It sure in interesting to compare reactions relating to the Iranian regime’s fearless rejection of the holocaust, blunt demand for Israel’s destruction, and brazenly headlong pursuit of nuclear weapons.

Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Mark Regev said: “The repeated outrageous remarks of the Iranian president show clearly the mind-set of the ruling clique in Tehran and indicate clearly the extremist policy goals of the regime.

“The combination of fanatical ideology, a warped sense of reality and nuclear weapons is a combination that no one in the international community can accept,” Regev added, referring to allegations that Iran is developing nuclear bombs.

Seems like a reasonable, reality-based reaction to me (other than that last wishful part about what the “international community can accept”).

Now, the German foreign minister:

“I cannot hide the fact that this weighs on bilateral relations and on the chances for the negotiation process, the so-called nuclear dossier,” Steinmeier said, referring to European talks with Iran on its nuclear program.

Read: “I wish we could avoid this interfering with our chances of capitulating to the Iranians on the nuclear issue. I wish the Iranians would be more circumspect about their intention to drop atomic bombs on the Jews.”

And the European bureaucrats:

In Brussels, Belgium, European Commission spokeswoman Emma Udwin said the president’s comments were “completely unacceptable.”

“We feel very strongly that Iran is damaging its own interests with these kind of remarks,” she said.

Read: “Please, Mr. Ahmadinejad, don’t damage the interests of your regime by being so honest about your plans to damage the existence of Israel.”

And how about comparing all this to Mr. Ahmadinejad’s own remarks?

“Today, they have created a myth in the name of Holocaust and consider it to be above God, religion and the prophets,” Ahmadinejad told thousands of people in the southeastern city of Zahedan
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“This is our proposal: if you committed the crime, then give a part of your own land in Europe, the United States, Canada or Alaska to them so that the Jews can establish their country,” he said, developing a theme he raised in Saudi Arabia last week.
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Ahmadinejad said the West had harmed Muslims, invaded their countries and plundered their wealth.

“If your civilization consists of aggression, making oppressed people homeless, suffocating the voices of justice and bringing poverty to a majority of the world’s people, we say loudly that we hate your hollow civilization,” he said.
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“I assure you that we won’t step back one inch from our nuclear rights,” the president told the crowd, drawing chants of “Death to America!”

His message is as clear as anyone could want, but also has a theme between-the-lines: We believe in something far bigger than that which you sniveling infidels can even conceive; we despise you and we know that you are weak; we laugh at your rules and demands and will gleefully do exactly what we want to do while you huff and puff in your committees and commissions; your lives are worth nothing to us and will be extinguished just as soon as we choose.

Europe has already been rolling over submissively in the face of this kind of intimidation, and is highly likely to continue doing it. The Iranians have a perfect read on Europe and are blatantly peeing all over them (pardon my French) and getting only more submission. Israel will not submit, but will fight for its life, because Israel has no choice (being target number one), and has not yet been overwhelmed by self-hatred. What the United States will do, truthfully, remains to be seen.

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