Egypt news official: Holocaust a U.S. hoax
The Holocaust was a U.S. intelligence hoax and the 6
million Jews killed by the Nazis actually moved to the United States, an
Egyptian state news official said.
"The myth of the Holocaust is an industry that
America invented," said Fathi Shihab-Eddim, a senior figure close to
Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi responsible for appointing the editors of all
state-run newspapers.
"U.S. intelligence agencies in cooperation with
their counterparts in allied nations during World War II created [the
Holocaust] to destroy the image of their opponents in Germany, and to justify
war and massive destruction against military and civilian facilities of the
Axis powers, and especially to hit Hiroshima and Nagasaki with the atomic
bomb," Shihab-Eddim said.
He said the 6 million Jews killed by the Nazis during
World War II moved to the United States -- contradicting the accepted version
of events.
His remarks came Sunday as the world marked International
Holocaust Remembrance Day, an independent Israeli journalist reported on the
Fox News website.
The day's purpose is to remember the genocide that killed
6 million Jews, 2 million Roma and Sinti Gypsies, 15,000 homosexuals and millions
of others by Germany's Nazi regime and its collaborators.
Morsi, who is attempting to quell anarchy spreading
through three Suez Canal cities, had no immediate comment on the report.
His office said he was to leave Egypt Wednesday for a
short trip to Berlin to seek urgently needed foreign investment.
Recently translated remarks Morsi made to pro-Palestinian
Lebanese TV channel al-Quds referred to Jews as "the descendants of apes
and pigs" -- remarks from Sept. 23, 2010, Morsi later insisted were taken
out of context.
"Either [you accept] the Zionists and everything
they want, or else it is war," Morsi said in the translation released this
month by Washington's Middle East Media Research Institute.
"This is what these occupiers of the land of Palestine
know -- these blood-suckers who attack the Palestinians, these warmongers, the
descendants of apes and pigs," he told the TV channel while a leader of
the Muslim Brotherhood, whose party now rules Egypt.
Leading secular Egyptian opposition figure Mohamed
ElBaradei, a Nobel Peace laureate and former International Atomic Energy Agency
director general, condemned Morsi's 2010 remarks and his recent assertion the
comments were misconstrued.
"We are all aware that those statements were not
taken out of context and that this discourse is very common among a large
number of clerics and members of Islamist groups, ElBaradei said.
"Apart from the remarks themselves, I am calling
upon the person who made them to courageously admit either the real stance he
and the Muslim Brotherhood and their followers adopt, or how mistaken they had
been for all those years," ElBaradei said.
Efraim Zuroff, director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center
office in Jerusalem, told FoxNews.com Shihab-Eddim's remarks should give other
nations pause when evaluating their relationships with Morsi's struggling
government.
"Obviously, if a person in that position makes that
ridiculous claim it is of concern," Zuroff said. "The sad truth is
that these views are relatively common in the Arab world and are the result of
ignorance on one hand and of government-sponsored Holocaust denial on the other
hand."
The Wiesenthal Center broadcast the 1982 Oscar-winning
Holocaust documentary "Genocide," narrated by Orson Welles and
Elizabeth Taylor, on satellite across the Middle East and in Iran. The Iranian
broadcast by opponents of the Iranian government had subtitles in Farsi and was
streamed on Iranntv.com, run by France's opposition umbrella coalition the
National Council of Resistance of Iran.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has for many years
called the Holocaust a myth.
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