Funny how these words didn’t make it into the AP wire story about Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s anti-Semitic speech.
As he has in the past, Ahmadinejad said Zionist supporters enjoy undue influence over Western governments, imposing “their domination to the extent that nothing can be done against their will,” and he suggested the only solution is to defeat them.
“So long as Zionist domination continues, many countries, governments and nations will never be able to enjoy freedom, independence and security,” he said. “As long as they are at the helm of power, justice will never prevail in the world and human dignity will continue to be offended and trampled upon. It is time the ideal of Zionism, which is the paragon of racism, be broken.”
Funny also that the WaPo calls these words “defiant” instead of, say, “hateful.” Or “anti-Semitic.” The closest they get is “anti-Zionist views,” which doesn’t describe the above words by half.
In a defiant speech, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad argued before a United Nations anti-racism conference Monday that Israel is a “paragon of racism,” founded on what he called “the pretext of Jewish sufferings” during World War II. The comments, a hard-edged version of Ahmadinejad’s often-repeated anti-Zionist views, prompted several dozen European diplomats to walk out of the opening session of the week-long Geneva meeting, which the Obama administration and eight other Western nations already were boycotting.
That isn’t defiant. It’s, well, to use the UN’s favorite little word: Racist.
Back later with more as soon as I get the full text.