By: Caroline Glick – THE JERUSALEM POST
There is something terribly confusing about Iran’s penchant for denying the Holocaust. Given Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s stated desire to see Israel wiped off the map, it would seem more reasonable for Iran to be celebrating the Holocaust than denying it.
But Ahmadinejad is slicker than that. He embraces not the Holocaust but the nation that pulled it off. In his August missive to German Chancellor Angela Merkel, he referred to the German nation as ‘a great contributor to progress in science, philosophy, literature, the arts and politics’ who have had a ‘positive influence in international relations and the promotion of peace.’ These lines of course are open to interpretation. He could be referring to Goethe and Schiller and he could be referring to Heidegger and Goebbels.
So why is the guy who is gunning for a new Holocaust belittling the last one?
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