Diplomats walk out as Ahmadinejad rails against Israel in UN
Iran president: Jews control major parts of the world; Oren: A Holocaust denier crying for truth.
By Haaretz Service and Agencies Tags: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Iran UN Israel newsIranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad accused Israel of "inhuman policies" in the Palestinian territories and of dominating world political and economic affairs in his speech to the UN General Assembly on Wednesday.
Ahmadinejad assailed Israel for what he said was a barbaric attack on the Gaza Strip last winter. He also accused the West of hypocrisy, saying it preached democracy, but violated its fundamental principles.
Addressing Israel, the Iranian leader said, "The awakening of nations and the expansion of freedom worldwide will no longer allow them to continue their hypocrisy and vicious attitudes."
"How can one imagine that the inhuman policies in Palestine may continue?" Ahmadinejad continued. "How can crimes of the occupiers against defenseless women and children and destruction of their homes, farms, hospitals and schools be supported unconditionally by certain governments?"
The Iranian leader said it was time for the world to respond. "It is no longer acceptable that a small minority would dominate the politics, economy and culture of major parts of the world by its complicated networks, and establish a new form of slavery, and harm the reputation of other nations, even European nations and the U.S., to attain its racist ambitions," he said.
Ahmadinejad spoke to a half-empty chamber as he sought to cast himself as a beleaguered champion of the developing world, that he portrayed as under attack from rapacious capitalism.
At the same time, the Iranian leader issued stinging attacks on the United States and its allies without calling them by name, prompting a walkout by the U.S. delegation.
At times, Ahmadinejad struck a softer tone, declaring that Tehran was prepared to warmly shake all those hands which are honestly extended to us. He peppered his speech with religious references, invoking the prophets of Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
Ahmadinejad made a passing reference to the nuclear issue - call for global nuclear disarmament - but most of the speech focused on his usual themes - scathing verbal attacks on Israel and the West.
Ahmadinejad also accused foreign forces of spreading "war, bloodshed, aggression, terror and intimidation" in the Middle East, citing the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Turning to domestic affairs, Ahmadinejad insisted he won a large majority in June elections. Pro-reform opposition politicians have alleged electoral fraud, and Ahmadinejad has been at the center of political turmoil since then.
"Our nation has gone through a glorious and fully democratic election, opening a new chapter for our country in the march towards national progress and enhanced international interactions," he said, adding that Iranian voters "entrusted me once more with a large majority."
Netanyahu: Ahmadinejad seeks the annihilation of six million more
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who was not present at the time of Ahmadinejad's speech, said late Wednesday night that he "did not attend Obama's address as to not sit in the same hall with the president of Iran who has denied the murder of six million Jews and calls for the annihilation of six million more."
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon told the Israeli prime minister during a meeting between the two that he had condemned Ahmadinejad's Holocaust denial on three separate occasions, adding that his repeated calls to destroy Israel were unacceptable.
Michael Oren, Israel's ambassador to the United States, called Ahmadinejad's address a "cry for truth from a Holocaust denier, a cry for democracy from a leader who shoots freedom seeking protestors, and a cry for peace from the word's biggest sponsor of terror, who aspires to annihilate a UN member nation."
"He says the Jews are a small and greedy minority that controls the world through slavery. That's classic anti-Semitism which exposed the true face of that regime, to anyone who still in doubt."
Israel's UN envoy Professor Gabriela Shalev said that "Ahmadinejad's hate speech reiterates the danger that Iran poses."
"The Iranian president proved again what Israel has been arguing all along, that Iran's nuclear ambitions must be brought to an end," Shalev said.
The Israeli envoy added that a "A time limit must placed out on Iran's compliance with international demands, along with an unequivocal assertion that if it does not meet that date severe sanctions will be implemented against it."
Shalev also said that Ahmadinejad's speech created the appropriate backdrop for Netanyahu's speech, which he is due to give on Thursday.
According to the Israeli envoy, in his address Netanyahu will clarify what dangers Iran poses and prove that there is no choice but to take immediate and decisive action.
The Iranian president did not mention the nuclear issue, Shalev pointed out, thus proving he was ignoring the international demand to comply with international law.
"Ahmadinejad revealed, yet again, his true nature, for while he tortures his own people and represses citizen protest he has the courage to say Israel was committing genocide," Shalev said.
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The best way for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing... yet to define evil from good....all subjective...
Ahmadinjejad and his cronies will end up hanging on a lamppost within a decade.
I don't have any love for Mr. Ahamadinejad, but even a broken clock is correct twice a day. He had a point there.
How embarrassing to be from a country that actually attended that monster's speech. Kudos to the Canadians! And thank God for men like Netanyahu, and saying what one could have expected at one time from an American president. Instead, now our president is praised and honored by the Who's Who in the World Despot Leaders.
