"In 2005, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran’s then newly elected president, said that Israel needed to be “wiped off the map."
Utter nonsense - been here, done that Bruce
I repeat the posting
"Hamas’s Gaza leader, Yahya Al-Sinwar says (in Arabic) that they will 'tear down the wall and tear out their (meaning Israeli’s) hearts.' "
Pathetic threats only by a group without a trained army, without adequate weapons to take on the local boy scouts, and totally incapable of ever seriously making such a threat against a State with some of the best trained and best armed troops in the entire Middle East - AS WELL AS BEING NUCLEAR FACILITATED - no more than meaningless and desperate taunts
Meanwhile, back in reality - Israel has murdered it's opponents by the thousand, has driven millions from their homes, has destroyed entire towns, villages and settlements - homes, hospitals (sometimes with the patients in them) has used heavy artillery, planes, tanks, chemical and anti-personnel weapons in built-up areas - as well as facilitating the massacre of 3,500 unarmed refugees
At the present time, Israel is slaughtering unarmed protesters - four deaths reported on Friday (in the Israeli press - probably at least double that) and more to come before the week-end is over
As well as the history of slaughter, Israeli police and soldiers have arrested and imprisoned (often without trial) many thousands of Gazans - including children
According to the Israeli Human Rights Group, B'tselem, at the end of February, this year, there were AROUND 370 PALESTINIAN MINORS BEING HELD IN CUSTODY
If that were not enough - they have stolen vast areas of territory in order to make room for Jewish Settlers and over half the Israeli people have given their support to a programme of ethnic cleansing
Apart from the Palestinians, Israeli authorities have issued an order to African refugees (who they refer to as "cancer" that they should leave Israel or be imprisoned - they have the support of half the Israeli people for this too
I shouldn't have to repeat this - it was a stupid claim when it was first made and it remains just as stupid
ISRAEL HAS BEEN THE AGGRESSOR FROM DAY ONE - THE BRITISH SAILED OUT OF PALESTINE TO THE SOUND OF HAND GRENADES BEING THROWN INTO OCCUPIED ARAB HOUSES IN ORDER TO CLEAR THEM FOR THE NEW SETTLERS - A RELATIVE OF MINE WAS THERE WHEN BRITISH TROOPS LEFT
IT IS ALSO CONFIRMED IN THE WRITINGS OF BENNY MORRIS
Jim Carroll