A Palestinian official who dared to visit the Nazi death camp of Auschwitz and pay his respects to its 1.5 million victims is now being targeted.
Fawzi Barhoum of the Islamic terrorist movement Hamas, claimed Wednesday that the Holocaust “is a big lie.”
He said last week’s visit to Auschwitz by Ziad al-Bandak, an adviser to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, went against Palestinian public opinion, AP reported. Abbas and Hamas are political rivals.
Some 6 million Jews were killed in the German Nazi genocide during World War II, including in Auschwitz in Nazi-occupied Poland.
Many Palestinians fear that if they acknowledge the Holocaust, they will diminish their own suffering, including their uprooting during Israel’s 1948 creation and decades under Israeli control, AP noted.
That such a thing as a pale–inian people ever existed, or that they had a homeland, etc. they were all just roaming nomads and bedouins.
In fact, it is only when the Jewish people returned (17-1800s) that these arabs settled there to work for those Jews, now they claim the land as their own… what Chutzpah…!!
I am happy at least one of them has a head. G-d should help him letovah.
because how can one of their men pray for Jews?
Because they feel that the basis for the country Israel is the world’s way of saying I’m sorry for the holocaust. But, if the holocaust is a hoax that takes away the basis for there being a country. That’s why they are angry. By visiting Auschwitz this Palestinian official is acknowledging Israel’s right. And for most of the Arabs that is just like treason. The other basis for there being an Israeli state, in eyes of the Arabs, is the historical connection to the land that the Jews have and that is why you will also hear Arabs say that… Read more »
BH. If the Arebs think that it never happened, then on what are they angry?
Some would say this is a good thing that he went some would say no. Personally i think it should be moving that he went and payed respects to the yidden that perished there by the nazis. Possibly it will move him to enchourage others to stop violence. Maybe he might get killed because he went there. But you cant help feeling positive about what he did going there. He may not be our friend but i would give him alittle respect for that. If he creates something positive out of this i may be sold to the idea that… Read more »