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Israeli president points finger at “Iranian threat”
Published: 18 August, 2009, 16:32
Sochi: Russian President Dmitry Medvedev (L) speaks with his Israeli counterpart Shimon Peres (R) during their meeting (AFP Photo / RIA novosti / Kremlin pool / Dmitry Astakhov)
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Israeli President Shimon Peres shared his country’s fears over Iranian policies with his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev.
The two presidents met in Sochi to discuss a number of issues ranging from economic co-operation to the Middle Eastern peace process and the history of World War II.
Medvedev called on Peres to “avoid confrontational scenarios” in Israel’s relations with the Palestinian territories and mentioned that Russia is a member of the Middle Eastern quartet advising the peace process. Medvedev said that Russia is offering to host the Mideast quartet negotiators in Moscow.
Israel’s President focused on Iran and how Mideast stability could be undermined if Teheran is allowed to build nuclear weapons. He said Israel’s relations with Iran were “complex and ambiguous”.
“Iran threatens to destroy Israel. It’s the only UN member-state which threatens to destroy another UN member-state,” he pointed out after the meeting.
At the same time Peres said Israel does not threaten Iran or any other nation.
The Israeli leader said that another reason for Jerusalem’s confrontation with Teheran is that the Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is a Holocaust denier. World War II and the upcoming commemoration of its 70th anniversary were high on both presidents’ agendas. In a joint statement Russia and Israel condemned attempts to deny the Nazi Holocaust of Jews and to downplay sacrifices made by the Soviet Union to destroy Nazism.
“We are deeply enraged by the attempts to deny the great contribution that Russian people and other peoples of the Soviet Union paid for the victory over Nazi Germany, as well as attempts to deny the crime of the Holocaust, committed against European Jews, the genocide, which was finally stopped by the Red Army and the Allied forces,” the statement says.
The Second World War continues to have deep emotional significance in both countries and both nations have denounced revisionist attempts to rewrite the history of the war.
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I believe the biggest problem in the middle east is that everyone is not willing to take a "time out" and tone down the word noise. Once everyone starts taking sides and pumping up the propaganda mills, it only causes more and more discontent on all sides. This in turn leads to a lot of unintended consequences once things start to get out of control. Why can't the countries of the middle east just get along and be friends? Why do they need outside countries to "lead them to peace" or referee their situation? All in the region should do to one another as they would want done to them. Actions speak louder than words.
Jews should keep in mind a simple truth: What you do to others is just what is going to happen to you. The very day the Jews acquired the nuclear weapon, their leaders at the time could have known that a day will come when all their neighbors will have it too. When Jews make genocide to Palestinians, then their own Holocaust, even if basically non-disputable, will become faint and questionable. Jews should remember: -Russians have never made any Holocaust to Jews, but Jews nonetheless continuously use to point at Russia as being non-civilized, autocratic, Asiatic-like, etc. - Serbs have always been friendly towards Jews, but yet so many influential Jews from all around the world were engaged in blaspheming Serbs, that resulted in over 1 million Serbs being ethnically cleansed. It almost seems as the most stable friendship Jews have with Frenchmen, Pols, Hungarians, Germans, and others who used either to keep silent, or applauded, when Holocaust has been taking place (Americans and Brits never bombed any Concentration camp, even though they knew very well what was it going on there). Sometimes it looks like Jews themselves are the most efficient Holocaust deniers?
There seems to be some misreading of Midle East politics, Israel vs. Palestine and Holocaust facts by some readers. A little education for my Russian friends: Jews lived in the land of Palestine thousands of yeras before Islam came into existance. Jews were deported from Palestine by various nations who conquered the holy land, yet they always maintained a presence in Palestine. About a 100 years ago, Zionism, or return to Zion movement started and culminated in the establishment of the modern state of ISRAEL in 1948, through a UN resolution that RUSSIA and the USA and many more nations supported. Since 1948, the Jewish people of Israel had to fight 7 wars against Arab neighbors and against TERRORIST organizations like Hamas in Gaza and Hizbollah in Lebanon. Israel is NOT the one starting the wars in the Middle East. It is the one being attacked. The last war in Gaza started after years of provocations from Gaza in form of rockets on Israel. Would you allow Georgia to shoot rockets indicriminately at Russia withour reacting? I doubt it. Palestinians are relatively a new people. The people who lived in Palestine until the Jews RETURNED to their ancestral homeland, were Arabs from different countries in the area. The self identification of the Arabs as Palestinians is a recent phenomen. If Palestinians accept that the JEWISH people have a right to live in the historical Palestine, a two-state solution will be found. Jewish Holocaust or Shoa is unique in its ferocity and size compared to any other nationality that was persecuted by the Nazis. It is a fact that millions of Russians and others also died during WWII. Yet, the premediated transportation of Jews to the extermination camps, where they were GASSED then burned in ovens is idisputable. You can research it all you want. Russian, German and American archives all confirm the facts.