
As I sit here watching the news, I see that President Obama is visiting Buchenwald Death Camp. He is the first American President to do so. I am proud that he is speaking out against those who deny the Holocaust, especially the Iranian President. I am also in hope that we can concentrate on the atrocities that are currently taking place in the world starting with Darfur and potentially Rwanda (again).
His speech in Cairo included a scathing indictment of those who question the Holocaust. To do so, he said, “is baseless, it is ignorant, and it is hateful.”
In a reference to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who has expressed doubts that 6 million Jews died at the hands of the Nazis and who has urged that Israel be wiped from the map, Obama said, “Threatening Israel with destruction or repeating vile stereotypes about Jews is deeply wrong and only serves to evoke in the minds of the Israelis this most painful of memories while preventing the peace that the people of this region deserve.”








