Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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- laurus0
His faith will prevent him from having a drink with you.
Saying you're anti-zionist or anti-israeli is exactly the same as saying your anti-british or anti-french. And, by the way, he is.
Whether the holocaust happened or not, if you know the reasons for Zionism and the homeland for the Jews history – the holocaust did not spark it. neither does it change the fact that Jews lived in Israel (and for that matter, Iraq as well, until they where driven away and massacred in 1941) for thousands of years. Not that it matters. You have to solve this issue with the people that live there now, not the ones that lived in the past.
Denying the holocaust is a tool. Just think what would happen if someone would have suggested Mohamed didn't rise to heaven from Jerusalem (there's less evidence and documentation or that than for the holocaust). 41 people died because of a caricature of Mohamed.
And he uses the Palestinian issue as a political tool. Just as Bush does. Don't get me wrong, I think Palestinians should have a state, alongside Israel. But when it comes to violating human rights, his regime cannot lecture anybody. At least in Israel Christians, Muslims and Jews (even gay Jews) can cast a real free vote, and protest against the government – that's much more than anyone can do in Iran.