These types of editorials are nothing new in Al-Akhbar. They appear with great regularity in that publication.

Here are two others that I found when I was doing a research project a couple of years ago:

Al-Akhbar, September 25, 1998: "The Jews invented the myth of mass extermination and the fabrication that 6 million Jews were put to death in Nazi ovens. This was done with the aim of motivating the Jews to emigrate to Israel and to blackmail the Germans for money as well as to achieve world support for the Jews. Similarly, Zionism based itself on this myth to establish the State of Israel. The Holocaust is an Israeli myth which was invented to blackmail the world."

Al-Akhbar, July 14, 1998: "Zionism has elevated the Holocaust to a sacred level and uses it for the purposes of blackmail. Even if the ovens at Buchenwald and Auschwitz were working day and night, it would have taken dozens of years to kill six million people, and not just the three years which the Nazis had."

Thank you Tedham for bringing this forward.