Live From New York S U.n. Theatre - The Devil And The Dancing Dictators
Iran s Prime Minister Mahmoud Ahmadinejad addressing the UN said things that betray his ignorance of protocol, truthfulness and history. In one breath he said I respect the Jews but made no effort to explain his previous cry to wipe them off the map. In a typically uninformed world view he asked why the Palestinians were not allowed to determine their own fate as it pertains to their own ancient homeland. Prior to 1948 Palestinians never used the phrase homeland and were not looking for one even in the remotest sense of the word. His contorted view of history ignores a 4000 year long history of Jewish ownership of Israel as do almost all Muslims around the world. This view gives new meaning to the clich don t confuse me with the facts. But here is a dictator who doesn t believe there was ever a holocaust. For all of the faults of the Third Reich poor record keeping was not one of...