Palestinians share Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad`s view that Israel cannot co-exist with other nations in the region, said a senior Palestinian official Friday. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad`s view is based on historical realities, the representative of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), Mahir al-Tahir, added. At an international conference held in the Iranian capital Tehran in late October, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called for Israel to be ”wiped off the map.” The conference was titled `World without Zionism`. The president, who said in his speech that Israel was an illegitimate regime and, therefore, had no legal standing, also questioned why Palestinians should be the ones punished for alleged atrocities committed against Jews in Europe. Adding insult to injury, he argued, ”the west continues to ignore the daily slaughter of Palestinian people who are totally defenseless.” He also criticized brokers and supporters of a peace process that is aimed at striking a peace deal with Israel, maintaining that any deal struck with Israel would be of no value as the brokers want to establish peace at the expense of the Palestinians who would have to give up their homeland, rights and sovereignty over the holy sites. He stressed that the Palestinian nation will never give up their rights by giving up their arms. Iranian President Ahmadinejad also expressed doubts over the Holocaust (the massacre of millions of Jews in Naxi concentration camps in Europe) and urged countries which sympathize with alleged Jewish victims to give some of their territories to Israel so it can establish a new venue. His statements were the focus of a news conference he gave in the Saudi Arabian city of Mecca in early December on the sidelines of a conference of heads of state of Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC). The president pointed out that ”certain European countries would have the world go with their stand that Hitler killed millions of innocent Jews in furnaces and have passed laws punishing anyone who says anything to the contrary.” ”Granting without accepting that the Holocaust did occur, our question to the Europeans is: `If innocent Jews were indeed butchered by Hitler, why should Palestinians be made to pay the cost in order to seek redress for the occupiers of Jerusalem?” he said as further quoted in the news conference.