“The answer is that the religion of Islam has designated this for us – this goal, this motivation, this belief, this energy – so that we, here, can muster all our energies in order to annihilate the Zionist entity.” He couldn’t have made it plainer. Yet the fact that Islam has anything to do with the general Muslim enmity toward Israel is consistently ignored and denied by establishment analysts, right up to and including Barack Obama and John Kerry, who keep insisting in the teeth of all the evidence that a few fresh concessions from Israel will do the trick, and bring about lasting peace.
“IRGC Deputy Commander Hossein Salami: We Are Ready to Annihilate the Zionist Entity in the Future,” from MEMRI, March 11:
Speaking at a conference held in Tehran, IRGC Deputy Commander Brigadier-General Hossein Salami said: “We, here, can muster all our energies in order to annihilate the Zionist entity, more than 1,400 kilometers away. We are ready for that moment in the future.”
Following are excerpts from the speech, which aired on Al-Alam TV on March 11, 2014.
Brigadier-General Hossein Salami: Despite the geographical distance, we are attached to the hearts of the Palestinians. How is it that our slogans and goals are identical to the slogans and causes of the Palestinians? Why do we strive to become martyrs and risk our lives for the Palestinian cause?
The answer is that the religion of Islam has designated this for us – this goal, this motivation, this belief, this energy – so that we, here, can muster all our energies in order to annihilate the Zionist entity, more than 1,400 kilometers away. We are ready for that moment in the future.