Ahmadinejad rhetoric condemned
StandWithUs Condemns Ahmadinejad’s Anti-Israel Rhetoric at Khomeni Service
(Los Angeles) — StandWithUs condemns in the strongest possible terms, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for his poisonous, inflammatory rhetoric against Israel.
At a memorial service for the Ayatollah Khomeini on Sunday June 3, Ahmadinejad said yet again that Israel will soon be wiped off the world map, a goal that seems to be Iran’s official policy. He claimed that Israel would be destroyed by Hezbollah and Hamas, Iran’s proxies. Ahmadinejad revels in Hamas’ attacks from the south and in Hezbollah’s drumbeats of war from the north because he apparently wants to see Israeli civilians murdered.
Ahmadinejad calls for genocide of Jews.
Ahmadinejad has been declaring war against Israel since he took office. Defying UN resolutions, Iran is fast developing nuclear weaponry. Its openly stated target is Israel.
Ahmadinejad clearly is trying to bait Israel into a confrontation. Israel has demonstrated remarkable restraint. It knows that an open confrontation can and would reach far beyond the Middle East.
In the 1930’s, Hitler’s demonizing rhetoric and Jew-hatred preceded his brutal murder of six million. The world simply stood by. Ahmadinejdad has joined the most violent, racist murderers in history by giving us a prelude to his dreams–the destruction of a group of people.
The silence of the world’s leaders is deafening.
The world must take this man at his word and act.
We ask the United Nations to condemn Ahmadinejdad’s hateful rhetoric and meet its responsibility to act as a peace-keeping body. We call on the Lebanese government to fulfill its pledge to contain Hezbollah. We call on the European Union and responsible Arab nations to speak out boldly against warmongering and racism. We call on U.S. leaders and other nations to force Ahmadeinejad to stop threatening civilians and destabilizing the region.
Ahmadinejdad has warned us all about his intentions. It would be irresponsible, morally reprehensible and dangerous for world leaders to simply stand by passively at this outrage to decency and to hopes for a more peaceful world.
StandWithUs, an international, non-profit Israel education organization hosts speakers and conferences, offers website resources and creates brochures and materials widely distributed in universities, libraries, high schools, churches and communities. Based in Los Angeles, the organization has offices and chapters in New York, Michigan, San Francisco, Chicago, Buffalo, Orange County (CA) and Israel. SWU was founded in 2001 in response to the second Intifada and the misunderstandings about the challenges that Israel faces. StandWithUs Campus helps college students fight anti-Semitism and anti-Israel bias on campuses.
