Iranian leader: Holocaust a 'myth'

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has described the Holocaust as "a myth" and suggested that Israel be moved to Europe, the United States, Canada or Alaska.
The United States, Israel and the European Commission -- along with individual European countries -- have condemned the remark.
Ahmadinejad sparked widespread international condemnation in October when he called for Israel to be "wiped off the map."
Last week, he also expressed doubt about the killing by the Nazis of six million Jews during World War II, but Wednesday was the first occasion when he said in public that the Holocaust was a myth.
"They have invented a myth that Jews were massacred and place this above God, religions and the prophets," Ahmadinejad said in a speech to thousands of people in the Iranian city of Zahedan, according to a report on Wednesday from Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting.
"The West has given more significance to the myth of the genocide of the Jews, even more significant than God, religion, and the prophets," he said. "(It) deals very severely with those who deny this myth but does not do anything to those who deny God, religion, and the prophet."
"If you have burned the Jews, why don't you give a piece of Europe, the United States, Canada or Alaska to Israel," Ahmadinejad said.
"Our question is, if you have committed this huge crime, why should the innocent nation of Palestine pay for this crime?"

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Does he not believe in facts ? Myth ?? - First he calls for wiping out Isreal from the world map, then calls the holocaust a 'myth' and then ofcourse..is developing nuclear energy for peaceful means..now who would believe even a word of what he is saying..

I do not at all agree with what he espouses. But there is one interesting point that he brings up which made me stand up and listen..
"Why should the innocent nation of Palestine pay for this crime"...

There is no doubt that the Jews have had injustice meted out to them during the holocaust and that the humane world does need to stand up and support a culture and a people who have suffered such a calamity, but, at the same token, why do the Palestinians have to suffer today ?

Aren't they equally entitled to their land, their culture and their way of life. Being a prisoner in your own backyard isn't fun. Don't they have rights too ?

Can any reader explain how Israel came into being right in the middle of Palestine ? Were any alternatives considered ? Why were they rejected, if there were alternatives ? Who made the decision of deciding the homeland ?

Is the 'humane' world listening ? Are u going to stand up and be counted ?
To have to live a restricted life in your own backyard, isn't life at all.

Just like how the Isrealis expect a free life, wouldn't it also be fair to expect the same for the Palestinians ?