A dust storm over the Holocaust

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What is most striking is that the hue and cry of the "international community" has been mainly restricted to the Christian world (European and Slavic), apart from Israel, of course.

In the Muslim world itself, there was a deafening silence.
Arguably, Ahmadinejad's remarks did not come as a surprise to the Arab street. At any rate, the fact remains that Jews did not suffer persecution at the hands of the Muslim world. In fact, through centuries, Jews often took refuge in the Ottoman Empire while fleeing from the Christian world. But that alone does not explain the reaction - or lack of it - in the Middle East and the Gulf countries to Ahmadinejad's remarks.

Yet Ahmadinejad's primary audience was the Muslim world. Indeed, he hardly cares about what the West thinks about him. Moreover, he spoke in Mecca, on the sidelines of the extraordinary summit meeting of the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC). He has made an important point - he is in sync with the Muslim opinion that despite the ambivalence of some pro-American Arab regimes, there is a near-insurmountable barrier at present in reconciling with what today's Israel has come to represent.
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