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compiled by Cem Ertür
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21 April, 2009
1) Address by the Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu on Holocaust Remembrance Day(20 April 2009)
2) Remarks by President Obama at the Holocaust Days of Remembrance Ceremony (23 April 2009)
3) UK Prime Minister Brown’s words at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp (28 April 2009)
4) UK Prime Minister Brown: The lesson I learnt at Auschwitz (22 May 2009)
from the archives:
1) “Wiped Off The Map” – The Rumor of the Century (January 2007)
2) Quotes on Iran by Obama, Brown, Sarkozy and Merkel (July 2008)
Editorial note:
Speaking at the “United Nations World Conference Against Racism” in Geneva on April 20th, Iran’s president Ahmadinejad denounced “the most cruel and repressive, racist regime in Palestine” as well as the US-led imperialism:
Netanyahu speaking at the Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony, 20 April 2009
“Have they [i.e. the previous US administration and its allies] been authorized on behalf of the people of the world to interfere in all parts of the globe? And of course mostly in our region aren’t these measures a clear example of egocentrism, racism, discrimination, or infringement upon the dignity and independence of nations?” [1]
On the same day, another speech was delivered by the Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu in Jerusalem to mark the Holocaust Remembrance Day (see the quote below).
Given the extremely bellicose rhetoric of the new Israeli government [2] as well as the thinly veiled threats from the Obama administration [3], Iran is still at risk of annihilation by the US, Israeli and NATO forces. The Holocaust-mongering of the Israeli establishment can be seen in this light.
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http://www.pmo.gov.il/PMOEng/Communication/PMSpeaks/speechholoc200409. htm
Address by [the Israeli] Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Day
Prime Minister’s Office website, 20 April 2009
| Quote: |
| The unfortunate fact is that while we are marking the events of the Holocaust here at Yad Vashem [Memorial] in Jerusalem, there are those who chose to participate in a spectacle of hatred of Israel, conducted at this very hour in the heart of Europe [i.e. the “Durban Review of the United Nations World Conference Against Racism” in Geneva].From here I turn to you, President of Switzerland, and I ask you: how can you, as a head of an enlightened state, meet with those who deny the Holocaust and strive for another one?
In opposition to this, we express our appreciation to those important countries which chose to boycott this demonstration of hatred – including the United States, Canada, Germany, Italy, Holland, Poland, Australia and New Zealand, as well as representatives who left the hall during the hateful words of the Iranian president. […] We will not allow Holocaust deniers to carry out another Jewish Holocaust. This is the supreme commitment of the State of Israel, and it is my supreme commitment as Prime Minister of Israel. |
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excerpt from:
Remarks by the President at the Holocaust Days of Remembrance Ceremony
The White House website, 23 April 2009
| Quote: |
| How do we ensure that “never again” isn’t an empty slogan, or merely an aspiration, but also a call to action? |
[US President Barack Obama, Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony at the United States Capitol, Washington D.C. , 23 April 2009]
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http://www.number10.gov.uk/Page19172
excerpt from:
PM’s words at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp
Number 10 (website of the UK Prime Minister’s Office), 29 April 2009
| Quote: |
| When you see the gas chambers, the concentration camps, […] [t]hese memories can never leave you, but it makes you absolutely determined that we should not ever allow this to happen again. |
[UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown, interview at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, 28 April 2009]
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http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3719516,00.html
excerpt from: The lesson I learnt at Auschwitz
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown shares deep impact of visit to Nazi death camp
by UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Ynetnews, 21 May 2009
| Quote: |
| “I now have a new understanding of the burden of memory, that distance from the Holocaust in time and geography does not lessen but increase our obligation to remember and to resist.” |
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from the archives:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=4527
excerpt from: “Wiped Off The Map” – The Rumor of the Century
by Arash Norouzi, Global Research, 20 January 2007
Across the world, a dangerous rumor has spread that could have catastrophic implications. According to legend, Iran’s President has threatened to destroy Israel, or, to quote the misquote, “Israel must be wiped off the map”. Contrary to popular belief, this statement was never made, as the following article will prove.
[…]
THE ACTUAL QUOTE:
So what did Ahmadinejad actually say? To quote his exact words in farsi:
“Imam ghoft een rezhim-e ishghalgar-e qods bayad az safheh-ye ruzgar mahv shavad.”
That passage will mean nothing to most people, but one word might ring a bell: rezhim-e. It is the word “Regime”, pronounced just like the English word with an extra “eh” sound at the end. Ahmadinejad did not refer to Israel the country or Israel the land mass, but the Israeli regime. This is a vastly significant distinction, as one cannot wipe a regime off the map. Ahmadinejad does not even refer to Israel by name, he instead uses the specific phrase “rezhim-e ishghalgar-e qods” (regime occupying Jerusalem).
