Sign this pettition comdemning Iran's vow to wipe Israel off the map

[Ian David]

Join ADL in Combating the Iranian Threat

The call by the Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for Israel to be, "wiped off the map," is unacceptable. With this statement Iran has chosen to put itself outside the community of civilized nations. I pledge my support to urge world leaders to stop this global threat before it is too late and demand that:


1. Ahmadinejad to retract his incendiary statements and if he won't, world leaders should sever all diplomatic ties with Iran.

2.UN Secretary General Kofi Annan uphold the dignity of the international community and cancel his trip to Teheran.

3. The UN Security Council must immediately investigate the Iranian regime's violations of the UN Charter and pursue all legal remedies.

1. Please sign our petition by entering the information below.
http://support.adl.org/site/PageServer?pagename=Fight_Iranian_extremism&s_src=iran_email_appeal

Also:


Take Tehran at Its Word
By Abraham H. Foxman
National Director of the Anti-Defamation League
This article originally appeared in Forward on November 4, 2005 RULE

Shortly after the immediate and strong international reaction to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's comment that Israel should be "wiped off the map," his foreign minister, Manouchehr Mottaki, indicated that this position was nothing new: The Islamic regime had always viewed Israel that way, ever since the Khomeini revolution in 1979.

Mottaki is correct. From the very beginning, Khomeni and his crowd have spent much effort trying to delegitimize Zionism and the Jewish state. Yet there was something different about Ahmadinejad's statement last week, and we need to focus in on that in order to understand the reactions and to assess what to do about it.

The fundamental difference lies in the fact that earlier Iranian anti-Israel propaganda fell into the category of rhetoric � dangerous because such hatred poisons minds and sets the stage for destructive behavior, but nonetheless only rhetoric. Ideally, such rhetoric needed to be dealt with early on, but the reluctance to do so stemmed from a variety of reasons, most of all because of a lack of a sense of urgency.

More:
http://www.adl.org/ADL_Opinions/Anti_Semitism_Arab/Forward_110405.htm

[Fridays Child]

1. Never has the U.S. had such a destabilizing impact on the Middle East.

I can't even keep up with how schizophrenic the whole thing is.