ZGram - 8/30/2002 - "Arab League Seminar Denies Severity of Holocaust"

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ZGram - Where Truth is Destiny

August 30, 2002

Good Morning from the Zundelsite:

This is a new, totally unexpected and very welcome piece of news for 
the Revisionist community.  I remember Ernst telling me that years - 
maybe decades - ago Dr. Faurisson predicted that a watershed event it 
would be when states, not just individuals, would take up the 
Holocaust issue for the hoax that it is and deal with it from the 
perspective of state policy. 

Well, it seems to have happened - and our sweet "Mackenzie Paine", 
who did her share, and more, in making it happen by firing away her 
Truth-Seeking Missiles, telling the Arabs about the major weapon, the 
Holocaust Lie, employed by "the Bully" - is probably smiling at us 
from the beyond. 

Below is a CNSNews release by Julie Stahl, dated yesterday, followed 
by Zundelsite comments:

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Arab League Seminar Denies Severity of Holocaust -- 08/29/2002

Arab League Seminar Denies Severity of Holocaust
By Julie Stahl
CNSNews.com Jerusalem Bureau Chief
August 29, 2002

Jerusalem (CNSNews.com) - Israel and Jewish groups expressed their 
outrage on Thursday at a seminar held in United Arab Emirates in 
which Arab scholars and others gathered to refute the severity of the 
Holocaust.

The one-day seminar in Abu Dhabi on Wednesday on "Semitism" was 
sponsored by the Zayed Center for Coordination and Follow-up, which 
belongs to the 22-member nation Arab League.

According to the ZCCF's website, the symposium was held "to counter 
the historical and political fallacies propagated by Israel... Israel 
has indulged in spreading lies and exaggerations about Holocaust in 
order to squeeze out huge sums of money from European countries 
through worst forms of blackmail and to create false legends in 
support of ... establishing a national home for the Jewish people in 
Palestine."

"Absolutely outrageous," Dr. Efraim Zuroff, director of the Simon 
Weisenthal Center in Jerusalem said of the seminar. "It's a 
reflection of the problems Israel has in forming peaceful relations 
with its neighbors."

Zuroff said that in the past Arabs did not engage as much in 
Holocaust denial but the situation is getting worse.

"It's a very bad development and a sign they're headed in the wrong 
direction," Zuroff said.

"It is outrageous that an official think-tank of the Arab League has 
convened a symposium that labels the Holocaust a 'false fable' 
perpetuated by Israel," said Abraham H. Foxman, National Director of 
the Anti-Defamation League.

"The growing use of Holocaust denial has become increasingly common 
in the Arab world as a weapon to attack Israel and the Jewish 
people," Foxman said in a statement.

"Now, with an official think-tank of Arab nations giving Holocaust 
denial a platform under the guise of legitimate policy research, this 
dangerous and insidious form of anti-Semitism has gained further 
acceptance," Foxman added.

"It is unfortunate that leaders of the Arab League have taken up 
Holocaust denial in an official forum in an underhanded and 
vindictive attempt to de-legitimize Jews and Israel," he said.

Foxman warned world leaders to beware of participating in events 
sponsored by the Zayed Center in the future. Previous speakers there 
have included former President Jimmy Carter, former Vice President Al 
Gore and former Secretary of State James Baker.

Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes Remembrance Authority 
in Jerusalem, also condemned the symposium and vowed to continue 
fighting the Holocaust denial phenomenon through education.

"Yad Vashem continues to strengthen bodies fighting anti-Semitism by 
providing accurate Holocaust materials and promoting current 
research," said Chairman of the Directorate of Yad Vashem, Avner 
Shalev.

"In addition, we provide educational tools and explanatory activities 
aimed at better educating the public and combating such obvious 
fabrications," Shalev said in a statement.

Israel declined to formally respond to the symposium but an Israeli 
diplomatic source said Israel was "concerned and very worried" about 
the denial of the Holocaust.

"We're very worried about the education of the next generation," said 
the source, who asked not to be named.

