Thursday, February 23, 2017
Elder of ZiyonThe speech is translated into English on Khamenei's official site, so there can be no doubt as to what he was saying. And he said the usual about Israel being a cancer, blah blah blah.
I was struck by this section:
The history of Palestine is full of ups and downs, marked by the cruel occupation of that region, the rendering of millions of individuals homeless, and the courageous resistance of those heroic people. An intelligent quest in history shows that no people in any era of history have ever been subject to such pain, suffering and cruelty.I could name a dozen groups today who are suffering worse than Palestinian Arabs ever did, let alone throughout history. In fact, Iran is complicit in the deaths of more Syrians in the past few years than the number of Palestinian Arabs who died from war in nearly seven decades.
And just for contrast with the conflicts in Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Sudan and elsewhere, here is what that horribly divided city of Hebron looks like:
Khamanei is stating a falsehood.
Which is funny, because in the very next part of the speech he says:
But this is another dirty page in history which will be closed with the permission and assistance of Allah the Exalted, just like other dirty pages in history: “Falsehood is bound to perish” [The Holy Quran, 17: 81] .Khamenei just told Allah to kill him!
