To: Hawkmoon who wrote (1105 ) 5/14/2001 7:20:54 AM From: Yaacov Respond to of 23908 6 million Jews died in the Holocaust... But there were 11 million alleged total victims of this organized extermination. Many of those remaining 5 million were non-Jewish Poles, Christian and Catholic. Hence, the reason the current Pope is a Pole, based upon his actions under Nazi oppression"" Hello Hawk, I wonder where your post belongs!! Food for your thoughts: "Thanks to Hitler, of blessed memory, who on behalf of the Palestinians. revenged in advance against the most vile criminals of the face of the earth. Although we do have a complaint against him for his revenge on them was not enough" - Ale--Akhabr, Egyptians government-sponsored news paper, April 18,2001 "It is true, the number of was less than six million and Israel is using this issue to get sympathy world wide" -Ikrema Sabri, Palestinian-appointed Mufti of Jerusalem, Assocaited Press, March25,2000 Zioinist created the Holocasut myth to blackmail and terrorize the world's intellectuals and politicians" -Tishreen, Syrian government news paper, January 31, 2000 "If Auschwitz had been an extermination camp for Jews, virtually no Jews would have survived...Professional survivors such as Eli Wiesel, who present themselves as witnesses to the "holocaust" ar in fact living proof that the alleged extermination of the Jews did not take place." -Tehran Times, February 19,2001 Denying, trivializing or even lauding the Nazi extermination of 6 million Jews, including 1.5 million children, is vrey much alive today in the Middle East. Does this grotesque distoration of history helps to build foudnation of mutual respect and peace so disperately needed by the people of the region? Tragically, the answer speak for itself. "They (Isrealis and Jews) try to kill all the principles of the divine faiths with the same mentalityof betrying Jesus Christ and torutuing Him, and inthe same way they tried to commit treachery against profit Mohamed..." -Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's speech during the Pope John Paul II visit to Damascus, May 8,2001. "We must be fully aware of what the enemies of God and malcious Zionism consipres against CHristianity and Islam.."" -Muhammad Ziyadah, Syria's Minister of Religious Affairs. The New York TIme, May 7, 2001. Pope John Paul II, we were greatly saddened by you silence.