Friday, 12 May 2006
LONDON, May 12 (IranMania) - According to AFP, here is a selection of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's provocative outbursts on Israel and the Jews.
"As the Imam said, Israel must be wiped off the map."
- From a speech given on October 26 last year at a conference in Tehran on the theme of "The World without 'Zionism". Ahmadinejad was reviving a statement from Iran's revolutionary leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
"You believe the Jews were oppressed, why should the Palestinian Muslims have to pay the price?"
"Germany and Austria, come and give one, two or any number of your provinces to the Zionist regime so they can create a country there... and the problem will be solved at its root."
- From an interview with Iranian state television's Arabic-language satellite channel, Al-Alam, on December 8. In the same interview Ahmadinejad referred to Israel as a "tumour", and suggested that it should be relocated to Europe.
"They have invented a myth that Jews were massacred and place this above God, religions and the prophets."
"If somebody in their country questions God, nobody says anything, but if somebody denies the myth of the massacre of Jews, the 'Zionist' loudspeakers and the governments in the pay of 'Zionism' will start to scream."
- From a speech on December 14, in which Ahmadinejad again suggested that Israel be relocated to Europe or north America, proposing the frigid US state of Alaska as one alternative.
"Logically, this fake regime cannot survive."
- From a press conference in Tehran on April 24.
"Every German born is indebted to the arrogant and greedy 'Zionists'."
"Sixty years after the war, why do the Palestinian people have to burn in the crimes of 'Zionists' under the pretext of the Second World War?"
"For 60 years they've been massacring Palestinians and destroying their homes under the pretext that a certain number of Jews were killed during World War II."
- From a speech made on April 27 in the western Iranian town of Zanjan and broadcast on state television.
"This regime will one day vanish."
- A reference to Israel in a speech to students in the Indonesian capital Jakarta on May 11.
Germany was the originator of the Nazi regime which murdered some six million European Jews in World War II, and Austria was the homeland of its founder, Adolf Hitler.
Most of the Jews who founded the state of Israel in the years after the war were survivors of the Nazi Holocaust.
Friday, May 12, 2006 - TŪ2005 IranMania.com
