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EU reacts angrily to Ahmadinejads latest Israel remarks
 | That's it, Mahmoud, make the Belgians angry. |
BRUSSELS - The European Union on Saturday condemned the latest remarks by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad about Israel, in which he said that the Palestinians and other nations would eventually remove the Jewish state. That this type of completely unacceptable remarks are continually being repeated does not mean we should accept them in silence, Ursula Plassnik, the foreign minister of Austria which currently holds the EU presidency, said in a statement.
| "Every time you say such things we will respond with a 'harrumph!'... Well, almost every time." |
Plassnik stressed that the only path to peace in the Middle East involved Israelis and Palestinians living side by side in a two-state situation, without the threat of terrorism or violence.
| "We don't like to dwell on the fact, either, y'know..." |
Speaking Saturday in Teheran on the 27th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution, Ahmadinejad again described the Holocaust as a fairy tale. Palestinians with the help of other nations would one day remove Israel from the region, he told a mass demonstration in the Iranian capital.
| It's not as if the Eeee-Yeuuu will stop importing Iranian oil, or purchasing Iranian goods, or stop selling stuff to the Iranians. But now at least, by gum, we have a denunciation on the record. |
Posted by: Steve White 2006-02-12 |
