ZGram - 8/4/2004 - "Egypt paper calls the Holocaust a lie"

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ZGram - Where Truth is Destiny

August 4, 2004

Good Morning from the Zundelsite:

Just remember that this is written from an Israeli point of view and 
published by a Zionist-friendly website - but even so, it's valuable:

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MUCH ABOUT HISTORY
Egypt newspaper:
Holocaust a lie
State publication says Jews invented genocide claim to extort the West

Posted: August 4, 2004
1:00 a.m. Eastern

By Aaron Klein

© 2004 WorldNetDaily.com

Egypt's leading newspaper has published a series of articles that 
deny the Holocaust, and claim Jews invented "lies of genocide" to 
extort the West and make possible the establishment of the Jewish 
state, prompting some Israeli lawmakers to express reservations about 
allowing Egypt to control security in Gaza after Sharon's withdrawal 
plan is implemented next year.

Dr. Rif'at Sayyed Ahmad, director of the Jaffa Research Center in 
Cairo and columnist for Al-Liwaa Al-Islami, Egypt's state-controlled 
newspaper, published a two-part article, 'The Lie About The Burning 
of the Jews,' which claims the Holocaust was a Jewish invention.

"The Zionist enterprise on the land of Palestine succeeded by means 
of lies and myths, from the myth of the 'Chosen People' and the 
'Promised Land' to the lie about the burning of the Jews in the Nazi 
gas chambers during World War II," wrote Ahmad according to a 
translation by the <http://www.memri.org/>Middle East Media Research 
Institute, or MEMRI.

"What interests us here is that this lie [about] the burning of the 
Jews in the Nazi crematoria has been disseminated throughout the 
world until our time in order to extort the West and make it easier 
for the Jews of Europe to hunt [sic] Palestine and establish a state 
on it, in disregard of the most basic principles of international law 
and the right of peoples to independent life without occupation. 
[This lie] was raised [also] so that [the Jews] would receive 
financial, technological, and economic aid from the West. ...

"This entire situation has turned the Holocaust – that is, Hitler's 
operation of burning the Jews in gas chambers – into a drawn sword at 
the necks of historians and serious researchers in the West, and even 
in the East. At the same time, [the Holocaust] became profitable 
goods for the Zionist entity. ...

"Dozens of Western laws in the European countries have been changed 
to protect this false myth of the burning of the Jews. Dozens of 
curricula have also been changed. Today, it is possible to curse the 
monotheistic religions, but the 'holocaust' and its lie are above 
criticism and above opinion, and in Europe it is unapproachable," 
wrote Ahmad.

Last year, the same newspaper ran a piece that claimed Jews use 
Christian and Muslim blood to bake matzos for Passover, and 
state-controlled Egyptian television aired a miniseries depicting 
"The Protocols of the Elders of Zion," an age-old anti-Semitic story 
that claims Jews run the world by proxy.

Israeli politicians and American Jewish leaders said they are 
concerned about allowing Egypt, which uses state-controlled media to 
routinely vilify Israel, to set up a security apparatus along the 
Gaza border after Sharon's withdrawal in 2005. And they cite Egypt's 
failure to stop construction of weapons smuggling tunnels from its 
country into the Rafah refugee camp as proof the country can't be 
trusted.

"These filthy lies just expose Egypt, which received billions in 
American aid, for what it is – a supporter of terrorism and a 
distributor of vicious, dangerous anti-Israel propaganda, just like 
the PLO" Mort Klein, President of the Zionist Organization of 
America, told WorldNetDaily.

"We've already witnessed Egyptian violations of its peace treaty with 
Israel when it allowed the Palestinians to build smuggling tunnels 
that run from Egypt to Israel. How is Ariel Sharon possibly going to 
let a country like this bring weapons and soldiers into Gaza?" said 
Klein.


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