Haretz
Kislev 30, 5766
WARSAW - Polish lawmakers
condemned Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad yesterday for recently
dismissing the Holocaust as a myth, and said such statements were
"absolutely unacceptable for Poland, on whose land Nazis set up death
camps."
"The memory of the Holocaust in Poland is vivid and
painfully present," the parliamentary commission on foreign relations said
in a statement. "Millions of Polish citizens fell victim to the genocidal
and anti-Semitic policies of the Third Reich."
Polish lawmakers
also expressed "anxiety and indignation" with Ahmadinejad's call for the
elimination of Israel.
"This sort of speech has no place in
civilized political debate," they said, adding that such statements "can
be read as a call to war."
Ahmadinejad has drawn wide condemnation
after he described the Holocaust as a "myth" earlier this month, and for
calling two months earlier for Israel to be "wiped off the map."