When Iran speaks of wiping Israel off the map, it doesn’t mean the mass slaughter of the country’s Jews but rather eliminating the Jewish state’s “imposed regime” of “thugs such as Netanyahu,” Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Friday.
“The disappearance of Israel does not mean the disappearance of the Jewish people, because we have nothing against [Jews],” Khamenei said, speaking alongside senior Iranian officials at the so-called 33rd International Islamic Unity Conference.
Khamenei further argued that “had the Islamic world been committed to unity, there would have been no tragedy in Palestine.” He lamented that Muslims couldn’t even adhere to what he called the lowest level of unity — non-aggression between Muslims.
“We are not anti-Semitic. Jews are living in utmost safety in our country. We only support the people of Palestine and their independence,” he said.
There are only 10,000 Jews in Iran, so not much threat to the regime there. But most telling was Khamenei’s lament about Moslem disunity. Millions of Muslims have been slaughtered by other Muslims since the second world war. Khamenei and his ilk are always spouting that Islam is the solution, when it is clearly part of the problem. If he’s so intent on espousing peace to all (except “thugs” like Bibi Netanyahu), he should do the world a favour by shaving off his hair and beard, donning saffron robes and then prancing along Oxford Street singing Hari Krishna.
