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Iran's Ahmadinejad says Israel should be moved to Europe
AFP ^ | December 8, 2005

Posted on 12/08/2005 8:58:29 AM PST by West Coast Conservative

Iran's hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said that if Germany and Austria feel responsible for massacring Jews during World War II, a state of Israel should be established on their soil. Ahmadinejad, who sparked an international outcry in October when he said Israel "must be wiped off the map", also repeated his view Thursday that the Jewish state was a "tumour".

"Now that you believe the Jews were oppressed, why should the Palestinian Muslims have to pay the price?" the hardline president asked in an interview with Iran's Arabic-language satellite channel, Al-Alam.

"Why did you come to give a piece of Islamic land and the territory of the Palestinian people to them?

"You oppressed them, so give a part of Europe to the Zionist regime so they can establish any government they want. We would support it," he said, according to a transcript of his original Farsi-language comments given to AFP.

"So, Germany and Austria, come and give one, two or any number of your provinces to the Zionist regime so they can create a country there which all of Europe will support and the problem will be solved at its root," he said.

"Why do they insist on imposing themselves on other powers and creating a tumour so there is always tension and conflict?"

Al-Alam said Ahmadinejad was speaking in the holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia where he was attending a two-day meeting of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference that opened Wednesday.

"Is it not true that European countries insist that they committed a Jewish genocide? They say that Hitler burned millions of Jews in furnaces ... and exiled them," Ahmadinejad told Al-Alam.

"Then because the Jews have been oppressed during the Second World War, therefore they (the Europeans) have to support the occupying regime of Qods (Jerusalem). We do not accept this," he said.

He also noted that European countries "believe in this so much and are so determined that any researcher who denies it (the Holocaust) with historical evidence is dealt with in a most harsh way and sent to prison."

The Holocaust was Nazi Germany's systematic slaughter of an estimated six million Jews between 1933 and 1945, mainly in the latter years of World War II.

Official Iranian media frequently carry sympathetic interviews with Holocaust revisionist historians -- who attempt to establish that the number of Jews killed by the Nazis was wildly exaggerated.

Iran refuses to recognise Israel.

Ahmadinejad said his second proposal was for "a referendum in Palestine for all the original Palestinians" to decide on the future of what is now Israel, the Gaza Strip and West Bank.

But the president said that "the best solution is resistance so that the enemies of the Palestinians accept the reality and the right of the Palestinian people to have land."


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Israel; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: ahmadinejad; antisemitism; axisofevil; europe; iran; terrorism
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To: West Coast Conservative

The more bombastic comments Ahmadinejad issues the easier it shall be for the world to except this terrorist's 'relocation' in the near future.


21 posted on 12/08/2005 10:43:30 AM PST by M. Espinola (Freedom is never free)
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To: All

soon punk, very soon.


22 posted on 12/08/2005 10:52:39 AM PST by The Toll
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To: The Toll
It does sound like Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is "calling out Israel". He is taunting and throwing symbolic water in their face.

We all have seen it in American western movies...the bad guy calling out the good guy for a gun-fight in the street.

Mr. Ahmadinejad's days are numbered IMO. Israel will meet Iran at "high noon" pretty soon....

bye bye Iran,....we knew you when...

23 posted on 12/08/2005 11:09:41 AM PST by B.O. Plenty (Islam, liberalism and abortions are terminal..)
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To: Deo volente

Im liking it!


24 posted on 12/08/2005 11:12:08 AM PST by DeusExMachina05
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To: West Coast Conservative

Israel will move to "Europe" when Iran is moved to the middle of Antarctica.


25 posted on 12/08/2005 11:14:43 AM PST by Wuli
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To: Wuli

Iran, coming to a sandbox near you!


26 posted on 12/08/2005 11:18:24 AM PST by Wright Wing
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To: West Coast Conservative

All I see this as is more posturing by an Islamic leader. They all do this at some point for political gain. They know there people hate Israel, so they make empty threats.

But then again this guy seems like he's unhinged and he might actually be serious.


27 posted on 12/08/2005 11:18:43 AM PST by Madison Moose
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To: Para-Ord.45
Move Judea and Samaria to Europe !? How ! ?

Big honkin' steam-shovel.

I say we move 'em to the Catskills and Miami Beach...oops, too late...

28 posted on 12/08/2005 11:21:04 AM PST by Billthedrill
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To: CommandoFrank

Dear President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad:

Mess with the bull and you'll get the horn.........


29 posted on 12/08/2005 11:23:49 AM PST by jackson29
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To: West Coast Conservative
This actually tracks with how most EU types feel.

They truly believe Israel is an illegitimate entity that was created on Arab lands.

30 posted on 12/08/2005 12:04:16 PM PST by zarf (The BCS sucks.)
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To: West Coast Conservative

Maybe the Muslims should move out and give Iran back to the Persians.


31 posted on 12/08/2005 12:08:06 PM PST by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: West Coast Conservative
Iran's Ahmadinejad says Israel should be moved to Europe

The hallmark of horrid leadership: It has worked in Iran for 26 long years…

  1. Dilute discussion of your own failures
  2. Maintain some aura of authority by institutionalized public dependence and suppression of truth
  3. Create and emphasize an external demon
  4. Insure the public has no ability to confront said demon without the state
  5. Repeat until the a revolution or said demon sweeps you away

Ahmadinejad… we won’t be your demon any more! Change or you will be changed.

32 posted on 12/08/2005 12:18:44 PM PST by humint
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To: Deo volente

I have tickets to Cairo next year so that won't work.
Also I want to see Troy, Petra, and Palmyra someday.


33 posted on 12/08/2005 12:20:11 PM PST by rahbert
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To: VOA
Just my opinion...but the USA should have carved out parts of the most desolate land for immigrant Jews

I rather wish the same myself - a Zion blooming in Nevada or Utah?

I don't think that would have satisfied the Jews though - "if I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my tongue cleave to my mouth and my right hand forget its cunning..."

Don't know if it would have satisfied God either.

34 posted on 12/08/2005 12:20:47 PM PST by heartwood
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To: El Gato

Thanks for the correction. Because I am such an imperialist, I was only thinking of the Middle and Near East, completely dismissing Indonesia - which if I'm not mistaken is a group of islands in the western Phillipines. And Pakistan I lumped in with India.


35 posted on 12/08/2005 3:40:45 PM PST by karnage
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To: West Coast Conservative

So would that mean in return, Europe can boot out all of their Muslims?


40 posted on 12/12/2005 6:17:12 AM PST by dfwgator
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