Reply #13: This is a lie

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<snip>And the publication of the EU poll came but a week after the EU, under French leadership, refused to condemn the anti-Semitic screed uttered by Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohammed at the Islamic Summit Conference where he said that "the Jews rule the world by proxy. They get others to fight and die for them."</snip>

From the Conseil européen de Bruxelles (16 octobre 2003)
Déclaration de la Présidence sur les déclarations de M. Mahathir au Sommet de la Conférence islamique.

President Chirac:
"The EU deeply deplores the comments made earlier today by Dr Mahathir in his speech at the opening of the 10th session of the Islamic Summit conference in Putrajaya, Malaysia, in which he said:

'We are actually very strong. 1.3 billion people cannot be simply wiped out. The Europeans killed 6 million Jews out of 12 million. But today the Jews rule this world by proxy. They get others to fight and die for them.'

"Such words hinder all our efforts to further inter-ethnic and religious harmony, and have absolutely no place in a tolerant world."
source: http://www.ueitalia2003.it