Mad Mahmoud told his dinner of religious fools leaders yesterday that Zionism—the establishment and maintenance of a state for the Jewish people—has nothing to do with the Jewish people.
Ahmadinejad rejected accusations he was anti-Semitic, saying his criticism was aimed at the “Zionist regime” for its oppression of the Palestinians rather than at Jews.
“As soon as anyone objects to the behavior of the Zionist regime, they’re accused of being anti-Semitic, whereas the Jewish people are not Zionists,” Ahmadinejad said. “Zionism is a political party that has nothing to do with Jewish people.”
This would be a surprise to Theodor Herzl, the father of Zionism, who said that the establishment of a Jewish state was necessary for the survival of the Jewish people.
This would be a surprise to all Jews but the ones who repudiate Israel’s ties to Judaism.
But that’s getting sidetracked. Ahmadinejad is trying to get the world to agree with him that Zionism has nothing to do with Judaism. If he can accomplish that goal, then he has accomplished his goal of utterly separating Jews from the State of Israel, thereby achieving his goal—the “de-Judaization” of Israel. And if he achieves that goal, then Israel cannot exist in the eyes of Mad Mahmoud and his allies. And his allies are legion. They are the ones who sat through his anti-Semitic speech to the UN on Tuesday, and who applauded the man who blamed “Zionists” for all the evils of the world. Even Reuters can’t stomach the naked anti-Semitism, and has come up with this boilerplate for his speech:
On Tuesday the Iranian leader railed against “Zionist murderers” in a 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 of course, that isn’t enough to get Reuters to, say, quote a Jewish leader in response to Mad Mahmoud’s anti-Semitism.
And the Iranian mission continues. Did the religious leaders object to his trying to separate Jews from Zionism?
I’m betting not.
So those were Israelis that Iran murdered when it blew up the Jewish Community Center in Argentina? Or did they show they were Zionists simply by virtue of walking into the JCC?
Recalls a Dry Bones from 1979 or so. I forge tthe exact words, but it was along the lines of “another iron door slams shut on the Jews. X thousand Jews are now trapped in an anti-semitic regime in Iran after failing to flee to safety in Israel. — How ironic that in a few months or years they’ll be on trial for the crime of being Zionists.”