US president would stand on the same podium as him.Obama is so naieve I can't stand it.When will this country wake up
if the truth be told, Ahmadinejad is more of a danger to the Iranians than to other people, including Jews! what he is doing to Iranians and to Iran is the real result of his bombastic agenda. his army, his rockets and his nuclear bomb should Iran be able to make one, is no match for those whom he wishes to destroy. in reality, he is only destroying the Iranian people and Iran. pity!
As long as the purported human rights violations are attributed exclusively to the Palestinians, Ahma...jad turns into a voracious advocator at the UN on behalf of a bunch of a supposedly oppressed and downtrodden "brothers" he wouldn't sip coffee with, Turkish or otherwise. Meanwhile, should his constituents back home turn into advocates on their own behalf, they better watch their derrieres before the guards at Evin do it for them, and to them.
This guys whole act is getting lame. His corny statements about the holocaust do the Palestinians no good. They upset people who suffered horribly and just bring an atmosphere of anger to the UN. Grow a few inches and not just in height.
"A tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing". (Macbeth, Act V Scene V).
He condemns the Jewish proletariat, but the proletariat is what makes the middle class and democracy. The West supports civil rights for gays, women, blacks, Jews. We practice very much what we preach about democracy; you see Obama as proof of that. What totalitarian country allows equal rights to its minorities and gives them positions in the government? Iran is one of the most brutal and oppressive regimes;he himself has homophobia, not only antisemitism. Poor people like him remain ignorant and uneducated; socialism is right to help the most poor in society, but that is not what totalitarian countries like Russia or Iran have; they speak ideology but do not practice it. America practices more this socialism than they do.
Iran is not Finland - it is incredible that some in the developing countries supports a religious fanatic and racist just because he "dare" speaking out against the dominance of the West. The Iranian regime does not support human rights, doesn't represent true democracy (it is a theocracy masked as a democracy), doesn't suppport a peaceful solution to the middle east conflict, it is in no way a progressive society that anyone wants to aspire to. It is nothing but entertainment for people who hates and envy the West by a hypocritical clown.
countries that did not walk out ,are hypocrits.
of the Canadians. I watched Harper's announcement, made me proud too.
If anyone questioned the usefulness of the un before, this latest farce simply confirms his impression. Any clownish head of state can stand before this body and babble incoherent nonsense, to his heart's content. How pathetic !
any other Muslim state come to the defense of Pals? They "USE" the Pals like a political football. Instead of encouraging peace, they reject it. It's blatant hypocrisy.
for the defense missiles.
It was reported in today's London Times that Russia has agreed not to oppose sanctions against Iran.
israel only wants to hear what it wants to hear.
it takes to keep the world functioning and somewhat sustainable, it usually only takes one brainless nutcase to spark WW3! Iran's gift to the world...
the responsible Mullahs are mostly still around. The human right abusers that run the UNHRC look after each other and got a Jew to front for them,to cry human rights when it suits them. Does the UN really take itself seriously or just a milk cow giving 1st world jobs for third world buraucrats.
Why don't you educate yourself before you opine on any issue. Thanks. His speech was rife with hypocrisy, let alone conspicuous lies.
With the calibre of leaders like Ahmadinejad and Gaddafi no wonder Israel can't make peace in the middle east. Gaddafi who showed himself to have delusional opinions and displaying dissociative tendencies and ahmadinejad showing signs of psychosis by denying basic history, it is no wonder that Israel has difficulties making peace moves. When will the Arabs, Palestinians and other supporting confrontational states come together firmly with sensible leaders and attitudes and propose realistic talks along well known and identified proposed solutions for peace in the middle east. We dont need deltional leaders spoting off at the UN anymore. Obama on the other hand talked a huge amount of sense,let us hope that the world is responsive and honest in its dealings with his new intiatives and approach
...dramatic bs speech for arab dictators and a few african despots.
One translation of what he said that time was that "the Zionist regime will dissapear from the pages of time". He may or may not be right about that but he has a right to say it. Israels supportors hype what he says so they have an excuse to attack.
As Ahmedinijad, whose government shot dissenters in the streets of Teheran during the mock democratic elections, spoke about the awakening of nations and the expansion of freedom, the hall was half FULL. The UN once again offered a stage to a leader who blatantly preaches hate against the Jewish peole and Israel, while his own country continues to deprive its own citizens of freedom. Here is a man who is so deluded that he insists there are no homosexuals in his country, and is certain the Jews are controlling the world, and yet, the hall was half FULL as he spoke. Yassir Arafat once walked into the same hall wearing a pistol and received a standing ovation. Again, the UN shows its true nature.
Well we know why Ahmadinejad stated a few years ago in a speech delivered at a prominent American University that, "There are no Gay People in Iran." That is because Gay People in Iran have suffered a fate similar to what Jews suffered under Nazi Germany. You can go on certain sites and watch the old news reels of Iran under the Ayatollahs where Gays are shoved together with Drug Addicts and Pushers. Their heads are shaved to shame them. They are berated by the Iranian Religious Political leaders and then when they have admitted they are homosexuals, they are executed within hours. This was all filmed and recorded and anyone who wants to see this evidence can witness it all on the internet. Anyway, so Saudi Arabia is opening a Co-ed University they say. Apparently, Saudi Arabia moving forwards while Iran is going in the opposite direction.
