AchtungBono
Refugee
My dear friends,
The reason I'm posting this as is simple. I would like each and every one of you to read the enclosed news item from the CNN website. This item not only offends me as a Jew, as and Israeli and as a human being...but should also offend you as decent, compassionate people.
I find it so hard to believe that there are people walking around with such hatred filling their bodies and souls. People who deny the extermination of 6 million men, women and children, as well as millions of other nationalities who were butchered, tortured and slaughtered by the Nazis and their helpers.
I look at pictures of this little man in the white business suit, grinning from ear to ear as he shakes hands with the Palestinian prime minister - both smiling as they sit down to plot the destruction of my country in particular and the Middle East in general. Their fondest wish is to destroy any semblence of democracy and freedom in the world and replace it with total chaos, violence and bloodshed which will affect anyone who doesn't correspond to their warped way of thinking.
In my opinion, to deny the holocaust is like denying 9/11. Would you accept anyone saying that 9/11 never happened and that the towers falling down was an optical illusion designed by the U.S.A as an excuse to wage war on the Muslims? I don't think so.....
I therefore ask and implore you, use any search engine you wish and please learn all you can about the Holocaust. Go to any book store and read books like "Mila 18" by Leon Uris, "Night" by Eli Weisel and, of course, "Schindler's List". For those of you who have never been to Israel, I invite you to come here and visit the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial museum in which you can hear first-hand witness accounts by survivors telling their incredible stories of cruelty and survival under the most horrendous conditions.
Finally, one more thing, the state of Israel was created, among others, by the renmants of this atrocity who managed to cling on to life in order to build a better one in their own home. A home in which they would be safe and protected. The very existance of Israel ensures that this atrocity will never happen again.
So, to the attendants of this so-called conference I say: you may talk all you want and deny all you want, but the world knows the truth and the world will see you for what you all are...liars and hate-mongers who, instead of reaching out in friendship, are fanning the flames of hate and ignorance which will ultimately consume you.
By the way, the "jewish Rabbis and scholors" referred to in the item are from an ultra-zealot sect called "Neturai Karta". This sect is anti-Israeli and they believe that the secular state of Israel has no right to exist until the Messiah comes. They hang out black flags of mourning on Israel's independence day, they regularly support attacks against us and they are welcomed in Arab nations with open arms. They do not represent Judaism or the state of Israel.
My dear friends - I thank you so much for reading this and I thank you for being on my list of friends.
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My love to all of you,
Elaine
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So here is the item from the CNN website:
TEHRAN, Iran (CNN) -- Iran on Monday opened a two-day conference exploring the validity of the Nazi Holocaust, a move that has sparked outrage among Jewish groups.
One such group, the Simon Wiesenthal Center, planned to counter the event with a teleconference showcasing stories from Holocaust survivors.
Manouchehr Mohammadi, Iran's deputy foreign minister for research, told Iran's state-run news agency, IRNA, that Tehran's leaders would accept that the Holocaust occurred if scholars attending the conference could prove that the Nazi regime exterminated 6 million Jews during World War II.
But Mohammadi said Iran does not deny the murders and damages caused by Hitler's genocide, nor that 50 million people were the victims of his racism, according to IRNA.
He said the conference is to be held in response to international outrage at Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's repeated assertion that the Holocaust is a myth. (Full story)
"If the Holocaust is a historical event, then is it not warranted to be looked into and researched?" Mohammadi asked rhetorically.
Because of the negative reactions to the nature of the conference, Iran has not announced the names of the participants, but said it would include Jewish scholars and rabbis, IRNA reported.
No one from Israel will attend the conference, which began at 9:30 a.m. (1 a.m. ET), Mohammadi said.
The Simon Wiesenthal Center announced on its Web site that it would convene a videoconference of 70 Holocaust survivors whose personal accounts are intended to counter the Tehran conference.
The center said the conference will be attended by "close to 70 Holocaust revisionists and deniers."
The videoconference will be held at the center's Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles beginning at 9 a.m. (noon ET), and will be linked to the center's New York and Toronto offices.
Rabbi Marvin Hier, founder and dean of the Wiesenthal Center, rejected the Tehran conference as one of several attempts by Iran to deny the validity of the Holocaust.
"This is an outrage, an insult to humanity, that a country could stoop so low as to deny the greatest crime in the history of civilization," Hier said.
"That is why we gathered together Holocaust survivors who will counter these bigots and revisionist claims by giving first-hand accounts of what they actually experienced and witnessed and how their lives were shattered."
Mohammadi said if Iran accepts the validity of the Holocaust, the next question examined will be, "Why should the Palestinians pay for the Holocaust?"
