If At First You Don't Succeed, Insert Another Foot

It seems that Iranian leader Ahmadinejad didn't think his earlier comments were sufficiently inflammatory. He's gone and made new comments that are even more insane. Not to mention contradictory, but that's never stopped raving nutbars from making all sorts of claims.

From first denying that the Holocaust even took place, he now says that the Europeans didn't finish the job during World War II, but set up a new Holocaust to occur when they backed the creation of the state of Israel in the middle of the Middle East.

Hard-line Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who said the Nazi attempt to eradicate Jews in the Holocaust was a “Myth,” has now charged that European countries sought to complete the genocide by establishing Israel, a Jewish state in the midst of Muslim countries.

“Don’t you think that continuation of genocide by expelling Jews from Europe was one of their (the Europeans’) aims in creating a regime of occupiers of Al-Quds (Jerusalem)?” the official Islamic Republic News agency quoted Ahmadinejad as saying.

“Isn’t that an important question?”

Ahmadinejad said Europeans had decided to create a “Jewish camp” as the best means for ridding the continent of Jews and said the camp, Israel, now enjoyed support from the United States and Europe in what he termed the slaughter of Muslims.

Last month, Ahmadinejad said the Holocaust, in which Nazi Germany killed six million Jews, was a myth. After global outrage over the comments, he said that Europeans, if they persisted in reality of the slaughter, should cede some of their territory for a Jewish state.

In October, Ahmadinejad called for Israel to be “Wiped off the map.”

Here's a few more important questions that the nutter Ahmadinejad ought to be asked. If Israel was artificially created, what does that say of the rest of the Middle East, which was "artifically" created at the end of World War I? The victorious Brits and French divided up the former Ottoman Empire and artifically created the borders of nearly all of the region. They installed new leaders in variuos areas, including Saudi Arabia, Iran, Lebanon, Transjordan, Syria, and Mandate Palestine.

They set up the Husseins and Sauds as leaders in Jordan and Arabia. But don't fret about those artificialities. Only the one where the smallest fraction of the entire Middle East is occupied by Jews. That raises the nutter Ahmadinejad's hackles. Gotcha. An area of the world that was a backwater, even to Muslims, only becomes central to Muslims once Jews take control of their own destiny on their historical homeland.

Jeff Goldstein wonders whether the Europeans ever considered that the Muslim leadership were raving nutbars who couldn't control their murderous intents?

Jeff's got a good point. But it doesn't go far enough. Ahmadinejad wants to commit genocide by waving the threat of nuclear armageddon against Israel when Iran obtains the technical know-how and materials necessary to build nuclear weapons. He's gone unhinged and the Europeans are doing nothing to stop this craziness except to fret in the halls of the UN and EU. Russia may be buying time for itself by considering dealing with the devil itself - to provide nuclear materials to Iran to power a nuclear reactor in Iran.

And Pamela at Atlas Shrugs notes that the Palestinans have wholeheartedly endorsed the Ahmadinejad doctrine of Israel's annihilation at the earliest possible moment. She also notes that Iran wont stop with a single nuclear bomb. And it doesn't take a rocket scientist to know what that means. Nuclear blackmail on a scale never before contemplated as Iran could target not only Israel for destruction, but any and all oil producing countries in the Middle East and even European countries within 1000 nautical miles of Iran's missile launch facilities.

Solomon's House also notes the dangers of a nuclear Iran, and that Germany wont even take the minor step of banning Iran from participating in the World Cup. That feeble step would be akin to the US boycotting the Moscow Olympics in 1980, followed by the Soviet boycott of Los Angeles in 1984. Sending the whole mess to the UN wont work because the Iranians have not only learned from the Iraq experience, but they've had 14 years to prepare for this moment. Their nuclear facilities are hardened and more secure, the Iranians have not had years of resolutions wind their way through the UN, and they're simply in a better position economically because they haven't dealt with sanctions for a decade that could have limited access to technologies.

UPDATE:
Charmaine Yoest wonders whether the US is war planning on Iran and whether it's just the garden variety planning or a prelude to more serious actions.

Posted to Basil's Blog and bRight and Early.