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Nov 02, 2005
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Abd Al-Bari Atwan in Response to UN Resolution to Commemorate the Holocaust: We Are the Real Victims of Nazism

#909 | 01:59
Source: Al-Jazeera Network (Qatar)

Following are excerpts from an interview with Abd Al-Bari Atwan, Editor-in-Chief of Al-Quds Al-Arabi, which aired on Al-Jazeera TV on November 2, 2005.

Abd Al-Bari Atwan: I do not see any escalation in antisemitism in Europe and the US. What I see is an escalation in anti-Arab and anti-Muslim (sentiment). Wars are being waged today against the Arabs and Muslims, and massacres are being committed in Iraq. There are 100,000 Iraqi martyrs. One million Iraqis have been killed during the siege that was declared by Amercia and the UN under the pretext of WMD's.

I believe this resolution is a racist one. I am, of course, against the Holocaust, and against the killing of any human being. Nevertheless, this resolution is a racist one. Why discriminate against (some of) the victims? How come the Jews have a monopoly on pain and suffering? Millions of others were killed in WWII. There were Nazi holocausts against the gypsies, against the homosexuals, and the Catholics in Germany.

How come the Jews are the only ones mentioned? Besides, among us Arabs, there are victims of the Jews, of Jewish Nazism.

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Nazism did not persecute and burn the Jews alone. As I said, the gypsies were completely annihilated, the Catholics were thrown into gas chambers, the homosexuals...

What about us, who have paid the price of these holocausts? We in Palestine and the Arab homeland have been suffering for 50 years. What about the Qana massacre? What about the massacre... The American nuclear bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki?

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America sends e-mails with demands to the Arab leaders, and they hasten to comply without any argument. The Arab countries have turned into obedient puppets...The Arab governments and leaders have become America's obedient puppets. We do not have a single Chavez who dares to say "No" to America. We are the real victims of Nazism, because the Nazis committed all these crimes, and exported the Jews to our country, to Palestine.

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