“There is no doubt that the new wave (of attacks) in Palestine will wipe off this stigma (Israel) from the face of the Islamic world,” Ahmadinejad told students Wednesday during a Tehran conference called “The World without Zionism.”
“Anybody who recognizes Israel will burn in the fire of the Islamic nation’s fury, any (Islamic leader) who recognizes the Zionist regime means he is acknowledging the surrender and defeat of the Islamic world,” Ahmadinejad said.
Ahmadinejad also repeated the words of the founder of Iran’s Islamic revolution, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, who called for the destruction of Israel. “As the Imam said, Israel must be wiped off the map,” said Ahmadinejad, who came to power in August.
Ahmadinejad referred to Israel’s recent withdrawal from the Gaza Strip as a “trick,” saying Gaza is part of the Palestinian territories and the withdrawal was meant to make Islamic states acknowledge Israel.
** It seems a bit strange that some of the other middle east nations are silent on his comment...
CAIRO, Egypt - Arab governments remained silent Thursday as international condemnation grew over a call by Iran's new president for Israel to be destroyed.
Despite the silence, analysts in the region said Tehran's Arab rivals may quietly be pleased to see the radical regime further isolated by its extremism.
However, some Palestinians — who would have the task of destroying Israel according to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad — rejected the remarks.
"We have recognized the state of Israel and we are pursuing a peace process with Israel, and ... we do not accept the statements of the president of Iran," Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat said. "This is unacceptable."
European governments condemned Ahmadinejad's comments, with British Prime Minister Tony Blair saying they increased concerns the clerical regime is a threat to global security and may even trigger pleas for pre-emptive action against Iran.
"I have never come across a situation (with) the president of a country saying they want to wipe out" another nation, Blair told reporters Thursday.
French President Jacques Chirac called the remarks "completely irresponsible" and U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan expressed "dismay" at them, in a rare rebuke of a U.N. member state.
In contrast, newspapers across the Middle East reported Wednesday's speech by Ahmadinejad without comment, many of them on their front pages.
Egyptian Foreign Ministry and Cabinet officials said Cairo would have nothing to say on the address.
Jordanian Deputy Prime Minister Marwan Muasher also declined comment, apparently to avoid further aggravating relations with Iran, which the kingdom has accused of interfering in Iraq to strengthen the Shiite influence in the Middle East.
** Demos in Iran...
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iranians will hold massive demonstrations Friday to back their president in the face of international criticism of his remarks that Israel should be destroyed, Iran's foreign minister said.
Manouchehr Mottaki said Thursday the demonstrations will take place in Tehran and other parts of the country to mark al-Quds Day — the annual event when Iranians protest Israel's control over Jerusalem.
"The world will see the anger of the Islamic world against this regime," state-run television quoted him as telling ambassadors from Islamic countries. He added that the "Zionist regime is illegitimate."
On Wednesday, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told students that Israel should be destroyed. In a speech, Ahmadinejad also said a new wave of Palestinian attacks against Israel "will wipe this stigma from the face of the Islamic world."
He then cited the founder of the Islamic revolution, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, and said: "Israel must be wiped off the map."...
In 1979, Khomeini declared the last Friday of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan as an international day of struggle against Israel and for the liberation of Jerusalem.
** even Blair has had to do something, who knows maybe he will wake up to the fact we have lots of fifth column islamonazi terrorists living in the UK, thanks to the piss poor immigration checks that our nation has. Still its a start, maybe now people will realise that we need to get tough on terror and tough on the causes of terror( yes I know a Blairism but could not resist it). Hell I have been saying for ages that the only thing these people respect is a position of strength. Let them know if they fuck about with us we will fry their barbarian arses back to the stone age.
In the words of Caligula: "let them hate us, so long as they fear us."
HAMPTON COURT, England (AFP) - Iran will be seen by the rest of the world as a "real threat" if it persists with its hard line on Israel and its suspected pursuit of nuclear weapons, British Prime Minister Tony Blair said. ...
In an apparent reference to the United States, Blair -- whose nation holds the rotating EU presidency -- said "we will have discussions with our main allies over the next few days" on how to respond to Ahmadinejad's remarks.
French President Jacques Chirac was equally upset, calling his Iranian counterpart's words "senseless and irresponsible" and warning that they ""run the risk for his country of being left on the outside by other nations".
In a statement earlier in the day, the leaders of the 25 EU member states who had gathered at Hampton Court to debate Europe's response to globalisation "condemned in the strongest terms" the Iranian leader's words.
"Calls for violence, and for the destruction of any state, are manifestly inconsistent with any claim to be a mature and responsible member of the international community," they said.
In London, Paris, Bonn and a number of other European capitals, Iranian ambassadors and charges d'affaires were summoned to foreign ministries to hear stern official protests.
Ahmadinejad's Final Solution
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