Of course that seems like a silly question to ask in the Western World where people understand and remember the horrendous time of the Holocaust. There is no doubt to accept that the Holocaust is real with such concentration camps like Auschwitz, in Poland, still standing to remind people of the past in order to avoid such a horrible future. Unfortunately, despite how real the Holocaust was, certain groups of people in the Middle East refuse to believe that the Holocaust was in fact real. This false belief began in the 70’s when a German born Holocaust denier Ernst Zundel, published a four page paper entitled “The West War, and Islam” and sent the paper to several heads of Middle Eastern Countries. From that time on this ridiculous belief has grown. Today, we have the Iranian President Ahmadinejad constantly denying the existence of the Holocaust. How can such a smart man that is capable, or at least believed to be capable of running a country hold such a belief? Does he not understand history or is he just being blind with hatred? I am not Jewish, but it is despicable that there are people running countries that preach such hatred, does the world not remember Hitler?
To make matters worse the Union of Arab Workers went on strike because the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East was planning on placing the Holocaust in children’s elementary books. The strikers wanted to erase this history because they wanted to teach students about the Right of Return to coincide with UNRWA’s war curriculum. The five areas that this teaching will occur in is Jordan, Lebanon, the West Bank, Gaza, and Syria. Political organizations such as Hamas have shown strong support in following these teachings which only makes it harder to correct these false beliefs. This problem will only get worse and is something that will not go quietly in to the night until someone educates these people.
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