> Actually, Ahmadinejad is only partially right. He's right about the
> dispossession and continuing oppression of the Palestinians by the
> Israelis,and about the cynical exploitation of the Holocaust by
> the Zionists which
> perpetuates that oppression (while simultaneously cheapening the
> Holocaustand promoting a backlash against it). But I don't think
> it would be a good
> idea for the left to join him in campaiging for a) an
> international panel to
> weigh whether the Holocaust is a myth, or b) for the Hebrew-speaking
> population in Israel to be "repatriated" back to Europe.
AFAIK, Palestinians have not questioned the Holocaust and have never insisted that Israeli Jews should go back to Europe. It's strange that a Iranian leader is indulging in this rhetoric about the Holocaust. What does Iran gain from it?
Ulhas