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Iran 'worst threat to Jews since Hitler'
Telegraph ^ | April 24, 2006

Posted on 04/24/2006 1:07:34 PM PDT by West Coast Conservative

Iran's nuclear programme is the most serious threat faced by Jews since the Nazi holocaust, Israel's defence minister has said.

Shaul Mofaz said: "Of all the threats we face, Iran is the biggest. The world must not wait. It must do everything necessary on a diplomatic level in order to stop its nuclear activity."

He added: "Since Hitler we have not faced such a threat."

Iran insists that its nuclear programme is aimed solely at producing energy, and that it has no ambitions to acquire an atomic arsenal.

But calls by Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, for Israel to be "wiped from the map" have increased tensions between the two countries.

Israel has so far endorsed American efforts to curb Iran's nuclear programme through possible sanctions.

But earlier today Mr Ahmadinejad said he did not think the US would go through with its threats.

"I think it is very unlikely for them to be so stupid to do that," he said. "I think even the two or three countries who oppose us are wise enough not to resort to such a big mistake."

Mr Mofaz said: "Pressure must be applied on the Iranians to ensure that they realise there is no returning from the path they are taking."

Shaul Mofaz is likely to surrender the Defence Ministry to the more moderate Labour Party chief Amir Peretz in the next Israeli coalition government.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Israel; News/Current Events; Philosophy; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: ahmadinejad; annihilation; axisofterror; hitler; holocaust; iran; islam; jews
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1 posted on 04/24/2006 1:07:37 PM PDT by West Coast Conservative
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To: West Coast Conservative

And the results will be the same....I'm afraid.


2 posted on 04/24/2006 1:08:21 PM PDT by CROSSHIGHWAYMAN (Toon Town, Iran...........where reality is the real fantasy.)
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To: West Coast Conservative
Iran insists that its nuclear programme is aimed solely at producing energy

Funny, I don't see any environmentalists, leftists, and other associated moonbats protesting Iran's claims to want to produce nuclear power like they do, ad nauseum, over here.

3 posted on 04/24/2006 1:10:29 PM PDT by frankiep
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To: CROSSHIGHWAYMAN

And, as with Hitler, the U.S. and Europe will just sit back and let it happen.


4 posted on 04/24/2006 1:12:07 PM PDT by libertarianPA (http://www.amarxica.com)
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To: CROSSHIGHWAYMAN

Oh ye of little faith...

Iran is going to be destroyed if they try anything with Israel.

Wait and see.


5 posted on 04/24/2006 1:12:45 PM PDT by Emmet Fitzhume ("Shining with brightness, Always on surveillance.")
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To: Emmet Fitzhume
Oh ye of little faith... Iran is going to be destroyed if they try anything with Israel. Wait and see.

Iran's "Mein Kampf" is loud and clear.

Waiting for a different result is not an option.

6 posted on 04/24/2006 1:15:12 PM PDT by CROSSHIGHWAYMAN (Toon Town, Iran...........where reality is the real fantasy.)
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To: frankiep

Silence is deafening when the protection of Jews enters the equation. Moonbats and Nazis are like minded in such thinking. Recall, Hitler was a vegetarian.


7 posted on 04/24/2006 1:16:42 PM PDT by timsbella (Mark Steyn for Prime Minister of Canada!)
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To: Emmet Fitzhume

Yiu got it. I think Israel has "The biggest stick" on the block it that part of the world...and would not be afraid to use it either.


8 posted on 04/24/2006 1:20:44 PM PDT by Meadow Muffin
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To: West Coast Conservative
I've been saying for the past few months now that I feel like this is what it must have felt like by my grandparents and parents by in the 1930's watching Hitler as he began his rise to power. Stirring feelings of nationalism, pride, superiority, and unabashed hatred for the Jews, blaming them for all the ills of his nation. Beating the war drums loudly and threatening any nation that speaks against him.

I guess, I'm not the only one that's thinking along these lines.

9 posted on 04/24/2006 1:23:13 PM PDT by OB1kNOb (History will record that America's unprotected southern border was it's Trojan horse.)
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To: Emmet Fitzhume
Iran is going to be destroyed if they try anything with Israel.

