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2019-10-07 Europe

Merkel's gov't says Iran's call to ‘wipe Israel off the map' not antisemitic

[Jpost] German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government has declared that Iran's call to obliterate the State of Israel is not an expression of antisemitism.

On October 1, Merkel’s Foreign Ministry labeled the call to destroy Israel by commander-in-chief of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Gen. Hossein Salami as "anti-Israel rhetoric."

When the Post asked the Merkel administration if it agreed with the Foreign Ministry statement, a government spokesman told The Jerusalem Post: "We have nothing to add to the reply of the foreign office."

The Post had specifically asked if Salami’s statements were antisemitic.

In late September, Salami delivered his call to exterminate the Jewish state before an audience of IRGC leaders that was publicized by the state-funded IRNA agency, as well as other Iranian regime-controlled outlets.

Salami said that "This sinister regime must be wiped off the map and this is no longer... a dream [but] it is an achievable goal."

He added that his country has "managed to obtain the capacity to destroy the impostor Zionist regime" 40 years after the 1979 Islamic revolution.
It's just, how you say Endlösung in English?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-10-07 00:59|| || Front Page|| [11134 views ] Top
File under: Govt of Iran

#1 It wasn't the Bee!

I lost.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2019-10-07 03:03|| 2019-10-07 03:03|| Front Page Top

#2 Wouldn't want to jeopardize those vital exports to Iran.

Posted by Elmavimp Glinegum6967 2019-10-07 05:09|| 2019-10-07 05:09|| Front Page Top

#3 About what you expect from a Stasi PM of Deutschland!

Posted by 3dc 2019-10-07 06:37|| 2019-10-07 06:37|| Front Page Top

About what you expect from a Stasi PM of Deutschland! Posted by 3dc

Something fishy here, or are we simply to assume the various intelligence communities tend to call the shots ?

Posted by Besoeker 2019-10-07 06:45|| 2019-10-07 06:45|| Front Page Top

#5 In my book, being anti-Israel is worse than being anti-semitic. Of course, being a muslim is the worst.

Posted by Dron66046 2019-10-07 06:49|| 2019-10-07 06:49|| Front Page Top

#6 European ~~Conservative~~ Concern Troll will be along momentarily to say 1) Annhella Burka didn't really mean that. 2) She had to say it to placate the Cherman Hoi polloi and all the newcomers. 3) "What dual use exports?"

Posted by M. Murcek 2019-10-07 07:08|| 2019-10-07 07:08|| Front Page Top

#7 Israel will bw around for at least forever (until the old earth is destroyed. It's God promise to the Israel people. Might be a few hiccups here and there, but the country will remain.

Posted by Seeking Cure For Ignorance 2019-10-07 11:50|| 2019-10-07 11:50|| Front Page Top

#8 Does a German chancellor really want to wade into comments on anti-Semitism? Sometimes silence really is golden.

Posted by Tom 2019-10-07 11:54|| 2019-10-07 11:54|| Front Page Top

#9 I think you mis-estimate European Conservative, M.Murcek.

Posted by trailing wife 2019-10-07 11:55|| 2019-10-07 11:55|| Front Page Top

#10 Wow, now you're making things up about other commenters. I thought you only did that about me. Putting words in their mouths, and then criticizing them for what you made up.

Sheesh. Let people speak for themselves.

Posted by Herb McCoy 2019-10-07 15:27|| 2019-10-07 15:27|| Front Page Top

#11 You go Erb!

Posted by Skidmark 2019-10-07 16:38|| 2019-10-07 16:38|| Front Page Top

#12 Name-calling isn't an argument. It's a sign you don't have an argument.

Posted by Herb McCoy 2019-10-07 16:43|| 2019-10-07 16:43|| Front Page Top

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