Friday, October 5, 2007
Yes, there is a Middle Eastern leader setting out as policy the "T" word -- Transfer -- and it's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. We await the petitions peddled by the hucksters of the campus Left in condemnation of this. We await future debates with the Juan Coles of the world as to whether Ahmadinejad said Israel should be "wiped off the map," "erased from the pages of history," or simply gently democratized out of existence...or is it "the occupation" he's against? I think that debate is rather well settled, no? YNet: Ahmadinejad: Referendum on transfer of Israel to Europe
Iranian leader says during Jerusalem Day rally in Tehran, 'Let a referendum be held in Palestine on the transfer of Zionists to Europe, Canada or Alaska.' [He's all about democratic choice.] Adds: Israel committed crimes under pretext of the Holocaust
According to the regime's mouthpiece, the president suggested holding a referendum on the transfer of Israel's Jews to Europe, Canada or Alaska.
"Let a referendum be held in Palestine. It is our clear proposal to European countries," Ahmadinejad said during the International Quds (Jerusalem) Day rallies in Tehran.
"Let all Palestinians including Muslims, Christians and the Jews attend the referendum," he added.
IRNA said Ahmadinejad repeated an earlier suggestion to Europe on the "settlement of Zionists in Europe or in big lands such as Canada and Alaska so they would be able to own their own land".
Ahmadinejad further stated that "the creation of the Zionist regime, the continuation of its existence and unlimited support for the regime (by the US) are an insult to human dignity."
"Defense for the ominous interests of the Zionist regime is a must for certain powers. Western governments who are pioneers of secularism pursue defense for the Zionist regime as the holiest task in the world," the president was quoted as saying.
"Nations should be allowed to conduct research on crimes of the Zionist regime and decode the black box for its atrocities," he added. ""The Palestinian youth and nation have been deprived of all human rights for more than 60 years. Today, Quds is not an issue only related to Palestine and the Middle East but a case of world humanity."
The president continued to say that Western nations have turned the Holocaust into a "holy issue and do not let anybody raise any question about it...
Also: UPI: Iran's idea: Alaska as new Israel homeland
Reuters and USA Today emphasize a different aspect, choosing instead to, in effect, parrot Ahmadinejad. USA Today: Ahmadinejad rails against Israel for 'genocide' against Palestinians and Reuters: Iran accuses Israel of "genocide" of Palestinians
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's president accused Israel on Friday of using the Holocaust as a pretext for "genocide" against Palestinians.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who outraged the West in 2005 by calling Israel a "tumour" to be wiped off the map, said the truth should be told about World War Two and the Holocaust.
Six million Jews were killed in the Nazi genocide.
"Iran condemns fabricating such a pretext (the Holocaust) for the Zionist regime to commit genocide against the Palestinian nation and occupy Palestine," Ahmadinejad said in a live broadcast to mark the annual Al-Quds (Jerusalem) Day in the Islamic Republic.
"The Iranian nation and countries in the region will not rest until Palestine is free and criminals punished," he said in the speech before Friday prayers...
After all, who could be against punishing criminals? This is a very convenient emphasis to make. After all, if Israelis would just stop "oppressing," the Ahmadinejads of the world would just go away, no? It's all about the "occupation"...never mind they have cause and effect reversed.
How nice to find that Ahmadin is a member of the detective readers' bookclub. Where else could he get the idea of Alaska as a homeland for the Jews?
"The Yiddish Policemen's Union"
by Michael Chabon
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/20252
Ouch! You beat me to it. I was going to say the same thing. http://tinyurl.com/33ry5q
I read the book last spring. It had its good and bad points. Anyway, wouldn't it be true that, in no time at all, the Inuit would become the new Palestinians? The Jews would be accused of supplanting, and committing genocide, against them.
Ahmadinejad may want to transfer the Israelis, but I have my own ideas about where to transfer Ahmadinejad, and it needn't be as far as Alaska. Just send him to the nearest insane asylum in the Tehran metropolitan area.
I don't think so, Joanne. To be blunt about it, the Inuit are not Muslims or Arab. They don't have oil and they have lived in a democracy for the last couple of centuries. And Muhammad had no interest in Alaska, but one never knows. Al Aska, in time, might have been incorporated into the mythology, as Islam's fourth most sacred place. Where there are Jews, etc, you know.
But Alaska does have some oil, Noga, and remember its famous pipeline.
The Muslims wouldn't be much interested in Alaska, anyway, I suppose, unless they try to claim some historic presence there. I read that the name "Alaska" was taken from the Inuit name "Alakshak." Maybe the Arabs would claim that that word is derived from "Al Akshak" or "Allah-Shak" or "Allah-Sheik" or whatever.
I mean, if they can claim that Arab merchant ships had made it as far as China in the Middle Ages[http://www.saudiaramcoworld.com/issue/197504/the.china.trade.htm] then they could start claiming that they had gone a little farther.
OK, I'm kidding...but you never know.
"Al Aska".
FUNNY Noga!
I say move PaleSWINE to Saudi Arabia. Give the so called PaleSWINIANS lots of oil and revenue - revenue the Saudis should have helped their fellow Muzlims out with.
Al Aska! Why didn't I think of that one? That's the best one! Oh well.
Hey Eddie, that was my joke... Give credit where it's due. ;-)
Joanne,
In response #3, Noga has the first post to contain "Al Aska".
You may have thought of it but Noga actually used it.
Noga gets the 5 Laugh Award credit.
Noga AKBAR!!!
Noga does indeed deserve credit for the most credit name inversion I have seen in a while! :-)
That said, I have little doubt that Agence France Presse and Reuters were probably parsing Ahmadinejad's words and thinking, "That's pretty reasonable"!
BHG
Oh, well, I stand corrected.