Iran Not Sure What Everyone's So Pissed Off About - Nuking Israel is Long Established Policy
In all fairness, between the Europeans expressing faux outrage and Israel absurdly pretending that they can get Iran thrown out of the United Nations, the only side being both level-headed and honest about Iran's recent threat to wipe Israel off the map happens to be Iran:
Iran has defended its president's call for Israel to be "wiped off the map", saying this has been its foreign policy since the 1979 Islamic revolution. Ahead of an anti-Israel rally in Tehran, Foreign Minister Manoucher Mottaki said Iran did not recognize the "illegitimate Zionist regime".
They've got a point: to anyone who's cared to listen, Iran has never been shy about expressing their fervent desire to nuke Israel because it's filled with Jews. For their own reasons, American think-tank fellows and European diplomats have for years chosen not to take Iran's genocidal threats seriously - but it's hardly Iran's fault if no one takes them at their word.
And just to show that they're serious about this whole "they really hate Israel" thing, Iran has unleashed thousands of "protesters" to express their fury against the existence of the Jewish State:
Tens of thousands of Iranians staged anti-Israel protests across the country Friday and repeated calls by their ultraconservative president demanding the Jewish state's destruction. World leaders have condemned remarks made Wednesday by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who repeated the words of the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, founder of Iran's Islamic revolution, by saying: "Israel must be wiped off the map."... "The comments expressed by the president is the declared and specific policy of the Islamic Republic of Iran," Mottaki told state-run television. "We don't recognize the Zionist regime and don't consider it legitimate."
At times like this, it's important to remember what the American Left, the European mainstream, and the Arab world insists: anti-Zionism is not anti-Semitism. The fact that the only state targeted by anti-Zionists happens to be the only state on the planet which is Jewish is mere coincidence.
[Cross-posted at IsraPundit]
Iran has defended its president's call for Israel to be "wiped off the map", saying this has been its foreign policy since the 1979 Islamic revolution. Ahead of an anti-Israel rally in Tehran, Foreign Minister Manoucher Mottaki said Iran did not recognize the "illegitimate Zionist regime".
They've got a point: to anyone who's cared to listen, Iran has never been shy about expressing their fervent desire to nuke Israel because it's filled with Jews. For their own reasons, American think-tank fellows and European diplomats have for years chosen not to take Iran's genocidal threats seriously - but it's hardly Iran's fault if no one takes them at their word.
And just to show that they're serious about this whole "they really hate Israel" thing, Iran has unleashed thousands of "protesters" to express their fury against the existence of the Jewish State:
Tens of thousands of Iranians staged anti-Israel protests across the country Friday and repeated calls by their ultraconservative president demanding the Jewish state's destruction. World leaders have condemned remarks made Wednesday by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who repeated the words of the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, founder of Iran's Islamic revolution, by saying: "Israel must be wiped off the map."... "The comments expressed by the president is the declared and specific policy of the Islamic Republic of Iran," Mottaki told state-run television. "We don't recognize the Zionist regime and don't consider it legitimate."
At times like this, it's important to remember what the American Left, the European mainstream, and the Arab world insists: anti-Zionism is not anti-Semitism. The fact that the only state targeted by anti-Zionists happens to be the only state on the planet which is Jewish is mere coincidence.
[Cross-posted at IsraPundit]
