Saturday, June 9, 2007
Neutrality in the face of the wicked is evil
YNet: Switzerland offers 'Holocaust perception' meet with Iran
Switzerland secretly approached Iran offering to hold a conference regarding "various perceptions of the Holocaust" in Geneva, the Swiss magazine Weltwoche reported earlier this week.
The proposal was made via confidential memorandum from Switzerland's President, Micheline Calmy-Rey, to Iranian deputy foreign minister Saaid Jalili, during his visit in Switzerland last December.
The Swiss foreign ministry objected to the idea, annulling it. Calmy-Rey's proposal, which would have voiced anew the Iranian doubts over the very existence of the Holocaust, outraged many Jewish organizations, which demanded she apologize.
Calmy-Rey was subject to her own party's criticism as well, as her accusers said that should her proposal be realized she would have compromised Switzerland's international diplomatic status.
Western diplomats described the proposal as a "clumsy, dangerous idea, intended to help Iran out of its seclusion." The Weltwoche magazine, which broke the story, called the idea "a stupid, naïve notion" saying the Iranians would have clearly used the conference for their own agenda.
The Swiss president, the magazine assumed, hoped the proposal would push the Swiss initiative for alternative negotiations between Tehran and the West over the Iranian nuclear plan...
[via Dhimmi Watch]
I cannot believe the Swiss government would be so incredibly silly. What were they thinking? Helping Iran out of its seclusion? Why? Seclusion is really Iran's own choice.
And what a ridiculous vehicle to choose! A revisionist Holocaust conference! Of course cooler heads prevailed in the foreign ministry. But how could a president of a country be so ignorant?
And what "various perceptions of the Holocaust" did she think would be explored?
There appear to be three perceptions of the Holocaust: 1. It happened, 2. It happened but was exagerated all out of proportion by Zionists, and 3. It never happened and was invented by the Zionists. I don't think I'm doing too much violence to the truth here. Which perception did the president of Switzerland think was worth exploring? What brilliant ideas did she expect from Ahmadinejad?
I must say that I'm coming across more and more evidence that the Western Europeans are not more intellectually sophisticated or gifted than anyone else, much as they think they are. They have their fair share of stupidity.
You want to know what's worse? Someone in the Ynet comment thread pointed out that the Swiss in 2004 INTRODUCED A LAW TO PARDON PEOPLE WHO ASSISTED JEWS IN ESCAPING THE HOLOCAUST.
Yes you read that correctly.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3530259.stm
Sophia,
There is a lot about the Swiss that has not made it to the MSM.
During the War they prosecuted people helping Jews flee from Germany.
They also allowed trains carrying French Jews to the death camps to pass through Switzerland.
As a 'neutral' country during the War they surely were accomplices.