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Israelis sue Iranian president
Itamar Eichner
Published: 22.02.06, 09:19
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1. People ought to be allowed to say whatever they want
(02.22.06)
even if it is as disgusting as denying the Holocaust. Criminalising thoughts and speech is fascistic.
2. What about Olmert!!!
Daniel ,   Jerusalem   (02.22.06)
When will we finally hear what everyone else is reporting. Olmert's possible corruption scandal!
3. No. 1
Sivan ,   Tel-Aviv, Israel   (02.22.06)
The line has to be drawn somewhere. This kind of talk can only snowball. Freedom of speech, yes, but freedom of death wishes and denial of past atrocities - NO!It'll be Hitler all over again.
4. Re: people ought to be free to say whatever they want.
Guido ,   Italy   (02.22.06)
Whoever wrote that (somehow right) comment should also tell us why the whole world couldn't be free to say whatever they want regarding Islam and the Prophet and many absurd laws and believes (if Paradise greatest compensation is enjoying the virginity of the Houris, what with peoples mothers, grand mothers, wifes, daughters?... Should they become lesbians to enjoy such benefits or even after death there is discrimination: men yes, women no). I don't condone the Danish caricatures, they are horrible of course. But if we start blattering just for the fun of it, then no argument is tabu.
5. yes
(02.22.06)
you are one illiterate a##hole³
6. To #1
Micha ,   Jerusalem, Israel   (02.22.06)
I disagree with you strongly. Freedom of speech does not entitle a person to slander and lie. With any type of freedom comes responsibility. Is a person free to bear false witness in a court of law? May a researcher falsify his or her findings on the basis of freedom of speech? Every person has a moral responsibility to uphold the truth, and to avoid slander, gossip, and lies.
7. Monkey boy needs to be punished for threatening Israel.
Daisy ,   USA   (02.22.06)
This is not an issue of free speech. If monkey boy wants to deny the Holocaust that is one thing but he is inciting violence against Jews and Israel. All good people around the world must stand up to this evil. If the world would have confronted and stopped Hilter the Holocaust wouldn't have happenned.
8. U horrible suicidalists, civilil disorder now, the coup has
Ben Temalion ,   Shiloh, USA USA USA   (02.22.06)
You Jews who hate the land that protects you don't realize that olmert is going to kill you. He is looking for some terrorist to negotiate the terms of suicide. he hateates Jews , religious or not, the unbound heart of sceinerman hates you. The sick mind of scinerman hates you. His poodle olmert wnats your love.
9. What the hell is that gonna prove??
Dan ,   Hod Hasharon   (02.22.06)
What do they think he's going to publicly apologize or something? Theres a better chance of pigs flying. Go waste your money on something worthwhile... That little monkey of a man is probably laughing ..
10. This is important. Persians hate Jews too.
Ben Temalion ,   Shiloh, USA USA USA   (02.22.06)
Jrews are explled, murdered, left with wounds worse than death, children have no recourse with the Hmite murderers. IL "democracy" says out with you Jews! The anti Jew, is it BG, owww, rabin, no bacall or is that perske peres, no it is the anti-jew like peres called schinerman's poodle, olmert. Like perske, never won an election. Atrue hater of Jews and democracy. may you all live according to G-d's will. You are despicable and a dim light.
11. #1
(02.22.06)
So if i said mohammed never existed, is that permissable? or am i being anti-muslim and cause a riot? YOU CAN"T CHANGE HISTORICAL FACT YOU IDIOT! If he wants to give an opinion on facts, by all means, but denounce factual accounts.
12. JA Rabin altalena peferdiy
Ben Temalion ,   Shiloh, USA USA USA   (02.22.06)
you hate jews. The areim general, nowbrain dead, hated jews since he couldn't gain a position amgst the stalinst , histdarut. he, the brain dead, created another party, shomozzel (I don;t know), he ates jews yet begin formed it with Herut. The first thing to hate about Begin. And a view to the future of hate for Scinerman the unboundf heart and hater of Jews.
13. Does ajyone recognize the hatred of Jews?
Ben Temalion ,   Shiloh, USA USA USA   (02.22.06)
Sure transfer, forcible ethic cleansing of Jews is accpetable by the 70. Jews who don't aim to kill without regard to age sex, or condition. Yet those that come to kill Jews, without regard to age, sex or condition are legitimized for their mass murder. Arabs come to kill Jews and the goyim support them.
