Ahmadinejad Call's Israel's Existence an Insult to All Humanity

And I’m sure he’ll get multiple calls from CAIR and ISNA, informing him that Islam is a religion of peace.

TEHRAN, Iran – Israel’s existence is an “insult to all humanity,” Iran’s president said Friday in one of his sharpest attacks yet against the Jewish state, as Israel openly debates whether to attack Iran over its nuclear program.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said confronting Israel is an effort to “protect the dignity of all human beings.”

“The existence of the Zionist regime is an insult to all humanity,” Ahmadinejad said. He was addressing worshippers at Tehran University after nationwide pro-Palestinian rallies, an annual event marking Quds (Jerusalem) Day on the last Friday of the holy month of Ramadan.

The comments are “reminiscent” of a letter written about the Jews and signed by Adolf Hitler in 1919, Rabbi Marvin Hier, Founder and Dean of the Simon Wisenthal Center, says.

“Even though Ahmadinejad is attacking the state of Israel, we know what he means,” Rabbi Hier said.

Israel considers Iran an existential threat because of its nuclear and missile programs, support for radical anti-Israel groups on its borders and repeated references by Iranian leaders to Israel’s destruction.

Ahmadinejad himself has repeatedly made such calls, as has Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Rabbi Hier compares Ahmadinejad’s comments to the notion found in Hitler’s letter referencing the “removal of Jews all together.” “Twenty-two years later he implemented everything, and the same is true about Ahmadinejad,” Rabbi Hier said.

“We assume it’s only rhetoric, but we once paid a very high price for assuming Hitler was talking rhetoric,” he said. (Continue Reading.)