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Israel calls Ahmedinejad ‘very dangerous’
JERUSALEM: Israel called Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad “very dangerous” on Friday after he expressed doubt that the Holocaust occurred and suggested the Jewish state be moved to Europe.
This sounds like they're setting the stage.
“This was not a misstatement or a passing remark,” Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom told Israel Radio. “It is a systematic way of thinking which is intended to bring about the annihilation of the state of Israel.” Ahmadinejad’s comments drew quick international condemnation, as did his call in October for Israel to be “wiped off the map”.

Asked whether Ahmadinejad could be compared to Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi, once among Israel’s most implacable foes, Shalom said: “I would not take him lightly. Such a statement ... displays a way of thinking which shows he is very dangerous.”

Elaborating on Israel’s concerns, Shalom said “Iran is now developing missiles which can reach the capitals of Europe” and urged that the matter be referred to the UN Security Council. Israel has accused Iran of trying to build nuclear weapons.

Iran’s official IRNA news agency quoted Ahmadinejad as saying on Thursday: “Some European countries insist on saying that Hitler killed millions of innocent Jews in furnaces ... Although we don’t accept this claim.”

“If the Europeans are honest they should give some of their provinces in Europe ... to the Zionists and the Zionists can establish their state in Europe,” he said.

Meanwhile, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan on Thursday expressed shock over Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s remarks questioning the Holocaust and suggesting that the state of Israel be moved to Europe. “The Secretary General was shocked to see the remarks attributed to the president of the Islamic Republic of Iran, in which he reportedly cast doubt on the truth of the Holocaust and suggested that the State of Israel should be moved from the Middle East to Europe,” a UN statement said.
Of course, that doesn't mean he'll do anything about it.
Annan noted that only last month the UN General Assembly passed a resolution which “rejects any denial of the Holocaust as an historical event, either in full or in part”. The UN chief called on all member states “to combat such denial, and to educate their populations about the well established historical facts of the Holocaust, in which one third of the Jewish people were murdered, along with countless members of other minorities.”

Annan also recalled that last October he had reminded all member states that Israel is a “long-standing UN member with the same rights and obligations as every other member”, and that, under the UN Charter, “all members have pledged to refrain from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state.”
There, that ought to do it.

Posted by: Steve White 2005-12-10
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