ISRAEL'S BIGGEST JOKE CALLS IRANIAN LEADER AN 'UNBELIEVABLE JOKE'

ISRAEL'S BIGGEST JOKE CALLS IRANIAN LEADER AN 'UNBELIEVABLE JOKE'

Shimon Peres, Israel's new President has been giving the impression for years that he is a man of peace. A recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, only because he was literally in 'the right place at the right time', is actually a war criminal in the true sense of the word. Read an earlier post of mine to see why I am saying this... it can be seen here.

As he starts out in his new career, probably his last seeing that he is already 83 years old, he is already making a fool of himself by making political statements that only the Americans want to hear. His assessment of the Iranian economy sounds very much like the actual one in Israel today.

Perhaps it's tme for the old man to retire gracefully before he really puts his foot in his mouth... read the Reuters report below to see his lack of wisdom.

The report in part stated;

'Tehran, which insists its nuclear program is peaceful, has defied a UN Security Council demand to halt its uranium enrichment program, resulting in two sets of sanctions. A third sanctions resolution is under consideration.'

This coming from a man representing a country that has defied almost every UN Resolution aimed at them...

Peres says Ahmadinejad worships bomb over God

President calls Iranian leader

‘an unbelievable joke’, says ‘in his eyes the nuclear bomb is higher than Allah, than the God in heaven’

Reuters Published: 07.30.07, 22:10 / Israel News

Israeli President Shimon Peres, in a radio interview on Monday, called Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad a “joke” and said he appeared to worship

“the bomb more than he’s worshipping the God in heaven”.

Nobel peace laureate Peres told US National Public Radio in Jerusalem that a united front by the international community could stop Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons.

Ahmadinejad has said Israel should be “wiped off the map” and recently forecast the destruction of the Jewish state.

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said recently that a country with such an attitude must never be allowed to develop nuclear arms.

Peres said Ahmadinejad was “an unbelievable joke”, adding the Iranian president “claims he’s religious”.

“My impression is that in his eyes the nuclear bomb is higher than Allah, than the God in heaven. He’s worshipping the bomb more than he’s worshipping the God in heaven,” Peres said.

Tehran, which insists its nuclear program is peaceful, has defied a UN Security Council demand to halt its uranium enrichment program, resulting in two sets of sanctions. A third sanctions resolution is under consideration.

Peres said Iran has high unemployment and inflation.

“All the attention is about the bomb, but people cannot live on a bomb,” he said.

The presidency is a largely ceremonial post in Israel. While politically influential, Israeli presidents have no authority to set government policy.

Iran's Jews reject cash offer to move to Israel: Guardian

clipped from www.guardian.co.uk Our identity is not for sale Iran's Jews have given the country a loyalty pledge in the face of cash offers aimed at encouraging them to move to Israel, the arch-enemy of its Islamic rulers "The identity of Iranian Jews is not tradeable for any amount of money," the society said in a statement. "Iranian Jews are among the most ancient Iranians. Iran's Jews love their Iranian identity and their culture, so threats and this immature political enticement will not achieve their aim of wiping out the identity of Iranian Jews." The Israeli newspaper Ma'ariv reported that the incentives had been doubled after earlier offers of £2,500 a head failed to attract any Iranian Jews to leave for Israel Iran's sole Jewish MP, Morris Motamed, said the offers were insulting and put the country's Jews under pressure to prove their loyalty July 12, 2007 However, the Society of Iranian Jews dismissed them as "immature political enticements" and said their national identity was not for sale.

Jews are free to practise their religion and have their own schools, although they are forced to open on Saturdays, the Jewish Sabbath. Despite the absence of diplomatic ties with Israel, Iranian Jews frequently go there to visit relatives.

Iran's sole Jewish MP, Morris Motamed, said the offers were insulting and put the country's Jews under pressure to prove their loyalty.

"It suggests the Iranian Jew can be encouraged to emigrate by money," he said. "Iran's Jews have always been free to emigrate and three-quarters of them did so after the revolution but 70% of those went to America, not Israel."

