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Politics : Israel to U.S. : Now Deal with Syria and Iran -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: sea_urchin who wrote (11105)	6/8/2006 9:41:52 AM
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Wiesel: Stop Iran's nuclear program "at any price" By The Associated Press, June 8, 2006. 8:57 a.m. ET (AP) -- The newly elected leader of Germany's main Jewish organization said today that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad should be barred from attending the World Cup in Germany. Ahmadinejad should not be allowed to set foot on German soil, Charlotte Knobloch said in remarks published in Bild newspaper. The Holocaust survivor was elected the first woman president of Germany's Central Council of Jews on Wednesday. ''He denies the Holocaust -- that is illegal in Germany," Knobloch said. "The German government should therefore not protect him with diplomatic immunity. The authorities should rather investigate him and charge him.'' Ahmadinejad has indicated more than once that he might visit the Iranian national team during the World Cup soccer tournament, though no specific plans have been announced. In Israel, meanwhile, Nobel peace laureate Eli Wiesel suggested in an interview published today that military action might be necessary to keep Iran from acquiring a nuclear bomb. ''I am against war, I cannot bear to hear myself say that I am in favor of war. I am not a general, but maybe it is necessary to send in a commando team to destroy the (Iranian nuclear) facilities,'' Wiesel told Israel's Haaretz newspaper. Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor who speaks out frequently on human rights, said Iran's nuclear program must be stopped ''at any price.'' He also said Ahmadinejad has become ''the world's number one Holocaust denier.'' End quote [Wiesel is the reicipient of the Dalai Lama of Tibet's "Light of Truth" award]