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Ahmadinejad's Mideast Solution: Destroy Israel
Thursday, August 03, 2006

TEHRAN, Iran - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Thursday the solution to the Middle East crisis was to destroy Israel, state-media reported.

In a speech during an emergency meeting of Muslim leaders in Malaysia Amadinejad also called for an immediate cease-fire to end the fighting between Israel and the Iranian-backed group Hezbollah.

"Although the main solution is for the elimination of the Zionist regime, at this stage an immediate cease-fire must be implemented," Ahmadinejad said, according to state-run television in a report posted on its Web site Thursday.

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Like most Americans, I've been watching the news out of Northern Israel with some interest. For the most part, the American media reports focus on the "bad" Israeli soldiers who are supposedly devastating the Southern Lebanon people.

Even old movie stars are getting into the game in their condemnation of Israel's actions to defend itself from a terrorist organization.

''I insist, in my name and in the name of my foundation, and I beg of you to cease the attacks and the bombardments that injure and kill the Lebanese people immediately'', wrote Brigitte Bardot to Amir Peretz, Israeli Defense Minister, July 31st. (Guysen.Israël.News)

"Of course, your people have suffered, but does that give you the right to sow death haphazardly. When one has survived a genocide, can one take one's turn acting the tyrant? I do not believe so, or else history has served no purpose, and the horror will never end. I place my hopes in you and address my prayers for the Lebanese victims."

How absolutely foolish!

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