Monday, October 03, 2011

Ahmadinejad: Israelis should go back to original homes

JPOST.COM STAFF
10/03/2011

Iranian president at 'Intifada Conference' says Palestinians should also "go home" and this would provide "simple solution" to solve conflict.


Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said that in order to solve the Israel-Palestinian conflict, the "Palestinians should go home," and "those that were brought [to Israel]" should as well, AFP reported.

Ahmadinejad said that this program would provide a "simple solution" to the "Zionist regime" should it wish "to solve the issue." The Iranian president made the comments during a two-day International Conference on Palestine, attended by diplomats from more than 20 nations.

Earlier on Sunday, Ahmadinejad asked whether the Palestinian issue was an Arab issue or a problem between the Arab nations on the one side and some western countries on the other side, according to the IRNA news agency.

He then questioned whether it "was a problem between Arab nations on the one hand and some Jews who have occupied the Palestinian lands on the other."

Ahmadinejad's comments a day after Iran's supreme ruler, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, came out against a two state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict while speaking during at the conference.

Khamenei said that the creation of a Palestinian state alongside Israel amounts to a renouncement of the Palestinian rights, asserting that any solution to the conflict must be based on a principle of "the whole Palestine for all Palestinians," PressTV reported.

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