Iran Promoting Ayatollah’s Book: ‘Israel and America: Doomed to Annihilation’
(CNSNews.com) – After Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu in a recent U.N. speech cited a book of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s sayings, the regime responded this week – not by defending what Netanyahu called “a 400-page screed detailing his plan to destroy the State of Israel,” but by promoting a free online version of it.
A Twitter account associated with Iran’s supreme leader posted a tweet this week reading, “Download the book which stirred Zionist regime’s reaction,” along with a link to an English translation of the e-book.
Entitled, “Palestine: The Most Important Problem of the Islamic World,” the book is a compilation of speeches, sermons and statements, the most recent from mid-2011, and the earliest dated just weeks after Khamenei succeeded Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini as supreme leader in 1989.
Netanyahu in his Oct. 1 speech at the U.N. called it Khamenei’s “latest book” and said it had been released several days after the recent nuclear agreement was announced, although it appears in fact to be the latest reprint of a book first published several years ago.
Taken together, the compiled statements argue that the Palestinian issue is the most important one in the world for Muslims. Muslims everywhere have a duty to support the holy war against the “fake state and nation” of Israel, which was established by Zionist conspiracy as “an anti-Islamic regime in the heart of the Islamic world.”
America, as Israel’s foremost backer, is also a target of the ayatollah’s vitriol: “The world of arrogance consists of America – which is more evil and wicked than the rest of them – and its followers.”
In a subsection entitled “Israel and America: doomed to annihilation,” Khamenei is quoted as saying in a 1991 speech: “We believe that annihilation of the Israeli regime is the solution to the issue of Palestine.”
The supreme leader chided his listeners not to say that such an outcome is not possible, pointing to the dramatic and unexpected disintegration of the Soviet Union.
“America’s power will decline as well,” Khamenei continued. “America will fall apart as well. This infernal power cannot be permanent. Israel will disappear as well.”
He based his confidence on the promises of Allah to “sincere and steadfast mujahids [holy warriors] and this promise cannot be broken.”
“The oppressive and brutal Zionist regime – supported by America, global Zionism and reactionary Christians – thinks that it will manage to defeat the Palestinian nation with the crimes and tragedies it causes,” he said. “This is a big mistake and those who make this mistake will be severely punished in the future.”
Nazi Holocaust ‘a story that has not even been confirmed’
The compiled statements include controversial references to the Holocaust, in which Nazi Germany systematically killed six million European Jews during World War II. The establishment of the State of Israel, in the ancient homeland of the Jewish people, took place three years after the war ended.
“There is evidence proving that the Zionists had close ties with the German Nazis and the exaggerated statistics that were released on the number of Jewish victims during World War II were aimed at drawing public sympathy and preparing the ground for the occupation of Palestine and justifying the Zionists’ crimes,” Khamenei said in a 2001 speech.
Although Iranian leaders frequently say their animosity is towards “Zionists” rather than Jews, Jews do not escape criticism and anti-Semitic barbs in the book.
At one point, Khamenei complained about post-war compensation payments to Jews by Germany and other European countries.
“The German government paid one hundred and fifty billion marks to the Jews in compensation, but Germany is still paying compensation. The Jews are still demanding more money. The Jews did the same thing – more or less – to certain other European countries such as Austria, Switzerland, France and even the Vatican. Everybody has to pay compensation. There is no end to this compensation.”
Elsewhere, he suggested that the Jews make too much of the Holocaust – “a story that has not even been confirmed” – as part of a underhanded strategy to present Israelis as victims.
“All western politicians, journalists, intellectuals, officials and outstanding figures should pay homage to the monument that was built in commemoration of cremation furnaces. That is to say, everybody should highlight a story that has not even been confirmed and they should consider themselves responsible for promoting that story,” he said.
“These are methods that they use in their propaganda and all of these methods are based on the idea of presenting the Israelis as the victim.”
In another excerpt Khamenei griped that “western and Zionist media and the governments that support Zionism do not even tolerate questions and investigations concerning the Holocaust – which was used as a pretext to occupy Palestine …”
Exploiting 9/11
Khamenei also took issue with Christian supporters of Israel, and the notion that God gave the land of Israel to the Jews, as portrayed in the Bible.
The Jews, he said, “attracted the support and sympathy of many Christians by citing the stories in the Torah that Palestine is the land that was given to the Children of Israel. According to the statistics I saw, they have managed to train millions of non-Jewish Zionists in certain countries – especially in America – relying on their propaganda and the support they receive from public opinion.”
“Of course, they have made the best of the events that have taken place – for example, the events that happened on September 11 [2001] in New York and Washington,” he added.
On the duty of Muslims to fight against Israel, Khamenei said in a 2002 speech: “Religious scholars, scholars of the world Islam, intellectuals of the Muslim world, poets, speakers, writers, artists and students throughout the world of Islam should all play a role in supporting the people of Palestine. This is their duty.”
“Verbal support is not enough,” he added. “This duty consists of helping, raising morale and helping this holy jihad continue. I pray to Allah the Exalted to help all of us fulfill this responsibility.”
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