Notable Quotes

Iran: Nuclear Club Member

{image_1}“There is no place in the world that suffers from divisions and wars unless Americans’ or Zionists’ fingerprints are seen there. Our strength and the cornerstone of the victory is in our [Muslim] unity…We have to pay attention to the devils who want to cause divisions.”

Hizbullah: America Is Interfering

{image_1}“Dick Cheney [US vice president] has given orders for a covert war against Hizbullah…There is now an American program that is using Lebanon to further its goals in the region…If it wasn’t for America’s interference, we would have resolved the issue of participating in the [Lebanese] government a long time ago. America is forcing the government forces to prolong this crisis, because they want a price for it…They want to tie Lebanon into negotiations that benefit Israel and their plan for a new Middle East.”

Wars and Rumors of War

Fatah: “Our strategy is not to leave the Islamic alliance [Iran] alone against the enemy. All Palestinian organizations will work together in shooting rockets, suicide bomb attacks, and other steps and actions decided closely.”
––Abu Ahmed, the northern West Bank chief of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, military wing of Fatah, February 26, 2007

Nation Rising Against Nation

Iran: “They [Israel] well know the power of the Iranian people. I don’t think they would ever dare to attack us, neither them nor their masters [the United States]. They won’t do such a stupid thing.” (January 17, 2007)

More from Ahmadinejad:

“I tell my friends most of the time, don’t worry about the nuclear issue, [because] they [Westerners] are just bluffing. I tell them that the West is disarmed toward us and doesn’t know how to handle this issue. Believe me, we have been successful in terms of legal and public opinion. I am speaking from my own knowledge. Somebody asked me, ‘People say you are connected,’ I said, ‘Yes, I am.’ ‘Do you really have a connection? With whom?’ and I said I have a connection to god [Allah]. If we stay faithful, god [Allah] will show us his miracle.”
—Reported by Omid Memarian, Asia Times Online, October 28, 2006

Balancing the Scale—On a more positive note, some quotes of encouragement

“History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.”
—Abba Eban, Israeli Foreign Minister of Israel, 1915

Responses to Ahmadinejad:

“When I hear the comments of the President of Iran, I do not think such comments would be tolerated in respect of any other country in the world, and they should not be tolerated in respect of Israel.”
—Tony Blair, British Prime Minister, May 15, 2006

Al-Qaeda – Offer That Can’t Be Refused

An Al-Qaeda video released in September called on Americans and the rest of the Christian world to “repent” and convert to Islam. “This is the invitation that precedes the attack. ”

Lebanon PM – “No Agreement with Israel”

A defiant, belligerent Prime Minister Fourad Siniora vowed that he would not hold “direct or indirect contacts” with Israel. He said, “Lebanon will be the last Arab country to sign a peace agreement with Israel after 300 million Arabs citizens sign up. There will be no agreement with Israel before there is a global peace deal that is just and lasting.”

Ahmadinejad – “God Told Me We Would Win”

While the West is preparing to impose sanctions on Iran, due to the country’s failure to suspend its nuclear activities, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is still optimistic. “We shall win,” he was quoted in the Iranian media as saying and added, “One day I will be asked whether I have been in touch with someone who told me we would win, and I will respond, ‘Yes, I have been in touch with god [Allah].’”

By Dudi Cohen, Ynetnews.com