Posted on 05/21/2006 8:17:39 PM PDT by Esther Ruth
Iran: Fund to 'demolish' Israel set up
Iranian students set up fund dedicated to Israel's destruction. Encouraged by regime, students call fund 'symbolic move' in support of Palestinians
A group of Iranian students announced Sunday at an event attended by a high-ranking member of the elite Revolutionary Guard that they were setting up a fund to destroy Israel.
Although the initiative's name - "The Student Fund for Demolishing Israel" - brings to mind President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's call last year to destroy the Jewish state, an organizer said its goal was to support the cash-strapped Palestinian government.
Some 300 students attended the event hosted by a group calling itself the Movement of Justice-seeking Students at the University of Tehran.
"This is a symbolic move to attract public attention to the Palestinian cause at a time when Western countries have halted financial support to the Hamas-led government," Javad Miri, the group's spokesman, told The Associated Press.
Miri said the group was collecting money that it will send it to the Hamas-led Palestinian government. "When an elected government is in power in Palestine and Israel is pressuring it, everybody should help the Palestinians."
The United States and the European Union halted most of their aid to the Palestinian Authority following Hamas' victory in Palestinian legislative elections in January, requiring that the group renounce violence and recognize Israel.
Popular campaigns to collect money for the Palestinians have been launched in several Arab countries.
'We are ready to support Palestinians by any means'
A general in the elite Revolutionary Guards, Saeed Ghassemi, struck a militaristic note in his address to the crowd. "Resistance is the only solution for Palestinians," He said. "If you abandon the sword, that will be the beginning of your end," he advised Hamas.
But the response to the call for donations was hardly overwhelming. About 10 students dropped money into a box labeled with the fund's name. They also put stones in the box in a symbolic gesture of solidarity that alluded to the first Palestinian intefadeh, or uprising, when youths pelted Israeli soldiers with rocks.
"I hope it's the start of popular financial support for the Hamas government," Einollah Zarrinjoo, 21, a male student of philosophy said.
Mahin Rezai, 20, a female Persian literature student said, "We are ready to support Palestinians by any means. Silence could make the situation worse."
In April, Iran said it would give the Palestinian Authority USD 50 million in aid. Last year, Ahmadinejad said the Holocaust was a myth and that Israel should be wiped out. Apparently taking a cue from the president, the Iranian Foreign Ministry announced plans to hold a conference to examine evidence of the Holocaust.
The hard-line Association of Muslim Journalists has also proposed a similar event. Dates have not been set for either.
Iran is currently home to about 25,000 Jews who are represented by a Jewish lawmaker in parliament. About 75,000 left the country after the 1979 Islamic revolution.
(05.22.06, 00:52)
On Iran’s side, drop a coin in the turban; on Israel’s, beaucoup nukes, with the brains to put where sent.
Iran and N. Korea: both cruisin' for a bruisin'.
So many dictators, so little time . . . .
The "Dan's Bake Sale" of international terror.
Hillary and the DNC gave how much??
I made a Liberal friend of mine laugh the other day....
I said " You know when Bill Clinton or Jimmy Carter or God forbid John Kerry would theaten action, the guys we threaten would boast and brag, knowing they would live to see the morning. When George Bush says he ""might"" level your country. The Middle East listens."
I think they should do something real for the Palestinians like sponsoring a hundred Planned Parenthood clinics in their areas. :)
No, Arabs see jewish markets the way we see planned parenthood. No college expenses either way
Which is why one day this will be Islam agaisnt the modern world in war. (full out)
I'd be hiking on outta there...
IN the meantime, if Israel make a pre-emptive strike, who could rightfully blame them?
War has been declared upon them...at least, if someone said they were going to wipe me off the face of the earth, I would consider that war.
Israel is too small a country to wait for a first strike - it might not survive it.
Israel is no panty-waist country...she's tough.
And it's time for someone else to take the point. These madmen are intent on slaughtering non-mussies across Europe as well. Unlike what you hear from our lamestream, traitorous media - we are not the only targets of the terrorists.
so true LOL
every few hundred years the civilized world has to have this dance with the barbarians.
How many "history repeats" before it stops?
Hopefully, a good number of these are nuclear scientists, employed deep in the underground complexes of Iran's nuclear research facilities. We can hope at least some of those have loyalties to others than the mad mullahs.
HF
I've heard several Middle Easterners say that a very large part of the reason that we haven't been hit with another terrorist attack is that no one thought that Bush would fight back. He did, and now they're a little more reluctant to hit the US again.
Rocks in a box, huh?
My guess is that the Israelis are trembling in their boots.
Unlike what you hear from our lamestream, traitorous media - we are not the only targets of the terrorists.
Many (most) Europeans seem to think that the US is the only target, even after seeing what has recently happened in Spain, London, France, and Denmark.
Oh yeah!
Ostrich Syndrome?
Russia and China don't want to sanction these whackos; what does that say about them?
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