Yet another Iranian official says once again that Israel will be destroyed. International reaction? Yawns.
Iranian Parliament Speaker Gholam Hadad has warned that the “countdown to Israel’s destruction has begun,” in an interview published Thursday in an Iranian newspaper.
[…] “With this anger, the certain death of the Zionist regime had been brought forward,” he said, according to the state-run IRNA news agency.
That’s a lot of death threats in one week.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Wednesday called Israel a “dirty microbe” and “savage animal”.
The current head of the Revolutionary Guards, Iran’s ideological army, Mohammad Ali Jafari, weighed in with a prediction that Hizbullah would destroy the Jewish state.
Israel complained to the United Nations. The result?
“It is unacceptable and undesirable for a head of state of a member state of the United Nations to use such kind of language against any other member state,” Mr. Ban told The New York Sun after meeting Mr. Gillerman today.
Ouch. Mommy, Mr. Ban yelled at me!
A search of the UN website produces exactly zero official statements by the Secretary-General regarding this matter. However, I can find two in the last week regarding Israel and the Palestinians.
The current situation in Gaza is unsustainable in humanitarian, human rights, security and political terms — for the Palestinians, Egypt, and Israel too. The ongoing crisis in Gaza also undermines the Annapolis process. I deplore the all-too-frequent breaches of international humanitarian law — including rocket attacks against civilians, excessive uses of force in civilian areas, and collective punishment of the civilian population. It is vital that Israel ceases actions of collective punishment, and allows all legitimate and necessary humanitarian and commercial supplies to reach the population.
Your tax dollars at work, America.
Is that Gholam or Golem?