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| No Holocaust repeat, Israel tells Iran |
| 2005-12-14 |
| ISRAEL urged the world to "open its eyes" to the Iranian regime and its nuclear programme after its outspoken president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad described the Holocaust as a "myth". Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's spokesman pledged that Israel had the means to defend itself and would not allow for a second genocide of Jews. "Thank God, Israel has the means at its disposal to bring about the downfall of this extremist regime in Iran. There will be no second 'final solution'," Sharon's spokesman Raanan Gissin said. Sounds like a threat/promise to me. "We hope that these extremist declarations will make the world wake up to the nature of this regime -- especially the fact that Iran's nuclear programme and its support of international terrorism, represents not only a danger for Israel but for the entire Western civilisation." The comments came after Ahmadinejad said in a speech that "they have invented a myth that Jews were massacred" and said the Jewish state should be moved as far away as Alaska. Ahmadinejad also caused uproar in Israel and the international community in October when he called for the Jewish state to be "wiped off the map". "We hope these extremist comments by the Iranian president will make the international community open its eyes and abandon any illusions about this regime," foreign ministry spokesman Mark Regev said to AFP. "Israel is calling once more for Iran's nuclear programme to be submitted by the International Atomic Energy Agency to the UN security council" and for the imposition of sanctions, added Regev. Ahmadinejad's comments reflected a "perverse vision of the world held by this regime and underline the danger should such an extremist regime have a nuclear capacity in the future." Israel has consistently called for international action to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, with its chief of staff Dan Halutz claiming yesterday that Tehran would have all the necessary knowledge to build a nuclear warhead within three months. Israel is widely believed to possess around 200 nuclear warheads, making it the only nuclear power in the Middle East, although it has never admitted having atomic weapons. |
| Posted by:phil_b |
| #8 I 'smell' another 48 hour warning, next year...to stand down or 'Get outta Dodge' by "W"! |
| Posted by: smn 2005-12-14 23:34 |
| #7 I assume (based on reported threats during the Cold War) that the footprint of Israeli weapons would be at least as far as Moscow. That puts all the mid-east and most muslim lands within range of missile attach. |
| Posted by: 3dc 2005-12-14 20:58 |
| #6 You forgot to mention that Rafsanjani is a moderate. LOL! |
| Posted by: danking_70 2005-12-14 15:21 |
| #5 Who said that, mojo? |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2005-12-14 13:43 |
| #4 "Jews don't go quietly into the ovens anymore, sir. They fight, and they fight damn well." |
| Posted by: mojo 2005-12-14 11:41 |
| #3 There have been some extremely interesting developments in the US-Israel relationship. I wonder whether the strategy has been, all along, for us to establish a Mid-East Beachhead in Iraq and allow Israel to attack Iran from behind our shield. Meanwhile, Israel and the US have shown their willingness to compromise with the Gaza withdrawal and the statement by the president promising help to a Palestinian state. Indeed, this heightened rhetoric by Iran may be in reaction to their inability to harness outrage over the Palestinian cause to justify their terror. Considering this, I would consider the Iranian rhetoric as a sign of weakness and desperation. At least they are showing their true colors at heightened volume, loud enough that our "allies" cannot pretend that the motives of Iran are opaque and unknowable. 2006 may be the turning point when we suppurate the wound of the Middle East. |
| Posted by: mjh 2005-12-14 11:20 |
| #2 If this worries you, read the story on Rafsanjani saying the Islamic world could nuke Israel and basically get away with it. Then you'll really be worried about these assholes. When is the world going to aknowledge that they are going fully full-on for a nuke, and they won't hesitate to use it when it's done. And all the U.N. can do is threaten them with sanctions?? The U.N. is right, they really need a new building. |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2005-12-14 09:44 |
| #1 If the U.S. doesn't have the stones to carry out the end of the Islamo-Fascist regime in Iran, it is nice to know that Israel does and will reduce the Persian Empire into a glowing ashcan. Remember when President Bush called Iran part of the Axis of Evil and our Left-liberals laughed? Who is laughing now, Murtha, Kerry, Clinton, Kennedy and all you other insufferable asshats? |
| Posted by: The Happy Fliegerabwehrkanonen 2005-12-14 09:13 |