Criticism from Egypt, Jordan, Venezuela, to UN international day on Holocaust
Israel-Regional, Politics, 11/2/2005

The UN General Assembly set on Tuesday January 27th as a world day for the Holocaust which was carried out by the German Nazi regime during the second world war, on which Jewish organizations claim that 6 million Jews were killed in.

This reflects a great change in Israel's international position, especially at the UN General Assembly, which had once considered Zionism as a form of racism.

In a resolution which was unanimously voted at the UN General Assembly it said "the UN declares January 27th" which falls on the day of the Soviet forces liberation of Oshvitz camp in Poland as the world day for the victims of the Holocaust, and calls on the member states to draw educational programs aiming at consolidating in the minds of the new generations the morals that can be studies from the Holocaust so as to avoid the occurrence of acts of extermination in the future.

The Israeli foreign minister Silvan Shalom considered from Tel Aviv that the resolution is a meaningful step in the war against anti-Semitism, adding that "at last the UN recognized the importance of its lesson ( the holocaust ) and by the end it views Israel in a way it is equal with other countries."

But the Egyptian ambassador at the UN Najid Abdul Aziz said this day should be the memorial day for victims of mass extermination "without discrimination on the base of religion or the race," and not to be confined to the victims of the Holocaust. He said "we consider that no body can monopolize sufferings."

The Jordanian ambassador to the UN prince Zayed al-Hussein described the Holocaust "as the largest crime of its sort" that took place on the European lands against Europeans, but he stressed that this crime should not be used as a justification for the 'hegemony of one people on another, continuously,'" in remarks to the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian lands.

The ambassador of Venezuela expressed her regret that the resolution does not include the massacres took place in Cambodia, Rwanda and Kosovo, adding it also did not include the two atomic bombs drawn by the US against the two Japanese cities of Nagasaki and Hiroshima.

It is said that about 20 million Russians died as a result of the Nazi led war.

The UN secretary general Kofi Annan described the Holocaust of the "special evil that can not be easily forgotten," while the German foreign minister Yushka Fischer said in a statement "for us, we the Germans, the Holocaust crimes will be the black chapter in our history. A matter which makes it imperative on us to adopt certain responsibilities," adding "we can not, and should not forget these responsibilities."

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