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| Germany admits financing Larijani forum |
| 2008-07-06 |
| The German government has admitted it was deeply involved in funding last month's conference here on the Middle East, and reports indicate it suggested inviting former Iranian deputy foreign minister Muhammad Javad Ardashir Larijani to speak at the gathering, where he called for the destruction of Israel. At the Third Transatlantic Conference - whose stated purpose was to address "common solutions" in the Middle East - Larijani said the "Zionist project" should be "canceled" and argued that Israel "has failed miserably and has only caused terrible damage to the region." Jens Plötner, a spokesman for German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, told The Jerusalem Post over the weekend that the Foreign, Economics and Research ministries and Chancellor Angela Merkel's office transferred funds to the Hesse Foundation for Peace and Conflict Research, which he said had proposed inviting Larijani. The grant was made from a fund for "civil society projects." The foundation made the suggestion to invite Larijani "four months before the event" at an inter-agency meeting involving the four government bodies, Plotner said. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 I know Merkel & Co. are adults and all, compared to the vile idiots in before them, and probably the BND works closely with our spooks against the bad guys, etc., but for some reason I find myself utterly indifferent to Germany. Separately, as a general rule, any organization with the words "peace" or "conflict resolution" in their titles should be zeroed out, shunned, ridiculed, and shut down. The vast amounts of money poured into these idiotic outfits (that includes those nestled inside the mostly poisonous poli sci departments of universities as well) is one of the most infuriating things to witness. They do little more than soak up the money and produce more anti-US, anti-western, infantile pacifist, de facto pro-genocide and pro-fascist nonsense. WTF is it with so many rich folks - why this mass delusion about the value of such dreck? A chilling testament to the prevalence of deeply misguided "educated" people, and the ridiculous guilt complex foisted on so many by a PC-poisoned environment. |
| Posted by: Verlaine 2008-07-06 01:04 |
| #1 So did the German hosts rear up on their hind legs and publicly protest such proposals at their conference? |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2008-07-06 00:52 |