ANKARA, Turkey - In 2008, when I last visited this hilly capital city in the Anatolian heartland, I talked with top officials about their efforts to mediate between Israel and Syria. What a difference two years make. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has warmly embraced Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and voted against Iran sanctions. And he's become a bitter critic of Israel after its 2009 invasion of Gaza and its raid last spring on a Turkish aid ship trying to break the Israeli blockade of Gaza; eight Turks and one Turkish-American were killed, shocking Turks of all political outlooks.
Ahmadinejad warns Israel against attack DOHA, Qatar -- Iran's president said Sunday that any Israeli attack against his nation would mean the destruction of the Jewish state. "Any offensive against Iran means the annihilation of the Zionist entity," Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said during a visit to the Persian Gulf nation of Qatar. "Iran does not care much about this entity because it is on its way to decay." He said he doubted Israel or the U.S. would dare to stage such an attack because "they know that Iran is ready and has the potential for a decisive and wide-scale response. RAMALLAH, West Bank - Just days after Mideast peace talks began in Washington, the first major crisis is already looming: Israel hinted Sunday it will ease restrictions on building in West Bank settl...
Iran's agreement to hold additional talks with the United States and its allies on its nuclear ambitions is welcome, but it also warrants increased wariness about a desperate election-rigging dictator who has been nothing if not consistent in his threats against Israel and the West. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad still rages over the Holocaust and capitalism and has made a mockery of his country's recent so-called democratic election in which he claimed victory. And now, he faces weakening public support in economically troubled Iran.
The Friday letter to the editor "Israel a buffer against Iranian insanity" could not be further from the truth. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is neither a madman nor a threat to Israel or the United States. In fact, Iran has tried repeatedly to engage in serious, detailed negotiations with the United States, only to be rejected every time.
Forget for a moment about Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's preposterous threats against Israel, and ask: If former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani were to be elected, would it change the regime's nuclear ambition? The short answer is "no." The long answer could outline their different styles. But if the end result is the same, the United States needs to stop painting Mr. Ahmadinejad as if he is a new threat. The question is not whether Mr. Ahmadinejad is crazy. It's about setting the players of the post-Cold War "new world order." The United States has been the only super power since the Cold War ended, but the rise of countries like India, China and Russia could ultimately signal the end of the U.S.-monopolized as unipolar system. Given that scenario, Iran is crucial as a sou...
TEHRAN, Iran - Iran announced plans Sunday for a conference to examine evidence for the Holocaust, a new step in hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's campaign against Israel - one that was likely to deepen Tehran's international isolation. Mr. Ahmadinejad already called the Nazis' World War II slaugh- ter of European Jews a "myth" and said the Jewish state should be wiped off the map or moved to Germany or the United States. Those remarks prompted a global outpouring of condemnation, and it wasn't clear who would be willing to attend an Iranian-sponsored Holocaust conference.
MR. [Danny Ayalon]'S ANALOGY APPEARS NOT TO have struck a sympathetic cord in the mind of [Martin Indyk], who is a member of the Council. Indyk, a former U.S. ambassador to Israel, who is Jewish, told Israel Radio recently that the Ayalon analogy was inaccurate. Notwithstanding Mr. [Mahmoud Ahmadinejad]'s repeated denials of the Holocaust, dissembling over his view of the Holocaust, and his open avowal to utterly destroy the Jewish state, Mr. Indyk noted that there are still some 25,000 Jews living in Iran. It is a fact that there are currently Jews living in Iran. But no one knows what would become of them even if Mr. Ahmadinejad were to attempt to carry out his lunatic action against Israel. Why think they wouldn't meet a fate similar to that anticipated for Israel?
NEW YORK, Nov. 1 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The American Jewish Congress today called on the United Nations Security Council to take action against and not merely condemn the threats by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to "wipe (Israel) off the map. The Iranian President's statements contravene the United Nations charter," said AJCongress Chairman Jack Rosen, adding, "Tehran must be made to understand that they have crossed a line and that there are consequences to such behavior."
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - More than 70,000 Iranian students have volunteered to carry out suicide bombings against Israel, Iran's state news agency reported Monday, but President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has not responded to their request for permission. Volunteer suicide groups have made similar requests in the past and the government never responded, giving the campaigns more of the feel of propaganda.
Teaneck Rabbi Ronald Price and 21 other rabbis from North Jersey, New York, Florida and Texas have been arrested outside the United Nations in Manhattan. The rabbis were arrested Tuesday while protesting Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's recent threats against Israel.
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