By: The Jerusalem Post
The organizers of a conference that opened yesterday in Teheran to “study” the Holocaust claim that their aim is “neither to deny or prove” that the Holocaust took place. How generous – and true. Indeed, Iranian leaders could care less about parsing European history.
The real purpose of the conference was succinctly expressed by Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki: “If the official version of the Holocaust is thrown into doubt, then the identity and nature of Israel will be thrown into doubt. And if, during this review, it is proved that the Holocaust was a historical reality, then what is the reason for the Muslim people of the region and the Palestinians having to pay the cost of the Nazis’ crimes?”
While Holocaust denial is in most places either illegal or the province of quacks, the claim and belief that the Palestinians are paying the price for Western Holocaust guilt is much more widespread. Though coming from the exact opposite angle, Israel constantly reinforces the linkage between our existence and the Holocaust, in that we inculcate in everyone from foreign leaders to IDF officers the notion that if Israel had existed earlier, the Holocaust would not have happened.
Israel, in other words, often portrays itself as the answer and antidote to the Holocaust.
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