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August 6, 2004
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Egypt’s leading newspaper published a two-part article denying the Holocaust by saying Jews invented “lies of genocide.” The columnist for Al-Liwaa al-Islami, Rif’at Sayyed Ahmad, wrote earlier this summer that the Jews created the “lie” to receive financial, technological and economic aid from the West and to make it easier to establish the State of Israel in Palestine.

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