The Poison Pens of Zionism

"Recently, a group of ex-politicians and friends of Israel presented a petition to the UN, demanding that Iranian leaders be prosecuted for "incitement of hatred" against Israel and for "threatening to wipe it off the map".

The very fact that Israel and its servants have made such a preposterously baseless demand demonstrates not only the self-righteous nature of Zionists, but also testifies to the poor state of the UN to have allowed such a petition to get through its letterbox.

Some of the points that need to be remembered are:

1) Iran does not encourage the violent destruction of Israel and the mass killing of the settlers, however illegitimate their presence in the Palestinian lands may be. The Iranian stance is clear; Tehran calls for an internationally-monitored referendum of all those who are resident of the land and those who have been driven out, irrespective of their ethnic or religious origins.

2) Unlike Israel, Iran is not contemplating military strikes (preemptive or otherwise) against other countries. Aggressive wars -- and threats thereof -- do not seem to be crimes, either legally or morally, when waged by Israel. And yet remarks by Iranian officials become grossly and deliberately mistranslated (as happened in the case of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad) to suggest Tehran to have an aggressive nature.

3) Signatories to the petition call for the strengthening of economic sanctions against Iran, which at some point (such as a blockade) will be tantamount to acts of war and which are in any case inherently collective in their effects. Israel is master of collective punishment and mass starvation and although Tel Aviv has been inflicting torments on the Palestinians with impunity, it does not have the means to do so to Iran and therefore needs others to do the dirty-work for it. Hence, this can only be considered an attempt at subverting the UN to justify the collective punishment of Iranians."

Follow this link for the remainder of the points: http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=78927&sectionid=3510303.