The president of Iran stands in front of the world body whose charter calls for peace among nations and blames Jews for causing wars, working against world peace, worshipping only money, having no god—and the silence of the response is deafening. Not a single world leader outside Israel or the U.S. condemned the speech.
There’s a laughable piece in Ynet that says they did:
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s anti-Semitic address to the United Nations General Assembly has incurred the wrath of many public figures worldwide.
Really? Name six. Israelis and Jews don’t count. The only non-American, non-Israeli I can find condemning the speech is the French foreign minister. Who is frowning heavily in Iran’s direction.
Talking to reporters at the UN headquarters, Kouchner said, “We are tired of condemning the Iranian president’s speeches.”
Yeah, so am I. But besides Kouchner, there’s no one else. And his words are hollow. Russia isn’t going to allow the UNSC to vote for more sanctions. Have France and Germany pulled their business out of Iran yet? The EU? Is there a true boycott of Iran ongoing?
Not so much that Iran is backing off on building its nuclear reactor as fast as possible.
Juan Cole, the left’s leading apologist for Ahmadinejad, managed to write an entire article without mentioning the naked anti-Semitism in the UN speech. He condemned Obama—for condemning Ahmadinejad. He writes of Obama’s rejection of Ahmadinejad’s words:
He also fell into the trap of declining to make a distinction between anti-Zionist views and anti-Semitic ones.
I suppose the learned professor doesn’t think that this is anti-Semitism:
This means that the great people of America and various nations of Europe need to obey the demands and wishes of a small number of acquisitive and invasive people. These nations are spending their dignity and resources on the crimes and occupations and the threats of the Zionist network against their will.
Why? Because Mad Mahmoud used the word “Zionist” instead of “Jewish”?
Reuters managed to cover Mahmoud’s meeting with the nutcase Neturei Karta, his pet anti-Zionist Jews. And managed to find the anti-Semitism in Mahmoud’s speech. Perhaps Juan Cole should read Reuters instead of the AP.
Ahmadinejad railed against “Zionist murderers” in his speech at the UN General Assembly, dwelling on what he described as Zionist control of international finance, echoing the libel that blamed a world Jewish conspiracy for all the world’s troubles.
But I still see no major condemnations from world leaders. The EU? Britain? The UN? No, wait. There was applause for the speech.
I checked the websites of the WCC, the Quakers, and the Mennonites, the groups that broke bread with Ahmadinejad last night. There was not a word objecting to his speech. As usual, we Jews are pretty much on our own.
People like to think we exaggerate the danger of this representative of the Iranian Mullahcracy. He says nothing that has not been approved by the Ayatollahs. He smiles and lies to reporters and fools like the Mennonites and Quakers who break bread with him. But Iran is the nation that sponsored a conference specifically to “disprove” the Holocaust. Iran is the nation that held “A World Without Zionism” conference, at which Mahmoud also said how great it would be to have a world without America (picture at the link).
He’s following the same plan Hitler followed. First, dehumanize your enemy. Get everyone to think of them as less than you. Demonize them, their actions, everything they do. Condemn them in world forums. Speak lie after lie after lie, until the lies you speak are passed along as truth (cf.: Juan Cole). Then, when you start killing them, the world won’t care. Because it will be the fault of the “acquisitive and invasive people” who are preventing world peace. Not the fault of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, who supplied weapons and training to jihadists in Iraq and are now doing the same in Afghanistan. Not the fault of the Iranians, who sponsor Hamas, Hezbullah, Islamic Jihad, and who knows how many other terrorist groups worldwide. It will be done with the willing help of morons like Larry King, who repeat the Iranian lies during an interview where he tells Ahmadinejad “You don’t want to see Israelis die,” in spite of the fact that Iran does want to see Israelis die, and has killed Israelis, via its proxy armies (cf.: Lebanon, 2006, Hamas, PIJ).
This is the fourth year in a row we’ve had to suffer from the Iranian propaganda front. You’d think they’d learn.
You would be mistaken.
You said above that “As usual, we Jews are pretty much on our own” in condemning Iran, however, you probably vote Democratic, and Hillary the Democrat refused to show up and condemn Ahmedinijab, and then Jewish Democratic organizers made sure that Palin was disinvited who was going to do a wonderful job of condemning Ahmedinijab. This in turn would have led other world leaders to do the same. One domino has to tip before the others fall. Anyway, so your comment about the non-backing of the Jewish people is totally unfair to Republicans.
You know what I love? Commenters who, you know, read more of this site than the posts they comment on.
I’m not going to bother answering. Perhaps you might try reading my posts before making such an ass of yourself in the future.
Actually, I read every one of your posts. It just seems that your outrage over JStreet’s actions against Palin only lasted a few hours, but should have carried into this post, too. More people need to connect the dots to see what damage liberals do to the state of Israel, and not using this post to blame JStreet for the silence against Ahmedinijab is a missed learning experience for many.
You are so right in your concluding statement. Actually, this methodology existed long before Hitler.
At the First Zionist Congress in 1897, Max Nordau quoted a German proverb, “If you want to drown a dog, you first have to proclaim it to be mad.” This is what Hitler did, and this is what Ahmadinejad is doing.
P.S. Mark James sounds like a troll. Just ignore him.