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̔Abd al-Bari ̔Atwan, the chief editor of al-Quds al- ̔Arabi, in an inter-
view with al-Jazira TV, 2 November 2005, MEMRI TV Project, clip no. 999, 7
November 2005. This Holocaust denial drew further strength from Western
Holocaust deniers, most noteworthy among whom are Roger Garaudy, David
Bardash, and David Irving. An Iranian political analyst who unequivocally re-
jected the Holocaust even claimed that as written in “the Bible Book of Esther,”
the “woman was incited into killing around 170,000 Iranians” in what is known
today as the city of Susa. This number constituted “23–24 centuries ago the
entire population of the country,” and therefore the Jews were those who had
committed genocide against others. See Majid Goudarzi, MEMRI TV Project,
clip no. 1005, 23 January 2006.
Al-Ahram Weekly, 26 May–1 June 2005, a statement released during the
World Economic Forum meeting at the Dead Sea shore in Jordan.
Al- ̔Arabiyya TV, 28 August 2005, quoting Saif al-Islam’s interview by
the Lebanese Broadcasting Cooperation (LBC) TV, 22 August 2005, MEMRI TV
Project, clip no. 827, 30 August 2005.
See Simon Henderson and Soner Cagaptay, “Engaging Israel: The Sig-
nificance of the Istanbul Meeting between Israel and Pakistan,” Peacewatch, no.
513, 2 September 2005, the Washington Institute’s Special Reports on the Arab-
Israeli Peace Process; C. Jacob, “Debate on the Arab and Muslim World over
Normalization with Israel,” 27 November 2005, http://memri.org/bin/arti-
cles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=ia&ID=IA25505; and an interview with Pervez
Musharaf in the Washington Post, 29 January 2006.
E.g., Al-Sharq al-Awsat, 21 September 2005, and al-Hayat, 24 September
Al-Mustaqbal , Paris, 17 August 2005.
See, e.g., ArabicNews.com, 3 April 2005; Jerusalem Post, 2 June 2005, and
al-Hayat, 8 January 2004, 24 September 2005.
See http://www.akhban-libya.com, 21 November 2005, quoting Saif
al-Islam. However, this message is not typical of him and was not an official
quotation.
Ksenia Svetlova, “Libya Backs Away from Qadhafi Jr.,” Jerusalem Post, 2
June 2005, a report from Tripoli.
Ghanem in a statement at a seminar in Vienna on oil, ArabicNews.com,
17 September 2004.
