On the same day that an Islamic jihad suicide attacker murdered five people in the Israeli city of Hadera, Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad declared at a conference in Tehran titled "The World Without Zionism" that Israel should be destroyed (and also that "accomplishment of a world without America and Israel is both possible and feasible").
"There is no doubt that the new wave [of attacks] in Palestine will wipe off this stigma [Israel]from the face of the Islamic world.
Imagine if President Bush had announced that he intended to wipe Iraq off the map. But, in the context of Israel, it seems, the world has a higher tolerance for such talk of genocide.
Hamas attacked Israel with 113 suicide bombers between 1993-2005. Yet some Westerners have actually advocated Hamas's inclusion in the political process of the Palestinian Authority, as long as the group renounces violence. The group claims in its charter Israel must be obliterated, are we going to find that acceptable, as long as it takes place without violence?
Ahmadinejad also made clear the nature of this conflict, as being one of religion, not nationalism: "Anybody who recognizes Israel will burn in the fire of the Islamic nation's fury, any [Islamic leader]who recognizes the Zionist regime means he is acknowledging the surrender and defeat of the Islamic world."
Ahmadinejad also has begun recently to refer to the jihadists' goal of estabilishing a unifed caliphate under Sharia law, but this has received scant attention, even though increasingly this ideology has a central role in many world conflicts.
Ahmadinejad, Hamas, and the islamofascists believe that once a land has come under the dominance of Islam (like Spain, Israel) it belongs to it forever. Imagine if we had the same ideology. Well, I guess we should own about 3/4 of the Pacific and many other areas int he world then. We would be condemned for such an attitude. Not so with these islamofascists. Now, non-muslims would be allowed to live in such lands, but only has dhimmis, protected people subject to discrimination and harassment.
Thankfully, not everybody is clueless on this one. Tony Blair was dismayed at the comments: "There has been a long time in which I have been answering qustions on Iran with everyone saying to me: 'tell us you rae not going to do anything about Iran.' If they carry on like this, the question people are going to be asking us is:'when are you oging to do something about this?' You imagine a state like that, with an attitude like that, having a nuclear weapon."
Israeli PM Sharon called for expelling Iran from the UN. All we get from Koffi and the gang is the sound of crickets chirping.
