By P. David Hornik
ncitement to genocide is doing well these days. On Monday, September 22, Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will be arriving to address the UN General Assembly for the third time. At least this time he won’t be an honored guest of Columbia University as well.
Since his last address to the world body, a year ago on September 24, Ahmadinejad has been adding to his genre—not only referring to Israel last May 8 as a “stinking corpse” that “should be wiped off the face of the earth” as Sarah Palin has noted. Six days later, for instance, on Israel’s 60th birthday, he said on Iranian state television that “The Zionist regime is dying. The criminals assume that by holding celebrations...they can save the sinister Zionist regime from death and annihilation…. Nations of the region hate this criminal fabricated regime and will uproot this fabricated regime if the smallest and briefest opportunity is given to them.”
Another example occurred just last August 20 when Ahmadinejad called Israel a “germ of corruption” that will be “removed soon” on his presidential website. The “penalty” for these statements, which lawyers and diplomats have called illegal under the UN’s own Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide? Another invitation to the General Assembly; business as usual; treatment as a respected world statesman.
Among the speakers will be U.S. diplomat Richard Holbrooke, Canadian MP and former justice minister and attorney-general Irwin Cotler, and Israeli former UN ambassador Dore Gold, as well as officials who have dealt with the atrocities in Bosnia, Rwanda, and Darfur. The conference will be called “State-Sanctioned Incitement to Genocide: What Can Be Done?” and will be viewable live at the Middle East Strategic Information website. Read more ...
ncitement to genocide is doing well these days. On Monday, September 22, Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will be arriving to address the UN General Assembly for the third time. At least this time he won’t be an honored guest of Columbia University as well.
Since his last address to the world body, a year ago on September 24, Ahmadinejad has been adding to his genre—not only referring to Israel last May 8 as a “stinking corpse” that “should be wiped off the face of the earth” as Sarah Palin has noted. Six days later, for instance, on Israel’s 60th birthday, he said on Iranian state television that “The Zionist regime is dying. The criminals assume that by holding celebrations...they can save the sinister Zionist regime from death and annihilation…. Nations of the region hate this criminal fabricated regime and will uproot this fabricated regime if the smallest and briefest opportunity is given to them.”
Another example occurred just last August 20 when Ahmadinejad called Israel a “germ of corruption” that will be “removed soon” on his presidential website. The “penalty” for these statements, which lawyers and diplomats have called illegal under the UN’s own Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide? Another invitation to the General Assembly; business as usual; treatment as a respected world statesman.
Among the speakers will be U.S. diplomat Richard Holbrooke, Canadian MP and former justice minister and attorney-general Irwin Cotler, and Israeli former UN ambassador Dore Gold, as well as officials who have dealt with the atrocities in Bosnia, Rwanda, and Darfur. The conference will be called “State-Sanctioned Incitement to Genocide: What Can Be Done?” and will be viewable live at the Middle East Strategic Information website. Read more ...
Source: FrontPage Magazine
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