Ahmadinejad tells Israel to look for a new home
Pastor Dale Morgan
Ahmadinejad tells Israel to look for a new home*
Published Date: August 05, 2007
ALGIERS: Iran's outspoken President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called on Israel
to "go find somewhere else" for its state and leave its territory for
the creation of a Palestinian state, according to an interview published
yesterday. "Our support (for the Palestinian people) is unconditional.
As for the Israelis, let them go find somewhere else," Ahmadinejad told
several Algerian newspapers ahead of an visit to Algiers that starts Monday.
Iran consistently refuses to recognize Israel's right to exist in the
Middle East, and Ahmadinejad sparked outrage abroad by stating after
coming to power in 2005 that Israel should be "wiped from the map." He
also provoked a storm in June by saying a "countdown" had begun that
would end with Lebanese and Palestinian militants destroying Israel, and
his government last year hosted a conference on the Holocaust
questioning the German Nazis genocide of the Jews during World War II.
In his latest diatribe, the Iranian leader accused Israel of committing
"butchery" in the Palestinian territories. Ahmadinejad said, too, that
Iran wanted to cooperate with Algeria against terrorism. "Islam bans the
assassination of innocent people wherever they are," he said. "We reject
all methods of terrorism, whatever the denomination or motive,"
Ahmadinejad declared. He criticized what he called the "partial" view of
human rights in Western countries. He said there were "secret prisons"
in Europe. "In
the United States people's telephone conversations are listened to. In
Britain, people are spied on using television cameras. In Palestine,
Israel commits butchery. But no-one causes a scandal." Ahmadinejad's
visit to Algeria has not been officially confirmed by the authorities. -
AFP