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Netanyahu lashes out at Iran for 'mocking' Holocaust in cartoon contest
Topic Started: May 15 2016, 04:09 PM (408 Views)
Dem4life

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/may/15/netanyahu-iran-cartoon-contest-mocks-holocaust
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Dem4life

Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu lashed out at Iran Sunday for staging a Holocaust-themed cartoon contest that mocked the Nazi genocide of six million Jews during the second world war. The Islamic Republic was busy planning for another one, he said.

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But Netanyahu said Israel opposed not only Iran’s belligerent policies, but its values.

“It denies the Holocaust, it mocks the Holocaust and it is also preparing another Holocaust,” Netanyahu said at his weekly cabinet meeting. “I think that every country in the world must stand up and fully condemn this.”

State Department spokesman Mark Tone said the US was concerned the cartoon contest could “be used as a platform for Holocaust denial and revisionism and egregiously anti-Semitic speech, as it has in the past”.

“Such offensive speech should be condemned by the authorities and civil society leaders rather than encouraged,” Toner said. “We denounce any Holocaust denial and trivialization as inflammatory and abhorrent. It is insulting to the memory of the millions of people who died in the Holocaust.”

The denial or questioning of the genocide is widespread in the Middle East, where many regard it as a pretext Israel used for its creation and to excuse its actions toward the Palestinians.
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Robert Stout
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Jews should stab all the artists............ :hooray:
Jesus can raise the dead, but he can't fix stupid
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I'm honestly at the point where I don't give a rip what Netanyahu thinks.
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Attaburnsinhell

This is their answer to the Prophet Mohammed cartoon contest

Make cartoons, not war
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