Baker and Hamilton Want Us to Talk to These People???

Iranian Ambassador Makes Inflammatory Remarks About Holocaust, FOX News at Columbia University
Thursday, December 07, 2006
By Catherine Donaldson-Evans

NEW YORK — The Iranian ambassador to the United Nations sparked a furor Wednesday night when he said at a speech in New York that Palestinians are suffering today because of "atrocities" that happened in World War II, specifically against the Jews.

Comments made by Javad Zarif about the Holocaust at Columbia University were met with animated protests from some students in the audience.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has repeatedly denied that the Holocaust happened and has also called for the destruction of Israel.

When asked whether he believed six million Jews died in the Holocaust, Zarif answered, "I believe a great atrocity was committed in the Second World War. The question that needs to be asked is what crime was committed by Palestinians in that atrocity?"

A number of students attending his talk, hosted Wednesday evening on campus by a Columbia University international studies group called Toward Reconciliation, loudly voiced their disagreement with his statements.


The TrekMedic ponders:

Hmmm,....perhaps someone got the ISG Report confused with Jimmy Carter's screed:

Longtime Aide Tells FOX News Why He Cut Ties to Carter
Thursday, December 07, 2006
By Melissa Drosjack

WASHINGTON — A longtime aide to former President Jimmy Carter told FOXNews.com Thursday that he cut ties with the Carter Center in protest of a new book on Palestinian lands because it distorts history to shape the reader's opinion to one side of the issue.

"I just want to be sure that when people write history, people don't do it for purpose of special pleading," said Kenneth Stein, director of the Institute for the Study of Modern Israel of Emory University. "They write it the way it was. They don't try to shape a person's opinion and slide them down a path in order to come to an inevitable conclusion."

Stein resigned Tuesday as Middle East Fellow of the Carter Center of Emory University, stating in his resignation letter that "President Carter's book on the Middle East, a title too inflammatory to even print, is not based on unvarnished analyses; it is replete with factual errors, copied materials not cited, superficialities, glaring omissions, and simply invented segments."

"I think he's become increasingly frustrated that the Palestinians don't have a voice," Stein said. "I just don't think this is the way you do that."

Click here to read Dr. Kenneth W. Stein's letter.