Netanyahu to Iran: 'We will know how to defend' Israel

[DesiGuy]

Israeli Premier Benjamin Netanyahu chose to respond to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s remarks in Lebanon about Israel’s “demise” from the hall in Tel Aviv where Israel’s first premier, David Ben-Gurion, declared the creation of Israel in 1948.

“We heard today the cursing and the language of contempt from the Lebanon border,” Netanyahu said at the Land of Israel Museum in Tel Aviv.

“We will continue to build our country and we will know very well how to defend it.”

Israelis on Thursday watched as their arch-enemy Ahmadinejad addressed a rally near the border with their country, which he has repeatedly said should cease to exist.

Ahmadinejad, who was on a two-day trip to Lebanon, toured its southern border region in a show of support for the Lebanese Hizbullah group that was slammed by the US and Israel as “provocative.”

The heavily guarded border is often seen as the front line in a proxy war between Israel and Iran, and Ahmadinejad is deeply reviled in Israel for his questioning of the Holocaust and predictions of the country’s demise.

“It is a provocative and destabilizing visit,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor told AFP. “It appears his intentions are blatantly hostile and he is coming to play with fire.

It is “like a landlord visiting his domain,” Palmor said, while another Israeli official said the move signified the final transformation of Israel’s northern neighbor into an “Iranian client state.”

Ahmadinejad came the closest he has ever been to Israel, addressing a rally of some 15,000 people just 4 kilometers from the border at Bint Jbeil, a Hizbullah bastion devastated during the summer 2006 war between Lebanon and Israel.

Around a dozen Israeli ultra-Orthodox and Druze protesters gathered on the border ahead of the visit and released hundreds of blue and white balloons, which promptly blew backward into Israel.

“I came here despite the fact that the government’s position is to ignore this visit,” said Ayoub Kara, a Druze MP from the governing right-wing Likud party.

“I want to send a message from here to Ahmadinejad, a message from the Koran, and that message is to pursue peace.”

Nissim Fadid, an ultra-Orthodox Jew, also addressed the Iranian president. “Stop with your threats. We want peace, but we are not afraid of anyone that wants to drive the people of Israel from their land that God has promised them,” he said.

Dozens of reporters gathered near the border, where they could see a gold-domed mosque decked with flags in the distance on the Lebanese side.

For some, the presence so close of Israel’s arch-foe was seen as a unique opportunity not to be missed. “Human history would have been so different if in 1939 a Jewish soldier could have killed Hitler,” Arye Eldad, an MP from the ultra-nationalist National Union party, said earlier this week. “If Ahmadinejad is in the Israeli Army’s crosshairs for even one second … he can’t be allowed to return home alive,” he told the Ynet news website.

Senior Cabinet minister Silvan Shalom dismissed such talk. “We don’t murder heads of states, even if those states are totalitarian states who seek to harm the state of Israel,” he told public radio.

Analysts said it was unlikely Israel would be intimidated by the visit. “It’s clearly a provocation and it’s not pleasant for Israel,” said Eldad Pardo, an Iran analyst at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. “But there is no panic. They also see the opposition inside Lebanon.” – Reuters, with AFP


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[below_freezing]

sigh, this is why the jews have always lost their wars historically until the past 60 years or so. they can't do diplomacy from a point of weakness and when they do it from a point of strength they just use military force.

 

[Pasban]

“Human history would have been so different if in 1939 a Jewish soldier could have killed Hitler,” Arye Eldad, an MP from the ultra-nationalist National Union party, said earlier this week. “If Ahmadinejad is in the Israeli Army’s crosshairs for even one second … he can’t be allowed to return home alive,” he told the Ynet news website

I have purposely selected this quote from the above article as it illustrates much. I dare not imagine the mass-hysteria the media would have if an Iranian official had said the same. He has arguably called for Iran's president to be targeted as such but there isn't a whiff in the world... Irony.

 

[DesiGuy]

Human history would have been so different if in 1939 a Jewish soldier could have killed Hitler,” Arye Eldad, an MP from the ultra-nationalist National Union party, said earlier this week. “If Ahmadinejad is in the Israeli Army’s crosshairs for even one second … he can’t be allowed to return home alive,” he told the Ynet news website



Or even a single Nazi!!!

oen thing that irritated Hitler was that No Jews had the guts to fight nazi at that time. He hated cowards and bent his anger more and more on Jews.

 

[no_name]

And later on when things don't turn on well on the eastern front and the opening of western front it almost just made him madder.