On April 20, President Ahmadinejad addressed the world from Geneva, not
quite saying that the Jewish catastrophe during the Nazi was exactly an
invention. But he came perilously close. Ban Ki-moon is
taking credit for this specific omission. Still, the speech was an
outrage. And, as you all know, it provoked a walk-out of all
European delegations from the racism conference. Well, what about
countries who want to be admitted to the European Union? Turkey
remained in the hall, thank you, in an act of solidarity with the Muslim
countries which don't break ranks when they are in a Western
environment.
On the morrow, an official Iranian web-site took up all of
the cudgels, including an attack on Theodor Herzl for exploiting the
Holocaust even though he died 35 years before it began. Another
vicious insinuation is that Auschwitz never existed since no one has ever
met a survivor from Aushchwitz. There are some camps with left
almost no survivors, like Sobibor. But Auschwitz was lucky--if luck
is the right word--because of resistance within and the arrival in time
of the Allied armies.
Read this nightmarish prose, transmitted by MEMRI and
written by some Iranian idiot for his government and his people. And, since I suspect that Roger Cohen looks in on this space, who don't
you, Roger, read it, too? It probably will give you comfort.