More Holocaust discussion, from MEMRI, on Iranian TV. Iqbal Siddiqui, editor-in-chief of Crescent International, London, comes across in the circumstances as a moderate:
“I think it’s very important to recognize the political uses to which the Holocaust has been put by the Zionist movement since the Second World War. It is undoubtedly true that the Jews suffered very greatly under Adolph Hitler. There was genocide of Jews along with the genocide of gypsies and other crimes committed by Hitler.
“That was the culmination of centuries of European anti-Semitism – a long tradition of anti-Jewish sentiment in Europe in particular, but in the West in general. But whatever the Jews suffered at the hands of the Nazis – it does not and cannot justify what the Jews have done in Palestine, what the Jews have done in other parts of the world, and, basically, the attitude of the Jews and the Zionists that as a result of the suffering in Europe under Hitler, for the rest of history, the rest of the world owes them a living, and that they must be treated now as a special people, the chosen people, who are entitled to do whatever they like.
“This is the image of the Jewish people that is being promoted, and the Holocaust – the supposed Holocaust – is being constantly used and mythologized, in order to serve this political agenda, which ultimately means, of course, the interests of the State of Israel.” […]
“What happened to the Jews was a matter of immense evil, whether six million died, or five million, or four million, or three million. What is the issue is not the numbers. It is the use to which these events have subsequently been put, by Jewish and Zionist leaders, to justify acts of equal and equivalent evil on their part against the Palestinians.”
Norman Finkelstein couldn’t have put it better.
Political analyst Dr. Majid Goudarzi’s take is more in line with the thinking of president Ahmadinejad:
“A country like Israel… Its flag has two colors: blue and white. The upper stripe represents the Nile, and the bottom stripe the Euphrates. It says that its reign stretches from the Nile to the Euphrates. It puts the Star of David in the middle, and demonstrates its aggressive character daily, by raising this flag. I hope that one day humanity will reach the conclusion that the only solution for this cancerous tumor is surgery.”
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