Re: U.N. condemns denials of Nazi Holocaust

Even though you have chosen to post an off-topic message having nothing
to do with Cambodia you still invite replies...

Try doing the math and applying basic reasoning stills. Just because
you saw it on tv does not make it true. During the war, Germany needed
workers to do tasks. They were sending most of their men off to fight
the war and the women were left trying to do all the factory and other
work. A human being is much more valuable as slave labor than
exterminated as fast as they could. Yes, history suggests Jews were
used as slave labor but not to large degree. There are many jobs that
can be given to slave laborers. One more thing... if you do the math
and figure how many Jews were supposedly killed over that period of
time it is not very possible this could have been true especially when
you take into account the total number of Jews to start with and how
many Jews survived ... the number history suggests were killed was not
there to be had.

On Jan 27, 2:19 am, "Chim" <Chi...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
U.N. condemns denials of Nazi Holocaust By Evelyn Leopold
1 hour, 33 minutes ago

The U.N. General Assembly adopted a U.S.-drafted resolution on Friday
condemning denials of the Holocaust, weeks after Iran sponsored a
meeting dominated by speakers questioning the Nazis' extermination of 6
million Jews in World War Two.

The resolution, co-sponsored by more than 100 countries, including all
Western nations, was approved by consensus, without a vote. Iran
disassociated itself from the action, calling the resolution a
political exercise that Israel would exploit against Palestinians.

The resolution "condemns without any reservation any denial of the
Holocaust" and "urges all member states unreservedly to reject any
denial of the Holocaust as a historical event, either in full or in
part, or any activities to this end."

It is a follow up to a broader November 2005 assembly measure making
January 27 the International Day of Commemoration for victims of the
Holocaust.

But at least 22 nations left their seats empty in the assembly hall,
including Bolivia, Chile and Columbia, who had co-sponsored the
resolution. Others not attending included Cambodia, Saudi Arabia, South
Africa, Sudan, Syria, Tajikistan and Zimbabwe, according to U.S.
officials.

Iran is not mentioned by name although the resolution is clearly aimed
at a Tehran conference convened in December by President Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad. Most speakers expressed doubt about the Nazis' mass
extermination of Jews.

Ahmadinejad came to power in August 2005 and caused an international
outcry by terming the Holocaust a "myth" and calling Israel a "tumor"
in the Middle East.

Iran's envoy Hossein Gharibi told the assembly, "In our view there is
no justification for genocide of any kind, nor can there be any
justification for the attempt made by some -- particularly by the
Israeli regime -- to exploit the past crimes as a pretext to commit new
genocide and crimes."

Responded U.S. acting ambassador, Alejandro Wolff, "Iran stands alone,
in shame, isolated, against the international community."

"Conferences like those sponsored by Iran are designed solely to
polarize and incite hatred. If successful they can then use that hatred
as a catalyst to justify genocide," Wolff said. "To deny the event of
the Holocaust is tantamount to the approval of genocide in all its
forms."

Said Israel's U.N. Ambassador Dan Gillerman, "While the nations of the
world gather here to affirm the historicity of the Holocaust with the
intent of never again allowing genocide, a member of this assembly is
acquiring the capabilities to carry out its own."

"The president of Iran is in fact saying, 'There really was no
Holocaust, but just in case, we shall finish the job."'

Middle East nations were not among the co-sponsors. But Egypt's U.N.
ambassador, Maged Abedelaziz, said while he agreed with the resolution
the world should also speak out against the rising "Islamaphobia."

Friday's measure is timed to coincide with the January 27
commemoration, which Russia's U.N. Ambassador Vitaly Churkin emphasized
was the day the Soviet Red Army liberated the large Auschwitz
concentration camp in Poland.

Up to 1.5 million prisoners, most of them Jews, were killed in
Auschwitz alone. A total of six million Jews and millions of others
including Poles, homosexuals, Russians and Gypsies were murdered by the
Nazis and their allies during the war.

Germany's U.N. Ambassador Thomas Matussek, representing the European
Union, said he was aware that the "unprecedented crime of the Holocaust
was committed by Germans and in the name of Germany and from that stems
our special responsibility."

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