His perpsective on Sept. 26, however, offered much of the same hostility to Israel and the West.
Ahmadinejad said Iran is faced by a continuous “threat by the uncivilized Zionists to resort to military action against our great nation,” and called for a new world order in which Western countries working for “the devil” are not in control.
Erin Pelton, spokeswoman of the U.S. mission to the UN, said “Over the past couple of days, we’ve seen Mr. Ahmadinejad once again use his trip to the UN not to address the legitimate aspirations of the Iranian people but to instead spout paranoid theories and repulsive slurs against Israel.” On Sept. 24, Ahmadinejad had told reporters that while his country “has been around for the last seven, ten thousand years,” Israel has been “occupying” territory in the Middle East for 60-70 years and has “no roots there in history.”
Representatives from the U.S. and Israel decided not to be present for Ahmadinejad’s Yom Kippur remarks.
Ahmadinejad said the world’s “current abysmal situation” has been caused primarily by “the self-proclaimed centers of power who have entrusted themselves to the devil,” and that Israel is driving that “reality.” He recommended the establishment of an “independent fact-finding team” to uncover the “truth” about the Sept. 11, 2001 al-Qaida terrorists attacks, and used his usual lingo by describing what he called the “hegemonic policies and actions of world Zionism.”
Egypt’s Morsi vouches for Palestinian statehood at UN
(JNS.org) Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi told the United Nations General Assmembly on Sept. 26 that his country is offering “full support to any course of action Palestine decides to follow in the United Nations.”
“I call upon all of you, just as you have supported the revolutions of the Arab peoples, to lend your support to the Palestinians in their endeavors to regain the full and legitimate rights of a people struggling to gain its freedom and establish its independent state,” Morsi, elected in June from the Muslim Brotherhood party, said.
Since Morsi’s rise to power, terrorist attacks in the Sinai and reports that Egypt is looking to amend its 1979 peace treaty with Israel have fueled concern in the Jewish state over relations with its southern neighbor.
Morsi did call for a Middle East free of nuclear weapons in his speech at the UN, but stressed that all countries in the region have the right to “peaceful use of nuclear energy within the framework of the [Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty].”
Apple’s new maps list Jerusalem without a country and specify no capital of Israel
(JNS.org) Controversy over Jerusalem—most recently abound at the Democratic National Convention, where the party’s platform initially omitted but then restored language affirming the city as Israel’s capital—has now entered the world of technology as well.
The Algemeiner reported that Apple’s newly released operating system—the iOS6—contains a mapping feature listing Jerusalem as an unaffiliated city that is not part of any country, in addition to specifying no capital city for Israel. The Jewish state is the only country on “Apple Maps” with no capital.
Every country on Apple’s new maps except for Israel has a capital city marked with an encircled five-point star, according to the Algemeiner’s analysis.
Report: Abbas refuses investigation of PA sex scandal due to elections
(JNS.org) Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas ordered to “close the case” involving alleged sexual harassment by PA Civilian Affairs Minister Hussen Sheikh because it is “a sensitive time and we are facing elections,” the Jerusalem Post reported, citing Palestinian investigative journalist Said Ghazali.
Abbas, in New York for the United Nations General Assembly, said to close the investigation until after he returns from the U.S.
“If the public learns about it, we will lose the [PA] presidential and municipal election,” Ghazali quoted Abbas as saying to two PA officials. “We already have enough scandals and don’t need more.”
Skeikh’s case came about when a Palestinian woman claimed that he called her to his office to fix a computer, but instead sexually harassed her, in addition to allegedly bribing her.
Jewish cemetery vandalized near Prague
(JNS.org) Twenty-six out of 150 tombstones at a Jewish cemetery in the woods near Prague have been vandalized, the Associated Press reported.
Miroslav Doubek, a Czech Republic Police spokesman, told the AP on Sept. 26 that unknown perpetrators most likely knocked over the tombstones within the last two months and also broke an unspecified number of tombstones into pieces. The cemetery is located 40 miles away from Prague in a town called Prudice.
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