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P. David Hornik offers a valuable overview of the return visit of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to the U.N. Hornik writes:
Incitement
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.”
Me: This time Ahmadinejad will be met by protests and responses. Read on...
- See also "Iran's Faltering Economy" by Michael Rubin in Euro-Atlantic Quarterly (HT: Corner)