Israeli PM Netanyahu went to social media just ahead of Iranian President Rouhani’s speech yesterday at the U.N. with the video above. He also tweeted:
Just last week, @HassanRouhani, like Ahmadinejad before him, refused to recognize the #Holocaust as an historical fact
Here is the alleged basis for this claim: Ann Curry question to Rouhani on NBC, former President Ahmadinejad said that the Holocaust is a myth, do you agree? “I’m not a historian, I’m a politician,” Rouhani said.
And here’s a transcript of Netanyahu’s video statement above. Seems a little competitive when he says he’s meeting with the president next week. And note the absence of any conciliatory statement– though the Israelis always say, All we want is peace! Do they?
I appreciate President Obama’s statement that Iran’s conciliatory words will have to be matched by action that is transparent and verifiable. And I look forward to discussing this with the president in Washington next week. Iran thinks that soothing words and token actions will enable it continue on its path to the bomb. Like North Korea before it, Iran will try to remove sanctions by offering cosmetic concessions while preserving its ability to rapidly build a nuclear weapon at a time of its choosing. Israel would welcome a genuine diplomatic solution that truly dismantles Iran’s capacity to develop nuclear weapons, but we will not be fooled by half measures that merely provide a smokescreen for Iran’s continual pursuit of nuclear weapons, and the world should not be fooled, either.
Who looks the more reasonable leader, Rouhani or Netanyahu?
truly dismantles Iran’s capacity to develop
who’s the snake.
“I look forward to discussing this with the president in Washington next week.”nuttyahoo.
Why does this war monger get so much of obama,s time.
Does anyone keep a cost of massaging the occupation,s nations ego.Must be in the billions and I am not referring to the 3 to 4 billion handed over annualy to these criminals.
It would interesting to know how much the SOS blows monthly fellating zionist donors, both at home and abroad.Not to mention keeping Israel,s neighbours nice to their boistrous little neighbour.
It has been and is absolutely clear that Israel does not want peace. They have never stopped trying to acquire more land through what ever means necessary. Wars, theft of land through illegal settlements, refusal to freeze growth of settlements.
Israel also continues to refuse to sign the IAEA’s Non Proliferation Treaty which would place their massive stockpiles of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons under international inspections. These massive stockpiles of deadly and un checked weapons have been and continue to be a threat to peace in the middle east.
Israel plays by this twisted rule and this twisted rule only…Do as we say not as we do. The whole world is watching
They want recognised, peaceful possession of all the land from river to sea, with the Palestinian population induced – humane and generous means are envisaged, of course – to emigrate, at least up to a point where only a museum-piece remnant is left.
Rouhani was interviewed on CNN, and said not only that he was not a historian (perhaps to shift away questions about details about the holocaust) but also said that the Nazis’ murder of Jews was [bad, atrocity, something like that] and that even though it did occur — NB: no suggestion here that the murder by Nazis of Jews (no mention of all the others also murdered by Nazis) didn’t actually happen ! — that such murders did not justify Jews [depredations, bad acts, something like that] against anyone else (I think he did not say “Palestinians”).
See:
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/juancole/ymbn/~3/vPmyECZ_wfk/president-acknowledges-holocaust.html