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——————————————————————> Conseils de révisions / <strong>hiver</strong> winter 2007<br />
of our lexicon," Gisser said.<br />
"I'm angry more at his lack of understanding of the true values of Judaism."<br />
Fox News Dec. 26, 2006<br />
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,238862,00.html<br />
A FEW DECIBELS HIGHER<br />
“Never Again” — and Meaning It<br />
Holocaust denial goes beyond “dangerous.”<br />
By Kathryn Jean Lopez<br />
A recent Los Angeles Times editorial headline was dangerously understated. It read: “Holocaust denial can<br />
be dangerous.” How about the “Holocaust denial is dangerous”<br />
Paulo Casaca, a member of the European parliament, recognizes the severity of Holocaust denial. As the<br />
conference in Tehran closed, he wrote to the Parliament’s secretary-general: “It was with much disgust that I<br />
received reports on the Neo-Nazi Summit held in Tehran ...” He continued, “As you are aware, the Iranian regime<br />
hosted individuals and organizations from 60 countries with the sole purpose of endorsing and reawakening<br />
Nazism, denying the Holocaust and attacking Israel. This outrageous action can not be ignored <strong>by</strong> the European<br />
Union and deserves the most vehement of the protests.”<br />
That’s more like it.<br />
Gabriel Schoenfeld, author of The Return of Anti-Semitism, takes it a few decibels higher. He tells me:<br />
“In 1998, Bill Clinton unleashed a fusillade of cruise missiles to strike an Al Qaeda training camp in<br />
Afghanistan where bin Laden was believed to be present. Bin Laden survived the attack and on Sept. 11, 2001,<br />
the United States and the world paid a stiff price for failing to kill him. If ... at the very moment that<br />
Ahmadinejad was addressing this Holocaust-denial conference in Tehran, the United States or Israel or, better yet,<br />
Germany, had lobbed a cruise missile into the hall, are there any who can doubt that the world would be much<br />
better off”<br />
Is Schoenfeld nuts No. That’s a word that more accurately describes the meeting he was talking about,<br />
which featured people like David Duke, the former Ku Klux Klan “Grand Wizard” who dreams of being president<br />
of the United States, and Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the nuclear-minded lunatic who was holding<br />
the conference in shooting distance of Israel (the country he wants to wipe off the map).<br />
The Holocaust conference — and subsequent David Duke appearances on CNN — came in the wake of the<br />
recent James Baker/Lee Hamilton-chaired Iraq Study Group Report, advising the White House on what to do<br />
about Iraq. Baker, who is not known for his friendliness to Israel, recommends that the United States talk with<br />
Iran and Syria more; he pins blame for the region’s problems on Israel. The report also came shortly after the<br />
release of an Israel-bashing book, “Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid” (Simon & Schuster), <strong>by</strong> former president of<br />
the United States, Jimmy Carter.<br />
Contrary to what Ahmadinejad may assert, the Holocaust did happen, and 6 million Jews were murdered.<br />
And — contrary to what “useful idiot” David Duke announced in Tehran — that gas chambers were never used on<br />
Jews. As crazy as Ahmadinejad & Co.’s contentions are, they do matter. James Robbins, a professor at the<br />
National Defense University in Washington, D.C., recently wrote: “The Lenins, the Maos, the Pol Pots . . . are<br />
no different than the types collected in Tehran. It is a mistake not to take such people seriously, and not to accept<br />
that they believe what they say they believe. The liberal impulse to discount the extremist, to rationalize his<br />
views, to refuse to take his threats literally, especially when he is in power, is itself a form of denial.”<br />
Being hostile to Israel isn’t necessarily a sign of anti-Semitism; but continually blaming Israel first<br />
might very well be. It’s an instinct we see way too much of, and it reinforces true and dangerous anti-Semites.<br />
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