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Ahmadinejad challenges Europe to take back Jews in Israel
2006-01-21
Screwball continues to build the case VDH notes in his opinion piece today. It's a drip-drip-drip attack on the legitimacy of Israel, and I suspect it will work with the Europeans to immobilize them.
DAMASCUS - In a new attack on the existence of Israel, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has challenged Europe to take back the Jews who emigrated to Israel, adding that no Jews would remain in Israel if Europe were to open its doors.

Ahmadinejad delivered the challenge after arriving in Syria for a two-day visit on Thursday. Addressing Europe, he asked: "Would you open the doors of your own countries to these (Jewish) immigrants so that they could travel to any part of Europe they chose?"

"Would you offer the necessary guarantees that you would provide for their security when they came to your countries and not allow another anti-Semitic wave in Europe?" he added in an apparent reference to recent attacks on Jewish cemeteries and properties in European states.
If there's anyone who would know anti-Semitism, of course, it's Screwball.
In his comments in the Syrian capital, which Iran's official Islamic Republic News Agency reported Friday, Ahmadinejad forecast that the West would not answer the questions he had posed but would instead accuse him of "talking against global peace."

He said Europe should welcome Jewish people to prove its sincerity in supporting people's freedoms. He added he was confident that no Jews would remain in Israel if European countries allowed them to immigrate.
Posted by:Steve White

#13  His 'halo' only shows at the UN, I guess.
Posted by: Brett   2006-01-21 21:37  

#12  abu Maynard
Posted by: 6   2006-01-21 19:44  

#11  There are 100,000 Iranian Jews in Israel, which would mean more Jews in Israel came from Iran than any European country bar Russia.
Posted by: phil_b   2006-01-21 17:19  

#10  Heh - Evil Gilligan works - kinda like Evil SPock with the goatee...
Posted by: Oldspook   2006-01-21 16:05  

#9  Islamic Nazis.

A two-fer if there ever was one.
Posted by: Cherens Ominemble6407   2006-01-21 14:55  

#8  no offense to Bob, OS, he just looks like him. Should I say the "Nazi Gilligan"?
Posted by: Frank G   2006-01-21 14:44  

#7  Why does any of the press give him such deference?

They're on the same side.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble   2006-01-21 14:41  

#6  Please no. I knew Bob Denver, and he was a gracious and easy-going man. His work in his home state of West Virginia was a Godsend to many.

This guy in charge of Iran is Hitler and Goebbels rolled into one.

Why does any of the press give him such deference?
Posted by: Oldspook   2006-01-21 14:32  

#5  a demand they finish the job?
Posted by: Frank G   2006-01-21 14:15  

#4  "Ahmadinejad challenges Europe to take back Jews in Israel"

Doesn't this basically amount to a declaration of war vs. Europe?
Posted by: Danking70   2006-01-21 14:09  

#3  I just figured out who he resembles (to me): a swarthy Bob Denver, AKA Gilligan or Maynard G Krebs
Posted by: Frank G   2006-01-21 13:58  

#2  1. Seems joooos were never, ever present in the middles east until 1948.

2. 'splain the treatment of muslim refugees in middle east countries.

Sauce for goose.
Posted by: Hupomoger Clans9827   2006-01-21 13:19  

#1  This AHitler-nejad guy needs some 9mm brain surgery, and soon.
Posted by: Scooter McGruder   2006-01-21 13:10  

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