Morsi Confidant Calls Holocaust “A US Hoax”

Fox News is reporting that a close political confidant of Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi called the Holocaust “a myth.” Fathi Shihab-Eddim, who is in charge of editors of all state-run publications, was quoted by the American news agency as saying, “The myth of the Holocaust is an industry that America invented” during World War II “in order to destroy the image of their opponents in Germany, and to justify war and massive destruction against military and civilian facilities of the Axis powers, and especially to hit Hiroshima and Nagasaki with the atomic bomb.” The Fox story comes two weeks after Egyptian news agencies aired film clips of Morsi himself making speeches in which he asserted that “The Palestinian Authority was created by the Zionist and American enemies for the sole purpose of opposing the will of the Palestinian people and its interests…No reasonable person can expect progress on this track. Either (you accept) the Zionists and everything they want, or else there is war. This is what the occupiers of the land of Palestine know – these blood suckers who attack the Palestinians, these warmongers, these descendants of apes and pigs.”