By Reuven Koret
September 24, 2007
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Frankly, I think all the hubbub about Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's visit to New York is a counter-productive waste of time. He is glorying in all the attention, and it serves his interests to show the "Zionists" trying to prevent him from speaking, as if we're afraid that anyone should hear his message.
There is no point in repeating all of the reasons that this man is evil, the enemy of the United States and of Israel, of Christians and of Jews, of the free world. He makes no secret of this. The Holocaust never happened, Israel should be eliminated. This deformed dwarf, this evil imp, makes no secret of his intention to bring about a fiery apocalypse in the Middle East, one that could trigger, literally, the end of the world. And everyone knows it.
If Hitler were killed in the first World War, or during his beer hall putsch, or after his ascension to power, or in the thirties, can anyone doubt that this would not have been a good thing -- a great thing -- for the world? It would have saved tens of millions of lives.
Same today. If Ahmadinejad were to disappear from among the living -- if he were to be killed by a drunk driver while crossing Broadway, would anyone of us shed a tear? Would we not raise a glass and toast the errant driver? If he were to catch a mysterious debilitating disease which shriveled him and caused him to drown in his swallowed spittle, would we shed a tear? Did we weep for Arafat when he turned into a blithering demented idiot?
Think of the lives that would be saved. Think of the environmental contamination that would be avoided. Think of one less poisonous vermin to be removed from the world.
Is it not a good thing that the Iranian dictator is in our neighborhood, close at hand, rather than secluded and well-protected in Teheran? Everyone knows: Accidents can happen, contagious diseases can be caught, sniper bullets intended for crack dealers in Harlem can ricochet. Face it: things happen in American streets, even in post-Giuliani New York.
So I welcome you, Mahmoud: come on down, come to visit repeatedly, give speeches in large crowds and cavernous auditoriums of freedom-loving America, where the right to bear arms is guaranteed in the constitution and cheap handguns can be had for a few hundred bucks. Shake many hands among your multitude of admirers. Let your lips touch many foreign microphones, may your little tuchus grace many unfamiliar sheets. May you sample from the finest kosher restaurants, and sip from many proffered glasses of New York City's famed tap water.
One of these days, when you are close at hand, close enough to smell, near enough to taste, some clear-minded, future-thinking, courageous patriot will do the absolutely right thing and "arrest" you. For life.
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