[Congressional Record Volume 152, Number 135 (Friday, December 8, 2006)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E2167]
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  CONDEMNING IRAN'S COMMITMENT TO HOLD INTERNATIONAL HOLOCAUST DENIAL 
                               CONFERENCE

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                               speech of

                           HON. GEORGE MILLER

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                      Wednesday, December 6, 2006

  Mr. GEORGE MILLER. Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of the bill H. Res. 
1091, to condemn Iran's commitment to hold an international Holocaust-
denial conference.
  Recent reports that the Iranian government is sponsoring a Holocaust-
denial conference are deeply disturbing and offensive.
  Over the course of the last year, the tirades and actions of Iranian 
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the Iranian government have included 
calling the Holocaust a myth and holding an international contest for 
cartoons about the Nazi genocide. President Ahmadinejad has also called 
for Israel to be ``wiped off the map,'' and his anti-Semitic rhetoric 
and this conference are clearly part of an ongoing campaign to attack 
the Jewish people and Israel by any possible means.
  We live in a time in world history when we desperately need increased 
cooperation and understanding between nations and peoples in order to 
help reduce, not exacerbate, hostilities and tensions that can lead to 
deadly conflict.
  There is no place for these state-sponsored anti-Israel and anti-
Semitic provocations. And there is no justification, of course, for a 
conference on whether or not the Holocaust ever occurred. We all know 
that it did. To suggest otherwise is a repugnant and inflammatory 
action that is deeply disturbing to the Jewish people and to all people 
who had to endure the atrocities of World War II and all genocides that 
have occurred before and since.
  I join my colleagues and the world community in rejecting and 
denouncing this effort to fan the flames of hatred.

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