He gets it right of course. Have I ever mentioned that leftists and agents of foreign governments like my dad when he worked for the ADL are often ...unh... lacking in humor.
I first noticed it with certain types of vegetarianism, which I ascribed to lack of protein. But for leftists, it requires surgical removal. "It's a joke son! A joke!" as the cartoon character Foghorn Leghorn use to say to the Chickenhawk (!) Iran's farce of a "conference" on the Holocaust is a way of underlining its government's complete rejection of a two state solution and of a Zionist state in the Middle East. Iran's leaders support a maximalist Hamas vision of a fundamentalist Muslim Palestinian state in all of historical Palestine, which requires the dissolution of the Israeli state. Since Israelis tend to justify their state project with reference to the Holocaust, the Ahmadinejad faction in Iran is replying with Holocaust denial as a counter to this argument. Note that other prominent Iranians, such as former President Mohammad Khatami, accept the Holocaust and have lambasted Ahmadinejad for questioning it. More: http://www.juancole.com/2006/12/new-middle-east-cold-war.html Also, a full transcript of the Kucinich-Paul panel on the Lancet study with the study's authors and Juan Cole empanelled. http://www.juancole.com/2006/12/kucinich-paul-congressional-hearing-on.html Leigh