So this raises the question.. what exactly did he want “wiped from the map”? The answer is: nothing. That’s because the word “map” was never used. The Persian word for map, “nagsheh”, is not contained anywhere in his original farsi quote, or, for that matter, anywhere in his entire speech. Nor was the western phrase “wipe out” ever said. Yet we are led to believe that Iran’s President threatened to “wipe Israel off the map”, despite never having uttered the words “map”, “wipe out” or even “Israel”.
THE PROOF:
The full quote translated directly to English:
“The Imam said this regime occupying Jerusalem must vanish from the page of time”.
Word by word translation:
Imam (Khomeini) ghoft (said) een (this) rezhim-e (regime) ishghalgar-e (occupying) qods (Jerusalem) bayad (must) az safheh-ye ruzgar (from page of time) mahv shavad (vanish from).
[…]
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https://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2008/07/28/quotes-on-iran-by-obama -brown-sarkozy-and-merkel/
Quotes on Iran by Obama, Brown, Sarkozy and Merkel
28 July 2008
Below are some quotes taken from the speeches given by prominent political leaders during their recent visits to Israel.
| Quote: |
| “The threats to Israel’s security… [include] an Iranian regime that sponsors terrorism, pursues nuclear weapons and threatens Israel’s existence” |
[US Presidential Candidate Barack Obama, speech in Sderot, 23 July 2008] [1]
| Quote: |
| “And to those who mistakenly and outrageously call for the end of Israel let the message be: Britain will always stand firmly by Israel’s side.” |
[UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown, speech to the Israeli Parliament Knesset, 21 July 2008] [2]
| Quote: |
| “Yes, France is Israel’s friend, and France will always stand shoulder to shoulder with Israel when her security and existence are threatened… And those who call scandalously for Israel’s destruction will always find France in their way, blocking the path.” |
[France’s President Nicholas Sarkozy, speech to the Israeli Parliament Knesset, 23 June 2008] [3]
| Quote: |
| “Ladies and gentlemen, the threats directed against Israel and the Jewish people by the Iranian President are without doubt a particular cause for concern…. If Iran ever acquires nuclear weapons, the consequences will be disastrous.” |
[Germany’s President Angela Merkel, speech to the Israeli Parliament Knesset, 18 March 2008] [4]
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Two cartoons from the Times and the Guardian
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/04/428161.html?c=on#c221432
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NOTES:
[1] Full Text of President Ahmadinejad’s Remarks at U.N. Conference on Racism
Jeremy R. Hammond, Foreign Policy Journal, 21 April 2009
[2] Netanyahu to Obama: Stop Iran—Or I Will
by Jeffrey Goldberg, Atlantic, 31 March 2009
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200903u/netanyahu
[3] Phony Nuclear Disarmament
by Margaret Kimberley, Black Agenda Report, 8 April 2009
http://www.blackagendareport.com/?q=content/freedom-rider-phony-nuclear-disarmament
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Updated
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article624 5200.ece
excerpts from:
Barack Obama to walk in footsteps of uncle who helped free Buchenwald
Concentration camp visit will send message to Jewish voters
by Tom Baldwin and Roger Boyes, Times, 8 May 2009
| Quote: |
| President Obama is preparing to follow in the footsteps of his great-uncle, Charlie, with a visit to the Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany when he returns to Europe this summer.
The site is laden with historic and personal significance for the President. More than 50,000 people died at the camp before its liberation in April, 1945 by American soldiers, including Charlie Payne, the uncle of Mr Obama’s mother. […] Although the White House said yesterday that it was unable to confirm claims that Mr Obama would visit Buchenwald and Dresden next month, almost every senior official in the states of Thüringia and Saxony already appears to have been informed about the impending trip. […] Visiting a concentration camp will send an important message to Israel and Jewish voters back home — who have sometimes been suspicious towards him — that he fully recognises the horrors of the Holocaust. |
Updated
US National Security Advisor: We understand Israel’s preoccupation with Iran as an existential threat
excerpt from: ABC’s “This Week With George Stephanopoulos”
Host: George Stephanopoulos
Guests: General Jim Jones, National Security Advisor; Senator John McCain
Federal News Service, 10 May 2009
| Quote: |
| GEN. JONES: [W]e understand Israel’s preoccupation with Iran as an existential threat. We agree with that. And by the same token, there are a lot of things that you can do to diminish that existential threat by working hard towards achieving a two-state solution. This is a very strategic issue. It’s extremely important.
And we’re looking forward to having a good, constructive dialogue with our Israeli friends when they visit Washington in the next seven or eight days. |
see
Ahmadinejad Holds Up a Mirror to Western Powers, Inviting Scorn by Jeremy R. Hammond
Anti Zionist Orthodox Jews: Judaism Yes Zionism No!
