IRANIAN PRESIDENT: ISRAEL A CANCEROUS TUMOR, EVERY CELL OF WHICH MUST BE DESTROYED

While Israel’s cabinet members and defense officials are divided over whether or not to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities, there does not seem to be any noteworthy dissent in Iran over the call to wipe Israel off the map.

Bob Walsh says Ahmadinejad is a ‘nutjob.’ I do not believe he’s nuts. Iran is an Islamist state under the control of Ayatollahs, and under those circumstances, Ahmadinejad is a very shrewd politician.

AHMADINEJAD: WE WILL DESTROY ISRAEL SOON
By Ryan Jones

Israel Today
August 19, 2012

For the umpteenth time, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Friday publicly declared that the primary foreign policy goal of his government is to see the Jewish state erased from the map of the Middle East.

"The Zionist regime [is] a cancerous tumor," Ahmadinejad told millions who took to the streets of Tehran to mark Iran's Quds Day, an angry commemoration of Israel's sovereignty over Jerusalem.

The Iranian leader continued:

"Even if one cell of them is left in one inch of (Palestinian) land, in the future this story (of Israel’s existence) will repeat. The nations of the region will soon finish off the usurper Zionists in the Palestinian land... A new Middle East will definitely be formed."

With Iran's increasing belligerence, and intelligence reports warning that the Islamic Republic is moving ever closer to attaining nuclear weapons, Israelis are becoming ever more fearful that war will soon be upon them.

Israel's leaders remain divided over whether or not to launch a preemptive military strike against Iran's nuclear facilities. Some argue that such a strike can at best only delay Iran's nuclear arms program, while others say that is enough, and indeed was all that was needed when Israel attacked Iraq's nuclear reactor in 1981.

Others worry that launching an attack without America's prior approval or support would cause rifts between Israel and her greatest ally. But Israeli Ambassador to America Michael Oren told Israeli newspaper Israel Hayom at the weekend that no such rift would form.

"If Israel eventually decides to act against Iran, we will gain widespread support from the American pubic and the American Congress," which would compel the Obama White House to also support Israel, said Oren.

Israel and Iran were once close regional allies, before the Islamic Revolution in 1979. Many Israelis and Iranian still remember fondly the days of warm relations, and, like Shaharanz, have no doubt those ties could be easily renewed given different national leadership.