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Ahmadinejad: Israel has 'no roots' in Middle East

Israel has "no roots" in the history of the Middle East and represents a disturbance for Iran, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Monday.

Ahmadinejad said Iran has been around for thousands of years, but Israel has existed for only 60 or 70 years. He said that for a certain "historical phase" Israel represents a disturbance for Iran and "they are then eliminated."

"They (Israel) have no roots there in history," Ahmadinejad told reporters in New York, where he is due to attend the UN General Assembly. "They do not even enter the equation for Iran."

Earlier in the day, Ahmadinejad told the Washington Post that Iran did not take seriously Israeli threats of an attack on its nuclear facilities, adding that he believed that the Americans are "peace-loving people."

“We, generally speaking, do not take very seriously the issue of the Zionists and the possible dangers emanating from them,” he told columnist David Ignatius early in the interview. “Of course, they would love to find a way for their own salvation by making a lot of noise and to raise stakes in order to save themselves. But I do not believe they will succeed. Iran is also a very well-recognized country and her defensive powers are very clear.”

http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/ahmadinejad-israel-has-no-roots-in-middle-east-upsets-region-1.466612

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4285579,00.html


Added: Sep-24-2012 Occurred On: Sep-24-2012
By: aydeo
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Tags: Ahmadinejad, UN General Assembly, Israel, Roots, Middle East
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  • When Israel leaders are talking about Iran they specifficaly talking about it's Nuclear project, not about Iran itself..When Iran leaders are talking about Israel they talk about the exsitence of Israel, as a state and society (no roots/cancer/Tumor/ and so on).

    The difference in the rethoric is quite clear..

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  • If he's not careful, a Persian spring will bounce up his ass.

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  • please, can someone kill this fucking muslim bastard?

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  • GO WATCH INTERVIEWS WITH PRESIDENT OF IRAN AND COMPARE THEM WITH THE PRIME MINISTER OF ISRAEL.

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  • gee, and I thought Muslims were a bunch of goat herders nomads who wandered around screwing the local people's goats.
    Hey buddy, how did that Temple that the Roman's tore down, and burned get there? Naw, it couldn't be the Jewish Temple. And I wonder how that buidling material got there for the Dome of the Rock? Hmmmm. Could it be that the ruins of the Jewish Temple was mighty handy laying there huh?

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    • @Less1leg

      The reason the temple was destroyed was both in Prophesy and in the fact they were obnoxious assholes.

      They were scattered to the four corners of the earth. Their nation no longer exists.

      Eventually after two millennia of breeding with foreigners a group made up the fantasy that the nation of Israel still exists. Of course it doesn't. Instead there is this fake artefact of a 'nation' speaking a fake artefact language.

      The Jews in Palestine have about as much legitimacy as the Drui More..

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    • @DEADBEEF

      I'm Ben Cambone, and I approve this message...

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    • @DEADBEEF - maybe you could pass around the shite you're smoking so the rest of us could enjoy the hallucinations, too? It's only fair if you are going to post thoughts which would otherwise appear to be utter nonsense.

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    • @DEADBRAIN!

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    • @DEADBEEF So, by your own logic the whites in Australia have absolutely no legitimacy. Get out of there dude. ;P

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  • Some Jews who can trace their roots to the region do belong there. A white Caucasian Jew doesn't belong. I could call myself a Muslim and try claiming Mecca as my homeland, but it really isn't since I'm an ethnic Turk with roots from Central Asia. Ahmadinejad is right to a point, but wrong to claim no Jews belong to the region. Persia was an impressive empire, but Iran sucks dick in terms of religious extremism. Zionism and Iran are a threat to world stability.

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    • @turkzil - it's not "Zionism" that is threatening your once moderate country; it's the radical Islamic elements from within, like Egypt and even Iran (which was once quite moderate and progressive).

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    • @geekstud I hate Erdogan, and yes he is a religious extremist ass who doesn't belong in Turkey.

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  • There is one thing that should not be in mideast. Its islam.

    It was forced to people with violence.

    It is time to fight back that totalitarian ideology. Free the people.

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  • Some jews do. It depends on their name and skin color. Freejay definitely doesn't lol

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    • And you call sloop a racist. You fucked. no question about it .

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    • @BIGLOUBRUNO Not racist. It's like a black guy going to japan and saying this land belongs to me because he may have a ancestor who was 1/16th japanese. Educate yourself dummy.

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    • @Ali187

      Ok, but you can say the same thing about now days Americans or Australians (What does a Hispanic,or Russian,or Pakistani who imigrated to United state or Canada 10-20 years ago got to do with American native roots...??).

      Half of the Western world (United states,Canada,Australia and NZ) is based on Immigrations.

      So is S.America countries.

      So is Israel.

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    • @aydeo LMAO

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  • Hideous lil goat focker he is, amazing he believes his own bullshit

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    • @Koranimal He probably doesn't - he may be a lunatic, but he's no idiot.

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    • @Poosti Malaka judging how he, and authoritative figures of their government always push it to the fringe of being stomped, yes I would agree he is not an idiot, he knows damn well what type of bullshit he attempts to push onto others.

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    • @Poosti Malaka

      Actually I might say exactly the oppsoite- He doesn't looks like a lunatic but as a regular person, which is not quite bright and intelligent...

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  • Well hes going to get his roottreatment soon.

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  • He said were peace loving people?..lol yeah ok as if he realy said this...

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  • Face to face this man is a coward, he will not do a damn thing. Give him some pork chops and bacon! He is the lowest piece of shit I have ever seen, when he is not in front of a camera he is cowering under women. He likes sex with little boys since he was abused by hi grandfather, father and brothers. Look at him suck Obamas titty!

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  • And then Iran blinked. Lol!

    We win.

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