Edited sentence: In the worldwide rush to isolate and vilify Iran, yet another opportunity was lost to provide a meaningful dialogue and exchange of information between the "West" and the elected Iranian president.Rather than taking the opportunity to correct the record and to set the Iranian regime straight about the manifest--and widely recorded--horrors of the holocaust, and equally importantly, to render an honest discussion about the abysmal situation facing Palestinians--through sending academic, state, and religious envoys to rebut deviant claims, world leaders instead chose to isolate rather than to seek diplomatic solutions.That the significance of the holocaust is not widely taught to Arab and Muslim populations fell, yet again, upon the deaf ears of world leaders, marking yet another missed opportunity, and one more abysmal failure in the annals of modern history.Thus belligerence and demagoguery ruled the day