Think we can say they really want to destroy Israel yet?
Mahmoud Ahmedinejad says that “The very existence of the Zionist regime is an insult to humanity.” Looking forward to hearing Juan Cole insist that he means it’s the government of Israel that must go, not Israel itself. Especially after we hear this:
“The Zionist regime is a malignant cancer, if even one cell remains on Palestinian land, the current situation will continue in the future,” the president said and warned: “Zionists want to spread.”
The AP has it right, for a change, even down to the headline.
Iran: Israel’s existence ‘insult to all humanity’
Israel’s existence is an “insult to all humanity,” Iran’s president said Friday in one of his sharpest attacks yet against the Jewish state, as Israel openly debates whether to attack Iran over its nuclear program.Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said confronting Israel is an effort to “protect the dignity of all human beings.”
“The existence of the Zionist regime is an insult to all humanity,” Ahmadinejad said. He was addressing worshippers at Tehran University after nationwide pro-Palestinian rallies, an annual event marking Quds (Jerusalem) Day on the last Friday of the holy month of Ramadan.
But the Guardian’s Iranian apologists felt the need to change the headline.
Iran: Israel’s Zionist regime ‘an insult to humanity’
Both the AP and the Guardian seem to have missed this quote, however:
“The Zionist regime is a malignant cancer, if even one cell remains on Palestinian land, the current situation will continue in the future,” the president said and warned: “Zionists want to spread.”
See Juan. See him spin. Spin, Juan, Spin.
Just in case you believe Juan that the Iranians just want the current Zionist government replaced with one a bit more sympathetic to the Palestinians, perhaps you should take another look at this quote by an Iranian general:
“[Al-Quds Day] is a reflection of the fact that no other way exists apart from resolve and strength to completely eliminate the aggressive nature and to destroy Israel,” Jalali said, according to a report by Iran’s ISNA news agency.
It leaves nothing to the imagination. So when Professor Cole does deign to report on the current al-Quds day celebrations, he will be sure to ignore the calls for Israel’s destruction. Because that’s what disingenuous people do: They ignore facts that disprove their little worldviews.
Did you know that these calls for Israel’s destruction by a member state of the UN go against the UN charter? Of course not, because the media never reports that angle. The UN has ignored them for years, however, and in the IOC-controlled General Assembly, an anti-Iran statement would never make it through. Welcome to another day in Israeli Double Standard Time. But don’t worry! It only occurs on days that end with a “y”!
John “Juan” Cole is an enemy agent and should be treated as such.
Every statement on Israel from the Mad Mullahs “is a reflection of the fact that no other way exists apart from resolve and strength to completely eliminate the aggressive nature and to destroy” the Mad Mullahs before they can produce nukes and start a nuclear war.
Fixed it.
In 2004 I came to the conclusion that there was nothing short of force that could stop the Ayatollahs from getting nukes. There is nothing you can offer them, nothing short of war that will hurt them enough to persuade or compel them to cease trying to build nuclear weapons. Such weapons will enable them to attain their fondest ambitions: the genocide of the Jews, the Iranian domination of the entire Near East and beyond, and the destruction of the USA (Britain too is in their crosshairs). To achieve these goals they have isolated their country diplomatically, impoverished the country and its population, and risked war.
I also concluded that no one would do anything serious to stop them, and so far I’ve been quite correct. Maybe Israel will; Iranian threats of genocide ought to be a legitimate casus belli under the UN Charter, not to mention the customary law of nations for self-defense (but we know that no other countries will ever admit Israel ever has a legitimate casus belli). But I think that Iran’s facilities have been hardened enough so that to be sure of destorying them, Israel would have to use nukes. I do not think anybody, including Bibi, will make a nuclear strike without first receiving one (until the Mullahs do it; they will not hesitate to do so). I can only pray that Israel’s anti-missile defenses work superlatively well.
And for anybody in the USA inclined to think “It’s Israel’s problem, it’s no scales off my sitzplatz,” we are next on the Mullah’s target list.