Posted on 02/10/2007 4:19:29 PM PST by Kid Shelleen
On December 12, 2006, Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad personally brought to a close the infamous Holocaust deniers' conference in Tehran. A strange parade of speakers had passed across the podium: former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke, the nutty followers of the anti-Zionist Jewish sect Neturei Karta, and officials of the neo-Nazi German National party, along with the familiar handful of professional Holocaust deniers. Frederick Töben had delivered a lecture entitled "The Holocaust--A Murder Weapon." Frenchman Robert Faurisson had called the Holocaust a "fairy tale," while his American colleague Veronica Clark had explained that "the Jews made money in Auschwitz." A professor named McNally had declared that to regard the Holocaust as a fact is as ludicrous as believing in "magicians and witches." Finally, the Belgian Leonardo Clerici had offered the following explanation in his capacity as a Muslim: "I believe that the value of metaphysics is greater than the value of history." --snip-- The purpose of denying, among all the Nazis' war measures, specifically the persecution of the Jews is to undermine a central motive for the establishment of the state of Israel
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"Satan And His Dupes Hate The Jews - But God Will Win Anyway."
Interesting thing is the Israelis were selling upwards of 500 million dollars worth of arms a year to the Khomeini regime in the 1980s during the Iran-Iraq War.
Because it would prolong the war, thereby taking the attention of both nations away from Israel, and because Iraq was (and still is) in a technical state of war with Israel, as it was since 1948. Also, Hussein was viewed as a huge threat (remember that Israel destroyed Iraq's Osirak nuclear reactor in 1981), and anything that could sap his resources was viewed as a good thing.
In short, it was a strategy of "screw today's enemy as badly as you can, and worry about tomorrow's enemy tomorrow."
This is the guy who always dressed up as Haman at the Purim parties.
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