Thursday, September 24, 2009
Ahmadinejad, Qaddafi, and Palin today
On the same day, two national leaders and one former vice-presidential candidate made odd public comments that beckon further dialogue.
In an interview with NPR's Morning Edition host Steve Inskeep, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad questioned the holocaust again. Ahmadinejad told Inskeep he isn't a historian who can claim what did or did not happen,
While I personally was not alive 60 years ago, I happen to be alive now, and I can see that genocide is happening now under the pretext of an event that happened 60 years ago. So the fundamental question I raise here is that, if this event happened, where did it happen? As a form of an objection question, who was it carried by? Why should the Palestinian people make up for it?
The full interview is here.
Libya’s leader, Col. Muammar al-Qaddafi, again proposed to the United Nations General Assembly that Israel and the Palestinian territories be combined into one state called Isratine. I bet Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas would love it.
And Sarah Palin addressed Asian bankers, investors and fund managers in Hong Kong.
As the governor of Alaska she said...she had a unique insight (into foreign affairs) because “you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska” — a remark that was widely lampooned. - The New York Times
Canadian Doug A. Coulter, the head of private equity in the Asia-Pacific region for LGT Capital Partners, says Palin has potential as a future presidential candidate. Let's hope that she travels a lot more, after giving her first speech abroad yesterday and making her first trip outside North America in 2007.
Sources:
Ahmadinejad: Holocaust 'Opinion Of Just A Few'
Qaddafi's First U.N. Speech Is a Rambling Diatribe
Palin Speaks to Investors in Hong Kong
In an interview with NPR's Morning Edition host Steve Inskeep, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad questioned the holocaust again. Ahmadinejad told Inskeep he isn't a historian who can claim what did or did not happen,
While I personally was not alive 60 years ago, I happen to be alive now, and I can see that genocide is happening now under the pretext of an event that happened 60 years ago. So the fundamental question I raise here is that, if this event happened, where did it happen? As a form of an objection question, who was it carried by? Why should the Palestinian people make up for it?
The full interview is here.
Libya’s leader, Col. Muammar al-Qaddafi, again proposed to the United Nations General Assembly that Israel and the Palestinian territories be combined into one state called Isratine. I bet Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas would love it.
And Sarah Palin addressed Asian bankers, investors and fund managers in Hong Kong.
As the governor of Alaska she said...she had a unique insight (into foreign affairs) because “you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska” — a remark that was widely lampooned. - The New York Times
Canadian Doug A. Coulter, the head of private equity in the Asia-Pacific region for LGT Capital Partners, says Palin has potential as a future presidential candidate. Let's hope that she travels a lot more, after giving her first speech abroad yesterday and making her first trip outside North America in 2007.
Sources:
Ahmadinejad: Holocaust 'Opinion Of Just A Few'
Qaddafi's First U.N. Speech Is a Rambling Diatribe
Palin Speaks to Investors in Hong Kong
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