1.The perfect solution to The Middle East Crisis is identical to finding The One True God. One cannot exist without the other. The moment the Formula is found, God is also found at that same instant. 2.It is humanly impossible to find The One True God and the perfect formula to The ME Conflict. Hence leaders are just wasting time and effort. 3.Precisely why The Messiah Jesus Christ needs to arrive or return. 4.The Wedding of Two Peoples, Two Nations and Two Religions in Cana is NOT the only miracle promised by the Messiah. 5.Other miracles include but not limited to the ff: calming the violent weather, ordering religious terrorists to put their swords, be it nuclear, back into the scabbard, setting the price of oil and wheat, giving special sight to blind scientists and bionic legs to lame duck cardinals. 6.The above miracles can only be jumpstarted by the small boy with Divine Formula of Five Loaves and Two Fish. 7.The correct move for leaders: find the mahdi.
Please explain the truth of the following. (if you could make it more simple, as there seems to be a problem for those people who are unable to see that "black is not white".) "How can crimes of the occupiers against defenseless women and children and destruction of their homes, farms, hospitals and schools be supported unconditionally by certain governments?"
The world knows it Look at who is talking, the Dictator that had his police and army shoot their own people when they protested his stealing the election by stuffing the ballot boxes
You couldn't make this stuff up, it's unbelievable. This guy and this regime are going to cause major trouble if they're not stopped.
In some ways I have a lot respect for Ahmadinejad and what he says, but for now, when Obama has declared his intention of of a contiguous Palestinian state, then perhaps Ahmadinejad should shut his mouth for a month or two and see whether Obama delvers on his promises!
Someone at the UN had it in for the lunatic fringe of the Islamic world. First the certifiable dictator of Libya is allowed to rant and rave for over an hour and then Ahmadinejad is allowed to embarrass his nation. He tried to change the subject from the fact that far more than a majority of Iran's citizens, and more than a majority of the Ayatollahs, are disgusted with Ahmadinejad, his Supreme Dictator, and their refusal to allow the people of Iran to endorse the government. It is not that the government of Iran allows people totally opposed to it to run. Rather the current President and Supreme Leader were afraid to allow even a person selected as 'safe' to win. The terror in the ruling clique of Iran is palpable. The outrage of the citizens of Iran has not been suppressed. Ahmadinejad smirked as Obama spoke, but then he tried frantically to change the subject. There is only one nation on earth that can save Ahamadinejad and his Supreme Leader. Israel, by attacking Iran.
He has the courage (whether you like him or not) to stand up and say to the world, look at what your doing, your not the good guys (US/Israel) as much as you think you are. However in dark of what he's saying he's continually embarrassing his country, and giving the hawks in tel aviv some more political leverage to boast to the public that the Iran "threat" is real. *sigh* however his is putting his a%s on the line for the Palestinians which I congratulate him at that.
Ahmedinejad is my hero,what a great man.
What did anyone expect him to say? Why was he given a visa by Obama unless it was to deliver this very speech? Perhaps some good may come out of it if those fence sitters realize who is in their camp. The Americans made a pretence at going to the meeting for whatever reason then walked out but only Canada out of all nations at the UN boycotted the speech from the start.
I praise Ìranians for having the courage to stand against hypocrite Western countries and criminal Israeli regime. You will win, because you are fighting for good cause.
This guy thinks he is the Mahdi bringing on the end times. He is intelligent and insane. Russia will allow sanctions on Iran now the missile defence system in Poland has been canceled. Ahmadinerjad needs conflict with Israel to survive. I believe that the pressure on Israel for a "settlement freeze" and a Paletinian State are pawns for a Saudi deal to let Israeli planes slip through Saudi air space on the way to or back from Iran.
Ahmed says:When you are attacked by Islamists, then you are the criminal
...is beyond me...
I have to hand it to the Iranian president, he is the only one with enough guts to stand up to the world and renounce the illegal and brutal occupation in Palestine.
As a Canadian (and originally from Pittsburgh) I am pleased and proud of Stephen Harper and the Canadian gov't for their walkout on this despicable character, to whom I can only respond by saying that Israel was the best thing that ever happened to the modern Middle East.
The Swiss and the Swedes better watch out. If he is truthful for once, that ends their laissez faire "we will supply you with anything for cash" government philosophy. -)
Sorry Ahmadinejad, You had at least half a point about Israel's treatment of the Palestinians but then you began to wax eloquent about that great election that put you back in power again and absolutely no one is buying that message.
Biggest walkout ever at the United Nations.
how do you take ovver a country without firing a shot?, simple, infiltrate the governments.