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Contract on Ahmedinejad
Issandr El Amrani
From Yediot Ahronot:
We need to kill himI feel that way about a lot of politicians. Perhaps the entire region should resolve its conflicts through assassinations. It would save a lot of lives. I guess the Israelis are learning from the Syrians here.
Israel should not shy away from threatening to kill Iran's Ahmadinejad
Uri Orbach
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has to be killed. Really be killed, I mean, physically. He should be eliminated, put to death, assassinated, and all those words that serve to say the same thing.
Former Mossad Director Meir Amit said this explicitly in a recent interview with the "Kfar Chabad" weekly. It is indeed a very impolite way to express our disgust with the Iranian archenemy. Government officials, including ones who have retired already, usually merely hint at such matters - that is, if they choose to talk about them at all.
Reader Comments (9)
That should go down extremely well among the Israel-loving public of Iran.
I can only second SP above........
The "only democracy in the Middle East" soldiers on...
At what point do you STOP killing people?
It's interesting the author refers to "rules of etiquette". Diplomacy is sometimes considered a Persian invention. It is ironic that the Iranians were first to break the rules in 1979 by invading the U.S. embassy and taking its staff hostage. Will the Iranians be hoist by their own petard?
The threat to assassinate a leader to get him to change his behavior is said to have worked once before in the past century: when the Yugoslavian Communist dictator Tito got tired of the Russians attempts at killing him, he wrote to Stalin words to the effect of: "Stop sending men to Belgrade to kill me, or I shall send a man to Moscow. And I'll only have to do that once." The assassination attempts stopped.
Does anyone round here think that Ahmedinejad may be threat enough to justify such action, or that such action is ever justified? My instinct is no but then I've never given it serious thought. There is a difference, I would think, between a government killing someone because he is a pain in their ass, and a government killing someone because they honestly think he has the will and ability to achieve some kind of mass murder against its citizens. I don't know, philosophically, in the eyes of God or whatever, if that difference amounts to much in the end, and I don't know how much or if that difference makes one government better than the other--but there is a difference.
I find myself wanting to be really irritated by the columnist you linked to, for talking so flippantly about killing someone, even A-jad. But at the same time I find myself thinking of family in Israel and wondering if maybe he's right and my hell-no instinct is wrong.
what do you mean 'learning from the syrians'? did syrians invent assassination or is this comment along the lines of 'criticize both sides' to appear objective? why not, learning from Americans? or learning from Europeans? or learning from the White Race? why the syrians?what possibly could prompt you to make such an idiotic comment?
Chill ya Omar, it was an ironic reference to the allegation that the Syrian regime killed Rafiq al-Hariri.
What happened to the old "The Iranian president is a sock-puppet for the Supreme Leader" meme? I don't hear anyone going after Khamenei, even though he's the one who controls the armed forces, nukes, foreign policy... Or have people just decided that Khamenei is in turn a sock puppet for the Guardian Council? (Which would be odd given that he, you know, appoints them, but maybe they've got compromising photos of him. With a sock puppet.)
It's surprising to see how israelis take Ahmadinhejad so seriously. In Iran we think he's a joke. He certainly has no power in Iran's foreign policy decisions..there are other poeple who make the desicisions in the iranian government....and he certainly does not have the authority to start a war...personally i think he's more a threat to the iranian poeple than anything else....here's a good piece btw:
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3371227,00.html