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| DaveSaenz |
I can already hear everyone, "But he's a Jew. What do you expect?"
Nobel peace laureate Elie Wiesel says Iraq war justified
Sun Apr 6, 4:22 PM ET Add Top Stories
MONTREAL (AFP) - Nobel peace prize laureate Elie Wiesel said the war on Iraq (news - web sites) is justified and blamed unnamed European countries for failing to prevent it through pressuring President Saddam Hussein (news - web sites).
"If some European countries put as much pressure on Saddam Hussein as on (US President George W.) Bush, there would have been no war," he told a press conference in Montreal.
"Saddam Hussein had to be disarmed (and) there were no other means," said the Nazi concentration camp survivor and author who was awarded the Nobel peace prize in 1986 for his message "of peace, atonement and human dignity."
The press conference was organized by the Quebec-Israel Public Affairs Committee, the Montreal Jewish community's official public action group on behalf of Israel.
The Romanian-born Wiesel, who became a US citizen in 1963, said he did "not justify" war and was "not comfortable" with it, but that he was not a pacifist and believed in the "right to interference".
He added: "You can accuse me of being naive, but I think in all conscience that this war was necessary."
Dismissing suggestions that he is a "hostage of the American right", Wiesel said: "I am not against paradoxes, I take them on, as someone who opposes war, who has seen war and who hates war."
The US-led war on Iraq, he said, "will change the world."
He said he was optimistic over prospects for peace between Israel and the Palestinians after the appointment of Mahmud Abbas, a moderate known as Abu Mazen, as Palestinian prime minister.
Stressing that Palestine Authority President Yasser Arafat (news - web sites) had been "a big disappointment" for the Israelis, Wiesel said he hoped a three-month moratorium on terrorist actions would be called "to give a chance" to Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon (news - web sites).
"The problem is terrorism (but) it will be necessary one day to settle this tragedy" in the Middle East, he said.
^^^^^I actually disagree with him here. The problem is also Sharon... |
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| ahlamalek |
| he's in town?!?! that ass should get cream-pie attacked :D |
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| DaveSaenz |
:toothless
Rofl. I loved his book, NIght though. |
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| ZinG |
hahaha
that's melech_mike is disguise;) |
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| TranceGiant |
| funny how use use the "but hes a jew, what do u expect" argument whenever it suits you. You seem to forget bout that little fact when quoting concerned Israeli parents or intellectuals like Chomsky and Benny Morris. OMG how hypocritical can you get? :haha: :haha: |
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| ascension |
| quote: | Originally posted by TranceGiant
funny how use use the "but hes a jew, what do u expect" argument whenever it suits you. You seem to forget bout that little fact when quoting concerned Israeli parents or intellectuals like Chomsky and Benny Morris. OMG how hypocritical can you get? :haha: :haha: |
thats abit presumtuous considering no-one's said that yet :rolleyes: |
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| TranceGiant |
| em..no? Cause that's exactely what's going on here. You see the people who use this argument (that Jews who comment on the mid-east conflict MUST be biased and thus cant be taken seriously) quoting Jews like Chomsky when it suits them to show that "even" Jews condem x,y or z. I even recall people chanting "chomsky for president" on this board but that's cause hes a "good" Jew. |
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| TranceGiant |
me likey Vandit!
(yes i know...mega-lame :p ) |
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| DaveSaenz |
I just said it before someone else did....:toothless
I happen to like Mr. Wiesel.:cool: |
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| Yoepus |
| quote: | Originally posted by ahlamalek
he's in town?!?! that ass should get cream-pie attacked :D |
I don't know what makes you so dumb but it really works. I would slap you but I'm not sure your brain could process the pain.
:whip:
I think it would do you very good to do something significant with your life. Perhaps you should go take a trip to Europe and visit a former concentration camp. Perhaps you'll get it then!:mad: |
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| ascension |
| quote: | Originally posted by Yoepus
I don't know what makes you so dumb but it really works. I would slap you but I'm not sure your brain could process the pain.
:whip:
I think it would do you very good to do something significant with your life. Perhaps you should go take a trip to Europe and visit a former concentration camp. Perhaps you'll get it then!:mad: |
im not sure which palestinian hit you with his slingshot to give you such a big chip on your shoulder... but mate... anger management classes? |
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