I generally agree with the comments by Muzzlewatch about Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s speech in Geneva. Much of the talk was actually historically accurate and presented uncomfortable truths for the West and Israel in particular, but his Holocaust denial, aggression and defending of human rights was all a sick joke when one knows the reality in Iran itself.
My enemy’s enemy is not my friend.
However, do we seriously need this?
A day after Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s vicious anti-Israel speech at the UN racism conference in Geneva, Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin warned of the dangers he posed in a letter to world parliamentarians, calling Ahmadinejad the second Adolph Hitler.
“This morning, in contrast to Remembrance Days of past years, we, the citizens of Israel, Jews all around the world and every man of conscience faced a new reality that we believed would never reoccur. A reality we had thought was no longer possible in a world that had experienced the horrors of the Second World War,” read the letter.
“73 years after the Berlin Olympics, yesterday the world witnessed the return of Adolf Hitler,” it continued. “This time he has a beard and speaks Persian. But the words are the same words and the aspirations are the same aspirations and the determination to find the weapons to achieve those aspirations is the same menacing determination. Unfortunately, just as at that shameful Olympic event, the world has again given him a platform.”
When will the Zionists let Hitler stay dead? Arafat was Hitler. Bin Laden was Hitler. Hamas and Hizbollah are Nazis. Now Ahmadinejad is Hitler.
Israel has cried wolf far too many times.
Should Israel be the only country discussed in an international anti-racism conference? No. (And this was never the case anyway.) Should Israel definitely be discussed in an international anti-racism conference? Yes!
Ahmadinejad did not deny the Holocaust in this one conference. He said it was abused.
Maybe I should type a better rebuke to MuzzleWatch’s position on Ahmadinejad. He should not have said those things, because that’s what the Zionists were waiting for.
Also, in those 45 or so minutes, he made absolute certain that all of the important work being done here by a range of NGOs working on dozens of issues like indigenous rights, reparations, trafficking and more, would be rendered completely invisible. He handed over to the pro-Israeli-occupation groups all they needed to make their point, that Durban II is just an Israel-hate fest. Of course, they’ve been working overtime to do that using other methods. But now they can all go home. He did their work for them.
This is disgusting. First of all, do we have to stop talking about Israel because a bunch of idiots are going to call us antisemites over our criticism ? Since when do NGOs totally depend on this one conference for their visibility ? That’s nonsense.
And I hate it. I hate that this guy sounds like an Israeli blaming Hamas for the Israeli offensive in January.
Littlehorn, let’s not forget that Iran officially hosted a conference about the Holocaust not long ago at which speakers included a Ku Klux Klan leader and well-known Holocaust deniers from many countries. It was a neo-Nazi event, and anyone who sees Ahmedinejad as some kind of Leftwinger is either blind, stupid, or both.
Israeli policy has resulted in many crimes against humanity, but the election of Hamas in response was the equivalent of the Palestinians shooting themselves comprehensively in the foot. If you wish to end the Middle East conflict, and with justice, don’t play the Blame Game!
Not only has Israel cried wolf far too many times, but in the Israel/Palestine conflict, Israel is the wolf.
Israel is the wolf in shepherd’s clothing who is also allowed to pretend that it is actually the sheep.
How long can the wolf cry wolf and play sheep, while killing and scattering the real sheep, without the villagers noticing?