d its racist Nazi essence, he quickly left Israel and returned to Germany in the 1950s. There [in Germany] he wrote a number of important books about the ‘holocaust,’ denying that there had been gas chambers designed for burning the Jews. He said: ‘This is nothing but a great lie, by means of which the extremist Jews wanted to extort Europe – particularly Germany – and to plunder the homelands of others.’ And that is exactly what happened in occupied Palestine.
“Josef Ginzburg was murdered by the Jews when he went to visit his wife’s grave in Munich’s Jewish cemetery, in retaliation for his attempt to expose their falsification.”
Other holocaust deniers get a mention, including of course our very own David Irving.
“No matter what details and proof emphasizing the lie of the burning of the Jews in Nazi crematoria we present, they [the Jews] and the statesmen of Europe who trade in the Holocaust will never believe us. On the contrary – it is almost certain that they will accuse us of antisemitism…
Well he’s not wrong there…
Elsewhere, MEMRI look at a critique of the Arab press by Dr. Mamoun Fandy, columnist and expert on the Arab media, in the London Arabic-language daily Al-Sharq Al-Awsat:
“‘There are no journalists in the Arab world,’ the editor of one of the Arabic papers said to me when I asked him why [his paper] was not covering a particular journalistic story. I heard the exact same complaint from one publisher who said, ‘We have authors, but no journalists.’
“[Judging by] the Arab media coverage of events such as the trial of Saddam and the situation in Iraq in general, this lack of [Arab] journalists is embarrassingly obvious. We know little about Saddam, who ruled Iraq for over 30 years, except for a single hackneyed story about a doorman or greengrocer in Egypt, where Saddam lived in his youth. If only this story was true! This greengrocer has already changed his story more than once.
“It is interesting to know why Arab journalists have not succeeded in conducting hundreds of interviews with people who knew Saddam up close, or with entire families that were victims of the Saddam era. Weren’t some 300,000 Iraqis buried in mass graves? Or is this, too, an American lie? Didn’t [the victims] have families and relatives who can be interviewed, or aren’t their pain and their lives important? […]
“Senior Arab officials do not respect the press as a means for conveying information. The responsibility for [conveying information] lies partly with the journalist and partly with the senior government official. The journalist’s part is that no [Arab] journalist can make the official respect him. An official’s respect for a journalist can come only from the journalist’s respect for his own profession… The journalist can make the official respect him if he is well-versed in the subject about which he is talking – and doesn’t just position the microphone in front of the official and let him say whatever he wants…
“But even our officials behave differently [than officials in the West]. Instead of rebutting the author of an article by [writing another] article, he picks up the telephone and talks to the newspaper’s owner to [have him] silence the author.
“The main [problem] is that we still have no professional journalists. The proof of this is [first], that the [media] coverage of [events in] Iraq to date have given us nothing but many slogans, [and second], that the [Arab] officials do not respect the press.”
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