Once it is determined that Iran is near a workable and deliverable nuclear weapon Israel will have no choice. They will not destroy Iran, but they will destroy its leadership and nuclear weapons program. However, I do not think Israel has the capability to do this with conventional arms. They do have this capability with their nuclear bunker busters. They might even consider a preemptive conventional strike against the leadership and hope for an internal revolution. Failing that, I suspect Israel would go nuclear on Iran. They would have no choice. Otherwise, Israel would suffer a nuclear strike on it soil. Even so, Israel has nukes that are at sea. The nation that strikes Israel with a nuke will be destroyed.

10 posted on 04/24/2006 1:33:10 PM PDT by cpdiii (roughneck (oil field trash and proud of it), geologist, pilot, pharmacist, full time iconoclast)
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To: Emmet Fitzhume
Iran is going to be destroyed if they try anything with Israel.

I am in total agreement. Israel has already prepared for this scenario. We here in the states dissect their abilities to provide enough firepower and/or intelligence to rock back Iran's nuclear capacity. There is no; 'We cannot do it, it is not possible!' in Israel. It is only a matter of timing, weather, and precision, never mind any question as to these people's loyalties. They do not exist to this day by chance.

11 posted on 04/24/2006 1:51:38 PM PDT by Tracy V. (Hell is the impossibility of reason)
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To: cpdiii
They might even consider a preemptive conventional strike against the leadership and hope for an internal revolution.

Given the rather poor history of aerial bombardment in achieving the capitulation of a civilian populace, I'd say your hope is rather unlikely. The mullahs would use an Israeli strike as an excuse for a political crackdown. Any Iranians that were wavering will likely support the mullahs after the bombs begin to fall.

Second, I am beginning to have my suspicions about the "Iranian Opposition". I think that the opposition is not nearly so strong, and the mullahs are using their mere existence to forestall western military action.

12 posted on 04/24/2006 1:54:53 PM PDT by Tallguy (When it's a bet between reality and delusion, bet on reality -- Mark Steyn)
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To: West Coast Conservative

The anti-Semite LEFTIST Democrats are ROOTING for Iran...against Israel and US!!


13 posted on 04/24/2006 2:25:22 PM PDT by Suzy Quzy ("When Cabals Go Kaboom"....upcoming book on Mary McCarthy's Coup-Plotters.)
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To: West Coast Conservative

Keep in mind, folks, that if Iran was serious about Nukes, they would develop them in secret.

This is nothing more than an international shake down. The EU will pony up cash to "keep them from developing weapons". The Iranians will pray for a new US Democratic President who will do the same.


14 posted on 04/24/2006 2:30:32 PM PDT by Wiseghy ("You want to break this army? Then break your word to it.")
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To: West Coast Conservative
"Iran 'worst threat to Jews since Hitler'"

The difference this time is the Jews have guns and a pretty damned fine army.

16 posted on 04/24/2006 3:01:04 PM PDT by muir_redwoods (Free Sirhan Sirhan, after all, the bastard who killed Mary Jo Kopechne is walking around free)
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To: timsbella
Hitler was a vegetarian

And, obviously, a Socialist.

Which throws out the theory that Bush is hitler. Any current socialist democrat liberal has more in common with Hitler, than Bush does.

17 posted on 04/24/2006 3:42:19 PM PDT by Bear_Slayer (When liberty is outlawed only outlaws will have liberty)
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To: West Coast Conservative

Islam is worst threat to Jews since Hitler.


18 posted on 04/24/2006 4:35:03 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY ((((Truth to a Liberal, is like a crucifix to a vampire))))
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To: libertarianPA
"And, as with Hitler, the U.S. and Europe will just sit back and let it happen."

In the end its ones own responsibility to protect themselves. Americans have been more than civil to the Jewish people.
19 posted on 04/24/2006 4:39:02 PM PDT by RHINO369
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To: CROSSHIGHWAYMAN
Iran's "Mein Kampf" is loud and clear. Waiting for a different result is not an option.

Big difference between German Jews of the 1930's, and the Israeli Jews of this century.

Israel has nukes.

20 posted on 04/24/2006 4:43:54 PM PDT by Doe Eyes
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