to his country to participate in this cesspit
of a conference, he has shamed himself and embarrassed
his nation in the eyes of the world's people.
President
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has either completely misunderstood
or distorted the reasons why many European nations
have made it illegal to deny the Holocaust took
place. In the main these laws were placed on the
statute book because the Nazi Holocaust is one
of the most thoroughly documented acts of mass
murder the world has ever seen. Thus, many of
the nations of Europe, have no wish to rub salt
into the open wounds of the survivors of the Holocaust,
nor that of the families of the Nazis victims
whose loved ones were murdered in the death camps.
The whole point about Holocaust deniers is they
claim that this mass murder did not take place.
Then when it is demanded of them to prove this,
they fail to provide any real details about what
they claim happened to Europe's Jews, Gypsies,
(and gays, disabled, people with mental illnesses,
etc.). They simply say daft things like where
were six million bodies buried.
Thankfully
we have the meticulous records kept by the Hitlerite
State to understand, for example, what happened
to the millions of Jewish dead bodies. In the
early part of WW2 they were buried in pits under
lime. In the death camps they were cremated. We
have the contracts the companies signed to build
the crematoria, the contracts they signed to provide
the gas, the drawings that the architects drew
when they designed the camps. Some of the camps
are still standing, and we have tens of thousands
of statements from survivors, their tormenters,
their murderers, and the German bureaucrats who
administered the whole system. As important, we
have paperwork from the European railway system,
for the railway companies invoiced the German
State for every Jew who they transported on their
way to the work and death camps. We also have
signed statements from train drivers and their
firemen, station-masters, routers, etc. There
are also statements from the Poles and other nationalities
who lived near some of the camps, the local business
people who supplied the camp guards with food,
beer, and other little niceties to make their
day go just that bit faster.
We
have the invoices for the medicines that were
used in experiments on helpless Jewish women and
children. Plus statements from 'prisoner' doctors,
nurses and orderlies who were forced to participate
in this medical monstrosity and thankful we have
living testament from people whom these outrages
were perpetrated against and survived by the grace
of God. We also have the results from the German
doctors/scientists who took part in these 'experiments'
and published their findings in medical and scientific
journals about how long it took Russian prisoners
of war and Jewish concentration camp inmates to
die after being ducked continuously in freezing
water and countless other horrific medical experiments.
Oh,
and we have the government censuses that were
taken pre-WW2 by governments in nations as far
apart as Holland and the Baltic States, all of
which were found to contain very few Jews when
the first post war censuses came to be taken.
Finally
we have the testimony from families in the UK,
Ireland and elsewhere, who up until 1939 had relations
throughout Europe with whom they kept in touch.
Yet who found by 1945 there was not a trace of
their relations, bar the odd survivor that is,
who was able to tell them what happened to their
favorite aunt, uncle, etc., or their little nieces
and nephews.
And
this testimony, along with the above from countless
ordinary people, is what the Holocaust deniers
can never reach beyond. For although we are all
suspicious of governments these days, few of us
would believe millions of people would tell such
wicked tales for no justifiable reason, let alone
members of our own families.