She said that the phenomenon is connected to two things: growing 
anti-Semitism throughout the Arab world and ignorance and lack of 
information about the history of the Jewish people and the State of 
Israel.

At the seminar, Ahmed Salim Jarad, representative for Arab League 
Secretary General Amr Moussa challenged the use of the term 
"anti-Semitism" to describe hostility toward Jews since Arabs are 
also Semites.

The term was first used in Europe and has been widely used only to 
describe anti-Jewish sentiments and acts.

Jarad also accused Israel of using the concept of "terrorism" falsely 
after September 11 to defame Arab and Islamic nations.

"We can distinguish terrorism from legitimate resistance against 
occupation that is recognized by international law," Jarad was quoted 
as saying in Gulf News online.

The center's director Mohammed Khalifa charged that Israel keeps 
"telling lies after lies to make people believe that that are Semites 
and are being persecuted by others. They resort to this in order to 
cover their heinous crimes against the Palestinian people."

According to the Israeli diplomatic source, Abu Dhabi, where the 
conference was held, has been one of the leaders in propagating 
anti-Semitism.

Abu Dhabi television was the only Arab station to air a series on 
television in which Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was portrayed 
in a grotesque manner as a vampire after the blood of Palestinians, 
she said.

See Earlier Story:
<http://www.cnsnews.com/ForeignBureaus/Archive/200103/For20010323f.html>Holocaust 
Revisionist Conference Not Welcome in Lebanon (March 23, 2001)

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ZUNDELSITE COMMENTS:

1.  This meeting by important Arab leaders is more than 40 years too 
late - but better late than never!  Israel and the Jewish Diaspora 
organizations adopted the exploitation of the Holocaust ***as a state 
policy*** as far back as the middle sixties, according to Professor 
Peter Novick of Chicago and other researchers.  Now that the Arabs 
finally understand the importance of the exploiters' and 
manipulators' ***main tool***, and now that the Jewish elements 
engaged in the exploitation and manipulation are being flushed out, 
the crooksters wring their hands and shriek - as per usual. 

2.  Any time the Jews and Israelis claim that the Arabs "are heading 
in the wrong direction", you can be sure they are on the right track! 
The truth is eating its way through the Arab world like a prairie 
fire.  The Jews should have long understood that the Holocaust Lie 
was always a double-edged sword, giving some folks some ideas!  The 
Holocaust story, concocted as it is out of whole cloth, is Israel's 
and organized Jewry's Achilles Heel.  They have every reason to fear 
a serious Holocaust examination.  The truth, once widely understood, 
will be devastating to the Jewish agenda.

3.  Speaking the truth is not being "anti-semitic", as even 
kindergartners are beginning to understand.  There is nothing 
underhanded about examining a declared enemy's most potent secret 
weapon in a think tank - and making one's findings public.  That must 
include warning the gentile leaders who have so willingly lent a hand 
in keeping the Lie from being exposed to the sun. 

4.  Yad Vashem has always engaged in using the so-called Holocaust as 
an Israeli propaganda tool.  No wonder they are upset!  Truth hurts. 
They are the laughing stock of of revisionist and other serious 
Holocaust scholars.  Yad Vashem is an Israeli "Hate-the-Germans" and 
"poor-us" propaganda outfit,  like the ADL and the Simon Wiesenthal 
Center. 

4.  All of Israel's "Founding Fathers", with the exception of one, 
were born within 600 kilometers of Minsk.  Not one of them qualifies 
as a biblical Semite!  Israelis are not "also" Semites - 82% of them 
are Asiatic Khazars who converted to Babylonian Talmudism under their 
tribal King Bulan in the 8th centry.  See any good Jewish 
Encyclopedia under "Khazars"! 

As to "anti-Semitism", it was a defense smear word coined by a German 
Jew in the 1880s.  It's heftily in use today!  Every time it is 
employed, the target of the smear ought to consider himself having 
been hit by a paralyzing psychological bullet, against which the West 
- or the Arab countries, for that matter - have not yet developed an 
effective defense.