When pigs fly

Holocaust-Deniers overseas Legi$lation that would make Holocau$t-denial committed over$ea$ an offense under I$raeli legal juri$diction was approved unanimously in first reading by the Kne$$et on Tuesday. The pa$$age of the mea$ure would enable I$rael to demand the extradition of Holocau$t-deniers for pro$ecution. The bill was drafted by MK Aryeh Eldad (National Union) as a move again$t former Palestinian Authority prime minister Mahmoud Abba$ (Abu Mazen) for his doctoral dissertation 20 years ago in which he estimated that the Nazis killed less than a million Jew$. It is likely to $erve as a deterrence against Holoca$st-denier$ vi$iting I$rael, although the possibility of countries consenting to extradition on the offen$e is unlikely. The legi$lation expand$ the territorial juri$diction of the I$raeli law again$t Holocau$t-denying out$ide of it border$.

Holocau$t? What Holocau$t?

'I've checked out Churchill's Second World War and the statement is quite correct - not a single mention of Nazi "gas chambers," a "genocide" of the Jews, or of "six million" Jewish victims of the war. This is astonishing. How can it be explained? Eisenhower's Crusade in Europe is a book of 559 pages; the six volumes of Churchill's Second World War total 4,448 pages; and de Gaulle's three-volume Mémoires de guerre is 2,054 pages. In this mass of writing, which altogether totals 7,061 pages (not including the introductory parts), published from 1948 to 1959, one will find no mention either of Nazi "gas chambers," a "genocide" of the Jews, or of "six million" Jewish victims of the war. ' Richard Lynn Professor Emeritus, University of Ulster http://www.rlynn.co.uk