By Stan Goodenough
Jun 02, 2008
Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Monday Israel's time has run out and the Jewish state will soon disappear.
"You should know that the criminal and terrorist Zionist regime which has 60 years of plundering, aggression and crimes in its file has reached the end of its work and will soon disappear off the geographical scene," he told guests attending a ceremony in memory of the Ayatollah Khomeini, the leader of the Iranian revolution.
Ahmadinejad, whose nation is working hard to acquire nuclear weapons, regularly vows Israel's destruction, but is barely taken at his word by the world.
The international response to his genocidal ranting and preparations to perpetrate another holocaust have been limited to talk of applying economic pressure and the imposition of a few sanctions.
Worldwide inaction to this talk has been compared to global apathy that permitted Hitler to re-arm Germany and bring about the Second World War and its Holocaust of more than six million Jews.