* Holocaust and Iran.
The Iranians as everybody knows have been hosting a conference on whether 'the holocaust' occurred. The Iranian President seems to believe that the holocaust is used to justify the state of Israel. Whether the holocaust occurred or not has no bearing on the right of the state of Israel to exist.
The facts of the matter are that it does and has very powerful allies.
The argument as to whether it should exist where it does is a different matter. Those of a cynical point of view might misguidedly think that after WWII the west decided that resettling the survivors of the holocaust on land that didn't belong to them and didn't inconvenience them was an opportunity not to be missed. The accusation that many people are suffering for a problem not of their making but a problem that rightly belongs to Europe can't be said to lack any weight.
It seems odd that the West decided that reparation to the Jewish peoples should be provided by the Palestinians.
Those counties responsible for the Jewish plight either by eager participation, ommission or refusing sanctuary might have been expected to bear the burden of reparation. The Germans, French, English, Italians, Dutch, Austrians, etc, etc. These states might have carved out a bit of their own territory with guarantees supplied by the Americans to provide a permanent home for the Jewish people.I mean how many Middle-Eastern guards were there at the death camps?