Re: [Marxism] "Iran's Ahmadinejad says Holocaust a myth"

["Mahmood ketabchi" <mekchi@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I gave you word for word translation from the Farsi version. He is specifically 
referring to holocaust. Do have a friend who speaks Farsi? I f you want I can 
send you the news story which is from the Official Iranian News Agency.  

Here is another news for you. the Nazis in Germany have issued a statement in 
support of Ahmadinejad's statement.  

A member of the National Security and Foreign Policy Commission in the Islamic 
Parliament, Heshmatollh Flahat Pisheh, also a member of the Fundamentalist 
Faction of the Parliament (this is what they call themselves) has said that 
Ahmadinejad's statement is not appropriate and harmful for Islamic Republic.  
He does not reject the statement but says it gives ammunition to the enemy.  He 
says that the statement issued by the Nazis in support of Ahmadinejad is very 
bad for the Islamic government.  He says that the government should declare 
that what Ahmadinejad has said does not reflect the position of the Iranian 
Government. 

Mahmood       
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Eli Stephens<mailto:elishastephens@xxxxxxxxxxx> 
  To: marxism@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:marxism@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
  Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2005 4:42 PM
  Subject: Re: [Marxism] "Iran's Ahmadinejad says Holocaust a myth"


  Mahmood,

  As someone who defended Ahmadinejad on the occasion of his previous 
  controversial statement, that "Israel should be wiped off the map" (which I 
  took, and still take, to be a literal statement about eliminating the 
  political entity called Israel from the map of the world, not, as it was 
  taken by the Western media, having anything to do with killing Jews or 
  Israelis), I agree with you that Louis misread the latest statement. The 
  phrase "we don't accept this claim," if it is indeed accurately translated, 
  certainly means that Ahmadinejad is doubting the death of millions of Jews 
  at the hands of Hitler.

  However, I believe you misread the last phrase in today's statement. You 
  wrote:

  >For your information, here is what Ahmadinejad has said in his toady's 
  >speech in
  >Zahedan, Iran.

  >"In regard to Zionist claim based on murder and burning of 6 million Jews 
  >during
  >the World War II, he (Ahamdinejad) explained...

  >As you can see, just like all anti-Semites, Nazi holocaust is called 
  >"Zionist claim."

  The "Zionist claim" in that sentence is NOT the claim of "murder and burning 
  of 6 million Jews," but the "Zionist claim" to the land of Israel as a 
  RESULT of that murder and burning.


  Eli Stephens
    Left I on the News
    http://lefti.blogspot.com<http://lefti.blogspot.com/>



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