Ahmadinejad: Destroy Israel, End Crisis

[frigidmagi]

Washington Post

PUTRAJAYA, Malaysia -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Thursday the solution to the Middle East crisis is to destroy Israel. In a speech during an emergency meeting of Muslim leaders, Ahmadinejad also called for an immediate halt to fighting in Lebanon between Israel and the Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah.

"Although the main solution is for the elimination of the Zionist regime, at this stage an immediate cease-fire must be implemented," he said.

Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad smiles during a meeting with Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade, unseen, in Tehran, in this Tuesday, June 27, 2006 file photo. Ahmadinejad on Tuesday rejected a U.N. Security Council resolution that would give his nation until Aug. 31 to suspend uranium enrichment. Instead, Ahmadinejad insisted Tehran would pursue its nuclear program. (AP Photo/Hasan Sarbakhshian, FILE) (Hasan Sarbakhshian - AP)

Ahmadinejad, who has drawn international condemnation with previous calls for Israel to be wiped off the map, said the Middle East would be better off "without the existence of the Zionist regime."

Israel "is an illegitimate regime, there is no legal basis for its existence," he said.

In Jerusalem, Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Mark Regev responded by noting the ties between Ahmadinejad's regime and Hezbollah.

"Our operation in Lebanon is designed to neutralize one of the long arms of Iran _ Hezbollah," Regev said. "Hezbollah is their proxy, being used as an instrument of Teheran to advance their extremist agenda and the blow to Hezbollah is a blow to Iranian interests and a blow to all extremist jihadist forces in the region."

Ahmadinejad accused the United States of using Israel to try to control the Middle East and its oil wealth.

"Today the Americans are after the greater Middle East," he said. "The Zionist regime is used to reach this objective. The sole existence of this regime is for invasion and attack."

He urged Muslim states to "isolate" the United States and Britain, accusing them of supporting Israel's military offensive and saying they should be expelled from the U.N. Security Council.

Ahmadinejad also rejected proposals for deploying international troops along the Israeli-Lebanese border to separate the warring parties.

"Peace and security in Lebanon and its borders has to be preserved by the Lebanese government and people. Deployment of foreign forces is not acceptable in any shape unless it is just, based on U.N. rules and preserves the unity and territorial integrity of Lebanon," he said.

What makes this decade somewhat ironic for me is the fact that there are now nearly 6 million jews in Isreal... But hey I likely worry to much right? It's only a nation right next door to the only muslim nuclear power in the world. It's only a nation whose political leaders in form or another have been declaring death to Isreal, death to America for longer than I've been alive. It's only a nation that has been caught red handed supplying weapons to terrorist. It's only a nation where the leaders must do something, anything to distract their poeple from the economic slide downward and the total lack of political and religious freedoms.

Yeah, I'm likely worrying over nothing.

[Batman]

In all fairness destroying Israel WOULD probably end the crisis-which is one of the reasons they'll never actually do it. With the ZOMG Evil Imperialist Israeli Scumbags gone the governments of the Middle East would have to deal with a population that wonders why it's still basically living in a third world environment despite sitting on some of the world's biggest oil reserves.
Under the Status Quo, it's all the Jew's fault. With them gone, whom do they put the blame on?
And I wouldn't worry about Iran going on the offensive against Israel leave alone going nuclear all that much.
They know they'll lose a conventional war, they'll lose a nuclear exchange, and they'll lose even if they WIN the nuclear exchange. The moment Iran lobs a nuke at Israel is the moment they cease to exist and Iran's political leaders know that (despite their ranting about destroying Israel, their actual efforts towards doing so have been rather low key).

[SirNitram]

Graphic property of Arms Control Wonk. Too good not to post.

[Batman]

This is quite possibly the hardest to read banner (in a language I actually know) I've seen so far.

[frigidmagi]

"If one day, the Islamic world is also equipped with weapons like those that Israel possesses now, then the imperialists' strategy will reach a standstill because the use of even one nuclear bomb inside Israel will destroy everything [in Israel] while it will merely harm the Islamic world."

This man was considered moderate compared to the current President of Iran. The current President believes that that he was to weak in his dealing with the west and Isreal.

Whether or not Pakistan responds in kind to India's nuclear explosions, it should be noted that Pakistan has not claimed that it wants to become a nuclear-weapon State. We have not threatened to weaponize our nuclear capability.

These statments were delivered hours before the May 28th nuclear bomb test were annouced to the world. As a side note many of you may remember that Doctor Khan confessed to selling nuclear secrets to Iran among other nations.


As for whether the destruction of Isreal will solve anything. I will be blunt, anyone who believes for more than 10 minutes that destorying Isreal will solve the problems of the Middle East should quit smoking crack, it's killed to many brain cells for them to continue at that point. The problems of the Middle East lay within the Arabian rulers and those who prop them up.

It lies within their hypocritical behavior where within their own home nations they enforce brutal codes of moral correctness (google the Vice and Virtue Police, I dare you) and then tool off to Bahran (the Island Allah cannot see) for weekends of drunken whoring. I've been to that island twice, I am not kidding. Of course the really rich get to go to Europe and the States to do their drinking and sleeping around. All while threating to kill people for it back in their home nations.

It lies in the fact that despite having millions of dollars/Euros/pounds etc being thrown at them on a monthly basis, they still live in a shithole. Because their leaders rather spend the money on palaces and harems then on school systems and infersturcture.

There is also this to consider, Isreal is not the Great Satan, America is. Great Britian is. Isreal could disappear tomorrow, all that it would mean is they have to blame the US, Britian and the rest of the western powers in a louder voice. Of course this won't mean they'll forget about the jews, they'll simply push the conspircy theories that jews secretly controll the whole world and that they invented the holocaust to use as a guilt stick.

They have created a myth today that they call the massacre of Jews and they consider it a principle above God, religions and the prophets.

The question we have to ask ourselves is, do we trust this government with the ability to make nuclear weapons? Do we trust the suppliers of Hezbollah with the ability to make a nuclear bomb? I don't. Plain and simple the issue for me is not the reactors, the issus is the enrichment, that is how you make the uranium for a fission weapon. They agree to let the Russians do it, a nation by the way which as proven that they will tell the US to fuck off will make me perfectly happy. But an Iran with uranium enrichment is just a bomb waiting to happen, if not under this government then under another one down the line.

"No civilian nuclear programme can explain the Iranian nuclear programme. It is a clandestine military nuclear programme."

[Mayabird]

Ahmedinnerjacket is fucking insane. This guy needs a straitjacket and some strong meds more than anything else. Ahmadjihadi lives in his own little world which only tangentially intersects the real world. I mean, the guy tried to make an alliance with Germany against the Evil World Zionist Conspiracy or something, and wrote a 290-something word sentence in the letter. Ahmalamadingdong had a road paved so that the Mahdi wouldn't have to ride over potholes in his triumphant return. It's like paving a road for Jesus to come back.

Give me a little while and I can think of some more plays on his name.

[frigidmagi]

He believes that the West is fading. He believes that the west won't be able to summon the will to stop him from his goals. He believes that he can make Iran a world power because of the weakness of the west.

He also knows that the nuclear confrontation is helping keep a lid on discontent at home and makes him look stronger and bad ass to other nations, witness Chavi of Veneazula coming to visit and offer alliance for example.

If you accept his belief that the West is morally and willfully weak and unable or unwilling to do more than talk at him, his actions make much more sense.

It's for this reason I regard the Hezbollah war as a test of western willingness to fight. I'm still not sure if we passed or failed, because while it's clear that they did not expect Isreal to response so forcefully, Isreal didn't fulfill it objectives either.