Some direct quotes where he threatens Israel would do it, Doctor Evil.
OK then. I don't have the time to do this properly, but here are some of the quotes in the speech and my interpretation of them.
Presenting his enemies as criminals, rather than as just political enemies. This is i) a recurring theme in anti-Semitic speech, ii) a political tool used to make violence easier to justify.
A small handful of Zionists, with a very intricate organization, have taken over the power centers of the world. According to our estimates, the main cadre of the Zionists consists of 2,000 individuals at most, and they have another 8,000 activists. In addition, they have several informants, who spy and provide them with intelligence information. But because of their control of power centers in the U.S. and Europe, and their control of the financial centers and the news and propaganda agencies, they spread propaganda as if they were the entire world, as if all the peoples supported them, and as if they were the majority ruling the world. That is a great lie – just like their Jewishness is a great lie.
Here he is propagating a conspiracy theory. The conspiracy theory that Jews have some illegitimate secret influence, and they control politics and economics, has a long history. I suggest you will read it.
Ahmadinejad blames some unnamed Zionists rather than Jews. But somehow, these Zionists are charged with
the same charge that Jews were charged with. Curious, isn't it? Moreover, it seems that these Zionists claim to be Jews, and lie about this too? So lets face it, he really means Jews.
My opinion is that the Iranian president is a raging antisemitic. It is possible that he can stand Jews when they are nice and submissive, leading to his distinction between real and lying Jews. However, blaming the Jews is bad for public relations, so lets blame the Zionists instead. (Nudge, nudge, wink, wink, if you know what I mean.)
That is a great lie – just like their Jewishness is a great lie. They have no religion whatsoever. They are a handful of lying, power-greedy people who have no religion, who only want to take over all the peoples and countries, and to trample the rights of the peoples.
I am speculating here, as this part reminds me something from the looming tower, but that was related to Sunni Muslims and I am not sure whether I can extrapolate. I would value feedback from other people.
Why does Ahmadinejad claim that his enemies are not really religious. My interpretation is that this has theological reasons. Islam differentiates between the believers of religions such Christianity and Judaism and people who believe in many gods. The former are to be treated better. If Ahmadinejad manage to put 'the Zionists' at the latter group, maybe he can religiously justify a more violent approach to the issue.
Why did I mention violence. Well, the Muslim Brotherhood used this claim, of people who are not really religious, to justify violence against them. This first appeared as a justifications for killing fellow Muslims in Egypt during the 50's.
If you want to do something good in your lives, leave the land of Palestine, free it from your oppression and occupation. Carry on with your lives. You captivated [Jewish] people with your trickery and lies, and you brought them over there with false promises. You sent them to settlements in order to serve as your human shields, and you continue to perpetrate your crimes. Let me give you some advice: Enough. For 60 years, you have been doing ugly things and committing crimes – leave, and show remorse.
A few interesting points here. First, not the time frame - 60 years. So Ahmadinejad does not speak about the West Bank and Gaza, but rather on the creation of Israel itself. We also see what he may think these people should do, that is, leave. Ahmadinejad does not specify who should leave, but I seem to vaguely remember a letter he sent where he claimed that since the Holocaust was not the fault of the Palestinians, Europe should take 'its Jews' back. Maybe someone can find a link to this.
We also return to conspiracy land, and learn that the Jewish people are tricked by this unnamed Zionists. This is, of course, ********. I have highlighted this as he claims that the Jewish people serve as human shields for the 'unnamed conspirators'. He will refer to human shields, or innocents later. We now know their identity.
You've heard on the news that [the Zionists] established a network for kidnapping people. They kidnap oppressed, destitute, ignorant people from other countries, and bring them to the occupied lands to serve as human shields.
More conspiracy theory, and a crazy one at that. We have seen that the Human shields are the Jews in Israel. This weird paragraph refers to Jews immigrating to Israel. In Ahmadinejad, they are kidnapped! I can also say much about his depiction of Jewish immigrants as destitute and ignorant.
If the occupiers and invaders take ignorant people – even if they are innocent – and use them as human shields in order to carry out invasions, the [Palestinian] people, which is on the defensive, has to conduct resistance, even if it is against innocent people, who were brought to the scene without being aware of it.
Resistance is a phrase which have many meaning, but it commonly use to include terror attacks against civilians. Moreover, from the context of previous paragraph, we know who these human shields are, the Jews.
One last point, it is true that Ahmadinejad does say that it is the Palestinians are the ones who 'conduct resistance', and not Iran. This is consistent with current Iranian policy, of fighting by proxies, such as Ha mas and Hizbullah. However, the justification of violence against the Jewish people is there, and who knows, maybe Iran will decide to change this policy in the future.
This is a despicable speech. I have no other terms to describe it. This is a fairly clear instance of antisemitism, filled with conspiracy theories, and aimed at justifying violence against civilians. Oliver, I predict that you will wave all this out since Ahmadinejad do not advocate direct Iranian attack. Well, why should he? What can he gain, at the time when Iranian policy is war by proxy? In any case, I do hope that other used would find my analysis useful.
