Ahmadinejad: Why focus on Holocaust?

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has called on the US media to shift their focus away from the Holocaust into other massacres that have taken place in the world and questioned how this incident dating back to decades ago can affect issues of our current times.

"There are many historical events, similar historical events. Why is this one in particular so important to you? During World War II, 60 million people were killed. "It doesn't matter if these people were Christians or Jews or Buddhists or Muslims, they are all human beings. They were killed. So, we're sorry for everyone," said Ahmadinejad.

Why are we just focusing on this special group alone?" Ahmadinejad asked in an interview with CBS.

In another interview with American paper the Washington Post, Ahmadinejad asked whether -from the point of view of US media- the Holocaust was an isolated issue, or one that still affected world affairs.

"Some questions need convincing answers: The first question that I have to try and understand is why in the midst of all that happened in World War II, the Holocaust is emphasized more than any other event?" he asked.

"The second question is, why do Western politicians focus on this issue so much? The third question is how does that event connect with issues that we see around us in the world today?

"We should ask ourselves whether the event did take place; if so, where did it happen, who were the perpetrators and, what was the role of the Palestinian people? What crime have they committed to deserve what they have received as a result?"

Ahmadinejad said since the beginning of the Israeli occupation, over 5 million Palestinians have become refugees.

"Why is the Holocaust used as a pretext to seize the land of other people? Why should the Palestinian people give their lives up for it? Who is the occupier here? The United Nations resolutions condemn which occupying regime?" he asked.

"What fair-minded person can accept that an event that happened in Europe [results] in having his or her land occupied elsewhere in the world?

"Unfortunately Western politicians refuse to answer these questions and outlet into other areas... We see the Holocaust as a pretext to commit genocide against the Palestinian people."

The Zionist State established itself in 1948 after forcing out millions of native Palestinians out of their homeland, because of their Arab race and Islamic religion, although they too were Semites.

According to the United Nations regulations, Palestinian refugees have an undeniable 'Right to Return' to their homeland, like all other native people of a country who have forcedly been displaced.