History is strewn with boneheaded political leaders whose acts defy all logic. So beyond his obvious and relentless torment of Israel, what does Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad stands to gain by holding a two-day conference to prove the Holocaust was a hoax? He obvious has no shame, but THIS tactic is a huge step in discrediting his very standing in the international community and completely impeaching his credibility. What arrogance! What bold meanness! How could Ahmadinejad ever expect anything else he says or does to have merit? Sadly, this stunt only undermines hope for finding common ground with Iran on other urgent issues. Why deal with such a nut?Just as happens at a party when one guest gets too intoxicated and begins being anti-social folks move away and write him off so, it would seem, Ahmadinejad committed a kind of credibility suicide here. The conference, which brought together 67 writers and researchers from 30 countries, including Louisianas white supremacist David Duke, was a charade — something akin to the Vaticans Inquisition in 1633 to renounce Galileo and his theories on the earth, sun and skies in support of Copernican theory. Duke, a one-time Ku Klux Klan leader and former state representative, would say, The Holocaust is the device used as the pillar of Zionist imperialism, Zionist aggression, Zionist terror and Zionist murder.There was talk that the number of Jews who died in concentration camps and furnaces were inflated, that Auschwitz, for example, never was large enough to accommodate the one million said to have died there. Ahmadinejad said the conference was establishing a fact-finding commission to decide, once and for all, whether the Holocaust (1933-1945) occurred and help end a 60-year dispute, according to the Associated Press.Back in 2001, my wife and I spent most of day at the partly restored concentration camp at Dachau, just outside of Munich, Germany. We came away so sickened by the experience. Records showed more than 200,000 prisoners were held there, more than 130,000 were killed and more died from disease and starvation during the 12 years it was used. The vast record of first-person testimony, survivors reports, stark film, photos and independent stories fully corroborate historys darkest atrocities. If all those people werent killed, where were they hidden?News reports suggest all who gathered in Tehran had their tongues in their cheeks and really werent there to factually disprove the Holocaust. Instead, they were gathered to take turns affirming their most of deep-seated hatred of Israel. It became a forum to draw parallels between the oppression and war crimes of the Nazis and accusations that Israel has dastardly mistreated its neighbors.Ahmadinejad wants Europeans to shoulder the responsibility for the creation of Israel and those consequences to the region. If you committed this big crime (Holocaust), then why should the oppressed Palestinian nation pay the price? he asked. This is our proposal: Give a part of your own land in Europe, the U.S., Canada and Alaska to them so that the Jews can establish their country, he said.Talk like that tends to put any civilized debate with a tyrant on any topic more remote. It polarizes and further confirms Ahmadinejad as an extremist too objectionable to deal with. Jews have long feared that when this generation of Holocaust survivors have passed on, that it opens the door for doubters and skeptics to gain followers. Never again must continue to be the vibrant, unrelenting call for all generations that follow so such horrors can never be repeated.

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