The vice chairman of Egypts top secular party told the Washington Times in an interview last week that the September 11 terror attacks, the Holocaust and Anne Franks diary are all historical fabrications.

The Holocaust is a lie, Ahmed Ezz El-Arab, Wafd Party leader told the Washington Times in Budapest where he was attending the Conference on Democracy and Human Rights.

Open gallery view A man in Cairo holds a sketch portraying Hosni Mubarak with a Star of David on his forehead, January 30, 2011. The caption reads: '30 years of devastation and treason,' referring to Israel-Egypt peace Credit: AFP

He went on to explain that it was factually impossible to claim that the Nazis killed 6 million Jews, saying the Jews under German occupation were 2.4 million. So if they were all exterminated, where does the remaining 3.6 million come from?

The Egyptian politician acknowledged that the Nazis may have killed hundreds of thousands of Jews, but discounted the plausibility of gas chambers and skinning Jews alive, calling them fanciful stories.

El-Arabs Holocaust denial did not stop there, and the Egyptian politician went on to attack the authenticity of Anne Franks diary, the memoirs of a teenage girl who hid from the Nazis in Amsterdam, only to be discovered and die in a concentration camp.

The Wafd leader recalled studying the novel that is one of the most widely distributed publications to date as a doctoral student in Stockholm. I could swear to God its a fake, he said. The girl was there, but the memoirs are a fake.

El-Arab concurred with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejads denial of the Holocaust – but discredited his motives.

Hes a hateful character, so whatever he says can be criticized, he told the Washington Times, adding what he says about the Holocaust is true, but he doesnt say it because its true. He says it out of hatred to the Israeli state.

When asked about future peace with Israel, El-Arab attempted to assuage fears that a new Egyptian government would cancel the 1979 treaty.

The Egyptian politician told the Washington Times that there is no chance at all that would happen, adding Egypt will not go to war unless its attacked, he said.

El-Arabs historical revision was not reserved for the Holocaust alone, and he also shared his theories on the September 11 attacks and their perpetrators with the Washington Times.

The Wafd leader denied that Osama bin Laden, the al-Qaida leader who was recently killed in an American raid on his compound in Pakistan, was behind the attacks.

He could not have the know-how or the ability to do it, El-Arab said, calling the dead al-Qaida leader an American agent.

The Egyptian politician added if he had the ability, one plane only landing on the Knesset would give more effect.

El-Arab blamed the CIA, Israels Mossad and the military-industrial complex.

Despite his Holocaust-denying views, it seems as though El-Arabs overall opinion on the Jewish people is favorable, telling the Washington Time that he believes that there was once a Jewish temple in Jerusalem, entitling the Jews to a historical claim on Israels capital.

The Jews are there, he said. Good or bad, they are there. However, he made sure to follow up with the clarification: You cannot as a human being think of exterminating 6 million or 5 million or whatever. Thats crazy.