And in Hell Goebbels smiles

In today's Front Page Magazine we read of Iran's upcoming conference on the Holocaust, or rather Holocaust denial:

Iran, which has often proclaimed its intent to carry out a second Holocaust, this time against the Jews concentrated in Israel, will be holding a Holocaust-denial conference on December 11-12.

A certain illogic is evident: if you yourself find Jews so loathsome that you seek to exterminate them, why is it implausible that someone else should have had the same idea and acted on it, especially when so many people including all reputable historians say that is exactly what happened just six decades ago?

The illogic is compounded by the fact that just last August Teheran held an international Holocaust-cartoon contest in which the allegedly fictitious event served as material for the cartoonists’ creations.

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Teheran may now be the epicenter of such attitudes, but they radiate extensively from it to the Arab and Muslim worlds and beyond. In Europe, where Holocaust denial is still mostly considered in poor taste, the impatience with Israel’s continued existence is very much in vogue as seen, for instance, in a recent BBC symposium on whether Israel will continue to exist in fifty years, or in the poll of EU countries three years ago that ranked Israel “the greatest danger to world peace.” In America, prestigious scholars and former top officials push the view that Israel is (with its supporters) the crux of America’s foreign policy problems and the cause of the world jihad movement.

This rising anti-Semitism which is becoming dominant in the nations of Europe and is finding itself more and more at home in the American left poses twin problems.

One, it is odius and evil in and of itself. People holding such views remove themselves from a place at the table of civilized humanity and align themselves with the world's oxygen thieves.

Two, and most important, it makes them the natural allies of the Islamofascists (other oxygen thieves) in the great World War whose opening battles we are currently fighting. If the West, which is the only cultural force on earth that can A, stand up to the Global Jihad and B, leave a world worth living in after victory, finds itself in agreement with the savages on such a fundamental doctrine then how will we summon the will to endure the pain, make the sacrifices and shed the ocean of blood that will be necessary to bring about victory?

I'm afraid that I can't argue with the aritcle's conclusion:

After not-quite six decades, the world, apart from still-substantial support in America and a few pockets of it elsewhere, has pretty much had it with the Jewish state and is content to trade or endlessly negotiate with Iran as it quite openly and brazenly pursues that state’s destruction. The depth of such animosity lies beyond psychological conjecture.