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Iran's Political Motivation for Ridiculing the Holocaust Again
[History News Network] Richard L. Cravatts - Iranian and Arab Holocaust denial has been growing in incidence, and particularly as part of Ahmadinejad's strategy. The Muslim world has taken this revisionist effort to another level: accusing Zionism of creating and perpetuating the Holocaust lie for the express purpose of justifying Israel's creation and the subsequent subjugation of the Palestinians. Muslims want the occurrence of the Holocaust to be proven false to eliminate the cataclysmic social and political event that led the world to accept and endorse the creation of the Jewish state. It is also politically expedient to position the Palestinians as the ultimate victims among victimized peoples, and this is much easier without the inexpressible evil of the Holocaust as core element of Israel's tragic heritage.