Mohammadi said Tehran also plans to host conferences to look into what he described as genocide by Europeans against Native Americans, Africans and the Palestinians
The reason I'm posting this as is simple. I would like each and every one of you to read the enclosed news item from the CNN website. This item not only offends me as a Jew, as and Israeli and as a human being...but should also offend you as decent, compassionate people.
I find it so hard to believe that there are people walking around with such hatred filling their bodies and souls. People who deny the extermination of 6 million men, women and children, as well as millions of other nationalities who were butchered, tortured and slaughtered by the Nazis and their helpers.
I look at pictures of this little man in the white business suit, grinning from ear to ear as he shakes hands with the Palestinian prime minister - both smiling as they sit down to plot the destruction of my country in particular and the Middle East in general. Their fondest wish is to destroy any semblence of democracy and freedom in the world and replace it with total chaos, violence and bloodshed which will affect anyone who doesn't correspond to their warped way of thinking.
In my opinion, to deny the holocaust is like denying 9/11. Would you accept anyone saying that 9/11 never happened and that the towers falling down was an optical illusion designed by the U.S.A as an excuse to wage war on the Muslims? I don't think so.....
I therefore ask and implore you, use any search engine you wish and please learn all you can about the Holocaust. Go to any book store and read books like "Mila 18" by Leon Uris, "Night" by Eli Weisel and, of course, "Schindler's List". For those of you who have never been to Israel, I invite you to come here and visit the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial museum in which you can hear first-hand witness accounts by survivors telling their incredible stories of cruelty and survival under the most horrendous conditions.
Finally, one more thing, the state of Israel was created, among others, by the renmants of this atrocity who managed to cling on to life in order to build a better one in their own home. A home in which they would be safe and protected. The very existance of Israel ensures that this atrocity will never happen again.
So, to the attendants of this so-called conference I say: you may talk all you want and deny all you want, but the world knows the truth and the world will see you for what you all are...liars and hate-mongers who, instead of reaching out in friendship, are fanning the flames of hate and ignorance which will ultimately consume you.
By the way, the "jewish Rabbis and scholors" referred to in the item are from an ultra-zealot sect called "Neturai Karta". This sect is anti-Israeli and they believe that the secular state of Israel has no right to exist until the Messiah comes. They hang out black flags of mourning on Israel's independence day, they regularly support attacks against us and they are welcomed in Arab nations with open arms. They do not represent Judaism or the state of Israel.
My dear friends - I thank you so much for reading this and I thank you for being on my list of friends.
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My love to all of you,
Elaine
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So here is the item from the CNN website:
TEHRAN, Iran (CNN) -- Iran on Monday opened a two-day conference exploring the validity of the Nazi Holocaust, a move that has sparked outrage among Jewish groups.
One such group, the Simon Wiesenthal Center, planned to counter the event with a teleconference showcasing stories from Holocaust survivors.
Manouchehr Mohammadi, Iran's deputy foreign minister for research, told Iran's state-run news agency, IRNA, that Tehran's leaders would accept that the Holocaust occurred if scholars attending the conference could prove that the Nazi regime exterminated 6 million Jews during World War II.
But Mohammadi said Iran does not deny the murders and damages caused by Hitler's genocide, nor that 50 million people were the victims of his racism, according to IRNA.
He said the conference is to be held in response to international outrage at Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's repeated assertion that the Holocaust is a myth. (Full story)
"If the Holocaust is a historical event, then is it not warranted to be looked into and researched?" Mohammadi asked rhetorically.
Because of the negative reactions to the nature of the conference, Iran has not announced the names of the participants, but said it would include Jewish scholars and rabbis, IRNA reported.
No one from Israel will attend the conference, which began at 9:30 a.m. (1 a.m. ET), Mohammadi said.
The Simon Wiesenthal Center announced on its Web site that it would convene a videoconference of 70 Holocaust survivors whose personal accounts are intended to counter the Tehran conference.
The center said the conference will be attended by "close to 70 Holocaust revisionists and deniers."
The videoconference will be held at the center's Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles beginning at 9 a.m. (noon ET), and will be linked to the center's New York and Toronto offices.
Rabbi Marvin Hier, founder and dean of the Wiesenthal Center, rejected the Tehran conference as one of several attempts by Iran to deny the validity of the Holocaust.
"This is an outrage, an insult to humanity, that a country could stoop so low as to deny the greatest crime in the history of civilization," Hier said.
"That is why we gathered together Holocaust survivors who will counter these bigots and revisionist claims by giving first-hand accounts of what they actually experienced and witnessed and how their lives were shattered."
Mohammadi said if Iran accepts the validity of the Holocaust, the next question examined will be, "Why should the Palestinians pay for the Holocaust?"
Mohammadi said Tehran also plans to host conferences to look into what he described as genocide by Europeans against Native Americans, Africans and the Palestinians