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By Callimachus | Related entries in In The News, Religion, The War On Terrorism, The World

Scenes from Iran today.

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“Iranian school boys shoot with their toy guns at an Israeli flag as it burns during an anti-Israeli rally marking “Al-Quds Day” (Jerusalem Day), to support the Palestinian cause, in Tehran, Iran, Friday, Oct. 28, 2005. Tens of thousands of Iranians staged anti-Israel protests across the country Friday and repeated calls by their ultraconservative president who repeated the words of the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, founder of Iran’s Islamic revolution, by saying: ‘Israel must be wiped off the map.’ ”

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I guess that tactic of complaining that the Zionist Western media was distorting the Iranian president’s words wasn’t working out.

Meanwhile, Melanie Phillips rolls her eyes at the world reaction.

So Iran continues merrily on its diabolical way, murdering Israelis here, murdering Iraqis there, serenely building its apparatus of mass destruction while the alleged civilised world looks at Iraq and looks at President Bush and sucks its teeth and settles down to wait for the new Jewish holocaust wrapped in the mantle of sanctimonious opposition to pre-emptive action, and with Israel well on the way to being itself safely delegitimised and dehumanised. After all, are we not told by allegedly civilised people in Britain and Europe that it would have been better had Israel not been created?

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