SERIOUS THREATS ISSUED AGAINST ISRAEL

AP reports May 11, 2006, "Iran’s president said Thursday he was ready to negotiate with the United States and its allies over his country's nuclear program but he also suggested that any threats against Tehran would make the dialogue more difficult."

However, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s anti-Israel rhetoric continued calling Israel "a tyrannical regime that one day will be destroyed." He publicly stated back in October that the nation of Israel should be "wiped off the map."

The AP report on Thursday further stated that Israel was "the only country Tehran was unwilling to speak with about the nuclear standoff. He called it a 'Trannical regime that one day will be destroyed,' and repeated allegations that European countries were driven by anti-Semitism when they decided after the Holocaust to establish a Jewish state in the midst of Muslim countries. They wanted the Jews out of their own backyard, he said, and paved the way for their ultimate destruction.

Israeli officials — who have described Iran's nuclear quest as the Jewish state's greatest threat — had no immediate comment on Ahmadinejad's latest remarks, said Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Mark Regev.

Israeli Vice Premier Shimon Peres said Monday that Iran could be threatened with destruction if it continues to vow to destroy Israel."

The world needs to take notice of these threats against the Jewish state. It has the same tones as those given by Adolf Hitler. Hitler clearly outlined his planned extermination of the Jewish people some twenty years before the Holocaust in his political manifesto, "Mein Kampf." While many in the world sat idly by, Hitler imposed his "Final Solution to the Question of the Jewish People." Almost six million Jews were exterminated under his regime.

The cry of Israel today is "Never Again!" May the entire free world rise with them. Christians are encouraged to "Pray for the peace of Jerusalem!"