He is not related to Hitler. He does not come from Hitler’s country. He doesn’t share Hitler’s beliefs. He doesn’t have Hitler’s aspirations. Holocaust Denial is not his Mein Kampf. The differences between him and Hitler are as wide as they are acute.
Rightly or wrongly, Israelis feel paranoid; whereas Hitler wanted to exterminate world Jewry, Ahmadinejad has called for the destruction of Israel! Ahmadinejad’s vision is a world without Zionism, and he and his masters have objectified Zionism in Israel. Hitler’s anti-Semitism, on the other hand, objectified Iranians (and Indians, including Pakistanis, Bangladeshis, Sri Lankans, and Siekhs), the original Aryans, and Nazis deemed Iranians less threatening than Jews only because Iranians were not settled in Europe. Can anyone doubt that Hitler would have included Iranians in his extermination plan had they inhabited Germany in large concentrations? Perhaps some of the many gypsies exterminated by Nazis could have come from the lands of ancient Persia, including Kurdistan.
Opinions about Ahmadinejad have ranged from he’s an idiot to he’s a genius. I see him as neither. He seems like an accomplished politician, using the world as his stage. Saddam Hussain, though very different, did it (used the world as his stage), desperately clawing vestiges of authority to save his life under different circumstances. I analyze Ahmadinejad’s words and actions in relation to that American adventure and not in spite of it!
Iran, after all, was one of three “evil” countries, named by our commander-in-chief, who still fancies himself a decider. As we’ve seen during the last six years, the world of politics has become deadly serious, and there’s just a tad more listening-to-peacefully-diplomatic-options going on. We were hit – for Christ’s sake! – and there are still many Americans upset over it, especially now that the edutainment industry is capitalizing on the subject of Nine Eleven. The “evil” Iranians also see what’s happening. Everyone draws their own conclusions, according to their perspectives.
From the Israeli perspective, the situation is dire. Sharon must have seen the writings on his wall and perhaps the vision finally felled the big man: the polyglot Zionist vision that found a reality in Israel is unsustainable in its present form and function. Something has to give, but all options appear to be open, including accelerating the pace of the creeping genocide in Palestine. Or perhaps Iran truly represents the next step from Iraq.
Evidently, Israel’s war on Lebanon is a test of Iranian proxy power. Obviously – Iraq! – options have already been exercised, and even I foresaw the rise of Shia’ power in the wake of the US invasion. Though increasingly unlikely, I do hope Bush takes the ISG’s recommendations on Syria and Iran. I think that’s becoming increasingly unlikely because of how Ahmadinejad’s anti-Zionism is being spun: anti-Semitism or, more precisely, anti-Jews.
Holocaust denial is against the law in Europe for a reason: the Holocaust is Europe’s shame. Zionists associate the Muslim Middle East to Nazis through individuals like the Grand Mufti, Haj Muhammed Amin al-Husseini, but such attempts do not change the reality: the Holocaust happened in Europe and it was created by the minds and executed by the hands of Europeans.
Irrespectively or not, Zionism happened in Palestine, and Ahmadinejad’s anti-Zionist ranting does win him an understanding domestic audience. But to what end?
One can be deluded about Iran’s intentions in the same way the majority of Americans were deluded about Iraq’s WMDs or one can encourage a more intelligent course of action. A regional war in the Middle East will not benefit anyone.
Ahmadinejad might still turn out evil. He might be lauded a genius. I now see him as neither evil nor a genius, and I might be echoing more than one voice.
The Conference on Holocaust Denial was just that. It appears that Iran did not invite anyone who’d present the facts on the Holocaust, to the extent that a Palestinian who intended on doing just that was prevented from making the journey at the last minute. Iran had an agenda, and it was going to entertain only “facts” supporting that agenda. Overhead slide-shows, fancy settings, high-sounding pronouncements were all served up in support of a lie! Yellow was the color of the Star of David and not of a cake; but while Iran’s conference on Holocaust Denial attempted to neutralize the effects of yellow stars by fabricating arguments, blindly decrying the facts of a crime against humanity, the United States, three years earlier, had hyped up the war-fever radiation emitted from yellow cakes by presenting manufactured evidence, falsely affirming the presence of a crime. Both supported lies, explicitly shutting out known facts.
In short, the truism about having to talk and listen to enemies to make peace: it has always been true … well, except at a certain point with Hitler.
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