Middle East Madness
Paul Hughes
Reuters
Fri, 09 Dec 2005 12:00 EST
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Thursday expressed doubt the Holocaust took place and suggested the Jewish state of Israel be moved to Europe.
His comments, reported by Iran's official IRNA news agency from a news conference he gave in the Saudi Arabian city of Mecca, follow his call in October for Israel to be "wiped off the map", which sparked widespread international outrage.
The latest comments also provoked quick condemnation. German Chancellor Angela Merkel called them "totally unacceptable" and British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said "I condemn them unreservedly. They have no place in civilized political debate."
Ahmadinejad was quoted by IRNA as saying: "Some European countries insist on saying that Hitler killed millions of innocent Jews in furnaces and they insist on it to the extent that if anyone proves something contrary to that they condemn that person and throw them in jail."
"Although we don't accept this claim, if we suppose it is true, our question for the Europeans is: is the killing of innocent Jewish people by Hitler the reason for their support to the occupiers of Jerusalem?" he said.
"If the Europeans are honest they should give some of their provinces in Europe -- like in Germany, Austria or other countries -- to the Zionists and the Zionists can establish their state in Europe. You offer part of Europe and we will support it."
Comment: The scary thing about this is, we get the feeling that Ahmadinejad is only giving voice to something that a LOT of people are thinking, but are afraid to say.
Dec 08 2005
AFP
Dec 08 2005
AFP
Fri, 09 Dec 2005 12:00 EST
Iran's hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said that if Germany and Austria feel responsible for massacring Jews during World War II, a state of Israel should be established on their soil. Ahmadinejad, who sparked an international outcry in October when he said Israel "must be wiped off the map", also repeated his view Thursday that the Jewish state was a "tumour".
"Now that you believe the Jews were oppressed, why should the Palestinian Muslims have to pay the price?" the hardline president asked in an interview with Iran's Arabic-language satellite channel, Al-Alam.
"Why did you come to give a piece of Islamic land and the territory of the Palestinian people to them?
"You oppressed them, so give a part of Europe to the Zionist regime so they can establish any government they want. We would support it," he said, according to a transcript of his original Farsi-language comments given to AFP.
Siber World News Team
07 December 2005
Siber World News Team
07 December 2005
Thu, 08 Dec 2005 12:00 EST
Reporters who arrived to cover the disaster wept when they realized many of the dead were colleagues. State television played mournful music as it broadcast images of people killed in the crash.
"I was supposed to be on the plane as well, so I don't know whether to be happy or sad," a journalist from the ISNA student news agency told Reuters.
The plane was bound for the port city of Chabahar on the Gulf of Oman, where Iran's military was conducting military exercises. It took off at about 1:35 p.m. from the military section of the airport.
By BURTON SPEAKMAN
The Daily News
December 7, 2005
By BURTON SPEAKMAN
The Daily News
December 7, 2005
Thu, 08 Dec 2005 12:00 EST
The sons of a Warren County sheriff's deputy died early this morning in separate auto accidents, which happened less than five miles and 20 minutes apart.
Comment: Comment: This is one of those bizarre things that just make you go "Huh?!" Both boys were killed in almost identical ways, losing control of their vehicles and hitting trees.
By Paule Gonzales
Translated By Kate Brumback
December 1, 2005
By Paule Gonzales
Translated By Kate Brumback
December 1, 2005
Thu, 08 Dec 2005 12:00 EST
After a nearly four-years wait, French International News Channel (CFII) was officially launched last week. According to this article from France's Le Figaro newspaper, 'On Everyone's Mind' was the American coverage of rioting in the Paris suburbs.
Last Updated Wed, 07 Dec 2005 17:44:53 EST
CBC News
Last Updated Wed, 07 Dec 2005 17:44:53 EST
CBC News
Thu, 08 Dec 2005 12:00 EST
A teenager in Winnipeg says he's trying to clear his name after his web business unwittingly hosted video footage of al-Qaeda leaders.
Comment: Comment: Hmmm. This is really depressing. More evidence of a society going horribly wrong. A nineteen year old kid already caught up in the money-making rat race.
By Dieter Bednarz, Erich Follath, Georg Mascolo and Bernhard Zand
Translated from German by Christopher Sultan
SPIEGEL ONLINE 06.12.2005
By Dieter Bednarz, Erich Follath, Georg Mascolo and Bernhard Zand
Translated from German by Christopher Sultan
SPIEGEL ONLINE 06.12.2005
Thu, 08 Dec 2005 12:00 EST
The road to Baghdad's airport, long considered the city's most notorious deathtrap, is flanked by two the two neighborhoods Jihad and Amiriya. They have never been considered as exclusive as the area along the banks of the Tigris River, where the cronies of deposed dictator Saddam Hussein once lived. But the districts were nevertheless refuges for members of the Iraqi middle class, who lived there in small villas from the 1970s. A comfortable distance from the perilous center of power, there were plenty of green spaces, shops, ice cream parlors, schools, parks and mosques. Life was pleasant in Jihad and Amiriya.
But anyone returning to the two neighborhoods these days will have difficulty recognizing the western sections of the Iraqi capital.
By VLADIMIR MATVEYEV / JTA
KIEV, Ukraine
By VLADIMIR MATVEYEV / JTA
KIEV, Ukraine
Thu, 08 Dec 2005 12:00 EST
Iran's president, who wants to see a world without Israel, has a vociferous ally in Ukraine.
A Kiev-based university that already has gained international notoriety for its anti-Zionist propaganda and anti-Semitic publications now wants the United Nations to "close" Israel.
The call came in November from the Interregional Academy for Personnel Management, known by its Russian acronym MAUP, whose leadership said the United Nations should revoke its 1947 resolution on the creation of a Jewish state.
"Mankind lived without the State of Israel exactly 2,670 years, but after the second of its creation all the world feels a constant aggression of the old 'sons of the devil,' " according to a university statement, published last month in the school newspaper, supporting Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's recent call to destroy Israel.
By Tim Butcher in Jerusalem
08/12/2005
By Tim Butcher in Jerusalem
08/12/2005
Thu, 08 Dec 2005 12:00 EST
Machines will perform euthanasia on terminally ill patients in Israel under legislation devised not to offend Jewish law, which forbids people taking human life.
Agence France-Presse
Wed, 07 Dec 2005 12:00 EST
Al-Qaeda number two Ayman al-Zawahiri claimed in a new videotape that the network's leader Osama bin Laden was still alive and leading the "jihad" holy war against the West, the Al-Jazeera channel said.
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