Tuesday 21 April 2009

Al-Quds Al-Arabi: Ahmadinejad Only Told the Truth


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21/04/2009 Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has exposed the West’s double standards, the London-based Al-Quds al Arabi said.

The Iranian President stressed in his speech at the anti-racism conference in Durban on Monday that Israel was a racist Zionist entity and that the West was seeking to solve the “Jewish problem” at the expense of the Palestinian people.

According to the daily, European delegations that left the conference room have clearly expressed their support to Israel’s racism and to the massacres committed by this entity, the last of which was in Gaza a few months ago.
These delegations, the daily adds, have established that they do not really believe in democracy and freedom of speech. “If they did, they would not have cut their participation and responded to the Iranian President with convincing proof, however they do not believe in democracy and freedom of speech when they expose the racist nature of a state they founded and are acquainted with its barbaric practices against innocent people,” the daily said.

The United States that boycotted the conference to protest comments critical of Israel in the draft final statement, has condemned Ahmadinejad’s speech, yet it did not comment on Israel’s heinous crimes against the Palestinians, like the killings, the settlements, the apartheid wall, arbitrary arrests and the harsh and racist treatment of more than a million and a half Palestinians living in lands occupied in 1948.

There was a dramatic rise in the number of "racist acts" by Israelis against Arabs in the Zionist entity as well as a lesser but still significant rise in racism against Israelis by all sectors this past year compared to the previous year, according to a report by the Haifa-based Mossawa-The Advocacy Center for Arab Citizens in Israel.

There were 70 attacks on Arabs or Arab property by Israeli settlers from March 2008 to March 2009, a 10-fold increase from the previous year, according to the 2009 Mossawa racism report that was based on field research and police reports.

Most of the attacks resulted in damage to persons and/or property, it said.

“Perhaps the most conspicuous proof on Israel’s racism is the far right extremist government of Benjamin Netanyahu that includes parties (like Israel Beitunu led by FM Avigdor Lieberman) that often call for expelling and killing Arabs,” Al-Quds al-Arabi said.

“The Iranian President had the courage and boldness to say what – unfortunately – no Arab leader can say. Arab delegations, the Palestinian delegation in particular, have agreed to cancel articles condemning Israeli racism from the draft final statement, thus yielding to US and Israeli pressure with the hope that they would reverse their decision to boycott Durban 2; a move met by Washington by great disdain,” the daily concluded.

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