Posted on 02/11/2006 2:08:09 PM PST by NYjarcola
Edited on 02/11/2006 2:46:48 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
Tehran (dpa) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Saturday that the Palestinians and "other nations" will eventually remove Israel from the region.
Addressing a mass demonstration in Tehran - one of many organized throughout Iran to commemorate the 27th anniversary of the Islamic revolution - he once again questioned the Holocaust "fairy tale".
"We ask the West to remove what they created sixty years ago and if they do not listen to our recommendations, then the Palestinian nation and other nations will eventually do this for them," Ahmadinejad said in a ceremony marking the 27th anniversary of the Islamic revolution.
"Do the removal of Israel before it is too late and save yourself from the fury of regional nations," the ultra-conservative president said. He once again called the Holocaust a "fairy tale" and said Europeans have become hostages of "Zionists" in Israel.
He also accused Europeans for not allowing "neutral scholars" to investigate in Europe and make a scientific report on "the truth about the fairy tale of Holocaust."
"How comes that insulting the prophet of Muslims worldwide is justified within the framework of press freedom, but investigating about the fairy tale Holocaust is not?" Ahmadinejad said.
"The real Holocaust is what is happening in Palestine where the Zionists avail themselves of the fairy tale of Holocaust as blackmail and justification for killing children and women and making innocent people homeless," Ahmadinejad said.
The president said that the results of the parliamentary elections in Palestine and the victory of the Hamas group "clearly showed what the people really want."
"You (the West) want democracy but do not respect the outcome," Ahmadinejad said, referring to the election results in Iraq and Palestine.
"It seems that you (the West) only want that form of democracy whose results just repeat your standpoints and only follow your policies," he said.
Ahmadinejad once again called on the West to adopt the "simple option" and allow Palestinians to voice their political will through a referendum.
Mass demonstrations organized by the state were held throughout Iran on Saturday as the nation commemorated the 27th anniversary of the revolution that established the Islamic Republic in Iran.
According to state media, hundreds of thousands of people came into the streets to show their solidarity with the government over pursuing the country's nuclear programmes and voice their protest against publication of cartoons deemed insulting to the Prophet Mohammed.
While chanting "Death to America", "Death of Israel" and "Nuclear energy is our undisputable right", the crowd walked toward the Azadi (Freedom) Square in Tehran where Ahmadinejad held his annual speech.
In his speech the Iranian president warned that in case of harsh measures against Tehran over its controversial nuclear programme, the country would revise its commitment toward the Nuclear Non- Proliferation Treaty (NPT).
"The policy of Iran has so far been pursuing nuclear technology within the framework of the NPT and IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency)," he said.
"But if you (the West) continue efforts to deprive the Iranian nation from this (nuclear) right, then we would reconsider this policy," he warned.
Ahmadinejad asked the crowd in the Azadi square to tell the world its message and show its willingness to continue the nuclear programmes despite Western pressure.
"The era of military force is over, today is the era of nations, logic and worshippers of God," the president said.
He also referred to remarks by United States President George W. Bush who had said that the Iranian people were different from the Islamic government in Tehran, saying there was no distinction.
"Look, this is the third generation standing here and they are even more religious, more informed, more enthusiastic and more resistant (than the first generation) to defend the ideals of the revolution," Ahmadinejad said.
The president also referred to the cartoons and called it a "Zionist plot" against not only Muslims but also those genuinely committed to Christianity and Judaism.
"Those who insulted the prophet should know that you cannot obscure the sun with a handful of dust. The dust will just get back and blind your own eyes," he said.
The crowd replied to his remarks with "Death to Denmark" slogans.
The one from the abyss (the pit) sure fits the description of the Mahdi (the 12th Imam) who Ahmadinejad (and the Twelvers) believes will return via the well (pit) under the Jamkaran Mosque near Tehran. It is said that Ahmadinejad has imams drop leaflets into the well with the names of prospective cabinet member for the mahdi's administration.
However, who knows? I guess we'll find out soon.
He's threatened Israel enough. Give him enough time, he will more than likely make good (or bad) on his threats.
This guy is realy asking for it.....
It's not just Iran that is of immediate concern. We need to decide what really to do about the so-called Palestinians. The longer this goes on the more dangerous and difficult the situation becomes.
How about Japan??? You can turn it to glass before it attempts to destroy America. Your move is.........?
Take out Iran and Syria NOW! Every last soul. Turn it to glass!
Some may, it depends on when that book was written..
IIRC, some say Allah too.. It also means "The Lord".. in Arabic..
And some say Yahweh..
But Israelites turned away from using Baal as a word for the Hebrew God..
It became associated with a pagan religion in direct conflict with Judaism..
This happened well before Christianity, and an additional 600 years before Islam..
There are so many who do not know this. It is important for people in the US to understand who exactly it was who failed the Palestinians.
The Syraic religion was still prominent up to the Babylonian captivity, even among the Jews. Kings is full of it, with its moral theme being the question whether this or that ruler will side with the Yahwehists against the rest of the religious traditions around them, or not. Despite occcasional attacks on paganism it recurs. There is no uniform Yahwehist religion among the Jews until the return from the Babylonian captivity.
And that was due to the Persians first of all. They enabled the return and the rebuilding of the temple precisely to give homage to monotheism. The Persians were at that time moral monotheists, though by later standards of the dualist or Manichean stripe.
Every religious tradition in the ancient world was built on top of pagan predecessors. Islam fits that pattern, but it is a pattern and not an exception. The first external sources referring to Islam - Armenian histories about a century after its rise - refer to it as a version of the religion of Abraham. A revision, in other words, to a precursor of Judaism. That doesn't mean that is what it is, it just means that is how it was "sold" to the middle east, early on.
The actual operative cause of its rise, on the other hand, was the generalship of Omar, who exploited the rivalry between Persia and Byzantium to conquer the near east in record time. Islam can be viewed as a syncretic ideology meant to appeal to both camps while rejecting elements unacceptable to the other - with the camps in question being Byzantian Christianity and Persian Zorastrianism (its own moral monotheism, of Manichean stripe - and incidentally the historical source of the idea of a day of judgment, which was very prominent in early Islam).
There is no reason to go outside well known history to explain Islam.
Hmm...seems to me the "regional nations" got together and tried this a couple of times, 1967 and 1973 if I remember rightly. Butts were kicked and names taken. I don't think a return match would be that good an idea.
I'm past the point. Father of a murdered Marine, who had to go east because we didn't finish the job the first time.
I say we rain nukes down over the whole area. Radioactive oil will burn in my SUV.
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"The real Holocaust is what is happening in Palestine where the Zionists avail themselves of the fairy tale of Holocaust as blackmail and justification for killing children and women and making innocent people homeless," Ahmadinejad said.
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This guy's nuts, grab 'em.
A drone-delivered hellfire missile would have made quite an impression for the crowd.
LOL.
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