14. Mahmud to Delta Camp
Ruben ,   Barcelona, Catalonia   (02.22.06)
Laws in Europe are amazing. It would be better to take Ahmadinejad to Delta Camp in Guantamano
15. DUMB !! - end
andrew ,   miami, fl   (02.22.06)
16. Good. Now sue Abbas 'cos his PhD was on Shoa denial
Dudu ,   Kfar Sava   (02.22.06)
17. You have all missed the point here.
DR ,   Florida, USA   (02.22.06)
It's not the fact that this man is racist and hates Jews and denies the Holocaust. It's the fact that he is the President of Iran, the leader, the man in charge of a country. Can you imagine what would happen if Ariel Sharon or G.W. Bush would have made similar remarks regarding Iran or Syria or the Palestinians? Thw whole muslim world would be rioting in the streets and burning towns. We have to control what leaders say because they influence whole nations and region...that's the point here.
18. don't just sue him...
me ,   here   (02.22.06)
bomb these bastards to peices ,and then sue them for whatever is left!
19. #1
(02.22.06)
If people should be allowed to say whatever they want, go go tell the arab world not to get so upset over cartoons. obviously if you dont, you are a hypocrite.
20. What law did he break?
Chris ,   Toronto   (02.22.06)
He made it from Iran, not Germany. How could they try him for something that doesn't even fall under their jurisdiction? If he broke an international law, well, the States and Israel have done that for years.
21. Monkey man and cartoons
David ,   Karmiel, Israel   (02.22.06)
If it is OK to deny the Holocaust then it should be OK to draw a cartoon of Mohammed Mouse or Bugs Homeni! Indeed, freedom speech is, in a democracy, sacrosanct but to deny an event so well documented by both witnesses and the perpetrators is blatant lying. It is also one of the worst cases of Jew Hating and anti-Semitism since the denial of the Holocaust by historian, David Irving, which is still going on. Even today on Sky News he maintained that Auschwitz has been rebuilt to exaggerate the level of the extermination of Jews, Slavs, homosexuals, Gypsies and other by the Nazis. What a lot of people do not realize is that these excuses of humanity voice the feeling and opinions of a big percentage of the non-Jewish population of this planet. Anti-Semitism is on the rise. Just look at the situation in Europe, particularly in France. Even in this day and age there are still institutions, clubs, suburbs and businesses in various parts of the world that “do not encourage” Jewish members or employees. None of this is new. Jews have been the scapegoats for thousands of years and have been persecuted from the time of Abraham and it will not stop. The bottom line is that the Holocaust deniers like the disgusting David Irving and Jew/Israel hating President of Iran cannot be allowed to get away with it. They must be disgraced before those who do have a modicum of decency left in them and more important, it must be seen that we the Jewish People are here to stay and we will not take this sitting down. Sue them and take every cent away so they will be relegated to where they belong – gutter!
22. Chris ,Toronto: Are you on Camel shit pot ?
Gabrielle Goldwater ,   Geneva Switzerland   (02.22.06)
or do you suffer from dementia ?
23. Chris from Canada
DR ,   Florida, USA   (02.22.06)
How can you side with this lunatic? He is the President of the country and has openly said that he wants to eradicate all jews and destroy Israel. I wonder what your response would be if he said the same of Canada and Canadians???...what would the world do without Hockey and Labbats Blue???
24. #23 lol, that's a different matter when he goes to the Blue
Chris ,   Toronto   (02.23.06)
I'm not defending Curious George. Just pointing out that Iran is an independent country and slander or incitement laws in Germany aren't theirs. Iran doesn't believe in the same things and has a human rights record that even China looks like a sissy next to. They're number one with a bullet, literally. It's a pointless lawsuit, like people suing McDonald's because they got burned by their coffee. And it's hypocritical since Israel and the US have openly said that they don't respect the world court anyway, unless it agrees with them. Why expect Iran to follow it? The fact that these Israeli's had to file it in Germany speaks to that. I'd also pay money to see George Bush giving him a lecture on international law. It'd look like two zoo monkey's playing with a rubber ball, the two George's. But maybe if they had hockey and some decent beer they'd get over the whole blowing things up thing. Ever since we've had it, we haven't set fire to the White House once! I predit world peace and Iran hockey for the 2010 Olympics. And Gabrielle, you're still a pinhead... there's nothing really more to add than that.
25. Chris
DR ,   Florida, USA   (02.23.06)
I don't think this lawsuit is gonna do anything either, bt it's the principle that counts here. the world needs to wake up and do something about these radical lunatic leaders. The monkey mans words do infuence people in Iran and I assure you there is a little bit of brainwashing going on there. the world needs to end these types of regimes from coming to power. It is dangerous for everyone. Maybe if they all sat down and drank some good canadian beer, they would find a good solution.
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