Ahmadinejad sought Arab support for attacks on Israel

Sunday, July 16, 2006.
Ahmadinejad sought Arab support for the attacks on Israel?

• RIA Novosti reported that just before the attacks by Hamas and Hezbollah on Israel. Ahmadinejad addressed a high-profile Muslim forum held in Tehran saying "the main issue faced by the Islamic world is Israel's existence. The Islamic countries should mobilize their efforts to do away with this issue," and that "all the conditions for eliminating the Zionist regime" are currently in place."

Then he tries to compare Israel to the Nazi's for responding to the attacks.

• Reuters is trying to explain why this is happening. They have concluded that Ahmadinejad believes Israel has plans to invade all of Islamic territory. "Hitler sought pretexts to attack other nations... The Zionist regime is seeking baseless pretexts to invade Islamic countries."

Will the world now demand Hezbollah disarm? No. They are punks.

We have 4 articles here. The WSJ, the WSJ again, Dan Darling, and Dore Gold. Very interesting and revealling articles.

Update on the missile attack on an Israeli ship.

FOX News, Reuters, and DEBKAfile chime in on this topic.

Why this war is different from other Arab-Israeli wars?

Good question, yes? Billy Kristol of The Weekly Standard, along with another article from The Weekly Standard, try to discover if and why this war is different.

Ledeen on the US response to the crisis.

Michael Ledeen, The Corner criticized the US response to the current Middle East crisis saying it was all about "I've called this one, he's called that one, we're talking, talking, talking all the time, not to worry." But we have not heard anything about "seizing the moment." He warned that if we dither through this one, the next one will be worse. Maybe much worse.

Here are a few other news items you may have missed.

• Newsweek published an interview with Iranian dissident Akbar Ganji.
• IranMania reported that Iranian Oil Minister Kazem Vaziri-Hamaneh said India and Pakistan should forget buying Iran's gas at a low price.
• The Washington Post reported that Bush failed to win Putin's support for sanctions against Iran's nuclear program.
• Xinhua reported that an Iranian official said that the country's leadership was determined to refuse the West's request for a halt of sensitive nuclear activities.

Things are starting to look pretty eerie. If you would like to read an article, just click on it. If you would like to see the entire list, please click on the day of the week at the top of this article. Thank you.

Category: Iran.