Ahmadinejad at Durban II: The Video
Check out the video from Ben Harris of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's speech at Durban II, the protesting clowns and the European diplomats who walked out
Here's Michael Jordan's report:
GENEVA (JTA) -- European diplomats walked out of a session of the Durban II conference when Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called on the world to unite against Israel.
In a speech at the U.N.-sponsored anti-racism conferencein Geneva, the Iranian president first blamed the West for injustice, then went on the offensive against Israel, calling it the “racist perpetrators of genocide.”
"Under the pretext of Jewish suffering, they have helped bring to power the most oppressive, racist regime in Palestine,” Ahmadinejad said, to heavy applause from Iranians in the upper gallery and pockets of Muslims elsewhere on the floor. “They have always been silent about their crimes.”
He was briefly interrupted when several protesters in rainbow wigs yelled “Racist!”
At the first mention of “Jewish,” representatives of the 23 European Union countries that chose to participate in the conference noisily got up from their seats and marched out the door -- a move met by more clapping from Iranian and Arab delegates, while other diplomatic delegations refrained. The walkout dealt another blow to organizers of the conference, which is being boycotted by nine countries, including the United States, Israel and several European nations.
Ahmadinejad went on to criticize the United States for the bloodshed in Iraq and Afghanistan, and for the global economic crisis.
He railed against those who use their “economic and political influence” and control of the media to back the “barbaric racism” of the “Zionist regime.” He called for the world to “put an end to abuses by the Zionists” and the “conspiracies by some powers and Zionist circles.”
During the speech, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon remained in his seat, just behind Ahmadinejad. However, the U.N. chief issued a denunciation shortly afterward, expressing regret that Ahmadinejad had not heeded his earlier request not to attack Israel on the floor.
“I deplore the use of this platform by the Iranian president to accuse, divide and even incite,” Ban said in a statement. “We must all turn away from such a message in both form and substance.”
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What a disgrace to humanity this little “shmuck” is. Those who live in glass houses should be careful of throwing stones. Iran is surely not among those countries that promote human rights, but rather repress them. The Iranian people are being held hostage by this runt at the behest of so-called clergy. Were Mohammed to return to this earth, he would be reviled by these terrorists. Ahdaminijad talks about compassion and peace, what hypocrisy. They are are on the leading purveyors of terrorism in the Middle East. A curse on him and Iran
It is interesting to note that the day of his speech coincided with Hitler’s (Yemakh Shemo) birthday. This arch-racist, (whether the claim that he is a Jew in drag is correct or not) is someone whose name should be blotted out as we do for both Haman (also from Persia/Iran) and the dictator mentioned previously.
Ban Ki Moon should have walked out in solidarity with the other delegates that did instead of the diplomatic soft slap on the wrist that he gave afterward. What more caould we expect from the UN?
A worldwide protest should be set in motion to stop this kind of demon from spreading racism and we should remember that Hate Speech was the forerunner of the Holocaust
“If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it; for in many ways his mind moves all the quicker for not being delayed by the things that go with good judgment.
He is not hampered by a sense of humour or by charity, or by the dumb certainties of experience. He is the more logical for losing the sane affections. Indeed the common phrase for insanity is in this respect a misleading one. The madman is not the man who has lost his reason. The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason.” G.K. Chesterton - blessings - Rene
Fullest commendation to the utterly necessary presence and voice of protest on erev Yom Hashoah on behalf of all those who will NEVER be silenced AGAIN:
at a ‘conference’ that has marked itself for history as the most egregious inversion of the very rights and values it professes to represent and advance. In Geneva! Once the true city of refuge for Europe’s persecuted, but now, oh now, but covert banker to blood-stained mammon, and smiling, “neutral” handmaid to smiling, intended genocide!
I wuold like to comment on the speech and the above comments. I by no means support this leader and some of his countrys views..but he has got a point. He is not being racist...he is pointing out the the state of israel in its whole is being racist. To occupy a land under the guise of some dreamt up book with no basis of proof and then give the occupied no right or say in how to govern themselves...wall them off and segregate them..take there land ,homes and the right to exist is at least racist and diabolical...dont you agree people !!
You are definite proof that there is an offspring yielded with the mating of a jackass and a mule= Gaz West. You are so full of “GAS” someone should drop you off in the middle of the Mediterranean and let you swim to shore. The State of Israel is not racist for if it were it would not have let in 300,000 non-Jewish Russians that are still non-productive and lied in order to escape communist Russia. It would not have let in thousands of Ethiopians that were and still are being slaughtered on a daily basis by their own countrymen.
Do you want to talk about occupation, let’s talk about occupation? How about returning Texas and California to the Mexicans for starters? How about giving back New York to the American Indians as the white man stole it right out from underneath them.
So the Five Books of Moses is some dreamt up book? A figment of someone’s imagination but this imagination must be quite spectacular as all the information that is contained within the five volumes is all too accurate down to the last atom. This is news to me and shows that you are an even lesser invertebrate than I first perceived you to be. You say there is no such book as the Holy Bible so I guess millions of people have been fooled but you are the only fool here. You profess to tell us about how Israel is a racist country and how it believes in segregation. If you bothered to study world history, it is quite evident that you haven’t from your ignorant statements; you would have learned that the British were the ones who sliced up the Middle East. The British were the ones who caused apartheid in South Africa but then again, you are too ignorant to know that. Present day Jordan was also part of Israel during Biblical times but then again due to your lack of knowledge historical events and sleeping during class and you also must have missed English classes for you sure not know how to spell.
There is no occupation other than taking back land that initially belonged to Israel and that is called reclamation but then again you don’t own a dictionary so you wouldn’t know that word and you slept through history classes. You are so full of GAS your mind is blurry.
Nomads better known as Bedouins have no rights or entitlement to property as they pay no land rights, no water nothing and possibly you too are a squatter.
No human would agree with you as that would provide that they too are like you - a moron. Whoever you are – GET A LIFE!!!
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Mark S. Devenow
04/20/09 05:21 PM
It’s almost amusing (if not entirely funny) to watch this little weasel preaching to his rump caucus of third and fourth world flunkies and satraps for various despotisms and arrantly corrupt, expensively clothed UN bureaucrats. Of this menagerie of anti-semites much might be said, but the word “hypocrisy” hasn’t fulfilled its meaning until the video appears as caption to it in the dictionary. The spectacle of representatives for countries whose denizens appear to be about two weeks away from swinging from trees is, if not merely appalling, something to behold with a sense of humor. Watching this little moron rant to the fulsome cheers and applause offered reminds me that what passes for civilization is indeed only skin deep.