Ahmadinejad Denies The Holocaust (Part Twenty-Three)
In the odd, depressing world of Holocaust denial, there exists a substratum of people who deny the Holocaust while denying they denied it, and there are even those apologists who deny the denials of the deniers.
Lest there be any doubt where the Iranian president stands, and for the benefit of those who still claim that he doesn’t belong in the denial camp, there is even more confirmation in a just-revealed letter to the German Chancellor:
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has told German Chancellor Angela Merkel that the Holocaust may have been invented by the victorious Allied powers in World War II to embarrass Germany.
The remarks by the outspoken Iranian president, who has repeatedly questioned the veracity of the Holocaust, came in a letter sent to Merkel in July whose contents have not been disclosed until now, according to the news agency Mehr as reported by AFP.
“Is it not a reasonable possibility that some countries that had won the war made up this excuse to constantly embarrass the defeated people … to bar their progress,” Ahmadinejad said in the letter.
“The question is if these countries, especially Britain, felt responsible for the Holocaust survivors, why they did not settle them in their own countries?” it said.
It is not the first time Ahmadinejad has voiced doubt about the mass slaughter of six million Jews under Nazi Germany, previously describing the Holocaust as a “myth” used to justify the creation of Israel.
“By promoting the necessity of settlement of Holocaust survivors in the occupied Palestine, they have created a constant threat in the Middle East,” he said, referring to Israel.
Merkel on July 21 indicated that she would not formally respond to the letter, saying it contained “totally unacceptable” criticism of Israel and “constantly put in question” the Jewish state’s right to exist.
I’m tired of hearing excuses: the Iranian president is an anti-Semite, and a Holocaust denier. It is not even reasonable to reach any other conclusion; to argue the point at all cheapens the very language…
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