Iranian President Threatens Israel and West
I suppose this is not actually “news,” in the sense that he’s been at this game for some time. Nevertheless, it’s worth reporting because he’s the leader of a country bent on acquiring nuclear weapons. You can watch a video of an excerpt from his speech at the MEMRI TV website. The text of that excerpt appears below.
To this the crowd offered repeated cheers of Allah Akbar—God is great!
The report of the speech at the website of IRNA (Iranian Republic News Agency) is also interesting. There’s the usual tirade against Jews, Zionism, and the “illegitimate entity,” known in western circles as Israel. The president stated that "if a free and fair referendum were held among Palestinians, they would call for withdrawal of the Zionist regime from the occupied lands and for establishment of an independent government."
If we assume that is true, and it may well be given the electoral strength of Hamas, then there is absolutely no reason for Israel to negotiate with, or to accommodate in any manner, the Palestinians, since it is apparently their goal not to reach an accommodation with the “illegitimate entity,” but to eliminate it.
And the bottom line for Americans is simple: if we do not throw Israel to the wolves, Muslim rage will spill out of the region and strike the United States.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: Today, it has been proven that the Zionists are not opposed only to Islam and the Muslims. They are opposed to humanity as a whole. They want to dominate the entire world. They would even sacrifice the Western regimes for their own sake. I have said in Tehran, and I say it again here--I say to the leaders of some Western countries: Stop supporting these corrupt people. Behold, the rage of the Muslim peoples is accumulating. The rage of the Muslim peoples may soon reach the point of explosion. If that day comes, they must know that the waves of this explosion will not be restricted to the boundaries of our region. They will definitely reach the corrupt forces that support this fake regime.
To this the crowd offered repeated cheers of Allah Akbar—God is great!
The report of the speech at the website of IRNA (Iranian Republic News Agency) is also interesting. There’s the usual tirade against Jews, Zionism, and the “illegitimate entity,” known in western circles as Israel. The president stated that "if a free and fair referendum were held among Palestinians, they would call for withdrawal of the Zionist regime from the occupied lands and for establishment of an independent government."
If we assume that is true, and it may well be given the electoral strength of Hamas, then there is absolutely no reason for Israel to negotiate with, or to accommodate in any manner, the Palestinians, since it is apparently their goal not to reach an accommodation with the “illegitimate entity,” but to eliminate it.
And the bottom line for Americans is simple: if we do not throw Israel to the wolves, Muslim rage will spill out of the region and strike the United States.
