Posted on 01/21/2006 8:05:03 AM PST by beaversmom
Tehran, Iran, Jan. 21 – Hard-line Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told senior leaders of a radical Palestinian group in Damascus on Friday that the Middle East conflict has become “the locus of the final war” between Muslims and the West, Iran’s official news agency, IRNA, reported.
Ahmadinejad, who was speaking on the second day of his two-day trip to Syria, told the leaders of Hamas, “Today, victory in Palestine has become a matter of life and death for the Islamic world and for Global Arrogance (the West)”.
The Iranian president urged the Palestinians to reject moves such as Israel’s withdrawal from Gaza.
“Some point to the withdrawal of the occupiers from parts of Palestine, but this event has already been greatly detrimental to Muslims”, Ahmadinejad said.
“If the occupiers stay on even one inch of Palestinian soil, the goal of Palestine will not be realised”, Ahmadinejad told Hamas leaders, who included Khalid Mash’al, the head of the group’s political bureau.
“We must not let our guard down now for even one moment against the enemies’ plots. Belittling the goal of Palestine is a great plot that the enemies are after”, he said.
Ahmadinejad has called the Holocaust a “myth” and said that Israel must be “wiped off the map”.
The 37 Minute War.
Hydroelectic dams are our friends.
Making the land uninhabitable isn't an option for him, nor any other Islamic leader at this point. He wants the nation of Israel gone, to be sure, and replaced by Palestine. Turning into a radioactive wasteland is not a winning strategy for him.
The only nuke he intends to lob is one on Tel Aviv, to decapitate the Israeli leadership, and to demoralize the population by the shock value. The rest of his strategy is tied up in "the oil weapon" backed by a bit of nuclear blackmail, in order to facilitate a reversal of the UN directive creating Israel in the first place, and rendering the entire Middle East irrevocably, and totally Islamic.
Should he be successful at this gambit, of course you can expect him to "up the ante" to institute the word-wide caliphate for his "Mahdi"...
the infowarrior
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