The special insert below was published by Arutz-7 News: Monday, January 19, 1998. (LA SOURCE EST DONC ISRAELIENNE.)
*******
SPECIAL INSERT:
In light of the controversy surrounding the decision by the National Holocaust Museum in Washington D.C. to refuse to grant Yasser Arafat a special tour of the museum, Arutz-7 presents (with help from the Israel Government Press Office and ZOA President Morton Klein) a sampling of PA [Pa lestinian Authority] sentiments about the Holocaust:
* This past week, a Palestinian Radio interviewer began his program by saying, "There is no choice but to begin a widespread solidarity campaign with the philosopher Roger Garaudy, who is on trial in France for Holocaust-denial." The guest on the program, Dr. Iye Sitar Kassem, agreed that part of the Holocaust story is made-up.
* Abu Mazen, the Palestinian architect of the Oslo accords, is the author of a book claiming the Nazis may have really killed less than one million Jews. On Sept. 3, 1997, the official Palestinian Authority newspaper, Al-Hayat Al-Jadidah, featured an article calling the Holocaust "the forged claims of the Zionists regarding the alleged acts of slaughter perpetrated against the Jews during the same period."
* Palestinian Authority Television, during an Aug. 25, 1997 broadcast: "It is well-known that every year the Jews exaggerate what the Nazis did to them. They claim there were 6 million killed, but precise scientific research demonstrates that there were no more than 400,000." A featured guest on the show added the accusation that the Jews "have profited materially, spiritually, politically and economically from the talk about the Nazi killings. This investment is favorable to them and they view it as a profitable activity so they inflate the number of victims all the time."
* The July 1990 issue of Balsam, published by the Palestinian Red Cross, printed an article asserting that "the lie concerning the gas chambers enabled the Jews to establish the State of Israel."
* In an address to the Palestinian Council in Ramallah on May 10, 1997, the eve of Israeli Independence Day, Arafat said that the anniversary of the creation of Israel is "Palestine Holocaust Day" and "the Palestinian people were subjected to the worst holocaust in history" (Ha'aretz, May 11, 1997). As recently as December 10, 1997, the PA's Ministry of Information declared that "Israeli practices in many aspects are equal with, if not more brutal than, those practiced by occupying Nazi soldiers" in Europe. Arafat aide Bassam Abu Sharif has said that Israeli treatment of the Palestinian Arabs is "worse than that of the Nazis in Auschwitz." (Jerusalem Post, February 15, 1989)
* The comparison of Israel to the Nazis has been made by, among others: Nabil Ramlawi, Arafat's representative to the U.N. in Geneva (JTA, Dec. 2, 1994); PA official Affif Safiah (Yediot Acharonot, Jan. 25, 1996); PA Justice Minister Freih Abu-Medein (Israel Radio, Jan. 4, 1996); PA Health Minister Riyad al-Zaanoun (Associated Press, Aug. 8, 1997). The PA newspaper Al-Hayat Al-Jadidah charged on Aug. 17, 1997 that Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu is acting "in the European style of the German armies so that he will be able to impose greater Israel and establish their superiority of the Hebrew race."
INUTILE DE DIRE QUE NOUS APPROUVONS EN TOUS POINTS CES PROPOS PRETES AUX DIRIGEANTS PALESTINIENS.
Nous envisageons l'affichage d'un texte sur le Web comme équivalent à celui de mettre un document sur le rayonnage d'une bibliothèque publique. Cela nous coûte un peu d'argent et pas mal de travail. Nous pensons que c'est le lecteur volontaire qui en profite et nous le supposons capable de penser par lui-même. Un lecteur qui va chercher un document sur le Web le fait toujours à ses risques et périls. Quant aux auteurs, il n'y a pas lieu de supposer qu'ils partagent la responsabilité des autres textes consultables sur ce site.
This text has been displayed on the Net, and forwarded to you as a tool for educational purpose, further research, on a non commercial and fair use basis, by the International Secretariat of the Association des Anciens Amateurs de Récits de Guerre et d'Holocauste (AAARGH) in 1998. The E-mail of the Secretariat is <aaarghinternational@hotmail.com>
Interested readers are kindly requested to consider buying the original document from the publisher, which is handier to read as a book on paper. In order to survive, books must be produced and sold by publishers.
We see the act of displaying a written document on Internet as the equivalent of displaying the said document on the shelves of a library open to the public. It costs us a modicum of labor and money. The only benefit accrues to the reader who, we surmise, thinks by himself. A reader looks for a document on the Web at his or her own risks. As for the authosr, there is no reason to suppose that they share any responsibilty for other wirtings displayed on this Site.
Be reminded of the US copyright law, Section 107:
... the fair use of copyrighted work, including such use by reproduction in copies or phonorecords or by any other means specified in above sections, for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research, is not an infringement of copyright. In determining whether the use made of a work in any particular case is fair use the factors to be considered include ---
(1) the purpose and character of the use, including whether the use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes;
(2) the nature of the copyrighted work;
(3) the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole, and;
(4) the effect of the use upon the potential market value of the copyrighted work.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
ARTICLE 19. <Everyone has
the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes
freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive
and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless
of frontiers.>
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted by the
United Nations General Assembly on December 10, 1948,
ARTIKEL 19 der Menschenrechte:
<Jederman hat das Recht auf Freiheit der Meinung und der Meinungsäußerung;
dieses Recht umfaßt die unbehinderte Meinungsfreiheit und
die Freiheit, ohne Rücksicht auf Staatsgrenzen Informationen
und Gedankengut durch Mittel jeder Art sich zu beschaffen, zu
empfangen und weiterzugeben.>
Vereinigten Nationen, 10 Dezember 1948.
ARTICLE 19 <Tout individu a droit à la liberté
d'opinion et d'expression, ce qui implique le droit de ne pas
être inquiété pour ses opinions et celui de
chercher, de recevoir et de répandre, sans considération
de frontière, les informations et les idées par
quelque moyen d'expression que ce soit>
Déclaration internationale des droits de l'homme,
adoptée par l'Assemblée générale de
l'ONU à Paris, le 10 décembre 1948
ARTICULO 19 <Todo individuo
tiene derecho a la libertad de opinión y de expresión;
este derecho incluye el de no ser molestado a causa de sus opiniones,
el de investigar y recibir informaciones y opiniones, y el de
difundidrlas, sin limitación de fronteras, por cualquier
medio de expresión.>
Declaracion universal de los derechos humanos, adoptada
por la Asamblea General de las Naciones Unidas el 10 de diciembre
de 1948 en París