Ahmadinejad Goes Off Again

The Iranomaniac is more unstable than their damned nuclear prgram.

The president of Iran again lashed out at Israel on Friday and said it was "heading toward annihilation," just days after Tehran raised fears about its nuclear activities by saying it successfully enriched uranium for the first time.

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called Israel a "permanent threat" to the Middle East that will "soon" be liberated. He also appeared to again question whether the Holocaust really happened.

I imagine Ahmadinejad (pronounced - I might need a job) wants very much to make this an Israel versus Iran confrontation, at least to the extent he can pull Israel into it. That concerns me. Iraq couldn't do that as effectively as it was by and large a secular state. Iran's sitting government is run by the mullahs from behind the scenes and can play the Jew card with Islamo-radicals on the street more effectively than Iraq by far.

Keep in mind this idiot wants some sort of final conflict in the context of his radical religious beliefs. But that conflict without Israel invovled would be far from the same thing. I imagine he is going to continue to bait Israel in hopes of a response.

For their part, Israel once waited it out as scud missles fell about their country. With Iran having anyhting close to a nuclear capability - and a lack of surety where the program really stands, I doubt Israel will choose to be that patient this time out.

If all this makes you angry and you want to slap a radical Islamist ... just read this at Hog On Ice. h/t Chez Diva.

Comments

[R. Decker]

you're right- yes Dan this does make me angry, especially as I see it that the People of Israel have none nothing to provoke this kind of crap from an Iranian President. So I just pray for the People of Israel & the Iranian President that he will come to his senses & stop this nonsense.God Bless you Dan- Keep up the Good work here.

[chez diva]

I keep reading this story over and over trying to figure out why this nut job is targeting Israel with threats of annihilation. Could it be that he wants Israel to strike first, so that the other Muslim countries rise up against Israel and her allies?

[chez diva]

This story has so consumed me that I didn't read the whole post. I just saw the h/t, thanks for the link.

[rtaycher1987]

There are 3 reasons he may be saying this(remember that the president of Iran is not the ultimate leader; Isn't it said that he is kept on a pretty tight leash by the judges and sumpreme ;eader, he would probably not be the last authority on something so serious as a nuclear strike).
In order of likelehood
1)Anti israeli Populism- for home consumption to raise his popularity, not actually serious about tossing nukes.
2)Saber rattling as Foriegn policy-somehow trying to advance Iran's intrests in the world.
3)Idelogy/craziness: For some reason he actually wants to toss those nukes that they'll make in ten years at israel, luckily Iran's real leaders probably don't want to face retalitory nuclear strikes.

Although the posibility of a bomb being sneaked across by terrorists complicates things due to how retalitory strikes may or may not happen depending wheter the weapons can be traced back to Iran.

[Patrick EMIN]

The Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, propose to the international community that the state of israel is moved to Europe, particularly in Germany and Austria, continent and countries where from originates the majority of the inhabitants of israel, rather than the middle east, its current location, where obviously, it never has been integrated with the local populations.
This proposal stands to reason and contrasts with the insane idea to establish a Jewish state in the middle of Arab populations. One would have liked that it was considered a few tens of years behind, at the time where the situation with the middle East was not as degraded as it is it now and where the plan of occupation of the Palestinian territories (colonization) was less advanced. It would have been possible to organize the return of the Jews in their countries of origin as returned the other deportees of Europe there. One cannot sees indeed why the Arab populations of Palestine must support the Israeli occupation whereas the persons who caused Jewish persecutions are not originating in these regions! It is completely absurd and unjust and the argument of the Iranian president is from this point of view, unstoppable.
Now, the conclusions he draws from that are debatable, to wish the end of israel is not the solution, as to wish the end of Palestinian by colonizing them is not either. His remarks have the merit to draw the attention on the slow genocide of the Palestinian people. The occident believed it could get rid of the Jewish problem by putting it on the back of arab populations. What a historical error! Even if arabs living after the war were more flexible than those nowadays, it were certainly the worst idea of the century to establish them in an environment which was to them in all points foreign.
Then, is it possible to put things in order and to put an end to this population transplant against nature? Undoubtedly, one will need a voluntarist policy of the international community which must act confronted to the failure of the state of israel. Counting on the deterioration of the situation does not lead to anything, one does not make people bend when they defend their territory, the Israelis learned it at their expense and American in Iraq too.
The Israelis are in front of a wall, they created places of concentration for the Palestinian population to control the one they could not deport, and don’t know what to do now. A situation which should be familiar for them but that they seem to discover each day so much the improvisation of their actions is striking, without pun. They cannot from now on live any more without their enemy. The enemy is necessary. He justifies the use of the force, he legitimates the expansion of the colonies, he replaces any discussion. There never was negotiation between israel and Palestine, only confrontation, the invasion of Palestine carried in germ a final tragedy, and it will be tragic.