Iran’s President Did Not Say “Israel must be wiped off the map” By Arash Norouzi (2007)
Where’s Rev. Wright When You Need Him? by Chris Hedges
Obama boycotts anti-racism conference + More Countries Join Boycott
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Has he no idea that the only way to ensure that no new Holocaust to be carried out against his people is to make peace and not war, to compromise, to reach a a fair and just agreement with those Israel oppressed and degraded for so long? I doubt it very much. That’s what happens when extremist delusional sociopaths, who are intoxicated with Isael’s military strength, are left to lead and decide the fate of their nation. Has he never heard of the saying about those who don’t learn from history? What a shame, what a legacy!!
So, when someone denies that we are in an economic depression, does that mean that they want to destroy the economic system?
I’d like to think it a mistranslation, but it is clear that the Israeli Prime Minister associates a “disagreement of facts” with a threat of violence.
All based on an intentional misinterpretation from one speech from one guy who is not the ultimate Leader of his people, merely a figurehead, Ahmedinijad.
Perhaps the Israeli press reports his name as “Ahmed-in-Jihad”.
Jane Harmon, anyone? Telling the DOJ to back off it’s investigation of Espionage by members of AIPAC? While Haim Saban, the California multi billionaire, offers to pull his money from the Pelosi campaign in order to pressure her to appoint Harmon to head the Intelligence committee as payoff for her efforts to thwart the investigation?
Israel is becoming an Achilles heel for the States. Time to lance the boil.
Sins of the sons
At this sombre occasion of Jewish Holocaust, which should serve as a beacon, a reminder and a lesson to all humanity that hatred against any group of people, oppressing them and denying them their God-given rights will not, shouldn’t and will not be tolerated by any civil society; and that this pledge of conscience and principles is a universal principle, that applies to all mankind, with no exception. When the children of the Holocaust survivors stand and speak of the horrors that were inflicted on their people by the Nazis, and how abhorrent and despicable it was and is to do so to another fellow human being, they do, and I don’t know how they are able to do so, forget, ignore and even condone and support what they and their government are doing to the Palestinians. They tried to cancel their national identity by saying that there are no Palestinians and that they are only Arabs or Jordanians, but that didn’t wash. Throughout the many years this conflict has been going on, so much injustice and oppression had befallen on the Palestinians by the weeping children of the Holocaust survivors. In broad day light and with full impunity, they pillaged their lands, on which they lived for hundreds if not thousands of years, plundered their resources, humiliated and degraded them, denied them every human right there is, dealt with them as sub-humans who have no right to have any rights, unleashed on them packs and herds of rabid settlers, whose backwardness, closed-mindedness and outright racist, deep-seated hatred of any thing Palestinian bring fear to even some Israelis. Enlightened Israelis should be concerned not only about what oppression does to the oppressed but what it does to the oppressor, their children that grow up being fed the prejudices and hatred of their parents, and the society that grows complacent with the idea that their delusionally-threatened security is their only sacred value, which warrants and justifies the demolition of Palestinian identity, structure and being. It amazes me that they wouldn’t grasp the gravity of their sins perpetrated against Palestinians, without any regard to any values that are supposed to define them as a nation. They, in the midst of their blinding hatred, do not realize that their continual denial of the rights of Palestinians means that any moral authority they may have had or claim is lost – a loss more catastrophic to the nation of Israel than anything else they may risk losing, including the very soul of their country. It’s a mark of shame on humanity that several decades after the Holocaust, the world’s response to the historic plight of the Palestinians, which stands as a symbol of blatant aggression and injustice, is feeble, almost dismissed as if routine. And more shame on the enlightened, conscientious Jews and Israelis who allowed their history to be decided and sadly tarnished by megalomaniac sociopaths, like Netanyaho and Lieberman, who care nothing about the legacy and soul of Israel and Judaism, and who are blinded by secret scores they have to settle with their own dark sides. Their ideology, strategies and tactics are no different, in essence, than those of Al Qaida, for they pander to people’s dark side of fears, prejudices and hatred. They spread unfounded lies to the whole world, and among their own people, that they are in some kind of paranoid, existential danger, a banal age-old story they exploited and milked to death for a long time. Israel, with all its abilities to make history and change its ugly course to something they and their children can be proud of, has a choice of historical proportion to make: it has a lot of hard soul-searching to do, it has to face its long-held fears and its complex of persecution, it has to decide if it’s going to take a chance on existing and living as a decent, normal, peace-loving country, or continue to hold on to its fortress mentality and fears which will never bring it the security it’s obsessed with and wishes for , for posterity.
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