As world leaders compete with each other to express totally unjustified surprise at Ahmadinejad’s threat to nuke five million Jews, Kofi Annan – the leader of the organization that ostensibly speaks for the entire world – will travel to Iran to make nice:
Israel on Sunday slammed plans by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan to visit Iran, saying that the trip could grant legitimacy to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s recent call for Israel to be “wiped off the map.”. “This sends a message of business-as-usual, and perhaps even grants legitimacy to a nation which demands the destruction of another state,” said Danny Gillerman, Israeli ambassador to the United Nations.
Faced with a call by one member state of his organization for the destruction of another member state, Annan didn’t even consider a symbolic delay. The message is clear: threaten to wipe out Jews on Monday, suffer through a confused din of faux outrage on Wednesday, host the world’s leaders as if nothing happened by Friday.
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