Resolved: Six Million Perished
That an imperishable truth of history is still being contested by historical revisionists, Jew-haters and rabid Islamists is a sad and sorry fact. There will always be special-interest groups and individuals with a huge hate on for the place of Jews on this earth - to spew their hate and sow the seeds of doubt. That a country seeks to isolate itself before other countries of the world by attempting to bring into doubt an irreversible fact of history speaks more for the overall agenda of that country than its selective use of history as a tool to erode the memory of an unspeakable lapse of humanity.It's questionable what is more worrying; that one country in opposition to another will seek to sully the sacred memory of one of its' peoples most dread experiences, or that the country links the deaths of millions of souls to the perceived illegitimacy of the other country's existence. By any standards it's hard to believe that the human mind could conceive of any nasty devices more guaranteed to elicit almost universal opprobrium upon itself. Yet as great in number are those who decry the lengths to which Iran will go in its wretched attempts to discredit history and defy world opinion it also has its supporters.
While disdain and disgust is expressed by countless world leaders representing their countries' position with respect to honouring the memory of six million dead Jews representing a holocaust of unprecedented intent and proportions, only one country has stepped forward to challenge Iran within the world court of the United Nations. Iran's much-publicized Holocaust-denial conference has finally occasioned a proposal brought forward in draft form by the United States to urge all member states to "reject any denial of the Holocaust" on the grounds that "ignoring the historical fact of these terrible events increases the risk they will be repeated."
Which is exactly the point, it would seem. In going to these great lengths to hold the occurrence of the Holocaust up to ridicule and derision through the medium of scurillous cartoons and the conference held in Tehran attended by neo-Nazis, professional anti-Semites and pseudo-historians, Iran's Ahmedinejad seeks to pave the way for an onslaught on the State of Israel itself, completing the "final solution" hate-driven Nazis began. For in terming the Holocaust a "myth" and boasting it is his intention to deal with Israel by "wiping it off the map", Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has placed the world on notice.
Its now-established nuclear programme is the kind of reality that brings unspeakable nightmares to all responsible world leaders, having also the additional short-range effect of making its Arab-country neighbours exceedingly nervous. If its fellow Muslim leaders feel threatened as they do, how must the small country against which it has launched its hate propaganda feel?
To be deemed to have insulted Allah or his Prophet Mohammad whether innocently or not is considered so unforgivable as to target the perceived transgressors to death. To confront world opinion and the reality of history by denying the existence of an historical event that virtually eliminated an entire people is a matter of little moment.
Even Iran's supporters like Venezuela and Syria and Cuba should feel ashamed of their association of convenience.
Labels: Realities
posted by Pieface @ Tuesday, January 23, 2007
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