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conference as "acts of madness" and called on Satmar disciples and others to shun those who "give the goahead
for the spilling of Jewish blood".
Many in the ultra-Orthodox world believe Moshe Hirsch, now taking a back seat in the movement, steered
Neturei Karta away from its principles and represents a breakaway sect by drawing it closer to militant Muslim
figures opposed to Israel, like Hamas.
Israel Eichler, a former Israeli lawmaker and well-known Haredi commentator, described their activities as
"anachronistic" and "anarchistic".
"Even the most anti-Zionist rabbis have declared that in facing the outside world we need to show a united
front (with the state of Israel)," he told Reuters.
Yisrael Hirsch is undeterred by those arguments.
"The majority of the Haredi world opposes Zionism in principle," he said. "We are sure one day Israel will
cease to exist just like the Soviet Union did."
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THE MISFITS
Don't dismiss Iran Holocaust conference as harmless fringe elements
By Menachem Z. Rosensaft
Even Borat, the bumblingly anti-Semitic comic movie character, could not have contrived a
more absurd and utterly offensive assemblage: David Duke, erstwhile Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux
Klan, alongside Robert Faurisson, the French pseudo-academic who argues that the Holocaust never
happened, accompanied for dramatic effect by a group of fervently Orthodox Jews whose anti-Zionist
fanaticism motivates them to desecrate the memory of millions of murdered Jews.
Last month, they and other like-minded sociopaths ''debated'' at the Iranian Foreign Ministry in
Tehran whether or not my grandparents and my five-and-a-half-year-old brother were gassed at
Auschwitz. And the sponsors of the ''International Conference on 'Review of the Holocaust: Global
Vision' '' are the very folks James Baker and Lee Hamilton, authors of a recent re-evaluation of U.S.
policy in Iraq, want to enlist to stabilize the Middle East.
Other participants in this perversion included Australian socialite Michele Renouf, who
explained that anti-Semitism is caused by ''the anti-gentile nature of Judaism,'' and Rabbis Moishe
Arye Friedman from Austria and Ahron Cohen from England, who strutted through the conference
halls and gladly posed for the cameras.
Friedman told the press that he believes that only about 1 million Jews perished in the
Holocaust, and Cohen declared that he does not consider Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad,
who sponsored the conference and who has called frequently for the Jewish state to be destroyed, an
anti-Semite.
The Tehran reunion of misfits demonstrates conclusively why the Ahmadinejad government
cannot be allowed anywhere near responsible political endeavors of any kind. If the international
community ostracized South Africa during apartheid and Saddam Hussein's Iraq, it should isolate
present-day Iran in the most remote diplomatic Siberia imaginable.
Ahmadinejad has made it clear that his espousal of Holocaust denial is a pretext for his desire to
destroy the state of Israel. In response, a group of Iranian students showed tremendous moral courage
by publicly demonstrating against their president, burning his picture and protesting the ''shameful
conference'' which, in the words of one student, ''brought to our country Nazis and racists from around
the world.''
In contrast, the reaction of the U.S. government was surprisingly, even shockingly, subdued.
Substantially after Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and British
Prime Minister Tony Blair all sharply condemned the Tehran conference, the White House issued a
statement calling the event an ''affront to the entire civilized world'' and accusing the Iranian regime of
providing ''a platform for hatred.''
President Bush, however, has not personally spoken out on the subject, relegating his
administration's response to an institutional press release. The man who usually never misses an
opportunity to bash one of the charter members of his Axis of Evil seems to have developed laryngitis.
So, apparently, have Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Their
failure to use their bully pulpit on this occasion not only plays into Ahmadinejad's hands but serves to
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