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ヨーロッパでの受難は、アラブの土地を占領し、ムスリムを虐げることの理由にはならない。
ユダヤ人は自らが「選民であり、批判されてはならない(存在)」などと決して考えてはならない。
ユダヤ人・ムスリム間の問題の根本は宗教ではなく(アラブの)土地の占領である。
Holocaust is `no excuse,' Mahathir says
By Reuters
KUALA LUMPUR - Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, speaking on the eve of his retirement, said yesterday that the Jewish people's past sufferings in Europe were no excuse for taking Arab land and persecuting Muslims.
The 78-year-old Muslim leader, who steps down today after 22 years in power, said the Jews were now guilty of persecuting Muslims in the same way that Europeans had persecuted Jews down the ages.
"They must never think they are the chosen people who cannot be criticized at all," Mahathir said yesterday when asked if he had one last message for the world's Jews.
His October 16 speech to leaders of Islamic nations had centered on the need for Muslims to join the modern world, use their brains, make peace and stamp out suicide bombing.
It also contained grudging admiration for the way Jews had prospered despite their persecution, but the comment on their world influence evoked memories in the West of the conspiracy theories used in Czarist Russia and Nazi Germany to whip up anti-Semitism.
But Mahathir said the past suffering of Jews was a source of sadness for Muslims.
"They suffered a great deal in the past.
They were killed, they were massacred," he said.
"We sympathize with them.
We were very sad to see how the Jews were so ill-treated by the Europeans."
Mahathir denies being anti-Semitic and says he has Jewish friends.
He reiterated yesterday that the root problem between Jews and Muslims was the occupation of Arab land to form the state of Israel.
"It is not religion at all.
It is territorial.
You take somebody's land and they will fight for it."
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