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| âWipe Israel off the mapâ: Ahmadinejadâs objective, French PM Villepinâs prediction |
| 2005-11-04 |
| This is from Media-ratings http://www.m-r.fr/accueil.php a french website examining the ethics of MSM (for a website solely aimed at countering bias agaisnt Israel, see "Honest Reporting"-like http://www.acmedias.org/. Note that I had heard about the Dominique Galouzeau "de Villepin" (who's a man) quote later in jewish websites (can't remember if this was repored in msm), and IIRC there was supposedly a discreet diplomatic row over it at the time. Sad thing is, what Dom said is only what the "arab street" at the Quay d'Orsay thinks, and thus the basis of the french Arab Policy(Tm). November 2nd, 2005 This article is translated from « Rayer Israël de la carte » : Ahmadinejad le souhaite, Villepin lâa envisagé, which appeared in Media-Ratings on October 31st. The Iranian president declared Wednesday October 26, during a conference - âThe world without Zionismâ - that Israel had to be â wiped off the mapâ. These remarks were repeated the following Friday before being downplayed the next day by Iranian diplomats. This speech was condemned by a broad spectrum of French media and by Western diplomats. The swift, stormy reaction, was as hypocritical as it was artificial, the current Iranian president being not the first nor the only one to make such comments. Let us recall that for a long time, Hamas has been calling (articles 11 and 15 of its charter) for the elimination of the State of Israel. Moreover, the PLO, whose second-in-command is Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas and which created the Palestinian National Authority, has never abrogated the articles of its charter which call for the destruction of the State of Israel. It is interesting to point out, too, that representatives of Hamas and of the Palestinian Authority attended the conference where Mr. Ahmadinejad pronounced his devastating remarks. No condemnation was heard from them. More surprisingly, in 2001, current French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin forecast the disappearance of the State of Israel. He was then the general secretary of Elysée, the French presidential palace, and declared that âthe State of Israel was a parenthesis in historyâ and was bound to disappear. For those who are not aware of this anticipation, it has been brought up by Jean-Marie Colombani, the director of the newspaper of reference, Le Monde. In his book published in February 2002, âAll Americans?â , these comments were attributed to âpeople close to president Chiracâ. Colombani was asked in private who he was referring to, and he said it was Dominique de Villepin. In June 2002, having become France's foreign affairs minister, Villepin was asked if he admitted having made those remarks. He did not contradict them formally. Strangely, many recriminations against the Iranian president have come from the same French media which has suddenly lost its memory with regard to its own current political leaders. Jacques Chirac's remarks corroborate this analysis. The French president has certainly condemned Mr. Ahmadinejad's comments, qualified as âfoolish and irresponsibleâ, but only for one reason: his Iranian peer ârisked to have Iran, which is a great country, banned from the international community.â A precise analysis of Jacques Chiracâs declaration shows that he worried only about Iran's risks, not about another state being wiped off the map. To support this analysis, there was a column worth to look at, published in Le Figaro on Friday, October 28. It was written by Pascal Boniface, the president of IRIS, a think tank specializing in geopolitics, and the frequent, unofficial spokesman of Quai d'Orsay, the French foreign affairs ministry. The title of the article â âWhen the Iranian president hurts Iranâ - shows what are the main concerns of this strategy analyst, similar to the French president's. In order to have a better appreciation of the remarks made by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, remarks that the French media did not consider useful for publication, we have provided below a few extracts. They should be compelling enough for those who might think that the State of Israel is the Iranian president's unique target: â The creation of the regime which occupies Al-Quods (Jerusalem) was a significant move by the world dominating system and by the Western civilisation against the Islamic world. An historical battle is being carried out between the Oppressing world and the Islamic world, and the roots of this conflict are hundreds of years old. The occupying State (Israel) is heading the Oppressing world into the heart of the Islamic world. They have built a base in order to extend their domination on the entire Islamic world. This objective is the only reason for being part of that entity. Therefore, the current battle in Palestine is at the forefront of the conflict between the Islamic world and the Oppressing world. Today, the Palestinian nation fights the Oppressing world for the entire Islamic community.â |
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