Iran's Jews reject cash offer to move to Israel

- Expats offer families £30,000 to emigrate
· Our identity is not for sale, say community leaders
Robert Tait in Tehran
Thursday July 12, 2007
Guardian Unlimited


Iran's Jews have given the country a loyalty pledge in the face of cash offers aimed at encouraging them to move to Israel, the arch-enemy of its Islamic rulers.

The incentives — ranging from £5,000 a person to £30,000 for families — were offered from a special fund established by wealthy expatriate Jews in an effort to prompt a mass migration to Israel from among Iran's 25,000-strong Jewish community. The offers were made with Israel's official blessing and were additional to the usual state packages it provides to Jews emigrating from the diaspora.

However, the Society of Iranian Jews dismissed them as "immature political enticements" and said their national identity was not for sale.

"The identity of Iranian Jews is not tradeable for any amount of money," the society said in a statement. "Iranian Jews are among the most ancient Iranians. Iran's Jews love their Iranian identity and their culture, so threats and this immature political enticement will not achieve their aim of wiping out the identity of Iranian Jews."

The Israeli newspaper Ma'ariv reported that the incentives had been doubled after earlier offers of £2,500 a head failed to attract any Iranian Jews to leave for Israel.

Iran's sole Jewish MP, Morris Motamed, said the offers were insulting and put the country's Jews under pressure to prove their loyalty.

"It suggests the Iranian Jew can be encouraged to emigrate by money," he said. "Iran's Jews have always been free to emigrate and three-quarters of them did so after the revolution but 70% of those went to America, not Israel."

Iran's Jewish population has dwindled from around 80,000 at the time of the 1979 Islamic revolution but remains the largest of any country in the Middle East apart from Israel. Jews have lived in Iran since at least 700BC.

Hostility between Iran's Islamic government and Israel means Iranian Jews are often subject to official mistrust and scrutiny. In 2000 10 Jews in the southern city of Shiraz were jailed for spying for Israel, which Iran refuses to recognise.

A Jewish businessman, Ruhollah Kadkhodah-Zadeh, was hanged in 1998, apparently for allegedly helping Jews to emigrate.

Jews generally avoid political controversy, but Mr Motamed wrote a letter of protest to Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, last year after he called the Holocaust "a myth". Mr Ahmadinejad had earlier said that Israel should be "wiped off the map".

Jews are free to practise their religion and have their own schools, although they are forced to open on Saturdays, the Jewish sabbath.

Despite the absence of diplomatic ties with Israel, Iranian Jews frequently go there to visit relatives.

IAEA head: Attacking Iran would be 'madness'

clipped from www.usatoday.com The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency cautioned on Thursday that an attack on Iran over its refusal to freeze programs that could make nuclear weapons would be "an act of madness," in indirect warnings to the United States and Israel. IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei also said Iran would likely be running close to 3,000 uranium-enriching centrifuges by the end of next month — a number agency officials have described as the point of no return in the start of a large-scale program ElBaradei described any use of force as "an act of madness ... (that) would not resolve the issue." "The next few months will be crucial," he said, adding: "Iran is building a capacity, a knowledge" of enrichment that is irreversible, while not providing "an assurance that this is a peaceful program." "The longer we delay, the less option we have to reach a peaceful solution," he warned. ElBaradei spoke at the end of a meeting of his agency's 35-nation board

1967 Nuclear avoide! 2007 nuclear M-East

clipped from www.jpost.com 'Military plan against Iran is ready' Jun. 10, 2007 On Sunday, the Israel Air Force held joint exercises with visiting US pilots, but IDF sources dismissed speculation that the drills were connected to an attack on Iran. According to a high-ranking American military officer, the US Navy and Air Force would play the primary roles in any military action taken against Iran. One idea under consideration is a naval blockade designed to cut off Iran's oil exports. On Sunday, Sen. Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut said the US should consider a military strike against Iran over its support of Iraqi insurgents. Predictions within the US military are that Bush will do what is needed to stop Teheran before he leaves office in 2009, including possibly launching a military strike against its nuclear facilities. Bush has repeatedly said the United States would not allow Iran to "go nuclear."