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interest the following item only because it reveals a mind wandering about<br />

in a topic that has created its own mythology. It is a mindset, like lessons<br />

from Talmud, that will propagate revenge but not forgiveness, as only God<br />

can forgive. It is a world of base impulses where believers will sue you for<br />

creating hurtful feelings if you challenge their belief that Germany<br />

systematically exterminated 6 million Jews during World War Two<br />

(although they have corrected the number to 1.4 million including non-<br />

Jews), mainly in homicidal gas chambers, in particular at Auschwitz.<br />

It is such reflection on matters Holocaust that enabled me to title my<br />

presentation at the December 2006 Teheran International Holocaust<br />

Conference: ‘The Holocaust has no reality in space and time, only in<br />

memory’. I also stated: ‘Don’t blame the Jews, blame those that bend to<br />

their pressure’. This observation, of course, eliminates any move for<br />

anyone to use the scapegoat mechanism as a tool with which to explain why<br />

the Holocaust-Shoah dogma has lasted for so long.<br />

Peterseil’s reflections indicate how messy a mind can become when it is<br />

imbued with the Holocaust dogma:<br />

HOLOCAUST SIGN FOUND — STILL TOO SOON TO<br />

CELEBRATE<br />

Israel breathes a sigh of relief as news of the ‘<strong>Arbeit</strong> Macht Frei’ (work<br />

makes free) sign was found, although in 3 pieces. According to Krakow<br />

police, the sign was stolen for financial purposes, not as an act of neo-<br />

Nazism. Five suspects were arrested and further investigation is required.<br />

Last Friday, people around the world were furious to learn that the sign<br />

above the Auschwitz Death camp was stolen. But in Israel this was a ‘sign<br />

of the times’.<br />

Were the perpetrators attempting to erase traces of the Holocaust?<br />

Obviously, the theft of such an important historical monument was a<br />

statement against Jews, a provocative gesture insinuating that the war is not<br />

over, or an attempt to deny the war took place altogether.<br />

Diaspora Affairs Minister Yuli Edelstein (Likud) referred to the theft as a<br />

‘critical failure of the Polish police.’<br />

Germany was quick to raise their donations for the new Auschwitz-<br />

Birkenau Foundation, now holding at $87 million.<br />

But wait a moment! Isn’t history – even Holocaust history – open to all<br />

sorts of interpretations these days? Could it be that there never was a sign<br />

over the entrance of the Auschwitz Death Camp? Clearly, much of the<br />

world believe that ‘if it didn’t happen in my lifetime it just didn’t happen!’<br />

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